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'''Max Schreck''': This is hardly your picture any longer. }}
''[[Shadow of the Vampire]]'' is a 2000 film directed by E. Elias Merhige, starring [[John Malkovich]] and Willem Dafoe.
Malkovich plays F.W. Murnau, the German director who sets out to make his most identifiable film, ''[[Nosferatu]]: Eine Symphonie des Grauens.'' To make his somewhat lawyer-friendly take on [[Dracula]], he hires the mysterious Max Shreck to play the vampire Count Orlock. Murnau knows that Schreck is a real-life vampire, and he's hired the actor to ensure a real-life performance. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|But, he's really bitten off more than he can chew this time]]...
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* [[Age Without Youth]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]
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** Schreck comments that he cannot make other vampires (whether he is physically limited himself or just doesn't know how to is unclear), [[I Do Not Drink... Wine|drinks alcohol]] in more than one occasion (and gets drunk by it), can feed on animals, and while he refuses to board a ship he manages to reach an island by plane (thus passing over moving water).
* [[The Prima Donna]]: Greta is introduced as one at first, but quickly gets surpassed by Murnau himself.
* [Troubled Production]: In universe: if making a film was already complicated (with the director and the main actress outdivaing each other), add an actual vampire to the mix and see the whole thing implode.
* [[Schrodingers Cat]]: If we are to count "real life" as the source material, then the deaths of several cast and crew members, {{spoiler|including Schreck}} counts.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Let's just say this film plays very loosely with the facts.
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