I am an appetite.

like every great adaptation of a classic story such as dracula it highlights new themes from the source material. where coppola’s take deals with the sexuality of the text and herzog uses it to explore themes of mortality and german history, eggers focuses on the source materials tension between modernity and superstition as well as their fraught relationship with gender. 

Eggers has a reputation for valuing historical accuracy over humanity but this is just false, eggers…