This movie has been around for several years. I watched it last month when I was bored on the National Day, and the reviews were very ordinary. Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein... all the evil species that should have appeared. In fact, the West is quite unimaginative. These things come and go, and now they have a big fight with Van Helsing. How about a one-pot smorgasbord?
Fortunately, the visual effects are good, and the plot arrangement is not so obtrusive, so the viewability is okay, at least giving us the satisfaction of seeing as many monsters as possible in one viewing.
Someone downstairs said "ignorance of Western culture", lol~~ You are too embarrassed to talk about culture downstairs?
Let me tell you slowly:
werewolves were not independent from the zombie in the traditional Greek concept until the 11th century.
Speaking of which, vampires were separated from werewolves later, and the concept of vampires was not born until the end of the 17th century, and it was not until the 18th century that Eastern Europe did not have a certain vampire superstition entered the literature.
Frankenstein is a science fiction novel born in the 19th century, so Frankenstein was born.
Putting together three things that do not match the world, plus the 19th century hunter Dr. Van Helsing, is it a hodgepodge of shrimp?
The funny thing is, if you know a little about vampires, you will know that vampires cannot be seen in the mirror, and at the dance party in the movie, other vampires swagger around in the big mirror, so big.
Someone came to me and told me that werewolf vampires were descendants of Corvinus. Who hasn't watched "Underworld"? If you say anything about the three brothers, you will know that it comes from this thing framed by a gangster film. It is a pity that the sayings in "Underworld" are contradictory to those in "Van Helsing". It has been said that werewolves and vampires are things that came into being centuries apart, but they have to bring three brothers in a family to make up their relatives. If someone believes that movies are more persistent than reality, words and history, then there is nothing to say. If the circle is rounded up, I can still make up werewolf vampires or Chinese corpses who escaped to Europe to spread their branches and leaves. It is understandable that these are originally Slavic origins. First, it is a relatively chaotic structure for the West to explain the set of things. Second, the Hollywood screenwriters are even more chaotic.
Someone came to me and told me that werewolves and vampires belonged to the same Western mythology. Not to mention that the two appear hundreds of years apart. Even if werewolves and vampires are considered a system, it is a pity that the protagonist Van Helsing and Frankenstein are not the same system, and should belong to science fiction. If you tell a Westerner that werewolves and vampires are Western mythology systems, it will make people feel outrageous. These are typical pagan devils, and at best they are ghost theology and superstition legends. These poor things in history only falsely accuse people. The fate of being burned alive, how could it be possible to take the height of the mythological system, and taking the Hollywood bus is at best a magical theme.
How did the American media evaluate it? "It's silly, but it's fun and spectacular." Even Van Helsing's director Sommers himself called the film: Monsters, so I'd say these are pretty polite echoes of the director. The director himself is frank: "If the myth does not give the answer, then I will give my own answer. I realize that Frankenstein, vampires and werewolves may coexist in the same world." Really the original intention of this movie is to satisfy a It's just a human illusion. I remember that the director also filmed the mummy, so what makes me a little strange is why not pull the mummy in? How hard it is to play together.
It's okay to fight together, and I can't say it's historically wrong, because the background of the movie is in the 19th century. In practice, these monsters have indeed been born, and it will not be a joke of "the king is born and I am not born", Let them play well, since they can be arranged to fight, it is originally an entertainment mandarin duck stick of the screenwriter, and it is originally a purely commercial film, then I say that it is not wrong at all, it seems that I understand it accurately The director's intention.
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