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SudsySutherland — SA 14FEB12 Vampires
Published: 2012-02-14 18:26:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 606; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 2
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After months, literally, of work and thought, how appropriate that I finish this cartoon today......a little cheap romance bashing on a day meant for real love. A couple old enemies finding the world embracing a farce...
...those were the good ol' days. Vampires were to be despised, they viewed us as cattle. Simpler times. I blame Anne Rice and company for making Vampires out to be the anti-heroes full of angst they are viewed as today. For me, its very simple, Vampires are a threat to humanity, and I like the Hunter be it Von Helsing, or Blade.
Somehow, I think Drac and Von Helsing would be sitting in a bar drinking out of depression at the current state of affairs.
Someday, I might actually tie myself down to a chair and watch "Twilight" just for the parodies I can come up with much as I've sat and watched some horror flicks to do the same (though "Army of Darkness" and "Evil Dead 2" certainly do a good job of parody in that realm).
Honestly though, can you really beat the effect of the original Universal Monsters? I think not, the old black and white will always have its charm. Boris, Bela (Lugosi), and Lon Jr. will never be topped merely because they were the pioneers and trailblazers of American cinema (post silent film that is...).
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I've got to find Nosferatu one of these days. I know it was rare and hard to find beyond clips because of the infringement suit resulting in the German government ordering the destruction of the film as a result of the Stoker family lawsuit against the film maker. That, and Nosferatu is one of the most popular 'garage kits' in 1:6th scale... Captured in resin by just about every kitmaker out there. Why not? Great creature face...
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Oh my god that's like fantastically great.
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Glad you like it! Thanks!
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I could agree, only for a while I was facinated by the Anne Rice vampires, although I chaulk that up to social pressure and youth.... That and the goth night at a local club was the only place I could go to dance with my boyfriends or guy friends where it wasn't about the animal eroticism of the hip hop club... (it was actually, but more subtle I guess) However, I enjoyed the Van Helsing movie that came out a few years back... it was quite the riot! Needless to say, I am done with the facination...Twighlight had me rolling on the floor when I heard about the concept. What a way to recycle a story...eeeww.
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Well, you know me, always embracing predator control... Dragons, demons, and vampires to slay... In Fantasy game terms, always a Paladin from the start!
I did enjoy Van Helsing! It came out while I was in Korea and I didn't watch it until a couple years later. About the time it came out I picked up some re-mastered DVD editions of all the classic Universal Monster Movies that were out at the same time. The only ones I missed were the Creature from Black Lagoon series which were some of my favorite ones to catch on cable at 3 AM on the weekends in the dayroom while I was at Ft. Riley... I always enjoyed the older black and white films... Van Helsing was a pretty good movie, but far too many modern 'action' nuances that didn't connect well with the classic material for my tastes. Good in its own right...
What can I say, I'm a sucker for the old stuff.
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Hate to say it but there is no "new" stuff really.... evil vs good, light vs dark, we know how it ends... fun with popcorn, no harm no foul.
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Honestly, men like Bela Lugosi come along once in a very great while...
"Although actors were exempt from military service, Dad left the theater and volunteered for service when patriotism called. He was promoted to Captain in the Ski Patrol during WWI, was wounded on the Russian front, and received the equivalent of the Purple Heart. The end of the war was followed by the Hungarian revolution in 1919. Dad, who had taken an active role on behalf of the actors union, found himself on the wrong side of the ruling party and was forced to flee the country. He went to Vienna and then on to Germany where he continued his acting career. Still pursued, Dad found safe passage to the United States aboard a merchant ship as a crewman. He landed in New Orleans and ventured to New York where he later went through Ellis Island and became a naturalized U. S. citizen."
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