Robert Eggers has a remarkable talent for creating one aspect: atmosphere. But why is atmosphere important for Eggers and what makes them so striking? This is a video on learning from Robert Eggers' filmmaking process so that we too can create such vivid environments in our stories.

Because while your typical film script will have on average have 125 words of dialogue per minute, both of Eggers’s films have almost three times less than that. The Witch has just 59 words per minute while The Lighthouse has even fewer with 49 words.

So, what else is does he put into the script?

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Robert Eggers on Making The Lighthouse – BAFTA
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Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse – Film at Lincoln Center
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Robert Eggers Shares His Lighthouse Design Book – Film Independent
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Robert Eggers Talks The Lighthouse and The Northman - Collider
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The Witch Cast Interview with Robert Eggers
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Additional Reading:

Average Number of Words of Dialogue in a Script
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Who is Robert Eggers?

Robert Neil Eggers (born July 7, 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter and production designer. He is best known for his acclaimed horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019). Eggers began his career as a designer and director of theatre productions in New York before transitioning to working in film.

In 2015, Eggers made his directorial debut with horror film The Witch, based on his own script. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015. A24 acquired the film, and released it theatrically on February 19, 2016. Critical reception was largely positive, and the film earned over $40 million against a budget of $4 million. His follow-up film, the horror fantasy The Lighthouse (2019), also a period piece, was critically acclaimed. Eggers directed the film, and co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Max Eggers. It got an Academy Award nomination for best cinematography.

In July 2015, it was reported that Eggers would write and direct a remake of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, based on the Dracula mythology. The film is set to be produced by Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen for Studio 8. In November 2016, Eggers expressed surprise that the Nosferatu remake was going to be his second film, saying "It feels ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting for a filmmaker in my place to do 'Nosferatu' next. I was really planning on waiting a while, but that's how fate shook out." Eggers had previously directed his high school's performance of the Nosferatu play, and was hired to direct a professional version of the play due to his work. Eggers credited this as the event that inspired him to pursue a career in filmmaking. The film has since been put on hold.

Eggers is currently developing a "medieval epic" film called The Northman starring Nicole Kidman and Claes Bang, and a miniseries based on the life of Rasputin.

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