bitter harvest is a 1993 thriller/drama film starring stephen baldwin , patsy kensit and jennifer rubin .

it was directed by duane clark .

the film was released on november 3 , 1993 .

bitter harvest ( 1993 film )

bitter harvest opens at the angelika film center in dallas on friday , february 24 .
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there ought to be no lack of firepower in telling this shameful tale . too often , however , “bitter harvest” is guilty of overkill .
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max irons stars in “bitter harvest , ” a retelling of the real - life tragedy of the ukrainian famine known as the holodomor . ( roadside attractions )
[ mandarin chinese : huo zhe , 1992 / 1993 . ] trans . michael berry .
george mendeluk’s bitter harvest attempts the same thing with limp results . focusing on the ‘holodomor , ’ a period of severe repression and genocide inflicted on soviet ukraine and its ethnicities located in the northern caucasus between the years 1929 - 1933 , it’s a moment in history that feels severely under - represented on film . unfortunately , bitter harvest squanders its powerful background with a film that elicits neither compassion nor interest .
lingering on a host of atrocities , bitter harvest follows the usual pattern of rebellion and eventual evolution of yuri from introverted art student to gulag - imprisoned freedom fighter .
was first published in 1993 , when author yu hua was c . 33 years old . ]
title the dark half director george a . romero country usa length 125 min festival 1993 section midnight releases language english
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films like doctor zhivago ( 1965 ) , son of saul ( 2015 ) , schindler’s list ( 1993 ) or in the crosswind ( 2014 ) – a film that takes on the same subject as bitter harvest – all reflect atrocities or upheavals wrapped in either a lush love story or piercing technical abilities that make us shudder and recoil from the evil present in our world . they are effective in the stories they tell .
review : distinguished by numerous sex scenes and a languorous editing style , bitter harvest is a dawdling rural film noir . travis graham ' s ( stephen baldwin ) bible - thumping father leaves the bulk of his estate to a tv evangelist , with only the farm and a coin co… ( more )
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set between the two world wars and based on true historical events , bitter harvest conveys the untold story of the holodomor , the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant joseph stalin . the film displays a powerful tale of love , honour , rebellion and survival at a time when ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning soviet union .
yuvajanotsavam is a 1986 malayalam film directed by sreekumar thampy . the film stars mohanlal , urvashi , menaka and suresh gopi in lead roles . the film is about three friends who are caught in a love triangle .
. zanussi referred to heroes and events known to the audience from the previous film and even quoted some fragments , foregrounding episodic characters from the earlier film .
distinguished by numerous sex scenes and a languorous editing style , bitter harvest is a dawdling rural film noir . travis graham ' s ( stephen baldwin ) bible - thumping father leaves the bulk of his estate to a tv evangelist , with only the farm and a coin collection going to his son . travis is an emotionally hollow country bumpkin , beaten down by his rigorous . . . read more
to live : novel notes ( plus novel vs . film , historical context )
( 1990 ) , this film did not stir up much interest or discussion .
this is the first pixar film to be reframed for 4 : 3 televisions .
this essay is the continuation of my previous deliberations on the evolution of the polish feature film during socialist realism , which summarized its output and pondered its future after the victory of the solidarity movement . in the paper “cinema under political pressure…” ( 1993 ) , i wrote
, 1993 ) . its hero was a real alcoholic , who did not know anything about his roots and who enacted scenes from his own life , linked to ideologies and historical events .
filmmaker mendeluk , whose career has spanned some 35 years , starting with the americanized giallo thriller stone cold dead ( 1979 ) and stopping along the way with meatballs iii ( 1986 ) before an array of low budget action films and tv efforts , obviously feels a responsibility in telling such an important story with bitter harvest , yet it features numerous problems .
the model for popular cinema became the gangster film , which reached its apogee in 1992 - 93 . the creator of this trend was władysław pasikowski who , in his film debut
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it’s only in the last few minutes that bitter harvest touches on some genuine depth and emotion as it replays its opening scene . it’s a scene that not only emphasizes the futility of the time , but re - calibrates our perception of the story . if only more moments had been realized like this . and perhaps this is the film’s most glaring weakness . it gives us a tepid love story and forgetful characters against a backdrop that should be anything but tepid and forgetful .
grandson kugen ( bitter root ) is renamed mantou , or
little bun ,
in the film ; and translator michael berry discusses at some length other key differences between film and novel , including zhang yimou ' s use of the
recurring parable of the xu family ' s transformation from a chicken to an ox
to comment on changing political climates ( 242 - 243 ) .
in accordance with the american human association no animals were harmed in the making of this film .
, 2002 ) by mariusz pujszo . the first production , with polish film stars , was dominated by marvellous computer effects . the second was a comedy , with references to the independent american film
to live 2 : film notes , cont . film plot summaries : 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | historical background : cultural revolution paper handout distributed in class & also available online : url : urltoken
proved that neither logic nor message was important in this kind of film . this kitschy film , whose only virtue was the music of the pop group “myslovitz , ” was seen by more viewers than
12 . t . lubelski : “film fabularny . ” [ in : ] encyklopedia kultury polskiej xx wieku . film . kinematografia , ed . e . zajiček , warszawa 1994 , p . 178 .
this is the first film to be transferred directly from a digital source straight to vhs and dvd .
kugen , meaning
' bitter root '
( 211 ) , is the son of fengxi and erxi , and is fugui ' s grandson : see fugui ' s story 4 and fugui ' s story 5 .
tamer hassan made his name playing east end villains , but his latest project took him to east europe . the london - born actor plays russian officer sergei in bitter harvest , a story set during the the holodomor genocide in ukraine in the 1930s . he spoke to london live ' s luke blackall about inhabiting such a dark character , talking tantra with terence stamp and how he coped after a horse broke his foot on set .
a groundbreaking film which deals with an inter - racial love triangle and its effects on the local townsfolk .
the drama expressed in these words is reflected in the creative striving of polish film directors , even today .
in japan , the film ' s image song is
stand
by the japanese band hoff dylan . it is also the first song on the japanese version of the film ' s soundtrack . ( link )
a romantic drama film about a love triangle between a stage actress , her financial backer , and his friend .
in accordance with the american human association no animals were harmed in the making of this film . see more »
“if there’s no ice , it’s hard to call the film ‘the ice harvest , ’ ” ramis said . “i was thinking of ‘nothing like christmas . ’ ” there was a silence , and ramis appeared to consider whether it was worth explaining the double meaning—both a nod to and a sardonic distancing from the holiday—but then he shrugged .
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was the result of the film’s powerful effect on viewers as well as its strong metaphorical element . this tendency reappeared in
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this is the second film that denis leary and kevin spacey worked on . their first film was touchstone ' s 1994 christmas comedy
the ref
. leary played the main antagonist gus and spacey played lloyd who was taken hostage by gus .
this is the first pixar film to be specifically reframed for 4 : 3 exhibition on vhs , dvd and televised airings .
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the bastard child of film noir , born in the era of shoulder pads , smoke machines , and fredericks of hollywood . focusing…
film : chungsheng is first introduced working in the house of qing , and will later join fugui ' s shadow puppet troupe .
this was the only pixar film not to be broadcast on starz until 2016 ' s finding dory , which will be streaming on netflix .
ramis’s lack of much else to say may in fact explain his longevity . he has produced hits for more than twenty years by being the opposite of an auteur : by channelling and focussing prevailing opinion . ramis told me , “i’m sure my agents think of ‘ice harvest’
the holodomor — an early 1930s famine in which millions of people in ukraine , then part of the soviet union , died when their foodstuffs were confiscated by the central soviet government under joseph stalin — could have made for a tale of great , stirring tragedy on the silver screen . “bitter harvest , ” alas , is not that movie . maudlin , heavy - handed and histrionic when a more subdued touch would have sufficed , the below - made - for - tv - caliber drama about the historical event is a cartoonish and unengaging telling of an undeniable tragedy .
