Vampire - part II

Hello again ;)

In my previous article I presented you, how vampires were presented in the past in the past. I familiarized you with the story about Dracula and "Nosferatu - Symphony of horror" the first horror movie in the history. Just a few years ago, ghosts presented in this way terrified the people.

Old vampire movies

Nowadays, with big advancement of special effects and fantasy of authors is very hard to surprise or scare the viewer or reader. Moreover, in the last century the world saw the magnitude of horror, such as the first and second World War, the atomic bomb and it's effects, or terrorist attacks, at which vampires can hide in their crypt with shame. The more that today's authors serve us innovative and grotesque creation of the vampire. Now, vampires are presented not only as evil characters, but mainly as good, happy and helpful. They don't drink human blood and don't kill others. At the beginning of the twentieth century, vampires looked often hideously in the human imagination. Generally presented as a bald figures with the terrible expression of their face, crooked fingers and long tusks. Now, in many films and books, vampires are presented as a very pretty women and handsome men. With one detail distinguishing them from others .... Canines ...

A perfect example is the musical "Dance of the Vampire", full of comic scenes, dialogue, characters - at led with the mad professor looking for vampires and a homosexual vampire - the son of Count, prince of vampires. In the musical, characterization of vampires is very realistic. Evidence of this may be the fact, that each of the actors, must visit the dentist to prepare individual canines as part of the preparations of the play. Vampires-actors look scary, they are high and mighty. During the presentation they are circling over the audience, they can scare viewers - which I experienced during the spectacle in the Roma theater. However, their behavior causes more laughter than fear. The main purpose of Roman Polanski, as well as director Cornelius Baltus, was to build a grotesque and miserable vampire world. "Dance of the Vampire" gives us a fun, but it’s also a higher form of entertainment in the age of massive flood of trash and daub. Roman Polanski said that this work servers only fun and doesn't have moral. But there are moral, which we can heard in the final dance scene. Released into the wild vampires stalk over the audience, singing that the today world belongs to those who haven't got a heart, that's to them. At the end they say's: "And you too will be ours".


Final


Lisa Jane Smith in one of her novel, "The Vampire Diaries",
describes the story about two vampire brothers - Stefano and Damon, who were transformed into bloodsuckers in the fifteenth century. Stefano is handsome young man, doesn't distinctive from the others, his brother is a vampire with dark nature, but he's able to show his feelings. Both brothers fall in love in 17 years old girl. In the book Lisa Smith show us two different sides of vampire: this good, loving and tired of life as a vampire and this bed, insolent, arrogant, dark, which sometimes can be charming



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSwLCgyeyU


The Vampire Diaries Official Trailer 2009

As another example let us take a different presentation of the vampire, American writer Stephanie Meyer Fri and her series of novels "Twilight", the first of part which we could see in 2008 in cinemas. The main hero is a young, small, pretty girl with long blond hair, called Isabella. That she is presented to us after transformation to the vampire. Another hero of this novel is Edward, very handsome man with a copper-hair, muscled silhouette of the body, transformed into a vampire when he was 18. At the beginning, as soon as he became a vampire, Edward killed people, just like vampires in the works that I mentioned in the previous article. Edward differs only by the fact that he doesn't drink human blood. Vampires, presented by the author, were insensitive to day light and could walk during the day. At the screen adaptation of these vampires look like normal, good-looking young people with additional supernatural skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T7d8j6I5I
Twilight -
Official Trailer [HD]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T7d8j6I5I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyDdfVgqnQ
Twilight : New Moon - Official Trailer [HD])

Another example of a good vampire, who fought in defense of the people, is the character of Blade in the "Blade century hunter" movie. The title character stands out among ordinary vampires that he was insensitive to light, garlic and silver. He doesn't drink human blood and live eating specially prepared for him serum.

Blade Opening Scene

At the American horror "Dracula III: Legacy" we can see Dracula resembles that Dracula which we can see in the beginning of the twentieth century. But I don't write about this;) I encourage you to watch this movie.

A few words of the summary;) As I already mentioned, today's authors create the works changing the old evil into new good, creating contradictions to what people have seen and read in the past. Vampires are presented as young, beautiful, full of life, strong, yet ordinary people. And even the characters from the film "Nosferatu - Symphony of horror" nowadays are no longer frighting and don't lead the viewer to fear, at most they cause a major laughter attack. Perhaps this is due to greater technical capacity and rich imagination? Or maybe artists trying to diversify their work to encourage reading books or watching shows in this way? Who among us would read books and watched movies, knowing what would happen next? Who really are evil and who is good or continuously with the same subject?