Vampire movies are an outlier in the history of movies. Since Bram Stroker wrote the novel Dracula in 1897, the black theme of vampires has deeply attracted generations of directors.
The prototype of a vampire should be the devil in the Bible. In Coppola’s Four Hundred Years of Vampire Fright (Dracula 1994), Count Dracula said: “I used my life to defend the church, but I was rewarded like this... From then on I will use the power of darkness and I will drink blood. Born." Vampires have a series of typical characteristics of the devil, such as evil but extremely tempting, wisdom but apostasy, fragile but powerful. The rebellious consciousness experienced by human beings during their adolescence was overwhelmed by mainstream values, but vampires reproduced this consciousness again dramatically, reflecting an "evil" self.
"Immortality" is another paradox of the characteristics of vampires. Humans search for the art of immortality in vain, but vampires can easily have it, but the price is high. Evil can't die, and the only way to survive is to continue to kill lives. The vampires also fell into the trap of "immortality". The world changes in front of them, time passes, and others are no longer glamorous, but they will not change. Gradually, the wisdom becomes a burden, in exchange for fear of infinity. Slowly, after becoming numb to the transformation of time and space, the term "Zeitgeist" no longer makes sense to them. In "Interview with the Vampire", Armand said to Louis: You are an immortal but have a human soul... You reflect this era. You are my link to the outside world.
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