"Blood Stained Byzantium", which was released not long ago, tells such a story. The protagonist is a pair of vampire mothers and daughters. They are known as sisters. They travelled to all corners of the human world and lived low-key for more than two hundred years. My evaluation of this movie is "it won't have the status of "The Four Hundred Years of Surprise" and "Interview with the Vampire", but it also sets a monument for similar themes." There is an objective fact that can roughly support this. Evaluation-The director of this movie is Neil Jordan, the director of "Interview with the Vampire".
Vampire-themed movies have been made tirelessly by Western directors for many years. There have been countless beautiful girls in the movies, just like these examples after the 1990s-Rachel Weisz, Winona Lai Germany, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Beckinsale, etc. are enough for audiences to admire and dream for most of their lives.
The mother and daughter of vampires in "Blooded Byzantium" are played by Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. Those of you who like to go to the movie theater must remember Arterton’s appearance in "007: The Quantum Crisis", "War of the Gods", and "Prince of Persia: Blade of Time", and the quiet audience must be very positive about the "Atonement" The little girl who was more brilliant than Keira Knightley-Saoirse Ronan was particularly impressed. Compared with their predecessors, the red and hot mother and the blue and clear daughter may not be surpassed in beauty, but they definitely add to the "female vampires" group.
Some people say that the story of "Blood Stained Byzantium" is too old-fashioned and plain, and the movie's setting of vampires completely subverts its classic image-vampires have no superhuman powers, no fangs, and some are just right hands. With long and retractable thumb nails, vampires can no longer turn their prey into the same race at will, but once they pierce your arteries with their nails, they will only absorb your blood and turn you into a few blinks. A cold body. Simply put, the vampires in "Blood Stained Byzantium" are indistinguishable from ordinary humans except that they eat into blood and are endowed with immortality. Not only the appearance, but also the inner world is indistinguishable.
But I want to say that these subversive settings and flat stories are necessary for this movie. These two seemingly shortcomings are actually abandoning the huge mistakes made by many vampire-themed movies—— Too much attention is paid to the external symbolism of the identity of "vampire". Putting aside your understanding of the established concept of "vampires" and thinking carefully, you will find that most vampires, especially those who are really "aged", are immortal and do not need to worry about most of the life trivialities (such as diseases, etc.). ), more and more pure human brilliance is often reflected in them, but ordinary people who are truly humans, due to various constraints in time and space, voluntarily or are forced to conceal their own nature. Take "Four Hundred Years of Surprise" as an example. After watching the full movie, don't you think that Earl Dracula is the most human character in this movie?
Some people say that "Blood Stained Byzantium" is a commercial literary film, and I approve of it with both hands. Neil Jordan used "vampires" to label the movie with occult, gothic, religious, erotic, etc. tried and tested labels on the commercial level, and he made good use of casting, camera language, line style and story structure. With literary and artistic homework, such good intentions are really rare. Use a line from "Let the Bullets Fly" to describe the director's intention-"Stand and make money."
Feng Xiaogang, one of China's most profitable directors, wrote a paragraph in the new book "Uneasy" Jiang Wen said to himself "The movie should be wine, even if there is only one bite, but it has to be wine. What you shoot is grapes, very fresh grapes, even with frost, but you didn’t make it into wine. At the beginning, it was grapes. It’s still grapes when it arrives. Other directors understand this truth. They know that the movie has to be wine, but there is no brewing process. It comes up with a sip of wine, and at the end it is still a sip of wine. What’s more frightening is that the wine is neither made from grapes nor is it brewed. Grain is made by chemical conversion. Xiaogang, you should make wine into wine. You can't just be satisfied with making cups of freshly squeezed grape juice." I thought that this paragraph would be applied to all filmmakers. They are all useful. Neil Jordan’s "Blood Stained Byzantium" was not fully brewed, but anyone with a discerning eye can see him working hard.
There is a sentence in Fei’s “Greatness is a derivative of cruelty”. To do a great thing, one must take some cruel paths first. If you blindly follow the example of “Twilight” and others, you will never be able to shoot. Those who are good, must cruelly abandon those illusory brilliance, so as to derive true greatness from it.
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