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, 1997 ) , a comedy in which the place of the super - hero was taken by a clever taxi driver , was the acknowledged epitaph of the gangster film . the protagonist of this film was so much loved by polish and foreign viewers that he returned to screen in the sequel
whether the holodomor resulted from a policy of systemic genocide , as is the official position of ukraine and many other governments , or was a criminal act that nevertheless fails to meet the legal definition of genocide , as others have characterized it , is a matter for u . n . diplomats and historians to argue about . in the view of “bitter harvest” filmmaker george mendeluk , a tv director who cut his feature - filmmaking teeth on such classics as “amber alert : terror on the highway” and “12 hours to live , ” the scenario is not just unambiguous , but black and white .
only those directors who bade farewell to legends and romantic myths or attempts to create an all - encompassing vision of history or to film stories that were taboo during the communist censorship , succeeded in the second half of the decade . the closest to the spirit of the new epoch seemed to be the approaches and poetics based on grotesque paradoxes , the absurdities of a sławomir mrożek or witold gombrowicz and on mocking and twisting the past . also popular were the bitter comedies
the plotline has several similarities to the dreamworks ' produced antz , which had been released a month earlier . this was because of jeffrey katzenberg forming dreamworks and previously being kicked out of disney for feuding in the company around the time a bugs life was in development . as a result , dreamworks started releasing films , which were not only released sometime after a disney film , but also had similar concepts and settings . since then , disney and dreamworks have remained bitter enemies .
in the program ' s history produce sales had never been lower . in 1991 they amounted to about $ 800 , and in 1992 they were approximately $ 900 . in 1993 they went up to about $ 3 , 000 . but in 1994 , even though underwood had handpicked a bunch of nice kids for the job , sales dropped to roughly $ 700 .
the film was widely acclaimed from both critics and audiences and , was a box office success , grossing $ 363 million worldwide against its $ 120 million budget .
this film brings back memories because the first part of the film was made in the village i lived in , and my friend and i was extras on the bus taking the main character out of the valley . i got the princely sum of one pound . the bus belonged to my friends uncle and we had to do the scene about twenty times to get it right we also had a fire engine spraying water for it to look like rain . iwould love to see this film but don ' t know where to purchase it from . is the one patsey kensitt making the same film i seem to have seen a film with the same title with her starring in it , i was surprised to see that terence alexander was not the main star as i only remembered him and janet munro at the time .
in early march , ramis prevailed on brian doyle - murray to ask his brother if he would take part in “the ice harvest . ” brian reported that bill said no , thanks . when ramis asked if bill had said anything more , anything personal , brian said that his brother hadn’t mentioned ramis at all .
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although there is a tepid love story between yuri and his childhood sweetheart , natalka ( samantha barks ) , simmering in the background , the main narrative of “bitter harvest” is one of armed struggle by kulaks and their sympathizers . too often , however , the action is characterized less by revolutionary steel than melodramatic mush . natalka , for example , toys with the idea of prostitution to feed her family . and when a ukrainian man kills himself in despair , a soviet soldier offers this snarky toast , delivered with the same lack of subtlety that characterizes the rest of the script ( by richard bachynsky hoover ) : “to all ukrainian nationals , may they continue to save us ammunition . ”
midway into the 1993 season davis gave underwood the job of gardening assistant . and underwood , who still holds the position , became the authority figure the kids had to answer to . he hired , fired , and oversaw the children , while davis managed the gardens and raised money . underwood kicked the troublemakers and gangbangers out of cabrini greens , even though davis petitioned to let them back in .
) were the biggest financial failures in the decade . the “strategy of the psychotherapist” became completely useless in the context of film communication developing under the pressure of the free market .
from 1962 . in this film he told the story of a jewish girl whose ex - lover wants to save her from death at the hands of nazi soldiers . like his earlier
. this style of gangster film proved to be short - lived . “young wolves” quickly became “older wolves , ” earning money on the stock exchange and experiencing conflicts with the mafia (
the film is loosely inspired by the fable
the ant and the grasshopper
and the classic samurai film the seven samurai , it is the second pixar movie and tells the story of an outcast inventor ant named flik ( dave foley ) , who recruits a group of circus bugs he mistakes for warriors when his colony is threatened by a group of grasshoppers .
in the second half of the 90s , director marek koterski tried to formulate thoughts about polish identity by creating one of the most controversial , even shocking film styles . already in his 1989
kubert points out that in 1993 , under davis ' s watchful eye , a lot of gardening work got done - - but it was done on saturday mornings by chicago cares volunteers , which is why that year was so profitable . he says that last year , when the kids started working with underwood ,
nothing got done .
kubert ' s afraid the same thing will happen this summer if underwood is left in charge .
the film tells the story of a ( somehow ) love - triangle set in bohol during world war ii ; though the main underlying themes deals with filipino nationalism and the legacies of colonialism .
film : town = key setting of xu mansion , where fugui ' s father dies of heart attack right after signing away the ancestral estate ; impoverished xu family must eke out a meager living in town . mr . chen does not appear in the film ; jiazhen leaves fugui because of his gambling , taking fengxia and unborn youqing with her . [ ~ c . a . ]
lives of many young comedy writers and directors are divided into two parts . there is childhood , ruled by bland hollywood comedies such as “the goodbye girl” and “oh god ! ” and then there is the glorious , unruly adolescence of the person they became after seeing a film that spoke to them in ways their parents didn’t—a film that moved them to emulation . for jay roach , the director of the austin powers films , that movie was “groundhog day , ” in 1993 . for jake kasdan , the director of “orange county , ” it was “stripes , ” in 1981 , and , even more powerfully , “ghostbusters , ” in 1984 . for adam sandler , it was “caddyshack , ” in 1980 . and for peter farrelly , who directed “there’s something about mary” with his brother bobby , it was “animal house , ” in 1978 .
the film tells a complicated love story . carmen with ke , xiang yi and jiyuan . they start as a friend , but somehow a love triangle occur , and the outcome is very tragic .
, 1990 ) by mariusz treliński can be defined as the first postmodern polish film that captivates with its visual opulence and profound interpretation of literary material and its use of the grotesque and ironic humour .
at forty one north , “the ice harvest” ’s producers tacitly dropped the idea of casting bill murray and reached a consensus that john c . reilly would make a great pete . “he wants to be gone to first , ” an executive said . “i think we lose him if we go to oliver platt first , but we don’t lose oliver if we go to john first . ”
but he was back , rolling with the punches alone , until underwood signed on as foreman in 1993 . soon after that davis burned out . after the four garden plots were planted last year he vanished and left underwood to manage everything from weed pulling to restaurant deliveries . davis continued to handle the program ' s finances and talked to underwood regularly , usually over the phone . but their physical separation only made it more apparent that they had different agendas .
, 2001 ) , based on the novel by s . żeromski , which showed the dramatic beginnings of the polish state after the end of the first world war ; jerzy zaorski , author of the film
( 1998 ) , director łukasz zadrzyński treated the audience as psychopaths or lovers of sadistic phantasy . moreover , independent cinema developed various ties with the gangster film . for example , piotr krzywiec in his brutal
de niro says , “harold was good at saying yes to me , and yes to billy , and yes to jane and yes to paula”—the film’s producers—“and then figuring out what he wanted to do . ”
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8 . film poetics and the reasons of its reception failure are the subject of my analysis : wielka improwizacja filmowa – opowieść o dziadach adama mickiewicza – lawa tadeusza konwickiego , kielce 1992 , pp . 32 .
julia louis - dreyfus as atta , the older princess ant of the royal family and heir to the throne . she is the film ' s deuteragonist . she is nervous about her new responsibilities and fears what the rest of the colony might think about her . during the film , it is shown that she develops a romantic interest in flik , although initially she does not show much appreciation for him . her appreciation changes for the better after the ants build the bird . the queen eventually gives up her crown at the end of the film to atta , whereupon atta gives up her own crown to her younger sister dot .
one morning in late february , the producers of a film called “the ice harvest” gathered in the banquet room of forty one north , a restaurant in northbrook , illinois , for their first pre - production meeting . harold ramis arrived early , wearing his standard uniform ( titanium - rimmed spectacles , an untucked long - sleeved black t - shirt , and black pants ) and his standard expression ( the therapist scanning his waiting room ) . ramis’s line producer , tom busch , greeted him with a warning : “the schedule has us starting to shoot on april 5th , which is the first day of passover . ”
focus features had finally greenlighted the film the day before , after six weeks of haggling with actors’ agents over the lean fourteen - million - dollar budget . the “ice harvest” script , adapted by robert benton and richard russo from scott phillips’s novel , is about a lawyer named charlie who just stole two million dollars from his boss . the action takes place on christmas eve as charlie , who is trying to skip town , gets trapped by a snowstorm , old relationships , and a series of double crosses . although the film is set in wichita , it would be shot in chicago’s northern suburbs , close to ramis’s house , in glencoe , which he shares with his wife , erica , and their two sons . ramis loved the material and had agreed to cut his regular directing fee—five million dollars—by more than eighty per cent . this would be his first directing job in two years , and his first attempt to make a comic film noir . john cusack had signed on as charlie , with billy bob thornton in a supporting role .
