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Inspired by the Dracula Untold trailer. Really hyped in that.ΒRelated content
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I'm eager to see it, too. The character of Dracula was indeed inspired in part by the historical figure of Vlad Dracula, and many movies have portrayed them as being one and the same. But this movie is doing something different with the idea that I haven't seen before: rather than portraying Dracula as a bloodthirsty warlord who came to vampirism naturally or because of his own sadistic and evil nature, this movie portrays him as a warrior who does the unthinkable for a very noble reason, which make his fall and transformation into the evil character we know from Stoker all the more tragic. Additionally, the real Vlad Dracula was indeed a warrior first and foremost who dedicated his life to battling the Ottomans. He is remembered in Romania today as a national hero and freedom fighter who kept the Ottomans at bay for the majority of his reign and who crushed the Romanian noble class, the boyars, who had assassinated his father (the previous Prince of Wallachia, whom they are said to have buried alive). We know that the boyars had been collaborating willingly with the Ottomans for decades, allowing them unhindered passage through their lands in exchange for gold. As a result, the boyars profited off Ottoman aggression and the suffering of their countrymen.
So in this way, I think the movie is a bit more faithful to the actual Vlad than many of its predecessors, and the focus on Vlad the man rather than Vlad the vampire is an interesting angle. As for me (especially because I am an aspiring historian and history major) I personally dislike the way Vlad has been maligned all these centuries. He was cruel, of that there is no doubt, but people seem to forget that the world in which he lived was also cruel. In those days, men destroyed entire civilizations in the name of God, gold and glory. Vlad's nemesis, the Sultan Mehmed II, killed an estimated 90,000 people during the capture of Constantinople, and that was during only one battle of one particular campaign. Vlad's lifetime body count doesn't even come close to Mehmed's, who was also a hardened and brutal warrior, but we remember Vlad because he was a hell of a lot more theatrical in the way he went about doing it (impaling, of course).Β Vlad himself spent his formative years as a political hostage of the Ottomans, tortured, starved and beaten. It's possible and perhaps even likely that he learned the art of cruelty from themΒ very early on in his life, and perhaps realized that the only way to do what he thought needed to be done (i.e., unite his country and keep the Ottomans out) was to be even more cruel than everyone else around him. For all his brutality and bloodletting, he brought a period of peace and stability to Wallachia at a time where both those things were all too rare. I'm not excusing what he did or trying to justify it, I'm simply saying that it's easier to see his motivations behind his actions when you look at the political and social climate at the time. Personally, I do not think Vlad was just pure evil. I think he was ultimately a product of his time, his country and his upbringing.Β
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hihi is it the szene after he murdered the soldiers? x3 I though about an inspired picture too x'D ... this ehre reminds me of red riding hood x3
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Hahaha Yeah. I took some influence from Red Riding Hood. Good eye there!Β
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Ya te lo dije en FB, pero vale la pena repetir.....tu no ronca XD, esto te quedo mega aperisimo man.
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