Jiamusu, the style master in the hearts of niche young people, actually released a vampire-themed film "Only Love Eternal". This film was produced in 2013 and traveled through a circle of film festivals. It is currently being released in France. Jarmusch is a frequent visitor to high-end film festivals such as Cannes, and is also a eccentric eccentric who occupies the hills of low-budget film honors, but his films are never short of big-name actors. The stars of the movie industry can't be counted on ten fingers. Of course, one of the benefits of becoming a famous director is that it can attract investment to shoot mainstream movies. Vampires have always been the favorite subject of commercial films, and they can also test the director's style and literacy. The two leading actors he chose this time are Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, who are well-versed between literary films and commercial films—the two most vampire-like actors among the most popular actors in the world. This is the third collaboration between Tilda Swinton and Jarmusch.
Although Jiamusu is very good at depicting people's loneliness, he has some sympathy with vampires who live in isolation, but this time he is challenging the love story under the vampire's coat, and the theme of love is not too common in his previous works. , is the most popular vampire theme right now.
Since when did vampires not fall in love and no one saw them? The earliest extant vampire film should be "Nosferatu" (1922), which was born out of the novel "Dracula", directed by the German master F.W. Murnau, whose expressionist approach is more appropriate Just a horror movie. In 1931, the novel was again adapted by Todd Browning into the movie "The Vampire" and played by Bella Lugosi, the vampire's blood-sucking posture was sultry, and the expression of the girl who was killed was ecstatic, it was still the same. Horror movie way. However, Lugossi's noble, mysterious and seductive temperament, coupled with the wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, made him not only fit the identity of Count Dracula in the original novel, but also paved the way for future vampires to take the sexy and beautiful route. In 1935, the "Mark of the Vampire" by Browning and Lugosi again contributed a noble female vampire image, although she was a fake according to the plot. In Carl Theodore Dreyer's "The Vampire" (1932), the vampire's body is still an evil old lady. The movie uses shadows to represent the dead or the body in dreams. With a mysterious and ethereal beauty and an atmosphere shrouded in evil, the people in the play just read that the person who was sucked by vampires will gradually become vampires, and the victim girl turned her head and smiled at her sister, making the audience instantly experience deep fear.
Vampires can turn normal people into vampires, which makes it possible for vampires to fall in love. Although in Werner Herzog's rather classical adaptation of Nosferatu: Ghosts of the Night (1979), Isabel Adjani did not fall in love with Count Dracula, but used her The blood and life of the "Pure Lady" kills the Count, in exchange for her husband's life - even though he turns into a new vampire. But in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 classic "The Four Hundred Years of Blood Sucking", Winona Ryder, who was a former lover with Dracula, was indeed Keanu Reeves, who had left her husband and swore to follow him. Gary Oldman, who plays Dracula, is here in an adaptation of the same novel that has satisfied people all over the world for years: a mortal who is willing to be transformed into a vampire and cry in love with a vampire. The latest version of this story is the first season of NBC's "Dracula" which aired in the fall of 2013. Jonathan Rhys Meyers captured the hearts of audiences with his handsome appearance and speed.
The beauty of vampires is attractive to men and women of both genders. In Neil Jordan's classic "Interview with the Vampire" (1994), the vampires played by Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst all love in different ways. Brad Pitt is a charming vampire, and the two issues of "the distress of immortality" and "the choice to kill" also affect all vampires with literary and artistic cells in later generations... Tony Scott's "Millennium Blood" The vampires in After (1983) are weirder. Catherine Deneuve has always been young and beautiful, but David Bowie, her vampire-converted spouse, will get old one day, so she keeps getting old The mummified lovers are put into the coffin and continue to transform men and women into her new lovers. This story also partially answered one of my doubts: what if the vampires who have been together for thousands of years do not fall in love with each other? - Replace with a new one!
Anyway, when you look at the "Underworld" series -- there's already a fifth film, the "Twilight" series, the TV series "The Vampire Diaries" (five seasons) and "True Blood" (which has been filmed) Six seasons) and so on, you can yell at all the vampires in front of you, "It's all gone!" Indeed, today's vampires have gone against the sky. For example, the vampires in "True Blood" have begun to buy artificial blood to survive. The guys in "The Vampire Diaries" don't travel like the Draculas, they can teleport, and they have super vision, hearing, and physical strength. They can control your mind and read you. In his mind, the heroine also engaged in a love triangle with the vampire brothers by the way. In the "Twilight" series, which fulfills all the fantasies of a teenage girl's self-centered world, each vampire has her own superpower, mind reading, control, power generation, hallucination, and even the heroine Kristen Stewart. The defense and self-control of her, her love triangle with vampires and little werewolves has risen from love to "pursuing the true self", I am wondering when she was a living human daughter with vampires, after marrying her spare baby werewolf , what will be born, suddenly I slap my thigh and think of the "Underworld" series, didn't the werewolf and the vampire give birth to a handsome guy! Don't ask me if it's scientific or not, as long as the black vampire beauty Kate Beckinsale is still fighting, they still shoot the fifth part! And the "Twilight" series relying on Robert Pattinson's dangling alone has made countless girls crazy for this Cinderella's dream of marrying a rich and handsome man.
Shunji Iwai's "The Vampire" (2011) is also in a way defying the sky. The vampire has become an ordinary otaku who doesn't fit in with society - he can suddenly speak and speak when he tricks the ignorant girl to voluntarily let him blood - and even has a legitimate career, and he is still a biology teacher! He also quietly talked about a pure love with a natural girl of Jun Ershi! Anyway, Iwai Shunji continues the story he's been telling about how a lonely geek survives.
All in all, vampire movies have changed from horror movies to romance movies, and now they are going all the way to youth action movies and even nympho movies. People who like to find gothic elements in vampire movies are going to cry, vampires are becoming less noble and mysterious - see how the vegetarian American ordinary ghosts in the "Twilight" series defeated the Italian aristocratic old ghosts, they In the sun no longer ashes, but sparkling. It's no wonder that Neil Jordan's "Byzantium" (produced in 2012, released in 2013) has been completely unable to capture the hearts of the people when he touches vampires again - this is an unserious era, and it is enough for vampires with literary and artistic elements to mean it. During Valentine's Day in 2014, another vampire movie based on a best-selling novel was released - "Vampire Academy", vampires still have a special school? So "Harry Potter" can completely meet "Twilight"!
Come back and think about Jiamusu's "Only Love Eternal Life", worry about eternal life? Love triangle? Don't want to kill? Dodge the sliver? ... We are not surprised what happened to his vampires, just wait for them to go against the sky.
Vampire Movies You Must See:
"The Vampire" (1931)
must go back to film history to see the original vampire Bella Lugosi.
The Vampire (Ellen Gray's Dream) (1932)
You're not watching a vampire, you're watching Dreyer.
A Thousand Years of Blood (1983)
The atmosphere of a Cult movie, plus Katherine Deneuve's love triangle with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon.
"The Kiss of the Vampire" (1988)
Nicolas Cage proved to mankind that he was a very capable vampire.
Four Hundred Years of Blood Sucking (1992)
The vampire romance movie that screams ghosts and gods, as long as you are not a pretender, you will definitely say that it looks good.
"Interview with the Vampire" (1994)
, the ancestor of the vampire nympho film, is actually a very deep literary film.
"Vampire Hunter D" (2000)
is a highly rated vampire cartoon.
The Twilight series
you can hate it, you can love it, you just can't pretend it doesn't exist.
This article was published in a February issue of the "Weekend Pictorial" iPad edition.
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