Following "Little Mermaid" and " Lord of the Rings ", another IP is considered too "black". As soon as the casting came out, it was ridiculed by the group all the way. After the broadcast of
, the whole thing turned around.
Rotten Tomatoes media praise rate is 98%, and Douban scores have risen, which has surpassed the original version at present.
will only scold Hollywood for political correctness?
Sorry, this adaptation is really correct.
"Night Visit to Vampire Season 1"
Interview with the Vampire Season 1
Classic that cannot be avoided in history in vampire works.
994's film version has collected two major stunning Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise .
The ambiguous atmosphere created by the movie for the two has made movie fans talk about for many years.
Take the original route, and it must be a bad dog. Where can I find a pair of Tang and Pete?
Since you want to change it, you can find another way and make it bolder. This is why I was scolded before the broadcast.
Peter's character is set as a black man in the drama version. The homosexual ambiguity hidden in the original version of
also rolls the sheet openly.
So, it was immediately criticized as "political correctness".
But will it definitely destroy the classics according to the issues of the times?
Haha.
022. We may hope that the world will stop in familiar places, but we cannot stop more people from rushing to the next stop.
Do you add it?
is actually not important. The key is to put aside the topic, how is the new version of "Night Visit to Vampire" adapted?
Vampire, a population that is always fading in modern society, has regained its spirit.
This is the hope that the legend will continue to spread.
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910, Streville, New Orleans, United States.
The famous Jazz birthplace, a city of freedom that is mixed with music and dragons.
Louis was driving a car to inspect his industry.
Among the 24 brothels on Liberty Street, he owned 8 of them.
is different from the successful people in the United States during that period, Louis was black.
The ancestors made money by planting sugarcane, and by his generation they had begun to diversify their family assets.
Don’t rush to say that the screenwriter is lazy and making up history randomly, and how could black people enter the class at that time?
In fact, after the Civil War, black people who made their fortunes appeared in the United States, and the story took place in New Orleans, where a large number of " Creole ", that is, mixed-race black people with lighter skin, were free as early as before the liberation of black slaves.
From the lighter skin tone of Louis and his family, they can see the Creole identity of their family.
At this point, the episode settings are very rigorous.
Louis is very business-minded. His signature in the red light district is people of color prostitutes, and there is a market in areas like New Orleans where people are mixed.
He is also good at dealing with relationships and can freely enter and exit bars that are "only for white people" and enjoy the treatment of guests.
can also sit at the same table with white capitalists and politicians in the city and chat and laugh and talk about business.
Many times, Louis seems to have forgotten his black identity, but reality will always be cold and pierced this bubble.
When you walk into a white bar, you will definitely enjoy the baptism of strange eyes.
talks about business with white people, and is often forced to suffer losses.
"It gives you ten percent a favorable face."
"I don't want to pay for it, what else do you want?"
"Friend" city councillor on weekdays still called "nigger" without seeing who he is.
Creole's identity actually puts Louis in an embarrassing position.
seems to have a higher status than African black slaves.
But the skin is still an imprint that cannot be erased.
This special nature of Louis' identity determines his later encounter.
That night, a strange French man appeared in this new city.
Long golden hair, blue-green eyes, dressed as a European aristocrat in the last century.
His name is Leicester.
The first time he met at a bar, he said to Louis:
"We are destined to be good friends."
At the same time, an epidemic began to appear in the docks in New Orleans.
The blood on the body of people who died of illness has dried up, but because they are all underworlds without identity, they have not attracted much attention.
Leicester is handsome, generous, humorous, mysterious, and has a fatal attraction.
He looked at him so sincerely, unlike other white people, they were all contempt and calculating.
Soon, they became very good friends.
In Louis' later words.
The winter was very cold that year, and Leicester warmed my charcoal fire At that time, Louis didn't know that this noble and elegant perfect confidant around him was the embodiment of death and killing. And I am the prey that Leicester has targeted early in the morning. They always meet at night, but Louis didn't think much about it, because New Orleans was a city that never sleeps. Two men always meet at night, something is destined to happen. One drunken night, the two took a prostitute home. should have been a matter of three people. As a result, the woman was thrown aside. Now it's OK. has crossed the boundary. Louis felt so panicked. was originally a black man, but now he is still homosexual. Isn’t this a buff? So, Louis decided to never see Leicester again and return to his normal life track. Can he get what he wants? Strange thing happened after separation from Leicester. A bizarre death began beside Louis. Louis's younger brother Paul, the most important person in his life, died on the happy day of his sister's wedding. On the afternoon, they danced at the wedding together. The two brothers climbed up the roof together to watch the sunset and talk to each other. But without warning, Paul jumped. Although Paul's mental illness was a little problem, his condition had been controlled. Why did he suddenly commit suicide? Before Louis could blame himself, his mother, who preferred Paul, asked him first. "Did you stimulate him?" "It's all because of you!" I feel sad and depressed, and he went to find a familiar prostitute to ease him. The prostitute who listened to his thoughts died without warning. Miss Lily died Just two weeks ago The police found her under the dock She said she was infected with the recently popular fever 2
The blood in her body was drained
That almost broke the last line of defense in his heart.