the movie centers on yuri ( max irons ) , a young painter who becomes radicalized when his village is enslaved by sergei , who forces yuri’s neighbors into a program of what was known as agricultural “collectivization , ” with the harvest of ukrainian farmers collected and carted off to feed russians . any independent farmer who resisted such collectivization was labeled a “kulak” — an enemy of the communist state — and sometimes killed .
like the time last summer that underwood spent $ 3 , 500 chartering a bus to take the kids on a trip to iowa , while back in chicago the tomato vines were loaded with fruit . or the argument over an end - of - the - season harvest party : underwood wanted to throw the party to build community relations ; davis saw it as a ridiculous celebration given how minimal the production had been .
is the passionate telling of one man’s life , family and country . the original novel and the film adaptation follow this man , xu fugui , from a young and impetuous father to a much older and wiser grandfather . though there is much in common with the two tellings there are also some dramatic differences . the book evokes more passion while the film brings anger . in the novel we see the inside of fugui , what he is thinking , feeling and how that turns into action . we see his family’s struggle against the land and personal , continual loss . the film is also wrenching , but from a different perspective , that of an insider as the communist movement takes over . the film can be infuriating as you see these people yanked around by various ideals and governments , still giving everything they can as the rules continue to change
( elliott ) .
short cuts on this webpage : novel notes : characters part 1 novel notes : narrative frame 1 ( pp . 3 - 8 ) | fugui ' s story 1 ( pp . 8 - 43 ) novel vs . film notes part 1 . a | part 1 . b part 2 novel notes : narrative frame 2 ( pp . 43 - 45 ) | fugui ' s story 2 ( pp . 45 - 85 ) | fugui ' s turning point novel vs . film notes part 2 . a | part 2 . b | part 2 . c part 3 novel notes : narrative frame 3 ( pp . 85 - 87 ) | fugui ' s story 3 ( pp . 87 - 161 ) novel vs . film notes part 3 part 4 novel notes : narrative frame 4 ( pp . 162 - 163 ) | fugui ' s story 4 ( pp . 163 - 212 ) novel vs . film notes : part . . . . part 5 novel notes : narrative frame 5 ( pp . 213 - 214 ) | fugui ' s story 5 ( pp . 214 - 234 ) novel vs . film notes : part 5 part 6 novel notes : narrative frame 6 ( pp . 234 - 235 ) novel vs . film notes part 6 - the endings | general observations works cited
“but would he do it for the love of the movie ? ” a focus executive wondered , alluding to murray’s high salary and the film’s tight budget—before adding , politely , “i’m sure you have a personal connection . ”
, 1960 ) , a blasphemous novel in respect to polish sanctities – the nazi occupation , the home army and christian moral norms . despite this , however , he managed to make – as proved by almost all reviews – a good film . the inaccurate title of the film refers to the erotic undertone of the novel , rather than the film version , in which the director touches on the issues of fear , lawlessness , violence , responsibility and the impossibility of isolation from one’s surroundings . however , this work does not measure up to kolski’s other films . similarly , it does not reach the deep layers of polishness , hidden in the depths of gombrowicz’s imagination .
alexander korda ' s bit for the british war effort shows the world both at peace and on the verge of nazi domination . spliced together to form a documentary style film of both newsreel and . . . see full summary »
the film tells the story of an unusual love triangle between johan , max , and anna . the action takes place in berlin after the unification of its eastern and western parts , against the background of its reconstruction and rebuilding .
usually immune to such a facile observation , the british accents of so many of the participants here immediately signal something is off . further still , the lead performance by max irons evokes nothing . it’s hard to believe him as either an unacknowledged master artist or freedom fighter . and when the film turns to action set pieces towards the end , they’re compiled and edited in a jumbled fashion that belies the film’s almost made - for - tv - like allowance .
michael berry contrasts the different endings of film and novel :
. . . the film ends with fugui , erxi , and kugan [ little bun ] gather around jiazhen in bed , an image that suggests the possibility of a post - communist utopia . the novel , in contrast , closes with fugui prodding his ox , showing yu hua ' s version to be darker and more existential , with survival an end in itself
( berry 243 ) .
thora hird . born in morecambe , lancashire , england , 28 may 1911 . attended the misses nelson ' s preparatory school , morecambe , lancashire . married james scott in 1937 ( died 1994 ) ; children : janette . followed parents into the theatre as a child ; gained early experience with the royalty theatre repertory theatre company , morecambe , before establishing name on london stage in flowers for the living , 1944 ; film debut , 1940 ; subsequently played a range of classical and contemporary roles on the stage and also acted in films and on television , starring in several comedy series . d . litt . : university of lancaster , 1989 . officer of the order of the british empire , 1983 ; dame commander of the order of the british empire , 1993 . recipient : pye female comedy star award , 1984 ; british academy of film and television arts award , 1988 . address : felix de wolfe , manfield house , 376 = - 378 strand , london wc2r 0lr , england .
3 . historiographer of polish cinema m . hendrykowski in his book : autor jako problem poetyki filmu , poznań 1988 distinguishes , in various periods of film history , around twenty roles such as witness , prestidigitator , clown , fabulator and mythicist .
davis was absent as usual , and underwood was running late because he ' d spent the night in the tomato garden , the one garden located outside of cabrini , protecting it from vandals and thieves . this was the first year they ' d had a garden at this site , behind a building for seniors at 3030 w . 21st pl . it would also be the last , because 80 percent of the harvest was either stolen or damaged by residents or gangbangers .
compared to the novel , zhang yimou ' s film . . . allows more room for the hand of fate to hold sway ; here youqing ' s death is attributed purely to accident , while in the novel it occurs after his blood is literally sucked dry to save the life of an important cadre . yu hua ' s reality is much more brutal , as is his social critique [ than that of zhang yimou ' s film ] ,
michael berry concludes ( 243 ) .
this debutant was jan jakub kolski , who worked out an original strategy of “storyteller . ” he shot a series of films , concentrating – and this is unique not only in polish film history but in its contemporary art cinema – on the countryside , villages , small towns and provinces , omitting completely big history . he was interested in history with a human face , or even the “trash heap of history . ” captivating arcadias on film had already been made by precursors of this trend , such as andrzej barański (
ad 2004 gives the impression of a film made by somebody who has lost contact with the audience . in prophetic tone he tells us things that we already know . he polishes the same paths which were used by dozens of ‘cabaret - makers’ before him . ”
in the film , fugui settles in the city . the city reflects all of the political struggling and the rise of communism . in the city we see the xu family always cautious of what they say , whom they speak with or how they are viewed . in the city , fugui wants it to be clear that he is a mao supporter . seeing fugui’s life in the city is more of a propaganda film , watching as the chinese people are taken over by forces larger than they are
( elliott ) .
katie is a free spirited independently minded 21 - year - old . the film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life . along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend bobby , her lover jack , close friend baldy , and her father .
as “the ice harvest” ’s pre - production meeting continued , ramis turned to casting the role of pete , an alcoholic who is married to charlie’s ex - wife . ramis reported that john cusack “likes the names oliver platt , stanley tucci , and john c . reilly . ” he added , “but i’d like to take one shot at bill murray . he’d be great as pete . ” seeing a circle of doubtful faces , he continued , “and he could also play gerard”—the jaded boss from whom charlie embezzles .
, 2002 ) , awarded the grand prix at the film festival in gdynia . the satire in the latter film is blatant : the paranoid lonely hero filled with fear and aggression , is the unattractive adaś miauczyński , a polish language and literature teacher and an unsuccessful poet . he lives in a typical block of flats and every morning , looking at his housing estate he says : “what a shit , fuck ! ” koterski presents this in such a way that the complexes of the protagonist hit the viewers hard , almost hemming them in .
based on a novel by maurice dekobra , the film is set in the yoshiwara , the red - light district of tokyo , in the nineteenth century . it depicts a love triangle between a high - class prostitute , a russian naval officer , and a rickshaw man .
