Faust (1926)
Directed by F. W. Murnau
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
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…tapping CGI to make Orlok’s shadow blanket the town where Murnau used miniatures in Faust is more inspired.
Eggers nods at another F.W. Murnau classic, “Faust,” with a shot of the shadow of the count’s long-nailed hand extending over Wisborg.
Their seemingly innocuous exchange serves as a perfect storm of destiny and chance for Light, who soon finds himself in possession of a “death note” gifted to him by Ryuk (Willem Dafoe), a devil-like figure with a gift for gab who suggests a cross between Emil Jannings’s satanic trickster from F.W. Murnau’s Faust and Walter Huston’s Mr. Scratch from William Dieterle’s The Devil and Daniel Webster.
Their seemingly innocuous exchange serves as a perfect storm of destiny and chance for Light, who soon finds himself in possession of a “death note” gifted to him by Ryuk (Willem Dafoe), a devil-like figure with a gift for gab who suggests a cross between Emil Jannings’s satanic trickster from F.W. Murnau’s Faust and Walter Huston’s Mr. Scratch from William Dieterle’s The Devil and Daniel Webster.