I'm not sure if this is standard trivia that all the fans know, or if Coppola revealved it in his new commentary, but this was new to me. Spinning my Super-Bit DVD of Coppola's Dracula, I noticed a very specific Murnau image during the opening battle scenes. As the camera focuses on a victorious Oldman, we see many impaled Turks represented by Balinese shadow puppets. One of these is exactly the same classic image of Nosferatu's shadow creeping up the stairs.

Is this in-joke already common knowledge? I don't have any DVD frame capture gizmos, so I can't post the image. Anyone else see this?

To quote the late Livia Soprano, "I don't know what you're TALKIN' about!"

No, really, that's a neat discovery! Can't wait to look it up for myself.