, skolimowski made a film showing not the deformed reality of the original , but an unnatural , empty world of affectations . viewers were offered small satisfaction from the gombrowicz - like perverse irony , expressed in the words : “and who saw it – is a ninny ! ”
to live : novel notes . . . plus commentary on novel vs . film and historical context hum 210 online course pack - fall 2006 - prof . cora agatucci author of the novel : yu hua ( b . 1960 in hangzhou [ haiyan ] , zhejiang , china )
in the bloopers shown at the end of the film , princess atta is shown cracking up during her scene with hopper , ruining take after take until hopper goes to his trailer in frustration . this is a spoof of julia louis - dreyfus being known to do the same .
, 1992 , polish - english production ) he told the story of the meeting of two men – an old english composer experiencing a crisis in his creativity and loss of belief , and a young musicologist from cracow –symbolizing the meeting of two cultures , two systems of values , personalities and different sensitivities connected to art and life . in this film zanussi asked some interesting questions on the existence of good and evil , on creative activity and on the possibility of reaching the absolute or god through music . however , more interest and appreciation met his other film ,
film : no frame narrative & no young second narrator are introduced to whom fugui will tell his story . fugui ' s final companion , the old ox , is absent as well ( berry 242 ) . plot events unfold in chronological order . [ ~ c . a . ]
while characterizing the polish gangster film , it is worth mentioning a certain phenomenon in polish cinema after 1989 . this period introduced 49 directors ; two cinematographers – j . wójcik , ( one of the originators of “polish school” ) and j . żamojda ; five actors – bogusław linda , krystyna janda , eugeniusz priwieziencew , olaf lubaszenko and marek kondrat ; and 42 graduates of film schools who had earlier completed a short , documentary , serial , commercial or video clip . since the beginning of 1990s , three debuts determined three tendencies in polish cinema : the above - mentioned
, 1993 / 94 , both in french - polish production ) , were honoured all over the world but in poland they were appreciated – as mentioned previously – only after the death of the filmmaker who developed and used the strategy of the “sceptic observer . ” the great polish philosopher , priest and professor józef tischner commented on that role succinctly in the homily read at the grave of director : “it is said that poland didn’t understand krzysztof kieślowski but what does it mean , poland ? he was not understood by politicians because he was too little of a politician himself . he was not understood by doctrinaires because he was not at all a doctrinaire himself . ”
the issue of weakness of polish cinema was addressed by directors in their film works . they characterized the situation in which polish cinema found itself by epithets such as : “pretentiousness , ” “lack of talent , ” “chaos , ” “pursuit of money” and “stupidity . ” this was illustrated by two films :
he gave billy crystal different notes . “bob and i were trains coming from totally different tracks , ” crystal says . “there were times when i thought the film was becoming too gangstery , and times when bob thought it was too funny . we were like pit bulls on harold’s pant leg . ”
10 . a . werner : to jest kino , warszawa 1999 , pp . 152 - 153 and 159 . i discussed the “insular” character of polish cinema in my work “epitafia , emfazy , enigmay , ewenementy i epizody . polski film fabularny po 1989 roku , ” postscriptum 2003 , no 12 , 655 .
film : introduction of shadow puppets , an old art form , gives fugui an identity as artist and entertainer , by which he makes a living for his family , makes himself useful by entertaining both nationalist and communist liberation armies , as well as comrade laborers in his town . [ ~ c . a . ]
in the polish cinema of the past fifteen years , with the exception of the gangster and provincial films , there have been no new movements , schools , waves , trends , or film theories in the traditional sense . it is hard to discuss in such categories the above - mentioned generation 2000 , a tv programme of low - budget films made by new 35 - and 40 - year - old directors . but it is still possible to distinguish three creative formations , namely women’s cinema , film debuts and off - mainstream or independent cinema . they formed , distinctly , the general character and image of the whole polish cinematography .
, 1999 ) , k . krauze used a psycho - sociological method of analysis of reality . the film was made as a thriller but it was not sensationalist . the director took the subject straight from life , in the story of two young businessmen who murdered a blackmailer harassing them . the artistic and commercial success of
kugen is seven years old ( 227 ) : rain is forecast , which would ruin fugui ' s cotton crop , so they rush out to harvest , but kugen complains of dizziness ( 227 - 228 ) . fugui realizes his grandson kugen , now burning up with fever , is really sick ; picks fresh beans to make kugen a special meal , then leaves him to eat it and returns to harvesting his cotton crop ( 228 - 229 ) . returning at dusk , fugui finds kugen ' s little twisted body and raises an alarm in the village ( 227 - 228 ) . kugen is pronounced dead ( 228 ) .
, 2002 , poland - france ) presents the real and incredible history of władysław szpilman , a polish jew who managed to escape death several times due to his musical talent . the tragic fate of a lucky man was turned in this film into a universal myth presenting both the absurdity of the holocaust and the absurdity of salvation .
two versions of the film have been released , each one with different fake outtakes over the end credits . the version released before december 18th , 1999 features a set , and the one released after that date has another . this was done because disney hoped it would encourage people to view the film a second time . but in the vhs , the credits are poised away from the backgrounds shown next to them for a few seconds before the bloopers , but in the dvd , the credits are poised inside the backgrounds , and there are different lengths of bloopers switched around depending on the widescreen or fullscreen viewing , so don ' t expect to see the same version twice .
: “those serving the tenth muse did not notice that martial law was over ; they failed to record on film the takeover of the government by the political opposition in poland . [ … ] in the new political situation , the society has been trying to create a true democratic order ; most of the filmmakers’ strategies appeared to be useless .
ends , szołajski extended his reference range both to the earlier and the contemporary periods . the film was a pastiche and parody of both the political and erotic cinema , ridiculing the polish propensity to turn everything into myths and legends . in a similar tone – with the same irreverence and superficiality – rafał wieczyński led a polemic with kieślowski in his grotesque
however , the practice of filmmaking disproved the last thesis of lubelski , since through a third debutant ( apart from pasikowski and treliński ) emerged a true art film , which removed itself from the past . astonishingly , the director did not at all stress its connections with the reality of the 90s but created a magical world of the polish province .
every sunday , lonely bachelor and refined judge mladen goes to play chess with his friend , sculptor fedji . slowly , he engages in a love affair with neda , fedia ' s wife , and almost invisibly , a love triangle forms . chess board is the central part of the film , as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters .
casablanca is a classic and one of the most revered films of all time . starring humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman in a love triangle in the city of casablanca which is a refuge for many fleeing foreigners looking for a new life during the war . political romance with a backdrop of war conflict between democracy and totalitarianism . a landmark in film history .
by alfred jarry . written in 1888 by a fifteen - year - old boy about a common and stupid tyrant , set in an imaginary poland , the film was turned into a satire about the abominable masses which form both the governing and the governed . the director has not moved beyond simple , playful metaphor and , as one critic wrote : “
the film is inspired by akira kurosawa ' s seven samurai and all of its successors , including the magnificent seven ( which gave the villain a more prominent role than in seven samurai and had a similar scene in which the heroes are driven away from the people they were protecting ) and three amigos ! which was a comedic take on the story .
dangerous liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by choderlos de laclos set in 18th century france . marquise de merteuils asks her ex - lover vicomte de valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex - lover of hers in return for one last night with her . yet things dont go as planned in this love triangle drama .
