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Re-watching the movie that blew all our minds back in 1987. I'd forgotten what a strange and beautiful film it is, not to mention how funny it is. Buffy owes it an awful lot, I think - was this the first vampire flick in which they burst into flames in sunlight? Is Spike's look based on David's?

Weird Science, OTOH, is saved from being total crap by snappy editing and a genuinely funny cast. It's a nice twist that the boys try to make themselves a girl and end up with a woman.

Appropriate images to follow.

ETA: The grandad from Lost Boys was Dumont in Tron. If I ever knew that, I'd forgotten!

ETA: I love how the flying is handled in the film. I guess Buffy also borrowed the idea of the vampires "vamping out". But does the "they have to be invited in" thing predate Lost Boys?

Date: 2008-01-08 04:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com
and once he gives it, the vampire is free to use traditional vampire powers, including the hypnotic gaze and ability to cloud minds.

And y'know, I can buy that. He doesn't actually pass any of the tests, it's just an illusion! This makes me happy. (And a bit ashamed I didn't come up with it myself sometime in the last 20 years, as I'm usually the retcon queen.)

Aside: Any "cheat" regarding Max at dinner is easily forgiven

Oh, I'll forgive the movie as a whole just about anything. :-D I saw it nine times in the cinema as a poor high school graduate/college freshman, including two different sneak previews. (Denver was a big test market at the time. This made me very happy.) Obsessed is hardly the word. I just found the Max plot thread to be the weakest, to a degree they probably didn't want a seventeen-year-old observing.

Does Dracula, in the novel, actually DO anything during the day?

Having reread it just over a year ago... I don't think he does. Certainly nothing with a big impact on the plot. I think there may be an unexpected transit from point A to point B while they're haring around the city trying to neutralize all the boxes. Van Helsing, however, does state in one of the exposition dumps that he can move about in the day but can't use any of his powers. It's presented as more of a choice that he doesn't unless forced, because he can't counter their advantage of numbers.

Date: 2008-01-09 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stephen-dedman.livejournal.com
IIRC, Dracula appears in daylight twice in the novel, but he's just walking around. Stoker never says that sunlight harms him; he must sleep in his native soil during the day, but maybe not all day. And though the sun is setting when the vampire slayers catch up to him at the climax, it doesn't seem to be harming him, though it may rob him of his more dangerous abilities.

FWIW, many English vampire stories that pre-date Dracula have vampires walking around during the day.

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