Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Nosferatu.Get your Gothic garb on and hold your crucifix close, because Nosferatu is now arriving in theaters. The Robert Eggers-directed remake of the classic 1922 film has been a long time coming, having first been announced all the way back in 2015. Clearly a passion project for the auteur filmmaker, its dropping into theaters nationwide on Christmas Day to largely stellar reviews, including a 9/10 rave from IGN.However, despite all the praise for the films performances, cinematography, and period set design, Nosferatu continues the tradition of adaptations and reworkings of the original Dracula novel messing up significant elements of the source material. This problem is so endemic that certain aspects of the book have been completely overwritten in the popular imagination by adaptational changes being echoed in version after version over the decades.So today, lets take a look at what those changes are, and why the original novel still doesnt have a definitive film adaptation.PlayAn Ancient EvilTo ensure everyones on the same page, lets start with a brief refresher: Dracula, by Irish author Bram Stoker, is a Gothic horror novel published in 1897. The book is written in epistolary format, meaning that the text takes the form of notes, letters and documents written in-universe by characters in the story. Theres little argument among literary scholars that its not the most well-known and influential work of vampire fiction ever written, with Dracula himself becoming one of the most recognizable characters in popular culture. But despite that, much of the context around the novels actual plot and characters has been obscured in the popular consciousness because of how its adaptations have warped the common perceptions of them, and this began with the earliest film and stage productions.Much of the context around the novels actual plot/characters has been obscured in the popular consciousness because of how its adaptations have warped perceptions of them.The original Nosferatu, an unlicensed German film adaptation from director F. W. Murnau in 1922, condensed and reimagined much of the plot and characters. The film moved the action from England to Germany and renamed everyone in the cast, with the most famous example being turning Count Dracula into Count Orlok. This was mostly a failed attempt to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits. The 1924 Dracula play written by Hamilton Deane (and revised into its more well-known version in 1927 by John L. Balderston) likewise condensed the plot and cast, removing all the sections outside of England and merging Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra into one character named Lucy Seward in Balderstons iteration. The play served as the basis for Universals 1931 film directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Legosi as Dracula, a role he had previously played on stage.Some of the most prominent deviations from the source material that became the default started in these early adaptations. Vampires dying in sunlight? Not in the book. Dracula is merely weakened by sunlight, but he can walk around in it just fine. The 1922 movie introduced the idea of vampires being killed by the sun. Dracula being a suave aristocrat who charms his victims? First introduced in the 1924 play. In the book he starts off decrepit and repulsive, and later morphs into a less monstrous form but still isnt considered handsome or charismatic. Van Helsing being a vampire expert? Not until the 1931 film. In the novel, Van Helsing is merely an eccentric professor whos studied the occult, and hes never encountered vampires before. But most versions now depict Van Helsing as Draculas nemesis and a seasoned warrior against the supernatural, when hes really just guessing his way through it in the book.Hell, Dracula isnt even staked in the book. Hes decapitated and stabbed in the heart with a knife. But those are details. If you want to see where Dracula adaptations have truly erred, its in the depiction of the books two primary female characters: Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra.Robert Eggers' Nosferatu Trailer Stills19th Century WomenAs a story, Dracula has always been more of an ensemble piece, but if theres one character who deserves to be called the protagonist of the book, its Mina Harker. She doesnt appear for the first few chapters, but once she enters the narrative she becomes the most pivotal figure in the war against Dracula because of her intelligence, composure, and loyalty to her friends and loved ones. She doesnt physically fight Dracula, but shes instrumental to his defeat by assembling the letters and documents making up the text of the book, providing the research material the heroes need to figure out Draculas weaknesses. She helps everyone with their personal crises as they struggle to psychologically endure the situation. And although she is attacked and mind-controlled by the Count, she turns their psychic connection against him through force of will and reveals his location to her comrades, an act that directly leads to Draculas demise.Sadly, this version of Mina simply does not exist in adaptations. She often either has her role reduced, is merged or swapped with her best friend Lucy, or is altered into a helpless (or worse, willing) victim. That last one is what happens in Francis Ford Coppolas 1992 film, where Winona Ryder plays Mina. This version is a complete betrayal of the original character because instead of being defined by her intellect and moral fortitude, shes a brainless damsel who falls in love with the Count because shes apparently the reincarnation of his long lost wife. What makes this especially egregious is that in the book, Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood against her will in an unmistakable metaphor for sexual assault. This means the movie takes a character who is for all intents and purposes raped by Dracula and has her lovingly fawn over him. Its utterly reprehensible and totally misses the point of who Mina is.PlayLucy Westenra receives similar treatment. In the book shes defined by her innate goodness, a pure soul who is tragically destroyed by Dracula and turned into a vampire, forcing the three men who love her to help hunt her down and destroy her. In Coppolas film, shes reimagined as a shameless flirt who plays her suitors against each other and constantly talks in sexual innuendos. By portraying Lucy in this way, her sexuality becomes something she winds up being punished for, which she is by getting turned into a monster that must be put down. Like with Mina, its a complete misunderstanding of the characters original context and what role theyre meant to play in the storys thematic framework. Its also just bizarre to see female characters from a book published in the 1890s be less regressive than their counterparts in film adaptations released a century later. Sadly, the new take on Nosferatu doesnt do much to change this.Symphony of the LightThe new Nosferatu begins with our Mina analogue Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) calling out into the night, only to be answered by Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgrd). The thorny and unsettling connection between the two forms the backbone of the narrative, with the movies most interesting idea being that Ellen isnt completely turned off by how monstrous and disgusting this version of the character can be. From there, the film follows much of the basic plot outline of the novel, albeit with the character names from the 1922 film used instead. However, like with Coppolas film, Ellen/Minas character traits arent kept. She mostly screams and cries through the film rather than keeping her wits about her, and she clearly betrays her husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) through her desire for Orlok instead of being loyal like in the book.25 Best Vampire Movies of All TimeThe movie tries to get around this by having Ellen be the character who defeats Orlok, but the way its done saps the choice of its power. Ellen sacrifices herself by inviting Orlok into her room and allowing him to feed on her, keeping him in place long enough for the sun to rise and kill him. However, the movie never shows her (or anyone else, for that matter) learning that sunlight will kill Orlok; its something the movie assumes everyone knows because of how prominent that weakness is in popular culture. Nor does Ellen forcefully hold Orlok down when sunlight pours through the windows to ensure she finishes the job, she just gently caresses him. Orloks death happening this way also just makes him seem dumb. Did he not know the sun was rising? The questions about how this ending plays out prevent it from functioning as a meaningful subversion of previous Mina adaptations. It also results in Ellens death, meaning she, like Coppolas Lucy before her, is being punished for her sexuality because she unwittingly unleashed Orlok on everyone by indulging her desires.To be fair to Eggers, its clear his interest was more in remaking Murnaus film than adapting Stokers book, but that no other filmmaker over the years has done the latter well feels like a missed opportunity. We havent even touched on how Terence Fishers 1958 film starring Christopher Lee screws over Jonathan Harker, how John Badhams 1979 film starring Frank Langella once again cuts all the scenes outside of England, or how last years The Last Voyage of the Demeter from director Andr vredal takes a great idea in adapting the boat chapter as a full film and ruins it by portraying Dracula as a generic slasher monster with almost no dialogue. Its beyond absurd how many times this story has been adapted to stage and screen without any of the major works really getting the source material. Perhaps someday well see a great version of Stokers text, but for now, that dream is as illusory as the mist Dracula can transform into.Carlos Morales writes novels, articles and Mass Effect essays. You can follow his fixations on Bluesky.