, 1998 ) by jarosław żamojda . wolves ( smugglers ) were of course “brothers” of dogs ( pigs ) and a metaphor of adolescence . żamojda showed in his film a group of high school students who wanted to get rich quickly , which was possible only by becoming gangsters and smugglers , and going down the road of crime . the amorphous structure and form of
deemed
the d . w . griffith of turkish cinema ,
omer lutfi akad directs this 1952 film based upon real events that took place in ? stanbul , in the following years of world war ii . it is about a love triangle that led to homicide . it was a stylistic departure of what otherwise had been typical of turkish melodramas of the time .
century , turned out to be only a “cabaret” which did not prove – as witkacy thought – that man deprived from values , philosophy , art and individuality is condemned to eternal insatiability . this unsuccessful film could have been , however , appreciated by the author of the novel , who detested cinema and thought it to be the symptom of “definite mechanization and idiocy . ”
a final difference between the novel and film would have to be the fact that in the book all fugui’s family dies , including his little grandson , kugen . this leaves the reader feeling pretty hopeless until you recognize that the “older , wiser” fugui has been telling the story all along . he has persevered and endured and still has the capacity to work the fields joking with his ox along the way . somehow his story of sadness is also one of hope . it is his life , it was his to choose and he chose to live .
to live is both a powerful book and a powerful film . each story could be independent of the other while the common thread remains ; a man named xu fugui
( elliott ) .
in this sexually frank french drama , the aimless young alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend , marie , and a casual lover named veronika . the dialogue - heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle , with marie increasingly jealous of alexandre ' s fling with veronika . as the trio continues their unsustainable affair , the emotional stakes get higher , leading to conflict and unhappiness .
charlie kubert , a marketing consultant and think - tank associate of davis ' s who became involved with cabrini greens in 1993 after reading about it in crain ' s chicago business , stayed away from the gardens last summer because he thought underwood ' s agenda was taking over .
the goal of the program is to generate high - value crops and compete with the best of other suppliers - - so that the social work would be indirect , and the kids could say ,
yeah , there is value here . ' but dan is treating it as social work rather than a business venture - - and half of the kids in the program are his . this program needs to be run by a full - time community or professional organization with a gardening and marketing plan . and it needs a full - time program director running it according to the objectives .
after the film wrapped , murray stopped speaking to ramis . some of the pair’s friends believe that murray resents how large a role ramis had in creating the murray persona . michael shamberg , a hollywood producer who has known ramis since college and who used to let murray sleep on his couch , says , “bill owes everything to harold , and he probably has a thimbleful of gratitude . ”
, 1991 ) which grappled with the problem of “folk anti - semitism” . the director tried to breach stereotypes connected with it . his film’s heroine was a washerwoman who was paid to take the teenage daughter of her jewish employer out of the ghetto to hide her in the countryside . despite her dislike for jews , she agreed to be shot together with the girl . in the above - mentioned


dracula : the dark prince is a 2013 american fantasy horror film directed by pearry reginald teo and written by nicole jones-dion and steven paul .

the film stars luke roberts , jon voight , kelly wenham and ben robson .

the film was shot in romania and released on 15 october 2013 .

dracula : the dark prince

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' dracula : the dark prince ' ( 2013 ) is a confused dump heap of poorly executed genre clichés .
both the dark prince and the pro ' ve of darkness is the same story . but different labels on them
dark prince : the true story of dracula ( alternately titled dracula : the dark prince and dark prince : legend of dracula ) is a horror - war television film , which premiered in the united states on the usa network on halloween , october 31 , 2000 . it is about vlad iii dracula ,
the impaler
, the historical figure who gave bram stoker ' s dracula his name . ( wikipedia )
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1475 - - dracula , prince stephen i bathory of transylvania and dracula ' s cousin stephen ii of moldavia invaded wallachia . his opponents fled .
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“the housemaid” is an elegantly eerie thriller with the grand gothic style of “dark shadows” before barnabas collins became the star of the show .
critical reaction to dark prince : the true story of dracula has been mixed . john walsh of maxim said ,
for such a familiar story , dark prince has all the excitement of something brand new . these characters can easily become caricatures , growling for gore and calling down vengeance from heaven . but the excellent cast and ferocious battle scenes make for one of the best war movies to hit tv in a while .
ryan cracknell of the apollo movie guide wrote , dracula : the dark prince is a welcome extension of the dracula brand . unlike the multitudes of generic rip - offs that come out annually , this low - key effort finally puts a new spin on an old myth .
( wikipedia )
“the dark prince” opens with an interesting 2d animated sequence recapping 100 years of the prince’s pre - vampiric life in the time it takes to roll the title cards . the roots of this script mirror the path that francis ford coppola trod in his 1992 gary oldman starrer . in defense of his homeland , prince dracula takes to the battlefield to spill the blood of ottoman turks while his wife takes the throne in his absence . his once trusted advisors have other plans and use the opportunity to stage a coup by killing dracula’s bride . the prince returns from war and avenges her assassination , but not before renouncing god and being given the curse of immortality in return .
novel : dracula ( the following is a list of things i ' ve seen or want to see . there have been countless other things that have adapted or parodied the novel . ) adaptations : dracula ( 1931 ) * bram stoker ' s dracula other movies : nosferatu * taste the blood of dracula * dracula 2000 * the batman vs . dracula * dracula untold tv : buffy vs . dracula * dark prince ( 2000 ) * hellsing * dracula ( 2006 ) * the librarian 3 * dracula ( 2013 ) parodies : blacula * dracula : dead and loving it * mina murray ' s journal ensembles : drak pack * the monster squad * van helsing * hotel transylvania * penny dreadful
there have been so many different approaches to bram stoker’s vampire story that anything fresh ought to earn at least the token marks students get for writing their names at the top of exam papers . not to be confused with dark prince : the true story of dracula ( 2000 ) , this does try for something relatively fresh . its origin for dracula is derivative of the coppola film , and trace elements from buffy the vampire slayer , dracula 2000 and even the hardly well - liked van helsing are stirred in , but essentially dracula the dark prince retells the old , old plot in a new - ish genre – making it into a dungeons & dragons - style fantasy quest adventure .
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1476 - - third reign of vlad iii dracula . his cousin stefan helped dracula return to the throne of wallachia .
c . 1460 - - dracula made a new alliance with corvinus ; the ottomans tried to oust dracula from his position .
after his beloved dies at the hands of monks while he was crusading for the honor of god , prince dracula foreswears his former allegiance and pledges himself to the dark forces of the world . he conquers the night and becomes the scourge of wallachia – that which he formerly swore to protect . through acts of evil he gains supernatural powers and immortality . but holy warriors and slayers from faraway lands threaten his dominion . they seek to undo the evil he has brought to the world through his death .
not to be mistaken for the joe chappelle directed usa network movie from 2000 , perry teo’s “dracula : the dark prince” of 2013 is a fairy tale fantasy version of the oft - told yarn . this particular spin aims its appeal at fans of light adventure with a heavy dose of gothic romance on the side . horror fans more interested in night creatures , bare fangs , and ravenous bloodletting best look elsewhere for vampire - themed frights .
1453 – romanian prince dracula , a knight of the secret order of the dragon and a direct descendant of abel himself , leaves his wife to rule in his stead while he vanquishes the ottoman turks from his homeland . while dracula is on the battlefield , his advisors plot to overthrow the throne by killing his loyal men as well as his bride . upon the discovery of his true love’s body , dracula kills the usurpers and renounces god . dracula turns a loyal boy who died while combating the coup into a demonic knight called wrath . his aide renfield also becomes dracula’s servant . according to legend , dracula was then cursed with immortality for defying god .
what a waste of money , one of the worst dracula films i have seen .
while searching for the lightbringer , dracula stumbles upon a beautiful crusader named alina , who strikingly resembles his murdered wife . dracula kidnaps alina and bringer her to
when bodgan ii was assassinated , dracula gambled on fleeing to hungary . fortunately for dracula , hunyadi pardoned him and even made him the hungarian candidate for the throne of wallachia .
vampire legends have been a part of popular folklore in many parts of the world since ancient times . throughout the middle ages and even into the modern era , reports of corpses rising from the dead with supernatural powers achieved widespread credence . the dracula family , which stoker’s count describes with pride in the early chapters of the novel , is based on a real fifteenth - century family . its most famous member , vlad dracula—or vlad the impaler , as he was commonly known—enjoyed a bloody career that rivaled that of his fictional counterpart . the prince of wallachia , vlad was a brilliant and notoriously savage general who impaled his enemies on long spikes . the prince also had a reputation for murdering beggars , forcing women to eat their babies , and nailing the turbans of disrespectful ambassadors to their heads . while stoker’s count dracula is supposed to be a descendant of vlad , and not the prince himself , stoker clearly makes the count resemble his fearsome ancestor . this historical allusion gives dracula a semblance of truth , and , as the author’s note and the coda make clear , stoker wants to suggest that the documents assembled in the novel are real .
where this path carves its own niche is by casting dracula as a direct descendant of adam and eve’s son abel . elsewhere , leonardo van helsing and a pair of attractive young female demon slayers find a roguish thief from the bloodline of cain . with his help , they may be able to defeat the dark forces of dracula by using the lightbringer , the staff that cain used to kill his brother and the only weapon capable of destroying the undead .
