Chapter 45 Cleaned up vampire

The image of vampires in Western legends has made a breakthrough in the movies of the past two years, making a vampire the most basic condition to become a vampire, which was canceled with great fanfare. In the movie "Twilight" series, vampires can live in daylight , the vampires in the American drama "True Blood" do not suck human blood, but start to use a substitute: true blood produced by the Japanese (trueb lood). Of course, the image of a vampire is not something that can be achieved overnight, it has been revised and changed all the time.The early images of vampires were less human, more animal, and closer to demons.In the film "Nosferatu" by the great director Murnau in 1922, the vampire lives in the gloomy castle, sucks blood, brings plague to the small town, and eventually dies inevitably. ", "Dracula's Bride", the same is true, the vampire is either pierced into the heart by a sharp wood, or screams in the sun and turns into light smoke.

Later, the appearance of the vampires in the movies gradually became more beautiful, and the environment of their activities became more gorgeous, but they still appeared with an evil appearance. The real change was probably brought about by the novelist Anne Rice, in the 1970s , Anne Rice began to write "The Vampire Chronicles" with great fanfare - later it was adapted into a movie, "The Vampire Queen" is one of the works, most of her protagonists are both good and evil among vampires, and more importantly Yes, her novels are all about loneliness. Lonely!The vampire, who appeared in the image of a lonely person, finally got close to the original intention of this image.Careful consideration of those who were executed as vampires and witches in history will give a very realistic explanation. They may be just a group of lonely marginal people, who are literary youths, artists, wizards, mental patients, excessively ugly people, and sexually inclined people. For ordinary people, people around them don't understand them, so they push all their fears on them, exaggerate and deform them, and become demons in legends.Those sensitive, thoughtful, chattering literary and artistic young women on Douban might have been arrested as witches in the Middle Ages. The otaku in Akihabara, who fell a thousand years ago, are probably those who walked through the cemetery every night, The prototype of a monster that brews soup in the basement.

The vampires after Anne Rice slowly showed the true colors of this legend. They are more like a metaphor of life, the embodiment of tramps, terats, homosexuals, or patients with some incurable diseases In short, it is forever cast out of mainstream society, bound up with solitude. The "True Blood" and "Twilight" series gradually embarked on a heartless road. The two factors that are unfavorable to narrative and aesthetics, the ignorance of the light and the inhalation of human blood, were finally eliminated. The value of existence is based on their ageless and beautiful bodies, as well as the supernatural powers and mysteries that mortals do not possess. They have no moral burdens, nor do they bear the ancient loneliness. They are cleaned and become a safer fashion. Symbols are recruited into mainstream movie themes, and use their own special features to provide a foothold for the audience's lust.It's no different from the ragged style of rock bands in the 1980s, which was absorbed and digested by fashion and became a trend.