This article contains major spoilers for Robert Eggers Nosferatu.It is only in Nosferatus final breath that the films lighting at last appears golden, pure, and radiant to behold. There at the end of all things and inside the Hutter bedroomwhich like previous Nosferatu films is marred by the repression of its period and two separate twin beds for a newlywed couplegoodness has again won out over the dark. The morning dawn bathes a world previously defined by shadow and gloom with every shade of rose and resplendency; and a cold home glows. Somehow though, this warmth makes the final image of the movie that much more painful.There, sprawled in one of the beds, is Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), a woman who loved her husband so much that she sought to save him by giving herself over to her literal demon. Indeed, the vile creature is wrapped around her like the husk of a felled cockroach that has shriveled before the light of day. Their bodies are entwined in a tangle of limbs and viscera, with blood soaking the pale white sheets from the carnage seeping out of the wounds in Ellens chestand elsewhere.Also, whereas the other two notable versions of this Germanic story, F.W. Murnaus original Nosferatu masterpiece of 1922, and Werner Herzogs own formidable arthouse recontextualization of the material in 1979, allowed the vampire to decouple itself from its prey before succumbing to the light in a wide shot above the bed, writer-director Robert Eggers has chosen to save that famous framing in 2024 for Willem Dafoes Professor Von Franz, a Van Helsing-like occultist who knew all too well that Ellen would sacrifice herself before the altar of the vampires lust. His complicity in that altruistic surrender only heightens the sense of melancholy permeating the scene. Von Franz stands on the spot where previous cinematic Orloks died, and while holding a cat fit for Isis and Bastet, the good doctor forlornly repeats how it was a maiden fairs sacrifice who broke the curse and freed them from the plague of Nosferatu.In Eggers film, the implications of that sacrifice are more explicit than ever, with the death throes of Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgrd) occurring simultaneously alongside Ellen in her bed. Its death by sexual climax, and in the final frames of the film, the pairs shared demise has brought something beyond just peace to Ellens face. There is also release in her final repose. At long last, she knows what it is to be fulfilled.It is a haunting final image for a film, and one that invites a richer reading about what Eggers interpretation brings to Draculas table.Yes, Nosferatu is a story weve seen before, countless times when you remember that the original 1922 film was just the first major (and infamously unofficial) adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula novel from 1897. It would not be the last. Yet despite there being thousands of other places to draw from, Eggers previously told us theres a reason he feels a special affinity for the simplicity in Nosferatus structure.One of the things that I like about the Murnau version taking place earlier [than Dracula] is Dracula is moving to London because its one of the hubs of the Western world and hes eventually hoping for world domination, Eggers said. Whereas Orlok just seems to want Ellen. It therefore becomes a little bit more of a simple fairy tale.Nosferatu is a simpler version of the story, but Eggers, Depp, Skarsgrd, and everyone else involved with this telling have done wonders at heightening both that fairy tale quality of which Eggers speaks, as well as a psychological tragedy that has only been brushed against by other interpretations. It is true, Ellen (or Lucy as she is named in the Werzog version) sacrifices herself at the end of every Nosferatu, but more than any other film version, Nosferatu 24 belongs to the Ellen/Lucy/Mina archetype. The film begins and ends on Ellens complicated dynamic with the vampire, as announced by a prologue depicting a young, vulnerable girl inviting home a malevolent force she doesnt fully understand.While the ending of the movie is showered in flecks of gold, Eggers begins his tale in nigh total darkness. In her childhood bedroom, Ellen is depicted as a girl haunted by an unrelenting loneliness when she calls out for companionship, almost as if it were a prayer. Its a plea anyone who ever was an adolescentparticularly of a Gothic sensibilitymight recognize. But it is Ellens misfortune that a sinister voice answers, and it comes to her in the shape of a familiar shadow on her bedchamber curtains.When Orlok first reaches out to Ellen, it is in a great house of implicit wealth and power. Yet when we find her years later, she has discovered contentment, if not peace or relief, in a humbler home with her husband Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult). Their cottage satisfies Ellens material needs. But the feelings of inadequacy these trappings instill in Thomas, a young man who seeks to build a more comfortable lifestyle for Ellen, betray a lack of understanding or true connection between Ellen and the bridegroom.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!I do think that between Ellen and Thomas, theres a real pure love thats very heartbreaking, Depp told us for Den of Geek magazine. I think that he really wants to protect her, but sadly, I dont think that he really can.Eggers relies a lot on inference in Nosferatus early scenes, as we never see Thomas and Ellens courtship, nor even get a sense of Ellens childhood upbringing beyond that aforementioned wide shot of her stately home captured during the hour of the wolf. Yet it is implied that Ellen was greatly troubledand likely shamedby her family due to what they might have viewed as a mania. (A sad reality echoed by the Harding family later in the movie.) Thomas has provided relief to Ellens loneliness, but he is no antidote. When she tries to confide in him a dream about her marrying Death himself, he tells her to never speak of these feelings again. And despite having known her as wife and friend for presumably months or years, he cannot fathom why his bride would recoil at the idea that he cut flowersthese beautiful, living thingsfor her pleasure.He does not yet comprehend, but Ellen knows all too well the allure and dread of destroying beautiful things for fleeting pleasure. It is, after all, why Orlok covets her, and much to her internalized shame and regret, it is a form of gratification she also desires.Acknowledging the potential psychological appeal of sexual danger, or really any type of vice, has long been an element of vampire stories, particularly when modern lenses are applied to the incredibly Victorian sensibilities of Stokers Dracula tale. Consider how Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Oldman turned the vampire into the ultimate bad boy in the mis-titled Bram Stokers Dracula.But while Eggers knowingly teases out the repressive elements of Victorian thinking in his Nosferatuwith the well-meaning Dr. Sievers (Ralph Ineson) prescribing Ellen a corset that looks ever so much like a straightjacket for her nightgownthis film isnt necessarily about subverting thatpatriarchal culture. Orlok is more than just the wrong kind of guy. He is Death himself in the Medieval sense; an echo of countless works of art where the Grim Reaper or other personifications of oblivion were drawn as devouring and desecrating young women with rot and pestilence. It even became a Renaissance motif, Death and the Maiden.Eggers told me Death and the Maiden was on his mind while adapting Nosferatu, as well as countless other classic tales about love being supplanted by obsession or self-annihilation, from The Daemon Lover to Wuthering Heights. They each tap into something thats primal and appealing to the filmmakers Jungian leanings about how these bits and bobs of the past are knocking around in everyones heads to some degree. All of the