“dracula : the dark prince” would look out of place on a theater big screen . a wise gambler would even wager that the production was likely intended for the small screen at one time . no one is going to mistake the interior settings for an actual romanian castle or anything other than a studio backlot , but the locations themselves are incredibly well dressed . even if the atmosphere is not entirely convincing , the costumes and the set design are not cutting corners . this is the work of a professional and passionate crew . it is simply that the tightness of the fabricated sets never elevates the look too far above that of an extended episode of “xena : warrior princess . ”
the turks installed vlad ' s brother , radu the handsome , as dracula ' s successor and left wallachia .
1462 - 1473 - - first reign of radu cel frumos , the younger brother of vlad tepes ( dracula ) . radu , with support from the nobility , chased dracula to transylvania .
wrath is killed while lucian and andros escape with esme and alina . they return to the village before staging another attack on dracula’s stronghold . lucian confronts dracula while their respective forces clash . renfield stabs dracula with the lightbringer while the vampire is distracted by alina . renfield reveals that he was the person who killed dracula’s wife . lucian tosses esme a knife that she uses to throw into renfield’s throat , killing him . dracula dies in alina’s arms . lucian vanishes into the wilderness .
1430 - - birth of second son , the future vlad iv . he was the half - brother of dracula .
1459 - - dracula stopped paying tribute to the ottomans , placing his faith in the new hungarian king matthias corvinus .
1462 - - radu made a deal with hungary and dracula was imprisoned . dracula , however , was able to come back into favor with the hungarians , mostly because his brother was too supportive of the turks . ( it is said that in captivity dracula tortured small animals . )
while searching for the lightbringer , dracula stumbles upon a beautiful crusader named alina , who strikingly resembles his murdered wife . dracula kidnaps alina and bringer her to his castle , where he
in this tale dracula was once a warrior prince fighting for his country . having turned to the dark side , the people he fought for , rebelled against him , killing his beloved bride . he became immortal , spending his time longing for his lost love and searching for the light - bringer , a weapon that can help him defy god and eradicate death . there’s an attempt here to paint dracula as a more sympathetic character than his standard christopher lee - esque depictions . it doesn’t work unfortunately , largely because of poor characterisation , flat acting and an overriding feeling that this cheap film looks like a bad episode of xena : warrior princess , without the charm , or the lucy lawless ( mmmm lucy lawless ) .
rudolf martin ( prince vlad tepes the impaler ) , jane march ( lidia ) , christopher brand ( bruno ) , peter weller ( father stefan ) , roger daltrey ( king janos of hungary ) , michael sutton ( radu ) .
reader the review online some help but to said lost did not help me . to make up my mind about buy the dvd so it was about two week before i did buy the dvd . the price was very good . so that help me to buy and watcher the film i find that it was a good film . not the best dracula film i have see but the story of the film is more about the love between dracula and alina . it take a long time for the story of the film to started . not like other dracula films . if you like dracula i would say to people go and buy dracula 2000 or dracula untold with luke evans and best of all beam stoker ' s dracula with gary goldman and winona ryder . i am give this film two star and that because of the price i pay so one star is for that .
we ' re going to watch the talented and lovely luke evans wrestling with his dark side . furthermore , dracula untold has a solid supporting cast moving through an acutely macabre period setting , and dominic cooper and sarah gadon are in the mix alongside charles dance as the vampiric emperor caligula . ( really , any film that has charles dance as vampire caligula is surely worth seeing for that alone . )
in a nut shell this is the worse version of dracula i have seen it ' s just total crud .
hammer ' s own dracula cycle - the prince of darkness now brought to ( after ) life by sir christopher lee - similarly dragged horror cinema into visceral new technicolour era and fuelled the studio ' s rise to power as a genre - leader . from there , the fresh adaptations continue to come - each taking stoker ' s story and twisting it for different creative ends , whether it be the dreamlike romanticism of coppola ' s vision , the blaxpolitation attitude of blacula or the spoofery of mel brooks ' dracula : dead and loving it .
at a local tavern , van helsing , esme , and lucian meet a demon hunter named andros and they discuss killing dracula . wrath attacks their party outside the tavern . lucian wounds wrath with the lightbringer . back at the castle , dracula heals wrath’s wound with his vampire blood . alina begins to fall for dracula and they become intimate .
a bigger misfire , however , is the portrayal of dracula as a soft featured male model type with flowing platinum blonde locks . the depiction of the prince is intentionally that of a painfully heartbroken man consumed by a passion for his wrongfully murdered true love . that fits the romanticized themes that the film chooses to emphasize , except that the story’s driving evil is replaced by a different figure altogether . dressed in an intimidating suit of armor , sporting a horned mask , and speaking in a gravelly gargle , dracula’s servant wrath replaces his master as the imposing menace . meanwhile , dracula raps his fingertips on the armrests of his throne while he pines for his lost love and the audience wonders why his name is in the title . in fact , of the half dozen or so main characters , dracula just might top them all for most infrequent onscreen appearances .
271 - - the ancient dacia became the kingdom of the goths until the end of the fourth century . transylvania was the political center of dacia .
armed with a knife , jonathan harker has to fight one of dracula ' s minions .
dracula untold bites the uk box office this week , but are we reaching vampire overload , james wonders . . .
three journalists travel from vancouver to transylvania to uncover the truth about dracula . the trio ' s determination may end up costing them their lives .
dreadful . the scenes shot in romania are excellent and visually luke roberts looks the part of dracula , but all else is very poor . probably the worse ever filmed .
c . 1437 - - birth of the fourth brother , radu cel frumos . this brother was always trying , with the help of the turks , to replace dracula .
in his search for the lightbringer , dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride . one look at her and dracula is . . . see full summary »
dracula ' s popularity isn ' t without foundation and i and others will eagerly return to its dark charms over and over . as such , i ' m going into dracula unborn with an open mind , eager to embrace a fresh vampire flick that gives me two - hours of cinematic thrills and takes creative liberty with classic literary legend . i mean , it has charles dance as vampire caligula so i don ' t see how it can be bad .
seems a family hotel with friendly people . for healthy people because of a lot of stairs and no elevator for the luggage . dark entrence like one expect from a dracula castle . near the hotel are some real local old graves on a little cemetary . good food and drinks and
bloody
desert . for a little additional price one can experience an do not miss visit to the dracula grave in the caves of thehotel . fantastic for our group of 21 persons after some glasses of good roumenian wine . we had a separete dining room for our group so the wine did not harass the other guests . there is a monastery in the neighbourhood that can bee visited and a bulky shop of dracula articles , the only and best we show during 7 days of roumenie .
in his search for the lightbringer , dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride . one look at her and dracula is immediately smitten . could alina be the reincarnation of his long - dead love ? dracula has alina kidnapped and brought to his castle where the beast must now try to win his beauty ' s heart .
while searching for the lightbringer , dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride . one look at her and dracula is already smitten . could alina be the reincarnation of his long - dead love ? dracula has alina kidnapped and brought to his castle where the beast must now try to win his beauty ' ; s heart .
in his search for the lightbringer , dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride . one look at her and dracula is immediately smitten . could alina be the reincarnation of his long - dead love ? dracula has alina kidnapped and brought to his castle where the beast must now try to win his beauty ' s heart . but time is running out for dracula to convince alina of her true feelings . her companions - the renowned vampire hunter van helsing , the handsome lovestruck thieflucien , her feisty younger sister esme , and andros , a vampire slayer from the frozen north - are determined to rescue alina and kill dracula in the process
“the dark prince” shows very little blood , no gore , and were it not for a trio of breast pairs briefly exposed here and there , it would seem that the film might have been intended for teenagers or mature women with its romance novel overtones . given how many notes it tries to hit on the heartstring and fantasy adventure fronts , it is indeed questionable who the target audience is . even with brief nudity , the eroticism is toned down . swordfights occur , but they are few and far between . in their place are scenes involving a lot of bobbing heads that talk , plot , and scheme , without too much else of sustaining interest taking place .
