This panel has always reminded me of Nosferatu. It's probably just Oda's inconsistency, but he seriously looks like a monster in this one.
I was reminded of it in 1058, too.
He's hunched over, slightly menacing, mouth open, head forward-- he's kind of a ghoul sometimes.
But that's not all!
Nosferatu is about a man who goes to meet Count Orlok in the "land of thieves and ghosts" because he thinks the Count wants to buy a property. On the way, he meets a random old man who tells him, "Do not hurry, my young friend! Nobody can escape his destiny."
In the movie, the protagonist, Thomas Hutter, goes to an inn and casually mentions that he’s going to Count Orlok’s castle. This is a great parallel with what happened at the Baratie.
So Hutter is walking to the castle when suddenly, a strange carriage comes and offers to bring him the rest of the way. It's actually Count Orlok driving the carriage, but we don't know that yet. Anyway, the carriage and the horses are all draped in black, almost like they're mourning something...
And so he leads him to the castle
And check out the chairs at Nosferatu's house!
So anyway, Count Orlok/Nosferatu decided to buy the house Hutter came to sell him. And guess how he travels to his new house? In a coffin, on a boat.
Meanwhile, Hutter's wife Ellen sits and waits for him on a beach full of graves
So Nosferatu sails into Hutter's hometown after he kills everybody on the ship.
Hutter and Ellen reunite, and Nosferatu shows up at his new house in a tiny boat, carrying his coffin.
I won't spoil the ending of this 100 year-old movie, but I don't think any of the rest of it really matches Mihawk anyway. I plan on doing a Bela Lugosi Dracula post as well, since Mihawk fits that theme a bit better than Nosferatu, but I've always thought that parts of this movie really get the creepy, ghoulish vampire side of Mihawk.
I was reminded of it in 1058, too.
He's hunched over, slightly menacing, mouth open, head forward-- he's kind of a ghoul sometimes.
But that's not all!
Nosferatu is about a man who goes to meet Count Orlok in the "land of thieves and ghosts" because he thinks the Count wants to buy a property. On the way, he meets a random old man who tells him, "Do not hurry, my young friend! Nobody can escape his destiny."
In the movie, the protagonist, Thomas Hutter, goes to an inn and casually mentions that he’s going to Count Orlok’s castle. This is a great parallel with what happened at the Baratie.
So Hutter is walking to the castle when suddenly, a strange carriage comes and offers to bring him the rest of the way. It's actually Count Orlok driving the carriage, but we don't know that yet. Anyway, the carriage and the horses are all draped in black, almost like they're mourning something...
And so he leads him to the castle
And check out the chairs at Nosferatu's house!
So anyway, Count Orlok/Nosferatu decided to buy the house Hutter came to sell him. And guess how he travels to his new house? In a coffin, on a boat.
Meanwhile, Hutter's wife Ellen sits and waits for him on a beach full of graves
So Nosferatu sails into Hutter's hometown after he kills everybody on the ship.
Hutter and Ellen reunite, and Nosferatu shows up at his new house in a tiny boat, carrying his coffin.
I won't spoil the ending of this 100 year-old movie, but I don't think any of the rest of it really matches Mihawk anyway. I plan on doing a Bela Lugosi Dracula post as well, since Mihawk fits that theme a bit better than Nosferatu, but I've always thought that parts of this movie really get the creepy, ghoulish vampire side of Mihawk.
