Dan Savage

Nobody likes a spoiler, as I was reminded this weekend on the internet. But I saw Wicked, Nosferatu, and Baby Girl in one weekend, and I have to talk about them. And I'm going to talk about them. But I don't want to be accused, God forbid, of sharing spoilers, which is a capital offense. True story. The three people on federal death row that Joe Biden didn't pardon?

Nobody likes a spoiler, as I was reminded this weekend on the internet. But I saw Wicked, Nosferatu, and Baby Girl in one weekend, and I have to talk about them. And I'm going to talk about them. But I don't want to be accused, God forbid, of sharing spoilers, which is a capital offense. True story. The three people on federal death row that Joe Biden didn't pardon?

All three there for posting spoilers to their social media. No one will mourn them. This is your spoiler alert. If you want to see these three films absolutely cold, if you know nothing about them and want to keep it that way, jump ahead to the first call. Ready? Three, two, one, here we go.

All three there for posting spoilers to their social media. No one will mourn them. This is your spoiler alert. If you want to see these three films absolutely cold, if you know nothing about them and want to keep it that way, jump ahead to the first call. Ready? Three, two, one, here we go.

Wicked, the new film version of Stephen Schwartz's 2003 musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, which is itself a retelling of the 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film of that novel, Wizard of Oz, From the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West, loved it. The book, Wicked, the book, has some very dirty sex scenes. The musical and the film do not.

Wicked, the new film version of Stephen Schwartz's 2003 musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, which is itself a retelling of the 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film of that novel, Wizard of Oz, From the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West, loved it. The book, Wicked, the book, has some very dirty sex scenes. The musical and the film do not.

What the film shows us, what it captures, what I found really kind of interesting, is that special time in the lives of theater kids when they first pair off. When the theater kids all get to have their first romantic moment. But not sexual relationships.

What the film shows us, what it captures, what I found really kind of interesting, is that special time in the lives of theater kids when they first pair off. When the theater kids all get to have their first romantic moment. But not sexual relationships.

When every girl in the theater club suddenly has a boyfriend in the theater club and then a couple of months later everybody hits puberty and all the boys come out and that is the end of all those beautiful first relationships. In Wicked, the film, the prepubescent theater kids are all played by actors in their 30s and 40s so you have to squint to see it. But it's there.

When every girl in the theater club suddenly has a boyfriend in the theater club and then a couple of months later everybody hits puberty and all the boys come out and that is the end of all those beautiful first relationships. In Wicked, the film, the prepubescent theater kids are all played by actors in their 30s and 40s so you have to squint to see it. But it's there.

Quickly, while we're on the subject of film adaptations of Stephen Schwartz musicals, Hollywood, if you're listening, please do Pippin next. Schwartz's 1972 musical about a prince trying to find himself. Jonathan Bailey could play Pippin if you rush it into production right now. And Pippin, it has something no musical does. No other musical has.

Quickly, while we're on the subject of film adaptations of Stephen Schwartz musicals, Hollywood, if you're listening, please do Pippin next. Schwartz's 1972 musical about a prince trying to find himself. Jonathan Bailey could play Pippin if you rush it into production right now. And Pippin, it has something no musical does. No other musical has.

A love song that isn't sung to one particular boy or one particular girl or by a boy to a girl or a girl to a boy. It's not a duet. It is a love song that is sung during an orgy to the participants of that orgy. And it's beautiful. I tear up every time I listen to it. And I listen to it a lot because I'm a theater kid. All right, Nosferatu.

A love song that isn't sung to one particular boy or one particular girl or by a boy to a girl or a girl to a boy. It's not a duet. It is a love song that is sung during an orgy to the participants of that orgy. And it's beautiful. I tear up every time I listen to it. And I listen to it a lot because I'm a theater kid. All right, Nosferatu.

This is a remake of a vampire movie that came out in 1922, a movie that has been remade a dozen times over the last century. And the latest version of Nosferatu borrows plot elements from Dracula by Bram Stoker, a novel that came out 130 plus years ago, which itself has been made into dozens, hundreds of films, stage plays, radio dramas, musicals, and TV shows ever.

This is a remake of a vampire movie that came out in 1922, a movie that has been remade a dozen times over the last century. And the latest version of Nosferatu borrows plot elements from Dracula by Bram Stoker, a novel that came out 130 plus years ago, which itself has been made into dozens, hundreds of films, stage plays, radio dramas, musicals, and TV shows ever.

It should be impossible to spoil Nosferatu. There is nothing surprising ever in Nosferatu. But again, here's your spoiler warning. Skip ahead. So Thomas, played by Nicholas Holt, is married to Ellen, played by Lily Rose Depp. But Ellen is supernaturally betrothed to Nosferatu, the vampire, played by Bill Skarsgård. Ellen loves Thomas, but physically aches for Nosferatu.

It should be impossible to spoil Nosferatu. There is nothing surprising ever in Nosferatu. But again, here's your spoiler warning. Skip ahead. So Thomas, played by Nicholas Holt, is married to Ellen, played by Lily Rose Depp. But Ellen is supernaturally betrothed to Nosferatu, the vampire, played by Bill Skarsgård. Ellen loves Thomas, but physically aches for Nosferatu.

She has to have him and he has to have her. And Thomas, understandably, doesn't want the vampire to have his wife. So there's this scene where Ellen is writhing on the floor, possessed as she sometimes is by and for Nosferatu. She's moaning, clawing at her clothes, and she looks Thomas in the eye and says something along the lines of, you cannot satisfy me the way he can.

She has to have him and he has to have her. And Thomas, understandably, doesn't want the vampire to have his wife. So there's this scene where Ellen is writhing on the floor, possessed as she sometimes is by and for Nosferatu. She's moaning, clawing at her clothes, and she looks Thomas in the eye and says something along the lines of, you cannot satisfy me the way he can.