If you ask who is the most famous vampire on the screen? That is Dracula in Bram's 1897 novel "Count Dracula". As the originator of vampire movies, Universal Pictures sent Bram's new work "Dracula's First Year" to break Bram. The blueprint for the story of the novel is to create a righteous leader who can fall into darkness for love. Although the story is quite novel, the logic of the plot is weak, and it can only be reduced to a work that floats on the surface.
"Setting things right" for dark characters is a thing that Hollywood movies have been very keen on in recent years. If we were only stuck in fairy tales like "Maleficent" before, then this time "Dracula's First Year" It really subverts the past, but this is also the fault of the movie. Its novelty is pertinent, and it subverts the story but fails to create a good plot. In the movie, Dracula still treats enemies with wooden sticks and tortures them to death in cold blood. The ruthless devil, on the other hand, is incarnated as a righteous leader who loves the people like a son, a good father and a good husband. The duality of the characters is a good way to shape the tension of the characters in a movie, but in this work, everything seems to have changed. It is so reasonable, and the character modeling has no contradiction between right and evil, which makes the beginning of the story of Dracula's fall into darkness for family love and love become insincere.
The title of the movie is "The First Year of Dracula", but it fails to really clarify the context of the beginning of this first year. Dracula obtained his power from the old vampire hidden in the cave, but for vampires The movie "Influence of Power" also failed to have a clear explanation, and the integration of the historical background into Dracula is the prince of the Sultan's warrior, but there is also no real rivalry between the two, and the film narrative lacks due turns. , has been integrated into too many people and things, but each of them is just a flash, which makes the decisive battle of the monastery or the counterattack of the incarnation of vampires only reduced to the excitement of the scene, but nothing at all. Can really introduce the real sense of victory.
In this work, Universal Pictures still has not been able to get out of the old stalk of the topic of personal hero movies. The male protagonist occasionally acquires supernatural power, and gradually becomes familiar with the villain duel that can control the power and has a bit of tragic. Although the film takes place in medieval Europe , but it is exactly the same as many superheroes today. What is even more absurd in this film is that the plug-in is too outrageous. It can kill 100,000 people in an instant. It can be said that all superheroes can be ashamed, or it is only like "Dragon Ball". The energy of destroying the planet can only be compared with it. This exaggeration makes the epic sense of the previous chapter into a joke. Of course, this is the only thing that supports the movie. If there is no Hollywood special effects, it will be difficult to find out. What else is worth mentioning about such a film.
A villain is talking about Dracula, but the director and screenwriter are unbearable. The film finally pulls the camera back to the modern era, and another Superhero Movie like Captain America continues in the modern era, but the next one can't always be called "Dracula". The first year", want to change the name to "Dracula XXX Year"?
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