Louie, who was completely disappointed, seemed to hear Lester calling in his ears in the dark.
He ran to the church and wanted to confess his sins to the priest.
But just halfway through the words, the priest got the lunch box.
Another priest ran away and ran away.
How could a cute person run over the vampire's wandering?
Rising fire, hell demon, this cruel vampire, was it the Leicester that Louis had once fascinated by?
But turned around and Lester seemed to be the gentle man, gently seducing him.
I can take away your sadness, Louis
I can use your shameful life
for a kind of dark talent
There is also a power you can't imagine
What's more important is.
At this moment of pain and despair, as if it was abandoned by everything.
Leicester said to him, I love you, you are loved, be my partner.
That was the first time in his life that he was needed and valued.
Jesus Under the statue of God, one nodded and one couldn't help but kiss.
blood exchange room.
Louis has grown long nails, and the color of his pupils faded...
Vampire Louis was born.
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in the world view built by "Night Visit to Vampire".
Vampire is an immortal species, and its appearance will always stay at the moment of becoming a vampire.
They have extremely fast speed, power, and can also peek into what people think.
The only thing I fear is sunshine.
is destined to act in the dark no matter what kind of ability you have.
Louis became a vampire. It is said that two people can stage a shameless love fairy tale like "Twilight".
Fairy tales won't tell you all the price behind that "forever".
But what I want to film in "Night Visit to Vampire" is after that "forever".
becomes an immortal vampire, just the beginning of the story.
At that time, Louis did not realize the price he had to bear after becoming a vampire.
Leicester has lived for a hundred years. For him, New Orleans is a temporary land of land, a new world without any worries.
He is a gamer without traces on earth.
And for Louis, this is his home.
When he becomes an alien, how should he return to his life?
Louis peeked at the inner repulsion of his mother.
Look at his nails
And that pair of glasses
This is all fashion that only "that kind of people" like
Help my sister take care of the child, he almost couldn't resist the temptation of the blood of the child, causing a disaster.
He is unwilling to leave his original human life, but everything is becoming more and more difficult.
How could this world truly accept such a shameful creature?
Louis is unwilling to give up all kinds of emotional connections with the human world, but in Leicester, the few connections left are art.
music will make Leicester separate people from food.
Anyone who can impress him with music
In his eyes, they are superior
Seeing that he and humans occasionally have connections made me very moved
But in the matter of killing, Leicester is also like an artist.
He kills people in different ways, enjoying the beauty of the flower of death blooming.
Because of the poor level of the tenor in an opera, the angry Leicester killed him.
Lester treated him as a blood-drinking machine and let him lie on the sofa and die slowly in the blood loss.
Before the actor died, Louis saw a clip of the young man's heart.
I saw his life
An Italian childhood
Easter Celebration was held in a village
One afternoon he and his father were at sea
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Looking at the fishing boat
slowly surrounding a group of tuna
He still remembers that he was holding a slice of bread in his pocket
From the perspective of Leicester.
Vampire is top predator , killing is the law of nature and instinct.
But Louis couldn't do it, which made him feel a heavy burden.
The human nature and vampire instinct left behind make Louis fall into a painful struggle. Can
kill only evil people?
Can suck only animal blood?
, including this issue, his various differences and contradictions with Leicester were gradually put on the stage after his passion retreated.
Forever love and company is of course the most ideal state.
But reality often cannot be achieved. The pain and doubt brought by the outside world can sometimes easily break the beautiful oath.
Lastly, it is also the most terrifying side of "forever".
When life becomes forever.
Is there anything else that is worth cherishing? The same thing between the drama version and the film version is that they both discuss philosophical issues such as self, immortality, loneliness and human nature.
If the original version is more like a vampire gothic dream. The drama version of
has taken a step forward on the original basis and is more realistic and fabled.
For example, on the issue of loneliness.
When Louis told his story to reporter Daniel, it was under the background of the new crown pandemic that human beings were experiencing isolation and isolation like never before.
Of course, it has to be said that many netizens criticized "political correctness".
Why can't black people play vampires?
Vampire must be white?
So far, Sir feels that Louis' black man, especially Creole's character setting is very reasonable and clever.
In the movie version, what is Louis' identity?
An eighteenth century American white manor owner, the black people in his manor are all food sources for Leicester.
But in the drama version, the clever thing is that Louis is not a low-level black man who is oppressed and suffering.
