For this I couldn't really decide which one to pick. We had some movies, graphic novels and I just couldn't decide which one to pick. So I tried watching two of the movies.
An overall theme I saw within these pieces is the parallel between lust and vampires needing blood. In Andy Warhol's Dracula we see it, with the Di Fiore girls and Mario, in contrast to the count's obsessive need for blood, who in the presence of blood reacts like Mario does when he's with the girls.
The Fearless vampire killers had more stereotypes than Andy Warhol's Dracula. There was a bunch of garlic present for a good chunk of the movie.Everyone's aware theres a vampire in town. Andy Warhol's Dracula was different. Dracula was whiny and all he did was complain for a good chunk of the movie. Anton was doing the dirty work for him.
It was also a strange class commentary disguised as a vampire movie... Dracula somehow represented the ultimate power in the household, since he had the most power and in the end the lowest person in the class tier ends up having all the power, even taking the actual virgin sister.
The representation of women is quite strange. They are all over protected women, who are also quite "out there". The vampires look for the purest of them. The "untainted" blood of the virgins seems to give the vampires the purity they lack. Since they are the most corrupt of all evil creatures, heck they lose power if they have tainted blood. It's a strange dynamic, having the women being the source of power, yet they can't fend themselves against vampires...
An overall theme I saw within these pieces is the parallel between lust and vampires needing blood. In Andy Warhol's Dracula we see it, with the Di Fiore girls and Mario, in contrast to the count's obsessive need for blood, who in the presence of blood reacts like Mario does when he's with the girls.
The Fearless vampire killers had more stereotypes than Andy Warhol's Dracula. There was a bunch of garlic present for a good chunk of the movie.Everyone's aware theres a vampire in town. Andy Warhol's Dracula was different. Dracula was whiny and all he did was complain for a good chunk of the movie. Anton was doing the dirty work for him.
It was also a strange class commentary disguised as a vampire movie... Dracula somehow represented the ultimate power in the household, since he had the most power and in the end the lowest person in the class tier ends up having all the power, even taking the actual virgin sister.
The representation of women is quite strange. They are all over protected women, who are also quite "out there". The vampires look for the purest of them. The "untainted" blood of the virgins seems to give the vampires the purity they lack. Since they are the most corrupt of all evil creatures, heck they lose power if they have tainted blood. It's a strange dynamic, having the women being the source of power, yet they can't fend themselves against vampires...
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