directors films to date operate on the idea that we culturally share a kind of subconscious in which fears, hopes, and even orgasmic relief are half-remembered and repeated.This is never more explicit than in Nosferatu, a film in which Eggers renames his Van Helsing character after real-life Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz. In fact, it is Dafoes Von Franz who muses that in pagan times Ellen might have been revered as a Priestess of Isis, celebrated in the cities of Rome or Thebes, instead of dismissed and locked away as a troubled wife by her father, her husband, and her husbands condescending friend who is the epitome of their 19th century moment.Von Franz is Eggers voice in the film, offering true pity but also admiration for Ellens plight. Unlike the literary Van Helsing, Von Franz has no delusions that he can defeat the vampire, but he knows Ellens feminine power can conquer the beast. For Ellen, the cost is succumbing to literal darkness. She is indeed wedding herself to Death made flesh. But she isnt surrendering to evil; she is recognizing the darkness that is in her own nature as we all must. She then uses it to save a husband she deeply loves, even if he can never appreciate how.I think that she really does love Thomas, Depp told me. To me that really is the love story, because she wants so badly to be what he needs and what he wants, and I think he so badly wants to be what she wants [but] she has this side to her that he cant understand, unfortunately, but I think is fulfilled in her pull to Orlok.Whereas other Dracula movies seek to turn the vampire into a romantic figure, the romance of Eggers Nosferatu comes from Ellens genuine love of Thomas. The vampire represents a different side of her nature that someone as earthly and conventional as Thomas can never fully accept, but that doesnt mean the vampire is itself romantic. Even Orlok says he is nothing but an appetite in the movie. And his appetite is to destroy and consume all in his path, including something as delicate and youthful as Ellen. Her self-actualization is thus accepting that she has the urge to be destroyed. Perhaps we all do.There was a lot of criticism at the end of the second half of the 20th century about 19th century novelists who were mostly male, but also female, needing to kill off the heroines who had sexual desire or leanings to darkness, and how misogynist that is, which is not untrue, Eggers mused about the motifs he is exploring. But I think that it was also interesting [to have this] archetype of this demonic female who was the hero of the story and the saviorthe cultural savior [who] the Victorians needed to somehow get out.Read more Ultimately, Depp and Eggers Ellen must succumb to darkness in order to defeat it in herself. While Eggers film isnt necessarily expressionistic in the traditional filmic sense, this picture still acts as physical expression of that internal struggle everyone faces, only here with the literal world around Ellen falling to despair until she admits to her darker urges, and her power over them. When she does at last confront that reality, she is able to control it, as demonstrated by literally guiding Orloks monstrous countenance back to the embrace of her bosom until that first crow of cock.She still dies, but she does so like the Priestesses of Isis of old, secure in the knowledge that she has protected her world, and made sure Amun-Ra has completed the suns journey into the sky for another morning. Its tragically romantic because it denies her and Thomas a life of equal-footing, which might have seemed faintly possible after his return from Transylvania and his own induction into the world of supernatural corruption, but her exit is entirely on Ellens own terms. Furthermore, she finally found a lover who did understand her needs.In the end, Von Franz throws more dying flowers on Ellens true grave in that final shot. Theyre yet more mementos of beautiful things that will soon rot and decay. But it is accepting the fleeting, ephemeral nature of things, and even our desire to hasten their demise, which gives them beauty in the light of day.Nosferatu is playing now only in theaters.

In James Mangolds A Complete Unknown, Timothe Chalamet fingerpicks the tussle-haired troubadours guitar and stands inside Bob Dylans shoes. But those bootheels wander through a tangle of folk tales about the ambitious young singers life from 1961 to 1965 in New Yorks Greenwich Village. During the film, Dylan tells girlfriend Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning), a pseudonym for the late Suze Rotolo (seen on the cover of Dylans Freewheelin album): People make up their past, Sylvie. They remember what they want. They forget the rest.Bob Dylan is a master of making up past histories and self-mythology. In a January 1961 interview with WBAI FMs Folksingers Choice, Dylan claimed to work the ferris wheel at a traveling carnival, starting at age 13. As the movie reiterates, Bob mentions being from Gallup, New Mexico. However, Robert Allen Zimmerman, Dylans real name, was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in Hibbing. But in 1961, the southern roots inferred a street-cred musical pedigree. The carnival was probably an allegory to the rock and roll bands Dylan played in, including backing Bobby Vee at two shows. Bob is obviously having fun in the interview.Dylan continues crafting his persona to this day, alluding in a 2005 60 Minutes interview with Ed Bradley to a bargain with the chief commander on this earth and the world we cant see. Dylans 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways opens with I Contain Multitudes. With a cast of six actors portraying the enigmatic songwriter, Todd Haynes 2007 biopic Im Not There features the subtitle, Inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan. In the 1973 western feature film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob plays a guy named Alias. Pressed for details, the gunslinger replies Alias is anything you want. As Dylan told Bradley, It goes back to that destiny thing.Rock star mythology is as old as the crossroads story of blues icon Robert Johnson, and Dylans image was as artistically, and creatively, curated as his songs. Dylans mythology is part of his art, something James Mangolds A Complete Unknown knowingly celebrates, often by printing the legend even when the history is sitting right thereoff-screen.Here are some legendary highlights A Complete Unknown claims to know:Consolidation and the Dramatic Importance of LegendMangold and Jay Cocks screenplay technically adapts Elijah Walds Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and The Night That Split the Sixties (2015). That nonfiction book seeks to separate the past from the musings of a restless rockstar whose memories can be interpretational. Dylans own memoir, Chronicles: Volume One (2004), contains an almost equal amount of fact and revisionist alternative. Perhaps Mangold and Cocks, like so many of Dylans fans, prefer the artists self-portrait.For A Complete Unknown, the most glaring errors come from consolidating four years of intense growth into about two hours. Changes for dramatic effect enforce the emotional bond of a cinematic telling, and are unreliable as a chronological narrative. For instance, Dylan brought Robert Sheltons The New York Times profile to his first studio session at Columbia Records backing folk singer Carolyn Hester on Sept. 29, 1961. The article was not new when Dylan recorded his first album, Bob Dylan, in November. However, rather than fact-check every scene, we think it might be most interesting to look at how the film interprets the biggest early moments and relationships in Dylans careerHow Many Roads Does It Take to Sing a Song to Woody?Dylan did not meet Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey. Dylan tried to visit Guthrie where he lived, in Howard Beach, Queens. The meeting eventually occurred in Jerseys East Orange at a private home of friend Bob Gleason. Yet many readers of the rock press still learn the event transpired as it did in the film as the story even appeared in rock encyclopedias like Story of Pop (1973). Dylan didnt sing Song to Woody to Guthrie when they met either, though that is often how the story is told.Pete Seeger (Ed Norton) was also not at the meeting and never shared his couch with the young Dylan. The song Pete wakes to hear Bob beginning, Girl From the North Country, wasnt written until the end of the 1962 tour of Englandso a good deal after Dylan arrived in New York as if from smoke.Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and That Martin GuitarDylan and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) met at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, but the Folsom Prison Blues singer reached out to the new face of folk through a series of appreciative and encouraging letters, which made the pair lifelong friends. The pair only officially collaborated on Dylans 1969 album Nashville Skyline but left a treasure trove of unreleased informal sessions which have been a mainstay of bootleg collectors everywhere. Dylan was featured on the debut of the TV variety show The Johnny Cash Show where they dueted on Dylans Girl from the North Country.In spite of the films grand old-fashioned soap operetta segment, Cash played before Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) at the fateful 1964 Newport Folk Festival, on Friday, July 24. He was not sandwiched between the two headliners. Dylan, meanwhile, played July 26.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!While the movie certainly makes an epic moment out of Cash presenting Dylan with his Martin acoustic guitar after the folk singer went electric and burned the proverbial house down at Newport, in reality he gifted it to him after a hotel-room jam in 1964. The gift was a country artist tradition, and each favored a wide range of Martin makes. Cash wasnt at the Newport Festival in 1965. This detail is not even part of Dylans mythology. But now it is Hollywood legend.Newport Folk Festival 1965 Was Not a Free-for-All DisasterA Complete Unknown treats The Newport Folk Festival 1965 like the standoff in The Wild One (1953) with Dylan as the leather-jacketed, causeless rebel motorcycle rider. Like Marlon Brando before him. On Saturday, July 24, Dylan performed three acoustic songs, deciding to plug in for the festival closing. On a whim, he said he wanted to play electric, Newport roadie Jonathan Taplin remembers in Howard Sounes Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (2001). It was not, apparently, the premeditated assault on traditionalist sensibilities depicted onscreen.Dylan was not the first electric act at the Newport Folk Festival either. Muddy Waters floored the audience with an electric guitar, and Cashs band featured an electric lead guitarist at the festival in 1964. The controversy is, and has always been, overplayed. However, the altercation between Dylans manager Albert Grossman (Dan Fogler) and Alan Lomax (Norbert Leo Butz), the steadfast keeper of traditional protest music, was reported, though the reaction was expected. Dylans new single was rising on the charts, and it was as electrifying as it was divisive.Dylans Bringing It All Back Home was released in March 1965. Side one is backed by a tight rock band, side two features Dylan on acoustic guitar. On July 20, the six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone dropped to critical acclaim, and uniformly accommodating radio station play. The 1965 Newport Folk Festival marked the first time Dylan performed the new hit in publicand the majority of the audience probably couldnt wait to hear it live. The song is strong enough to work with just an acoustic guitar, but Bob really was giving his fans what they deserved.For the July 25 closing, Dylan played his first concert with electric instruments. He was joined by pianist Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag, bassist Jerome Arnold, and drummer Sam Lay, with two musicians who played on the radio smash: Paul Butterfield Blues Bands Mike Bloomfield on lead electric guitar, and guitarist Al Kooper fingering the organ.Legend says the opening song, Maggies Farm, drew the bulk of the ire. Footage seen in the documentary films Festival (1967), No Direction Home (2003), and The Other Side of the Mirror (2007) confirm boos and cheers greeted Maggies Farm, and squabbled for dominance throughout Like a Rolling Stone.If I had an axe, Id chop the microphone cable right now, Seeger is quoted as saying. However, listening to the archival footage, the mix sounds balanced, feedback is controlled, lead vocals are prominent. The sound balance achieves aggressive perfection by Phantom Engineer.The reason they booed is that he only played for 15 minutes when everybody else played for 45-minutes or an hour, Kooper explained in No Direction Home. They didnt give a shit about us being electric. They just wanted more.No Direction Home also captures the May 17, 1966 moment when a fan at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England crowd shouts Judas! at Dylan. This event did not occur at the Newport Folk Festival 1965, though it has been repeatedly reported as such. Once again A Complete Unknown printed the legend.Read more Joan Baez Diamonds and RustBorn to sing in any genre, folk guitar virtuoso steeped in rock and roll classics, Joan Baez hit the national stage with two duets in Bob Gibsons performance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Dubbed the barefoot Madonna, Baez signed with Vanguard Records and made the cover of Time magazine within two years. In spite of the biopics fragmentary memory, Dylan wasnt backstage waiting to play at Gerdes Folk City while Joan let rip with a blues-infused rendition of House of the Rising Sun. Baez went to her usual Greenwich Village haunt to check out the new talent with the growing reputation. Somebody said, Oh, youve gotta come down and hear this guy, hes terrific, Baez told Rolling Stone in 1983.Dylan probably didnt write Masters of War and debut it at the Gaslight the same night he and Joan first got together, even if the evening memorably corresponds to the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point, Dylan enjoyed a mutual flirtation with Baezs younger sister, the folk singer Mimi Baez Faria. The romance between Bob and Joan ignited later.In the Rolling Stone cover story How Timothe Chalamet Pushed the Bounds to Play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Norton revealed Mangold confided that Dylan insisted on putting at least one wildly inaccurate moment into A Complete Unknown. The actor did not reveal the detail, but when Mangold appeared concerned about the public reaction, Norton said Dylan stared at him, and explained: What do you care what other people think?To this author, the intentionally inaccurate moment seems to be the onstage antics during the 1965 East Coast tour sequence where Dylan and Baez share the stage. There is no footage, audio, or even musicians recollections of any incident where Dylan stops playing after a verse of All I Really Want to Do, tells a crowd he doesnt play requests, and leaves Baez to perform Blowin in the Wind solo. Had this happened, wed never have heard the end of it. It would add a whole chapter to the mythos.Bob Dylans self-mythology amuses him, and fans and critics are free to take part in the fun. Baez summed it up best in her exquisite Diamonds and Rust, singing Now youre telling me youre not nostalgic, then give me another word for it. You were so good with words and at keeping things vague. As the relief subsides that Mangold will not add one more anachronism to A Complete Unknowns Newport Folk Fest, adding Dylans catastrophic 1966 motorcycle crash to an overcrowded finale, it becomes clear: a little mythology keeps some records straight.A Complete Unknown is playing in theaters now.

