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 | Director Merhige, a contemplative, metaphor-loving fellow with a road-worn placidity and the warm, leathery look of an amiable biker, gets a kick out of the idea that future generations might misinterpret some of these films as factual. |
| Merhige: A lot of my inspiration [came] from early autochrome photography, which was invented in the early 1880s in France using potato starch dyed red, green, and blue; put over a fl and white negative; then illuminated from behind. |
| Merhige: I really knew after meeting Willem the first time that he had the fearlessness within him to move into that abyss and to bring back these great pieces of gold. |
| Biting Satire | Film | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper (758 words) |
| ELIAS MERHIGE'S Shadow of the Vampire revisits the set of film director F. Murnau's 1922 horror classic Nosferatu to tell an imagined story of Murnau (John Malkovich) and his obscure star Max Schreck (played brilliantly by Willem Dafoe). |
| Merhige readily agreed, and his music video for Manson's "Anti-Christ Superstar" was the only film the director managed to make in the 10 years after Begotten. |
| As Merhige puts it, "We got together and had a wonderful meeting and talked about everything from Leonardo Da Vinci to Nikola Tesla." Three days later, Cage sent Merhige the script for Shadow of the Vampire and offered to act as executive producer on the film. |
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