The subject of vampires is not tired for a long time, and it seems that it will never be out of date.
In the past 100 years, with the continuous adaptation of novels and movies, vampires have also derived many representative works.
From "Interview with Vampires at Night", "Frightening Love for Four Hundred Years", and "Don't Get Near to Anyone";
To "Twilight" "The Vampire Diaries"...
The image of vampires has evolved from myths and legends to fantasy creatures with supernatural powers, and some have even gradually become "human".
In order to play new tricks on the subject of vampires, the director and screenwriters also racked their brains.
However, the vampire movie I'm going to talk about today is definitely something you have never seen before.
Vampire live
What We Do in the Shadows
In our impression, the image of a vampire is usually mysterious, gloomy, and terrifying;
Or elegant and handsome.
But the group of vampires in this drama are not only not scary, but also some "sand sculptures" .
"Vampire Life" uses a pseudo-documentary style to tell the daily life of a group of "funny" vampires in modern society.
Interspersed with character history , personal interviews, etc., are also shot in a decent way.
Don't look at its "undecent" appearance, but it has been nominated for an Emmy for best comedy.
"Vampire Life" is produced by the American FX TV station that produced "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story" .
Adapted from the comedy film of the same name produced in 2014. In the original film, Jermaine Clement and Taiga Viditi ("The Mandalorian", "Rick and Morty") wrote and directed themselves Self-acting.
This time the drama version of "Vampire Life" is still in charge of the script and directing by them.
The first season started in 2019, and it still maintains a good score of IMDb8.5 .
In mid-April this year, the second season of "Vampire Life" returned to 9.1 , and the word-of-mouth score was even higher.
The drama version is the same as the original movie, with the same blissful nonsensical & cold jokes ;
The same large-scale , undisciplined , and yellow pollution ...
However, some bloody and scary scenes have been reduced, so students who are afraid can eat it with confidence!
There are 10 episodes per season, and each episode does not exceed half an hour.
The protagonists are the four vampires and servant Gilmour interviewed .
The interview location was in an old-school villa where they lived. The walls were covered with murals and there was no sunshine for many years.
As night fell, the servant Gilmore (Harvey Gillan) looked at his watch, it was time.
Then, he took the "photographer" into a dark room with a coffin in the middle.
Gilmour lit the candle in the room and knocked on the coffin, ready to wake up his master, Nando .
Nando (played by Kaiwan Novak), was a noble warrior of the Ottoman Empire.
Kaiwan Novak once starred in "Secret No. 9"
Although he calls himself "Nando the Ruthless", he burns, kills, and robs, and he does no evil.
After becoming a vampire, he still likes to wear thick and gorgeous armor and costumes, but he still can't conceal his funny temperament.
If you don't believe me, the way the old nobleman appeared on stage was not "aristocratic" at all.
Nando wanted to make a gorgeous, elegant and scary appearance, but who would have thought that the coffin would drop at a critical moment, and it would be impossible to open it alive or dead.
Gilmore had to manually "pry" the knife open.
I thought this group of vampires had lived for hundreds of years, not to mention knowledgeable, but at least they were also knowledgeable.
But they know nothing about modern things!
When you buy things in the supermarket, you don’t even use cash or credit cards to check out.
At this time, the servant Gilmour seemed very important.
Gilmour is the only human in this house who will not be eaten. He has been crazy about vampire culture since he was a child.
During the day, the host handles the eaten corpses, repairs leaking windows, and finds food.
At night, he was responsible for serving the owner Nando.
Over the past ten years, he has worked hard, just so that one day his master can turn him into a vampire.
Tomorrow is the ten-year anniversary of his hard work for his master. Will he succeed in fulfilling his wish to become a vampire?
Then came Naja and Laszlo's couple.
Najia is an ancient vampire and a hot and sexy gypsy girl.
Three views are right, love to help weak women.
But, as soon as she turned her head, she grabbed other people's windows;
Candidly take pictures of the other person doing shameful things.
A hundred years ago, she turned her handsome and talented husband Laszlo into a vampire and married him.
It's just that she didn't expect that her husband, just like human men, would have middle age and would become a greasy fat man with a weird personality, conceited, and arrogant.
Quarrel and fight with Nando at every turn;
And the way this group of funny vampires fight is absolutely unexpected!
There is no bite and fight, and no spells to control each other with thoughts.
But like two big cats whose territories have been violated , they barked their teeth and gasped.
Among the four vampires, the most special is the plain-looking "bald" vampire- Colin Robinson (played by Mark Prok).
He will not transform into a (bat), but he is not afraid that the sun can go out to work during the day, and he does not have to feed on human blood for a living.
Even the other three vampires were a little bit "feared" by him, so they didn't dare to stay with him.
Colin is a kind of vampire who feeds on energy . Both humans and vampires are his prey.
He can suck the other person's energy just by chatting and making noises.
Let it be depressed, weak, unable to raise energy.
In order to make the documentary look more decent, they also organized a family meeting with a letter about Baron Afanas.
Before reading the letter, in order to allow the "shoot team" to capture the best shots, make fine focus Nando sense of ceremony also deliberately let Gilmour again closed over the door.
Everything is ready and finally started.
The letter stated that Baron Afanas would visit them soon.
Baron Afanas is a very ambitious and powerful vampire royal noble, whose appearance is closer to the early vampire image.
But even a vampire with a terrifying appearance can't escape the "coma" setting of this movie.
Not only that, the Baron also has an extraordinary relationship with Naja and Laszlo.
Everyone was very nervous about the Baron’s visit, one would prepare the chariot, and the other would prepare the "virgin" blood.
However, they are more worried about the baron's strict requirements to unify the world, and if they can't do it, they will end badly.
Sure enough... the baron still made this request.
As a result, the four vampires living under the same roof had to do everything possible to seize the rule.
At this time, the energetic vampire thought of a method he thought was very good-to go to the district council to advise.
The result, of course, can be imagined.
So this group of vampires went to seek help from their companions living in the city, causing a lot of farce.
At the beginning, I may not be able to get its laughter, and I can't adapt to its slow rhythm.
However, as the plot develops into a better state, the story becomes more and more interesting and makes people want to stop.
Among them, the most interesting thing is the "contrast cuteness" of the vampire image, and the ridiculous jokes of these ancient creatures in modern life.
Can’t use high-tech products and can’t use fingerprint recognition;
Older age, the candles for birthdays almost didn't burn the cake;
He took the baron to "Hi", but he was overwhelmed and burned to death by the sun;
Gilmour, who has been longing to be a vampire, found himself with the blood of a vampire hunter at the end of the first season ;
From time to time, I have to eat a few "photographers"... photographers (dangerous) !
Interacting with the audience and the next-door crew "Only Love Eternal Life", there will be a cameo by Mark Hamill in the second season.
This group of people is simply using whole body cells to prove how funny a serious vampire is.
If you also like the daily amusement of the group of "sand sculptures" of vampires, then this "Vampire Life" you can't miss it.
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