Nadja (film)

Written and directed by Michael Almereyda.

Nadja

• Life is full of pain, my pain is the pain of fleeting joy.

• We have come for the body of Count Voivoida Armenios Ceauşescu Dracula. I believe there is a wooden stake in the heart. You will take us to him.
  • At the morgue. And possibly a reference to Nicolae Ceauşescu the leader of communist Romania overthrown a few years earlier.

Van Helsing

• He was like Elvis in the end. Drugged, confused, surrounded by zombies.
  • Describing the Count. See wikipedia on Elvis Presley.

• He tried to change, tried to resist the usual pattern. He managed to show some restraint. But she, she died in childbirth. [...] And after that he didn't care about anything. It was back to basics.
  • Describing the Count. Back to basics could have been read by British audiences as a reference to that policy of the Conservative Party the previous year, and a derogatory reference given the context. But this could have been accidental, given the film was an American production.)

Dialogue

Nadja (holding Lucy's pet tarantula Bela): What does he eat?

Lucy: Potatoes. Potato salad. Deer[?]. I tried to teach him French but he wasn't interested.

Nadja: Maybe he has a learning disability.

• "Deer" is hard to hear, maybe "Beer".

Taglines

• Tune in, chill out, drop dead.
  • (A reference of course to turn on, tune in, drop out.)

• Unseen. Unforgiving. Undead.

• Hurry, The Dead Travel Fast!

Cast

• Galaxy Craze -- Lucy
• Peter Fonda -- Van Helsing
• Elina Löwensohn -- the creature Nadja