neoolong wrote:Which is still not going to be a "true vampire" since you can't average traits together from multiple sources. So again, you're not creating any sort of real vampire.
Besides, from the style the movie sets some of the aspects cannot be averaged into it. Like turning into bats and wolves.
Conceded.
However, by average I meant one would take perhaps 20 of the most common traits. It would probably be useless for storytelling purposes, but you could use it to compare different types of vampires more easily.
Irrelant. You claimed that vampires had no connection to the moon. Some do.
As for silver, why does it have to be connected to the moon? I already said that it was thought of as a metal of purity. Nothing to do with the moon in particular.
Because it hurts werewolves because of it's connection to the moon. If it hurts vampires because of it's supposed purity, then that's fine. I just don't want them mixed up with werewolves, that's all.
Which is even more moronic than saying that silver works because it is pure. The concept that something is valuable is merely a human quality put on it. Are you saying that an expensive laptop should work against a vampire as well? But will it not work in a few years when it is nearly obsolete?
I don't think they had laptops back then. Anyway, like you said, myths don't always make sense. I read it in a collection of local folklore I found at the library a few years ago.
You can't base it off the cartoon. Especially considering that nobody actually uses real guns. They weren't allowed to show them. It's a children's cartoon, there were quite a few limits on how far they could go.
I didn't base anything of the cartoon, I mentioned it because I've seen Blade there. IIRC, the only thing he did there, was to talk to Spidey and hunt that Morpheus (or whatever his name was) character. He mostly used his lightsabre-ish sword (supposedly emitting UV-light, I think, for killing vampires), and then his mother came and they flew away to Transylvania to live with someone I thought was Dracula. Or was it Morpheus that flew away..? It's been years since I saw that thing.
Are you sure about the gun thing, though? I seem to recall the bad guys quite frequently using guns.
Besides, giving him a gun makes sense considering that they are trying to make an action movie. What are they going to do, make him walk up to every vampire when they're sleeping and hammer a stake in their hearts?
No that wouldn't work for an action movie. But they could've made a horror movie or thriller, instead. Then it could've worked. (with the effects budget they had for the first film, it probably would have made a much better film, too)
As previously mentioned vampires and werewolves are tied together in myth. So crossovers like that aren't suprising. For another, holy water is supposed to work on werewolves. Is that another horrible myth? For who, vampires or werewolves?
Holy water is based on faith in the church or god/s, and faith was supposed to work on all "evil" things.
Werewolves and vampires are two completely different things. One is a living person who occasionally turns into a wolf, usually during full moon, and then eats people and/or cattle. The other is a dead body re-animated, for one reason or another, that causes people to die and sometimes become vampires themselves, as can be read, for example, in the story of Peter Plogojowitz (which I'm sure one can find on Google, or just click
here). People bitten by werewolves might become werewolves themselves but not if the person is already dead. Only vampires are "undead". In what sources are vampires and werewolves tied together?
The fact is that it is has a basis in myth. No matter where the creators originally got the idea. It is therefore valid to use it, whether you think it is horrible or not. At least it came from some real source, the myths, as opposed to just making things up.
I can't say anything is valid or invalid, even if they did just make something up. They are trying to tell a story/make a cool action flick, and will probably come up with things necessary to do so. I can find certain parts stupid or even horrible but, like I said, that is my opinion.