Krick Wurkheiser wrote:
delgadosaur wrote:
Does'nt he grab a bat out of thin air and consume it? Am I remembering this correctly?

Yes - that's the bit I quoted above. He sucks the guts out of the bat and runs off with the bottle of schnapps, and Grau-Kier is impressed with his method actingsmiley: laugh
Actually, they get the bottle back from him before he walks off....and the two of them actually wipe the bottle off and keep drinking from it!  Even after Schreck had munched on the bat!!!!  I know alcohol can kill germs but....  smiley: happy

I love that scene because of the writing...the part where Schreck is talking about how "Dracula" made him sad. About the crushing loneliness that interacting with Harker and having to do the basic chores must have inspired..  It was so obvious he was projecting - talking about himself.  And then he talks about the woman who turned him vampire who was gone so long she was barely a memory....  Reminded me of John Merrick talking about what a jerk Romeo was in the play "The Elephant Man".

That's what I thought Schreck looking into the stage light at the end symbolized.  Schreck originally only worked on the film for the blood of the leading lady.  But he'd been lonely for so long that the interaction with living and breathing people again - was irresistible.  It was like a moth to a flame for him...and ultimately destroys him.

Same thing with the bit where he's looking into the telecine and seeing the footage of the sunrise....something he wouldn't have seen in centuries.

Can't believe that some people here haven't even seen this all the way through....or think that it was a satire?!?!!  smiley: frown