His costume and the whole design is truly wonderful. I love how strongly it is tied with a specific period and culture. You are right that his royal status is extremely important for Orlok, and the costuming contributes to showing this. Interestingly, while Dracula basically calls himself Hungarian in the novel (despite his Romanian name and the tie to the Romanian folklore through Scholomance), Orlok may be only the second more or less explicitly Hungarian Dracula in cinematic history, the first one being Lugosi.
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Date: 2025-04-05 06:17 pm (UTC)