As Sir said before, he is in an awkward and difficult position.
He belongs to black.
cannot move freely in the white world.
, but I am eager to integrate into it as an oppressor.
Just as he said when he confessed in the church, he kept anesthesizing himself and using these prostitutes of color to make money is to provide them with a way out.
His family made a profit from it and tacitly avoided this problem.
On the issue of race, it is not a rough publicity: white people oppress me, I am so pitiful.
It is more trying to break the illusion of equality.
is like the background of the times that was pointed out from the beginning.
1910, the American black slave system had been abolished, and black people seemed to be nominally free, but in fact no one paid for the historical upset.
However, the black system has been prevalent for decades
ushered in the electrified new century
makes blacks even less free
. Once there is a dispute over interests, the whites who have the right to speak will definitely make their "friends" and "fake whites" like Louis sacrifice.
An important event that made Louis recognize the reality was the bill to strip people of color issued during 's battle with , which allowed his former white politician partners to easily embezzle his industry.
The same love between Louis and Leicester.
Leicester originally wanted to go to the romantic place to listen to the opera.
But in such an elegant place, if Louis wants to enter with a complexion of skin, he can only dress up as a servant of Leicester.
And Louis's love for Leicester comes from: In the dark night, they seem to be really equal.
969, the debut work of the American black female writer Tony Morrison (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ) updated the development process of black literature.
The protagonist black girl attributes all the misfortunes in her life to her lack of blue eyes.
Maybe my eyes should be a little bluer. What is the use of being bluer? What is the use of ...I don't know either. It's always useful. The racial issue discussed in the novel
goes one step further.
is no longer simply accusing oppression from white people, but rather trying to figure out how black Americans view their identities.
A few years later, Anne Rice 's novel "Night Visit to the Vampire" was released.
Although one is serious literature and the other is popular literature , the subject matter is not very close.
But in fact, they are all products born under the trend of the times.
In the 1960s and 1970s, a series of left-wing movements such as the American Black People's Rights Movement, the Women's Liberation Movement, and the homosexual liberation movement gave birth to attention to the rights and interests of minorities/vulnerable groups.
How do you view vampire literature?
A group of people who cannot stand the light and can only live in the darkness.
alternative, lonely.
In Anne's original work, it is also the limitation of the times, and it does not clearly and boldly point out what the relationship between Louis and Leicester is.
but it is so obvious. The film version of
994 still has not clarified their relationship.
Louis's character is also heterosexual. The death of his beloved wife and daughter made him agree to become a vampire in despair.
But there is still a flash of ambiguity in the lines and details. In the new version of
, homosexual identity is pointed out.
also began to face the most fascinating dangers in vampire literature.
Bloodthirsty, killing desire and sexual desire are inseparable.
Sir, the character of the drama version Louis is more plump than the movie version, and it is more in line with the current interpretation of the spirit of the original work.
He seems to be different from ordinary black people.
But when he wants to integrate into the white world and is recognized by white people, he is just a "smart nigger".
When he was still a human, he did not dare to face his homosexual identity.
He looked for a prostitute every night, but he just chatted with her.
After becoming a vampire, he is not a human, but he seems not a qualified vampire who follows instinct.
He could not do the free and easy way to cut off the connection with the rules of the human world like Leicester, hesitating and swaying left and right.
Then what is yourself? The ambivalence of
, which desires to deviate from the mainstream and wants to be recognized by the mainstream, is not the real dilemma of the current minority groups.
In Sir's view, the innovation of "Night Visit to the Vampire" is a mature experience of Hollywood's "political correctness".
does not slacking off and simply and rudely let actors of color "take the pit".
instead seamlessly combines character settings, plot development and theme expression.
This is sincerity and progress.
Sir found that our recent "political correctness" in striking Hollywood has gradually evolved into a kind of "correctness".
"Little Mermaid", "Lord of the Rings" to "Night Visit to Vampire".
When you see the black actor, you will scold him first.
The white characters in the classic IP are replaced by black people, regardless of whether they can make good works, they will first shout "destroy".
Have you ever thought about it? What makes you firmly believe that it is natural for some characters to belong to white people?
is like a vampire. According to the legendary setting, people who have been bitten and infected will become vampires.
Could this only be spread among white people?
Are we not vampires who have seen yellow people?
Because black people deny a vampire.
Does this seem like, The tragic story written by Toni Morrison early on.
A pair of blue eyes is the only standard for beauty.
political correct overlap buff?
Yes, "Night Visit to Vampire" is a buff, black LGBT, perfectly hitting the lightning point of many people.
But that doesn't hinder it, it can be a wonderful masterpiece.
and compared with that.
preconceived and discriminated against it with great fanfare, insisted on admitting other progress, and smugly laughed at those who did not even have the right qualifications.
This is the real arrogance and sorrow.
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