#nosferatu 2024 script
Friedrich Harding is one of those characters who understands Ellen very well. He has figured out her passionate nature — because he is exactly the same. And in this scene, of course, he is right: he senses that Ellen’s “fancies” are connected to her sexuality.
This is the moment in the film when Ellen still has no idea who Count Orlok is: to her, he is still only a shadow, a “presence.” She thinks she loves her newlywed husband: he is handsome, sweet, and gives her sex — which is what she needs… Not in the quantities that would actually satisfy her, of course, but still.
But that is exactly the point: this is not enough to call Ellen and Thomas’s marriage “great love.” The motives of both are more or less transparent — and it does not look like tantric unity in eternity, or a union of energies.
Rather down-to-earth motivations.