To take at least the last three large vampire films shown in Russia: "New Moon", TV series "True Blood" and the film "Warriors of Light" film on January 7, 2010 with Itan Hawk in the lead role. If you trace the evolution of the vampires in society on the example of these three works, it becomes obvious that the difficult path of the glory did, defending their rights.
In the "New Moon" vampires - even though members of society, but still the rosters, forced to hide their essence, even from beloved. So - romantic and mysterious heroes. In "real blood", they coexist with people in almost equal rights, and assimilation in full swing - "mixed" groups of friends and romantic couples "Vampire + Man" dominate. In the "warriors of the world", vampires are at all in a new place: they are the dominant race, and people are just a lowest one.
Attention, spoiler - Unlocked this paragraph to read: how we recently became known, "warriors of the world" begin with a wonderful scene in their irony. Darmest. Vampires are in a hurry to work and lined up in line at Starbak Coffee ... To drink on a cup of human blood. "Instead of hiding in caves, gloomy locks or, traditionally, underground, vampires in our film decide to return to the usual life of people," says Peter Spirig, one of the director of the picture. "They live with the same daily, more precisely, the blessings and worries that we are, only with a small amendment for vampirism." Yes, and he stopped being something special and became the same part of everyday life as a trip for coffee before work.
However, for finding on the top of the food chain, the vampires of "new type" have to pay. The people who serve as a source of blood, along the plot of "warriors of the world" make up no more than five percent of the population of the Earth, while their amount is rapidly decreasing.
"So what kind of subconscious fears of society reflects the current vampire passion? There are assumptions that if the aliens are a symbol of the threat from the outside, then the vampires are a symbol of the threat of the inner, the fifth column. Makyl Dylan Foster, Professor of the University of Indiana, believes that collective fears who exploit films and books about vampires are "First of all, the fear of conspiracy, the feeling of the proximity of incomprehensible and because of the apparent dangerous groups inside the same community: adolescent subcultures, immigrant diasporas and so Further". In this sense, the first vamp film of the upcoming year, again, violates traditions and translates the genre to a completely new direction: in the "warriors of the world" the vampires are not a regular group within society, but the society itself, and the threat to them - just the same small A regular group of people and sympathizer.
"In our film, an almost scientific question was raised," says Michael Spirig. - And what would we do if you suddenly became vampires? " It turns out that we would have done almost the same thing as people - almost as in the above-mentioned scenario of the authorship of Almodovar. There is even one almost literal coincidence of ideas ... But there is enough spoilers: "Warriors of Light" go to hire on January 7, 2010 - it remains very long.