I'm
currently in a class surveying Vampires: Power, Self, and the Other.
We analyze both films and texts on vampires and compare the two in a
multicultural context. The first film we watched was called Les
Vampires, a silent film series from 1915. The vampires in the
series Les
Vampires, contradicts
many of the normal expectations of what a vampire is. The vampires in
this film series lacks the supernatural ability or the thirst for
blood that is typically found in a vampire. One reason they may have
portrayed the vampires in Les
Vampires in
this way is that for the average depiction of a vampire, there is
sympathy behind his character. Vampires must feed on humans in order
to survive, so despite how evil they might be they are still pitied
in a way. In contrast, the vampires in Les
Vampires do
not have to perform the evils that they do, it is only for money and
power. This could be a representation of the cultural situation in
Paris at the time, the vampires representing the role of the Germans
coming into the country and taking from the citizens of France. In
this way, the filmmakers would not want for there to be any sort of
redeemable qualities about the vampires in the film, but to portray
them as thieves that cannot be trusted.
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