1442 - - mircea ii ruled wallachia . he was the oldest son of vlad ii dracul and brother of vlad iii dracula .
hunyadi invaded wallachia with the hungarian military and ousted the turks dracula fled to moldavia and stayed there for several years . he was put under the protection of his cousin , bogdan ii .
in the sixteenth century , a group of warriors are vanquished by wrath and other demons in romania . the teenagers alina and her sister esme flee with a box , but they are surprised the a group of thieves commanded by the young lucian that wants the box . they disclose that inside the box there is the lightbringer , the only weapon capable to kill dracula . soon the vampire hunter leonardo van helsing comes to the camping of the thieves and when he is explaining the power of the lightbringer , wrath returns with the creatures and attack the group . they are defeated but wrath kidnaps aline and brings her to dracula in his invisible castle . her resemblance with dracula ' s bride that was killed by traitors one century ago makes him believe that she is her reincarnation . now dracula wants to seduce alina and he asks his assistant renfield to take care of alina . meanwhile van helsing and esme team up with lucian and the hunter andros that seeks out dracula to revenge the death of his sister demetria and the unlikable group heads to the castle using a compass in the lightbringer to rescue alina from the vampire .
translyvania , the home of dracula , is found today in romania ; it forms the western and central parts of that country . the main city cluj - napoca is considered to be the region ' s historic capital .
a long blond haired dracula who looks like he should be fronting
twisted sister
than . . .
the turks decapitated dracula and sent his head to istanbul preserved in honey . the sultan displayed the head on a stake as proof of the death of the impaler . he is believed to have been buried at a monastery located at snagov , near bucharest .
luke roberts ( dracula ) portrayed sir henry norris in wolf hall . stephen hogan ( renfield ) has previously played him in the tudors .
once the movie has been seen the title should be changed to ' dracula told ' because then it won ' t be a story ' untold ' but , ah , i digress . the important thing to know is that audiences are going to get to enjoy a new movie expanding the dracula mythos and this one has a lot to offer cinemagoers getting into the horror mindset in the halloween month .
1456 - - hungary invaded serbia to drive out the turks . at the same time dracula invaded wallachia . both efforts were successful . ( hunyadi died of fever . )
“the medieval atmosphere of the hotel in an ancient castle - like building , the rich menu of the restaurant , the large internal court where the guests can have their meals and spend time in the good season . the bathroom made of stones . ”
vampire hunter van helsing ( jon voight ) tries to rescue a woman ( kelly wenham ) from the clutches of dracula ( luke roberts ) .
the turks responded by sending a large army into wallachia . at this point , dracula had too many enemies in wallachia and he could muster few troops to fight the turks .
there are so many more - over two hundred adaptations or riffs on the myth of which i ' m most upset that i ' ll never have the chance to see the lost 1967 filipino crossover batman fights dracula . still , as much as i and others enjoy the repeat revivals and revisitations to the legend , you can ' t help but wonder if dracula is now overdone .
the working title for the new blockbuster helmed by first - time director gary shore was ' dracula : year zero ' , and i ' m excited by that notion or , indeed , ' dracula origins ' or ' dracula begins ' . there ' s a reason that moviemakers keep on constructing film narratives that are origin tale . we ' re obsessed with backstories and there ' s a certain thrill in the beginning of a journey or in the becoming a bit ' special ' .
until the 8th century - - the gepids and the avars ruled transylvania . the bulgars took over romania as part of their empire .
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we stayed at the suite and loved the design of it . restaurant at the hotel . parking .
this is not as bad as expected not great but not bad . there are a lot worse dracula movies out there .
1447 ( december ) - - vlad ii was assassinated on the orders of john hunyadi , regent of hungary . his eldest son , mercia , was buried alive . after the death of his father , the turks released dracula .
dracula is entranced by alina when he sees that she resembles his dead wife . van helsing tries convincing lucian to accept his heritage as a descendant of cain . they learn that the lightbringer activates when lucian’s blood makes contact with the staff . dracula becomes angered at his stable of women when they attempt to seduce alina .
while based on the 1992 film of the same name , the game had very little to do with the actual movie . several weapons can be used ; ranging from the basic knife to the advanced shotgun weapon .
“we stayed at the suite and loved the design of it . restaurant at the hotel . parking . ”
눇 we stayed at the suite and loved the design of it . restaurant at the hotel . parking .
one century later – female slayers alina and esme accompany a caravan transporting the legendary weapon lightbringer to leonardo van helsing . alina and esme are forced to go on their own when wrath and his soldiers attack the caravan while looking for the lightbringer , said to be the weapon that cain used to kill abel . it has the power to defeat dracula and his undead creatures of the night . several captured humans are brought back to dracula’s castle to be greeted by renfield .
) 8 - year - old son while they take a vacation . but she soon finds that things are very off with this couple , who are much older than she expected . their real son had recently passed away , so she ' s put in charge of caring for a lifelike porcelain doll that the couple treats as a real child . she enlists the only person she ' s seen in the remote manor ' s town - - a local grocery delivery man - - to help her unravel the dark mystery surrounding the couple .
in order to defeat dracula , leonardo van helsing must convince a young thief to accept his heritage as a descendent of cain .
though an unofficial adaptation , fw murnau ' s nosferatu - starring max schreck as a dracula named count orlok - still terrifies and stands beautifully hideous as a masterpiece of german expressionism and one of the vital originators of horror cinema . likewise , tod browning ' s dracula of 1931 - with the great bela lugosi bidding thee welcome - raised the universal monsters banner and blazed the trail for horror in hollywood .
i am really shocked at all the bad reviews for this movie . this is by far the best version of dracula i have seen . and i pretty much enjoy them all . granted jon voight wasn ' t the best van helsing and i agree about the cheap cgi . in those days it really was all about god and christianity which is why i think this unexplored version to be the best retelling . it has all the elements for a classic . i liked seeing dracula as a blond . the actor was amazing ! he is everything we would come to expect from dracula . he makes this movie awesome . i love the twists in the plot . in my humble opinion this is every vampire lovers must see movie .
the player controls a young lawyer named jonathan harker . harker must free himself from dracula ' s capture , follow him to london , and end his reign of terror .
the ottoman empire soldiers destroyed the christian army at the battle of varna . john hunyadi escaped the battle . many , including vlad , blamed hunyadi for the debacle . this started the hostility between john hunyadi and vlad dracul .
having done the whole thing with various van helsings time and time again - the best one being peter cushing , i reckon - it ' s refreshing to reach right back for a sort - of - prequel and spend more time with dracula rather than his more contemporary victims . it ' s not the same - old story and dracula untold has set itself up asits own beast offering the impaler in a different flavour .
it was a great weekend getaway from the city . it is truly worth visiting , lovely view , amazing terraces from where you can enjoy what romania has to offer . the restaurant staff was extremely polite and the food was excellent ! dracula desert !
stoker also relies heavily on the conventions of gothic fiction , a genre that was extremely popular in the early nineteenth century . gothic fiction traditionally includes elements such as gloomy castles , sublime landscapes , and innocent maidens threatened by ineffable evil . stoker modernizes this tradition in his novel , however , moving from the conventional setting of dracula’s ruined castle into the bustle of modern england . as stoker portrays the collision of two disparate worlds—the count’s ancient transylvania and the protagonist’s modern london—he lays bare many of the anxieties that characterized his age : the repercussions of scientific advancement , the consequences of abandoning traditional beliefs , and the dangers of female sexuality . to this day , dracula remains a fascinating study of popular attitudes toward sex , religion , and science at the end of the nineteenth century .
i could go on , but you get the pointy - point ( it ' s another bloody stake to the heart ) . still , in spite of the rich vein of vampire flicks - more than enough to slake the thirst of any bloodsucker fiend - the fact remains that pop cultural works pegged on the dracula legend will always get more instant attention and , most likely , reach audiences and reap the subsequent rewards . only the twilight series and adaptations of anne rice novels really compete with dracula ' s predominance , and all of them have literary roots accounting for their considerable success .
dracula started eliminating any possible competition for his position as ruler . he also used extremely harsh methods to bring law and order to wallachia .
one hundred years after dracula began his reign of terror , a group of christian knights and two women ( for some reason ) – alina and esme – seek to deliver a great weapon to leonardo van helsing , so he can destroy dracula once and for all . but the forces of darkness are on their tail and alina and esme are sent off alone with the weapon , while the knights sacrifice themselves to buy the women time . not far up the road , alina and esme are ambushed by a group of thieves led by a handsome fellow who alina almost instantly falls in love with . unbeknownst to the handsome rogue , he possesses a secret that could spell the end of dracula’s reign .
as i ' ve already noted , as a dracula feature it has an advantage in that it isn ' t a straight do - over of the stoker story but it ' s still possible that overexposure to the eponymous vampire may have a perishing effect on its reception . a key question for connoisseurs of the count ' s countless ( well , somewhere over two - hundred ) iterations : have all these adaptations and representations diluted dracula ' s power and does he still have the ability to excite , tantalise or terrify anybody anymore ? does dracula still have any bite in the 21st century or have we effectively defanged him and made the gripping mythos into something hackneyed ?