Adam Sandlers Christmas (and Chanukah) gift to the world The return of Happy Gilmore.The first look atHappy Gilmore 2just debuted online.Almost 30 yearsafter the original film, which was one of Sandlers early movie hits, is coming to Netflix next year. And Sandler shared the first trailer for the film on X, which features Sandlers Gilmore, Julie Bowens Virginia, and, of course, Christopher McDonald as the sinister Shooter McGavin.Happy Chanukah! Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! And Happy Gilmore to all!!!!!! Sandler tweeted, along with the first 30 second teaser.READ MORE: The Best Netflix Movies of 2024While the premise of the film hasnt been revealed yet, it clearly involves plenty of Happy Gilmore playing golf. Happy Gilmore 2also stars Margaret Qualley, Benny Safdie, Nick Swardson, AEW pro wrestler MJF, and Ben Stiller, reprising his uncredited cameo role from the firstHappy Gilmore as a cruel hospital orderly.The originalHappy Gilmore, directed by Dennis Dugan, starred Sandler as a struggling hockey player who discovers a previously unknown gift for playing golf. The sequel was directed by Kyle Newacheck and was co-written by Tim Herlihy and Sandler. (Dugan will appear in a cameo, reprising his role from the first movie.)Over a three decade career in Hollywood, Sandler has made very few sequels. He and his pals made twoGrown Ups movies, and he and Jennifer Aniston have appeared in twoMurder Mysterys on Netflix.Sandler also voiced Count Dracula in multipleHotel Transylvaniafilms.Happy Gilmore 2premieres on Netflix in 2025.Get our free mobile appEvery Adam Sandler Movie Ranked From Worst to BestAdam Sandler has been a part of our lives for more than 30 years now, and he has appeared in dozens of films. We watched and ranked every single one.Gallery Credit: Matt Singer

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When to watch the Chiefs vs. Steelers?Wednesday, Dec. 25 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT).Where to watch?The Chiefs-Steelers game will stream nationally on Netflix. In Kansas City and Pittsburgh, it will also air on CBS. See at Netflix Showing two NFL games on Dec. 25 Netflix See at Netflix See more details See at Paramount Plus Cheap alternative for AFC fans on Sunday to get CBS Paramount Plus With Showtime: $13 See at Paramount Plus See more details Table of Contents It has finally happened: Netflix now has live football. Announced earlier this year, Christmas Day marks the beginning of the NFL's expansion onto the popular streaming service, with two games on tap for this year: the Chiefs and Steelers in the opener at 1 p.m. ET, followed by the Ravens and Texans in the day's second game at 4:30 p.m. ET.The addition of live football games is Netflix's latest push into live content and the first big event since its troublesome fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.Both contests will air worldwide on Netflix, although they will also be available on phones and tablets to those who subscribe toNFL Plus. If you live in one of the teams' local markets you can also catch the action on your local CBS station or even on Paramount Plus (if you have the "with Showtime" option). So if you're in Kansas City or Pittsburgh, you won't actually need to open up Netflix to watch if you already have cable, satellite, an antenna or alive TV streamingservice that has CBS. Here's everything you need to know.Read more:NFL 2024: How to Watch and Stream Games and RedZone With or Without Cable Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs play in Netflix's first NFL game on Christmas Day. Cooper Neill/Getty Images Chiefs vs. Steelers game: When and where? This Week 17 NFL matchup sees the Steelers host the Chiefs at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) on Wednesday, Dec. 25. The game will take place at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers. It will be streamed worldwide and in the US on Netflix.Do I need a special Netflix plan to watch the Christmas Day NFL games?Any Netflix plan should work for watching both Christmas Day NFL games, as well as the halftime shows. This includes Netflix's cheapest Standard with ads option that runs $7 per month. James Martin/CNET Netflix will be the home of two Christmas Day NFL games this season. The games will be viewable regardless of which Netflix plan you have, including the company's cheapest $7 per month Standard with ads option. See at Netflix How to watch the Chiefs vs. Steelers game in the USThis week's Chiefs-Steelers game is also going to stream on Netflix in the US and worldwide, but it will also air on CBS if you're in either of the teams' local markets and don't have Netflix.This means those with a cable, satellite, antenna or live TV streaming servicethat carries a local CBS affiliate in Kansas City or Pittsburgh will be able to watch a broadcast of the game and halftime show without having to use Netflix.The game will also be available in Kansas City and Pittsburgh for those with aParamount Plus with Showtime account, although at $13 per month, this option is pricier than Netflix's cheapest plan. Paramount Plus does offer a free trial. Sarah Tew/CNET Paramount Plus' pricier "with Showtime" tier includes live CBS feeds, which will work for catching this Netflix football game that is airing on CBS stations in Kansas City and Pittsburgh. Read our Paramount Plus review. See at Paramount Plus CBS is available on most of the major streaming services namely YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, DirecTV Stream and Fubo, although they all cost far more than Paramount Plus or Netflix. These services also carry many live channels, including football broadcasting channels like NBC, ABC, Fox and ESPN. Check out ourlive TV streaming services guidefor details. If you live in an area where the game is being broadcast, an over-the-air antenna connected to your TV provides another option for CBS. The best part about antennas is that there are no streaming or monthly fees required, although you will need to make sure youhave good reception.

