SC - OT: Eating the Script Girl

Susan Fox-Davis selene at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 21 12:16:54 PST 2001


Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> > Obligatory food content- "The script girl? I'll eat her later (slurp)."-
> > 'Max Schreck'
>
> Upon consideration, I think my favorite is, "Max... please!!! The German
> stage neeeeeds you!!!" (Spoken after writer and producer, sitting at a
> campfire with a bottle of slivovitz, are joined by the man they believe
> to be a Stanislavski method actor, who calmly snatches a bat out of the
> air, opens it like a beer bottle, and drinks it.)
>
> Adamantius, sure that the real Alfred Abel, a.k.a. Max Schreck, was a
> perfectly nice man

Don't be so sure.  Part of what inspired this work of speculative fiction is the
historical datum that the actor was a realllly weird spooky guy.  "What if he had
really been a vampire?"  The answer to the cinematic question is that the movie
"Nosferatu" would have come out exactly the same.

Selene


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