Talk:Count Orlok

Bremen to Bonn

He moves from Bremen to Bonn? I thought he was from Transylvania and moved to Bremen. -Branddobbe 10:56, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

That's right. I changed it.

Original research?

The second paragraph does not cite its sources and seems to make several NPOV/reviewer-like statements which are unencyclopedic. I propose to shorten or delete it. Wachholder0 20:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Removing Pop Culture

All of that stuff is already covered in the main Nosferatu article.87.102.23.51 23:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The Master

Is it safe to say that the Master from Buffy is also based off Orlok's appearance? Howa0082 01:52, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

possible origin of name "Orlok"

In dracula a description of the carpathian peoples includes a certain bloodline call the "orvloks". I'm not sure if this is the inspiation for the counts name in nosferatu so I don't want to add this to the article until I see other peoples opinions. ¥CALL OF CTHULHU¥ 23:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

"Based on?"

Is it really accurate to say that the design of Klaus Kinski's character in 'Nosferatu the Vampyre' is 'based on' Count Orlok, given that 'Nosferatu the Vampyre' is a remake of the original 'Nosferatu'?--MythicFox (talk) 00:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't see why not. A remake is, by definition, based on the original film. Ribbet32 (talk) 00:21, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Removal of Unreferenced Content

When removing unreferenced content, please either remove all such content or at least provide references for what you intend to keep. -- 4.153.82.97 (talk) 05:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

"Commonly but erroneously"

This article previously began with the sentence "Count Orlok, commonly but erroneously referred to as Nosferatu".

I spent some time trying to validate the claim that referring to Count Orlok as "Nosferatu" is "erroneous", but couldn't. It appears verbatim in several other places, seemingly all copied wholecloth from this article. That sentence contains a source reference to a Nerdist article that does not (by my reading) seem to provide any reason why it is "erroneous" to refer to Orlok as "Nosferatu".

My understanding is, instead, that "Nosferatu" is, in its original usage, essentially some essentially sort of honorific derived from a Romanian word meaning "the offensive one" or "the insufferable one". Much in the same way that Harry Potter fans might refer to the character Voldemort as "he who should not be named", this doesn't strike me as "erroneous" at all.

I am aware that the White Wolf Publishing "World of Darkness" series utilizes the term "Nosferatu" as a classification for its vampires. If that were the definitive or original usage, I could see Orlok being referred to this way as "erroneous", but otherwise I don't get it.

In full disclosure, I've never seen the original film in full (and nothing of its derivations), so maybe it clearly explains that he is "a nosferatu" in those works, versus "The Nosferatu"? If anyone knows I would appreciate clarity.

That said, in the meantime, I have softened the language to simply say "Commonly referred to as Nosferatu" in the first sentence. Dabizi~enwiki (talk) 05:17, 23 October 2024 (UTC)