Apple Inc. has asked to participate in an upcoming antitrust trial that will focus on Google LLCs practices in the search market.Reuters reported the request today, citing a court document filed on Monday.In August, a federal judge found that Google maintains an illegal monopoly across the search engine and search text advertising segments. One focus of the ruling was a set of agreements that the company maintains with handset makers. Under those contracts, the handset makers must set Google as the default search engine on their devices.Apple is one of the companies with which the Alphabet Inc. unit has inked such an agreement. According to Bloomberg, Google pays the iPhone maker billions of dollars per year as part of the contract. Those payments are part of the reason Apple plans to join the upcoming antitrust trial.The trial will determine how Google should change its business practices to comply with antitrust rules. The Justice Department, which is leading the litigation, will ask the court to scrap Googles default search engine agreement with Apple. This means that the iPhone maker would no longer receive payments from Google, which is what it could potentially avoid by joining the litigation.The Justice Department argues that the agreement should be scrapped because it disincentives Apple from building a competing search engine. In Mondays court filing, the iPhone maker stated that it wouldnt seek to compete with Google even if the contract were to end. Apple cited the enormous start-up resources involved in entering the general search market as one reason for its decision.During the trial, Apple hopes to present testimony from two or three witnesses along with relevant documents. The company explained that the decision to join the litigation is motivated by concerns Google can no longer adequately represent Apples interest. Apple is worried Google wont focus on their default search engine agreement because it will prioritize other aspects of the litigation.Plaintiffs proposed search distribution remedies are just one among manyissues Google now faces with other proposed remedies, such as divestment of Google Chrome, posing an even greater threat to Google, Apple explained. Google therefore is likely to prioritize and deprioritize certain of its defenses.Last week, Google offereda set of antitrust remedies that it positions as an alternative to the Justice Departments proposal. The search giant is offering to loosen its default search engine agreements by making them nonexclusive and allowing companies such as Apple to revisit their terms annually. At the same time, Google would keep paying the iPhone maker to keep its search engine the default option for iOS users.The trial is set to begin in April.Photo: UnsplashA message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE.One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and relevant content. Join our community on YouTubeJoin the community that includes more than 15,000 #CubeAlumni experts, including Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy, Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and many more luminaries and experts.TheCUBEis an important partner to the industry. You guys really are a part of our events and we really appreciate you coming and I know people appreciate thecontent you create as well Andy JassyTHANK YOU

Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo LifeOver the holiday season, we're republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. Enjoy!Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the mediums biggest enduring franchises today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: new aftermarket IPs that are strikingly polished and joyously fun.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789kWatch on YouTube The homebrew scene for the NES has flourished over the two decades, especially so with the rise of tools like NESmaker in 2018, which makes developing for the console far more approachable. Inspired by pioneer developers, the minds behind Morphcat Games earned their stripes coding games from scratch using 6502 assembly language.Enter Micro Mages. An homage to NES-era platformers, the 2019 game was the subject of a viral YouTube making-of video that showcased clever optimisation techniques employed by developers Julius Riecke and Nicolas Btoux, who tasked themselves with limiting their game to just 40 kilobytes, in keeping with the file size of the iconic NES launch title Super Mario Bros.You might not have heard of this one... Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo LifeScroll through the YouTube comments, and the general sentiment is: Had this come out during the NES heyday, it would have been a gaming milestone. Physical copies of Micro Mages run seamlessly on original NES hardware, though its physics and gameplay, which supports up to four players, feel decidedly modern to the touch, with gorgeous pixel art to boot.we noticed that new gamers also enjoy this old-school physical experienceCreating a Nintendo game was a dream of mine since I was young, says Riecke, speaking to Nintendo Life. Back in the day, even though I never had an NES of my own, I always looked forward to playing one at a friend's house. I suppose that this circumstance and the great times we had together are what put it on a pedestal for me.Riecke and Btoux, who are based in Berlin, cited titles like Kirbys Adventure, the Super Mario Bros. series, and Mega Man 2 as having left a lasting impression. Later, we discovered Mr. Gimmick and Little Samson which impressed us too! All these games have a high level of polish, taking care of each detail. Really impressive and inspiring.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789kRiecke began tooling with NES development in 2005 and linked up with Btoux in 2015. The duo at Morphcat Games now have a handful of lauded aftermarket NES games under their belt. With Riecke handling programming and sound and Btoux creating graphics and levels, the pair have made a niche name for themselves by pushing the vintage hardware to its limits.Back in 2005, things looked different: I grabbed all the tech docs I could find and spent a couple of weeks reading them over and over again until the puzzle pieces started falling into place, says Riecke. Nowadays, the state of the NES's documentation is excellent. While we use assembly like veteran developers did, the tools available nowadays are MUCH improved.While coding in assembly language, known to be much closer to the binary machine code that a computer's CPU understands, is undoubtedly very demanding and time-consuming, "the benefit is that you have control over every aspect of the NES," Riecke says. "It also helps in understanding exactly how much CPU time each part of your code uses.Image: Morphcat GamesWhile modern tools have greatly streamlined the NES development process, "hand-written assembly still outperforms code written in a higher-level language like C on the NES," Riecke adds. "This allows for really pushing the console's limits beyond anything seen back in the day. I dare say that, still, no one has come close to exhausting its full capabilities."Btoux likewise finds joy in pushing the limits of the hardwares graphical constraints. I started learning 6502ASM with Nerdy Nights in 2011, a series of great tutorials for beginners hosted by the now-defunct NintendoAge forum. The NES graphics limitation is so appealing and it's also challenging for creativity. There's so much to explore!Apart from 2019s Micro Mages, the Morphcat duo has since published Bbl in 2020, a water physics-based Metroidvania with a striking soundtrack and emphasis on exploration, and Spacegulls in 2021, which colourfully fuses the controls of Joust with elements from the Mega Man series. Both titles were made for NESdev Compo and were capped at a more lenient 64KB limit.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789kThe level of ROM space optimisation we did on Micro Mages took a long time indeed. But doesn't everything become manageable if focused on one step at a time? That's what we did, we got lost in an optimisation maze for a while, not knowing where it would lead us, but it's been so much fun that we didn't mind, Riecke says.Fewer memory constraints meant that the pair needed less time to optimise, although Bbl, in particular, which casts the player as a literal bubble, was all about optimising code to run smoothly on the NES' 1.7MHz CPU. The water surface ripple effect alone takes over 50% of the available CPU time.The duo spent nights and weekends powered by sushi and pizza to complete Bbl entirely within a single month. With Spacegulls, we just had fun and could focus on exploring game design with the tools we had already built for Bbl. However, the deadline was even shorter: one week from start to finish.For all the crunch time involved, Morphcats output gives no hint of it. For the curious, a slick physical edition of Bbl, Spacegulls and Micro Mages: Second Quest an expanded version of the base game with new elements and increased challenge is now up for pre-order on a single NES cartridge as part of the Triple Jump collection.Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo LifePhysical cartridges with box and manual are so charming. To hold a game and dive into an instruction booklet is so satisfying. In fact, it extended the game experience beyond play sessions, Btoux tells us, shedding light on Morphcats partnership with publisher Broke Studio to release cartridges of Micro Mages and the Triple Jump collection.Physical releases would have been impossible without input from Antoine Gohin, the creator of the aftermarket NES game Twin Dragons and head of Broke Studio, says Btoux, who shared that the publisher had handled the heavy manufacturing for Micro Mages printed circuit board and shell, while the box, manual, and labels were made in-house.Bringing [out] a new game is tough and expensive to produce, but it's such a pleasure to see people enjoying the final result. There's also a part of nostalgia for the people who grew up during the 8-bit era, but we noticed that new gamers also enjoy this old-school physical experience, looking to buy a NES console and having fun discovering old and new games.Btoux hints that Morphcat is thinking a lot" about modern consoles, with something in the pipeline for 2024. The Nintendo Switch is a great console for local multiplayer games, and much easier than finding an NES Four Score, referring to the accessory released for the NES in 1990 to enable four-player local co-op - a requirement if you want to play Micro Mages with your friends on the vintage hardware.All this fun keeps the NES alive.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789k Alastair Low explains 8-bit love and how he's making games more dyslexia-friendlySee AlsoShare:09 Nile Bowie is an American journalist based in Singapore who grew up on Nintendo. When he isnt reporting on politics, business, and international relations, hes very likely playing his Switch, tracking down old Game Boy cartridges, or reading Nintendo Life with a cat on his lap. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesPSA: Switch 2 Is Getting Revealed In The Next 100 DaysSet your Alarmos'Switch 2' Is Projected To Be The "Clear Winner" In The Next Console GenerationWhile either Sony or Microsoft will "struggle mightily"54 Games You Should Pick Up In The Nintendo Switch eShop Holiday Sale (Europe)Every game we scored 9/10 or higher161 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo's 'Hits For The Holidays' eShop Sale (North America)Every game we scored 9/10 or higher

Table of ContentsTable of ContentsSurprisingly light and strongThe elephant in the roomThe Snapdragon X Elite Experience is greatThe rest of the hardware and battery lifeHonor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon price and availabilityIve been using the M2 MacBook Air since its launch, and it has been a reliable laptop. Its not perfect though. I wish the display was better and that the laptop was lighter as Ive had experiences where my carry-on luggage ended up being heavier than expected. And both of these are things even the M3 MacBook Air doesnt address.What I didnt know, however, was that those wishes could come true in a more feature-packed laptop most people have never heard of. Im talking about the Honor MagicBook Art 14, powered by the Snapdragon X.Recommended VideosHonor introduced it earlier this year at IFA 2024, but it only went on sale a couple of weeks ago in Europe. Its priced higher than the MacBook Air (and isnt available in North America), but after using it for three weeks, I havent looked back since. Prakhar Khanna / Digital TrendsThe Honor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon features a notch-less OLED display thats 14.6 inches in size and offers a 120Hz refresh rate in a laptop body that weighs just 2.25 pounds (1.02 kilograms).RelatedThats 0.5 pounds (220 grams) lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air and 1.1 pounds (490 grams) less than the 15-inch MacBook Air. The difference is noticeable as soon as you pick it up. Its surprisingly light for its size and can easily slide into the slimmest laptop pockets, thanks to its 0.45-inch (11.5 mm) thickness. That makes it nearly as thin as the MacBook Air, surprisingly.The slim and light profile doesnt mean compromises on other aspects. You get a 14.6-inch OLED touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 3120 x 2080 pixel resolution, making for a 3:2 aspect ratio. The taller shape of the screen is still fairly uncommon, and only used on options like the Surface Laptop 7th Edition. Its sharp, vivid, and supports 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. Honor has also included a much-loved feature from its phones 4,320Hz PWM flicker-free dimming to reduce eye strain. There isnt another laptop that offers that kind of portability in a laptop this high-end.Prakhar Khanna / Digital TrendsThe screen is also plenty bright, going up to 700 nits in HDR, making for some very enjoyable Netflix and Prime Video watching. The only slight inconvenience I faced was when working outdoors because the display is very reflective. This issue can be mitigated to an extent by turning the screen up to maximum brightness, which is higher than that of the Apple laptop. However, a less reflective display would have made it perfect.That said, its fantastic for working indoors, in cafes, or in airport lounges. I love having a bigger, brighter, and bolder display in a lighter design.Prakhar Khanna / Digital TrendsAccording to the company, the MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon offers a 97% screen-to-body ratio. One of the first things youll notice is the lack of a webcam. Its not on the top, bottom, or hidden inside a function button instead, its a separate module altogether. This is something many laptops have attempted to get around, but Honors solution is very unique.The 1080p modular camera is a detachable unit located inside the left side of the laptop, right next to the ports. In terms of quality, its serviceable. It pops out with a press and magnetically attaches to the top of the laptop.I had my doubts about its functionality when I first saw it at IFA, but the software recognizes the webcam instantly, and the process is smooth just ensure youve given the necessary permissions. The experience is better than expected. I remain skeptical about it being the best solution, but primarily because Im clumsy and tend to lose modular tech. Despite this, its a smart design choice, and Ive loved having a notch-less display thats a joy for consuming content.Prakhar Khanna / Digital TrendsThe Honor MagicBook Art 14 is powered by the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 processor. It features 12 physical cores, 42 MB of total cache, a 3.42GHz multi-core frequency, and a 4.0GHz peak clock speed, paired with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. It runs Windows 11 and supports Microsofts Copilot.My three weeks with it have been good. I havent encountered problems with app installation, even though most Windows software is built for Intel chips running on x86 code. Apples switch to Arm faced similar challenges, which were mostly resolved through emulation. Qualcomm is addressing these issues similarly with its Snapdragon X chipset.Honor MagicBook Art 14Dimensions12.30 x 8.80 x 0.45 inchesWeight2.27 poundsDisplay14.6-inch OLED, 120Hz (3120 x 2080)CPUQualcomm Snapdragon X EliteGPUQualcomm AdrenoMemory16GB32GBStorage1TB M.2 NVMe SSDPorts2 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 22 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 11 x HDMI 2.11 x 3.5mm headphone jackCamera1080pWi-FiWi-Fi 7 and Bluetoth 5.3Battery60 watt-hourOperating systemWindows 11 on ArmMy use case involves apps like Chrome, Teams, Asana, Slack, Photoshop, and Lightroom. The latter two initially had issues running through Creative Cloud, but after reinstallation, they worked fine. If you rely on specific independent software, its worth checking if the company supports Arm laptops before investing in one. Weve done plenty of testing to show how good the Snapdragon X chips are, even compared to Intels latest.Overall, my experience with the Honor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon has been delightful. I havent experienced lag or crashes, even while running the above-mentioned apps simultaneously with at least 10 Chrome tabs open. The device is quick to wake up and unlock with the built-in fingerprint sensor, and it doesnt consume much battery on standby, which is a major win.Honor also offers an Apple-like ecosystem called Honor MagicRing, which allows seamless connectivity between Honor devices. I connected the laptop to my Honor Magic V2 and MagicPad 2, and like Apples ecosystem, you can use the keyboard and trackpad across devices. It works well in real-life usage.For what its worth, Honor also sells an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 version of the same laptop.Prakhar Khanna / Digital TrendsAs someone who types for a living, I find the MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon keyboard reliable. The 1.5 mm key travel feels perfect, and the soft-to-the-touch keys are great. The large trackpad supports gestures and is precise in usage.You can also scroll on the left and right sides of the trackpad to adjust brightness and volume, respectively. Its a nice touch, but it takes some getting used to, and Ive accidentally triggered these actions multiple times while typing.The Honor laptop features a slew of ports, including two USB-C (3.2) ports on the left, which can also be used to charge the device. On the right side, theres a USB-A 3.2 port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack.The MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon packs a 60 watt-hour battery thats rated to last up to 9.5 hours of daily office work. In my experience, it consistently lasted around seven hours with Chrome, Asana, Slack, and Teams running in the background. My usage was mostly on Balanced Power Mode with 50% screen brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate.You can extend the battery life by lowering the refresh rate to 60Hz and using dark mode, of course. However, I expected it to last longer, as my M2 MacBook Air gives me about 10 hours of battery life on a single charge. Howver, I cant have as many Chrome tabs open or apps running in the background on my 8GB model.The MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragons battery life will likely last you an entire day, but a little extra headroom would have been better.The Honor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon is now on sale for 1,700 euros ($1,770) in several European countries. However, you can claim a 200 euro ($208) discount coupon to bring the price down to 1,500 euros ($1,562). This also includes a free Honor Pad 9 (8GB/256GB) alongside Microsoft 365 Personal or Honor X6 earbuds, depending on the region.As of now, the MagicBook Art 14 isnt available in the U.S., which is a shame. But for me, I couldnt be more happy to continue using this in place of my old MacBook Air. The combination of the high-end screen and MacBook Air-like portability make it the perfect laptop for me and I dont think Im the only one.Editors Recommendations

Blake Lively filed a complaint against Justin Baldoni alleging sexual harassment and retaliation.Baldoni's ex-publicist Stephanie Jones also sued his current publicists for orchestrating a campaign against Lively.Here's a breakdown of everyone involved in the saga.While the film "It Ends With Us" has already come and gone from theaters grossing over $350 million globally along the way the drama is still unfolding.Speculation over tensions among the film's actors began brewing over the summer, when costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni did not interact with each other during the press tour. Around the same time, Lively faced online backlash for her lighthearted promotion of the film, which tackles topics like domestic violence, and past controversies, including a resurfaced 2016 interview.But a recent bombshell legal complaint from Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and using social manipulation to tarnish her reputation. Since the complaint was made public, costars and fellow celebrities have spoken up in support of Lively including Colleen Hoover, the author of "It Ends With Us."The complaint's revelations which include a trove of text messages and emails from Baldoni's publicists have also sparked their own separate suit. Publicist Stephanie Jones sued Jennifer Abel, a former employee who worked with Baldoni as a publicist, and Melissa Nathan, a crisis communications professional, alleging that the two orchestrated the campaign against Lively without Jones' knowledge and set out to wreck her firm's reputation.Here's a breakdown of all the key players in this saga.Blake Lively Blake Lively at a photo call for "It Ends With Us." Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Lively is a prominent actor who played florist Lily Bloom in "It Ends With Us," and produced the film. She is suing costar Baldoni, publicists Abel and Nathan, Baldoni's company Wayfarer Studios, Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath, Wayfarer's cofounder Steve Sarowitz, and Jed Wallace, a contractor."I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted," Lively said in a statement to The New York Times.Lively's legal teamLively's complaint lists legal teams from two firms Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. The attorneys listed on the complaint are Esra Hudson, Stephanie Roeser, and Catherine Rose Noble of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and Michael Gottlieb and Kristin Bender of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.Justin Baldoni Justin Baldoni. Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images Baldoni played Ryle Kincaid in "It Ends With Us" and directed the film; he's listed as a cofounder of Wayfarer Studios. Bryan Freedman, Baldoni and Wayfarer's attorney, said in a statement that accusations against Baldoni and the studio were false."It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to 'fix' her negative reputation, which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions," the statement said.Bryan Freedman Bryan Freedman in 2021. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Freedman is a heavyweight Hollywood lawyer who's been hired by the likes of Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson. He is representing Baldoni, Nathan, Abel, and their respective companies.Melissa NathanNathan is a crisis communications professional whose firm, The Agency Group, was brought in by Baldoni and Abel in July, per Lively's complaint. Nathan's past clients have included celebrities like Johnny Depp and Drake.Jennifer AbelAbel is Baldoni's publicist, as well as Wayfarer's. She started her own company, RWA Communications, and was previously a partner at Jonesworks, another PR company.Stephanie JonesJones is the founder and CEO of Jonesworks; she's filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, as well as Abel and Nathan, that alleges that Abel and Nathan conducted the campaign against Lively behind her back, used social manipulation tactics against her firm, and stole clients when Abel left Jonesworks. Abel previously provided BI with a different account of how she left Jonesworks, sharing emails and text messages that show her submitting her resignation in July and planning to launch her own firm.Kristin TahlerTahler, an attorney at Quinn Emanuel, is Jones' lawyer. "For months, this group has gaslit and disparaged Stephanie Jones and her company for financial gain, to settle personal scores and most recently to distract from their disgraceful smearing of Blake Lively," Tahler said of the defendants in Jones' suit.