1000 - - the pechenegs , cumans and uzes controlled the territory of romania .
immortal as he is , dracula never dies - in spite of multiple stakings we ' ve got as evidence on film - but he can die at the box office if drac - apathy sets in . the recent cancellation of nbc ' s own tv re - imagining with jonathan rhys - meyers in the lead role may be a sign of that . then again , the popularity of the re - commissioned penny dreadful - which draws upon dracula lore in the mix of its vintage horror lit ensemble mix - suggests otherwise . regardless , those two are small - screen serials and it ' ll be interesting to see how dracula untold fares as it flies into movie theatres .
1962 ( june 16 / 17 ) - - as part of his guerrilla war , dracula and some of his men attempted to assassinate mehmed .
great place to visit trying to pass the carpathians mountains to moldavia ! the panorama is absolutly stunning ! something to be remembered ! ! hotel - there are minuses but there are a lot of things that compensate . restaurant - great waiters ; recomand the dracula desert !
when guests stay at the property they check out how quiet the room is , how friendly the staff are and more .
with lacklustre direction , cheap sets , poor cgi and ropey fight choreography , there’s little visual stimulus to make up for the mediocre cast . the highlight of the film is the part animated prologue which is actually reasonably well done . overall this is not a film that will compare favourably to the dracula canon . it’s hardly the worst , although there have been some so bad they become comically good . dracula - philes may get a kick out of this , though i doubt it . for everyone else it’s not really worth your time .
dracula has that power to heal wrath ( i mean lich king ) even he repaired the broken armor chest , the thing about this movie is that the makers don ' t know the real good story bout count dracula , vlad the impaler . the castle design ha ha even in games the 3d designs are better . . so much supernatural ( the tv show ) here . . demons , undead etc . but not a story bout vampires . . . my votes - 15 / 10 the best char with hugh jackman - van helsing 2004 and in my opinion if the director was another , someone who has made high rated movies could make this so much better for watchin and excitement . . . but as i can see this director should stay on the path to make some bad horror movies , don ' t give him a chance to make another disaster movie like he has done right now about dracula the blond gay . .
yes . . the cgi is pretty poor and the stagery ditto , but i like the plot - twists to the usual told story of the evil dracula and the effort of telling a lovestory instead - of a monster with a longing human heart ( beauty and the beast - like ) . and though i ' m not impressed by the general acting performance , luke roberts ( dracula ) is an exception . styling him perfectly like a castlevania character and roberts ' downplayed expressions - and sudden emotional explosions - makes the character very interesting . his almost aristocratic facial features certainly doesn ' t hurt . the fiennes - brothers would have been a good choice too - especially joseph . all in all a decent watch .
in 2000 , to promote the film ' s premiere , usa network held a sweepstakes contest with a grand prize of $ 5 , 000 to the lucky person who can correctly identify five myths of dracula as depicted in this film .
van helsing and the others raid dracula’s castle . van helsing is struck down in a swordfight with wrath . lucian rescues alina . vampire women attack van helsing after dracula confronts him . esme and andros find van helsing . a succubus distracts andros by pretending to be his dead sister demetria . lucian and alina fight their way to the others . van helsing realizes that he will turn into a vampire . he uses his crossbow to tear down the ceiling . the shaft of daylight destroys him and the other vampires .
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1443 - 1447 - - second reign of vlad ii . he regained the throne with the help of the turks , but was able to get along with the hungarians .
눇 the setting is great , restaurant serves excellent food and the staff are friendly .
1330 - - basarab i defeated the hungarians under carol robert of anjou at the battle of posada , thereby gaining the independence of wallachia . the house of basarab was founded by basarab i . the ruler of wallachia was a vassal of the king of hungary .
this is a different version of dracula , though it is one that is not completely satisfying or even necessary . at least the production value , which is exceptional for a smaller film of this scope , helps keep eyes transfixed on the screen , even when the other elements do not .
with supernatural shenanigans going down - enter baba yaga and gypsy magic - and visual effects rendering a vivid picture of an ancient world gripped in warfare and fantastical action , dracula untold is an alluring entity . even more than the promise of charles dance as vampire caligula , however , it ' s the premise that is probably the most powerful draw . dracula untold : what secrets are yet to be shared ? what do we not yet know about a literary legend whose name resonates through the ages ?
i don ' t believe that that ' s the case and i don ' t fear the very worst , but i ' m aware that others will be eyeing up dracula untold with that kind of attitude . it ' s an understandable attitude , and if this fresh fang feature lacks any vitality , entertainment value or sense of inventiveness critics will savage it . the savaging will be accompanied with an unholy amount of puns and pithy wordplay , and the best of the worst will be
another dull dracula do - over ? bloody hell . count me out .
the worst of the worst will be
it sucks .
1476 ( december ) - - death of vlad iii dracula . some sources say he died in battle with the turks . another say he was assassinated . and still another say he was struck down by one of his own men in the battle .
there ' s plenty of scope for that story and i ' d say that dracula deserves this treatment . the beauty of bram stoker ' s magnum opus is in the eerie mystery surrounding its eponymous character - a figure shrouded in mythology only fleshed out by the mixed accounts and experiences of a variety of first - person narrators whose testimonies combine for an epistolary novel . so much is left to the imagination , and that has allowed a multitude of filmmakers and actors ample space to visualise dracula in their own unique fashion .
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1408 - - king of hungary sigismund founded the order of the dragon , an order of selected nobles . its creed was designed to gain political favor for the church and to protect the hungarian - romanian royal family from the ottoman empire .
vlad obtains funding from the catholic king of hungary to fight the turks . he pushes the turks back but eventually they return . his failures and a false report of his betrayal of the hungarians causes the king of hungary to throw him in the dungeon . when the king learns that it was a false report and that he needs help again against the turks , he has vlad released .
the 16 - bit renditions of the game were straightforward hack and slash games where players had to slash generic enemies in order to get to dracula . there is a time limit that forces players to move quickly around the levels . each chapter of the game starts off with a cover from a book . checkpoints are used to maintain progress in a level after losing a life . each level has a daytime and night time equivalent . a boss appears at the end of each night time level in order to test the playing skills and to reinforce the concepts that were taught in the daytime version of the level .
1436 - 1442 - - first reign of vlad ii . threatened with invasion , he promised the turkish sultan to be a vassal and turned his two younger sons over to the turks as hostages . dracula was treated harshly , often being whipped , while his younger brother became the sexual property of the sultan ' s son , converted to islam and was accepted at court .
if you’ve ever felt that there weren’t quite enough cinematic offerings about dracula , then you might be pleased to know the just for good measure we have another adaptation coming straight to netflix . hollywood hasn’t been blessed with originality for years , and in recent times the amount of sequels , remakes , re - imaginings , or rip offs has become almost epidemic . as such this low budget fantasy adventure opts for one of cinemas most overused antagonists , dracula .
dracula untold is more likely to draw in folk than a film called ' birth of a vampire ' , even though the latter sounds like a bloody exciting night out at the flicks . that ( un ) hallowed name has a hold over popular consciousness and that ' s both down to the literary legacy and the cinematic heritage . it ' s probably fair to state that , in the modern age , the force of the title is mostly due to iconic screenworks that continue to cast shadows and haunt us almost a century after the character ' s first motion picture manifestation .
the answer , i suppose , can only be assessed on a case - by - case basis and depends on the filmmakers and - most crucially - the actor portraying the most infamous of all fictional ( ? ) vampires . you can do a hell of a lot with that hoary old monster , and dracula is a great role for inspired creators to get their teeth into .
according to the film ' s ending , the spirit of dracul does not stay dead for long .
1431 - - vlad ii was titled into the order of the dragon by holy roman emperor sigismund .
1444 - - the king of hungary , ladislaus iii of poland , launched the varna campaign in an effort to drive the turks out of europe . governor - general john hunyadi demanded that vlad ii , as a member of the order of the dragon and a vassal of hungary , join the effort against the turks . when vlad declined , the pope demanded that he send his son mircea ii instead .
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by most biblical accounts , abel was considered the good brother while cain was the bad seed , slaying his sibling reportedly out of jealousy or some petty reason . so it is slightly mystifying that dracula is descended from abel while the hero is connected to cain , instead of the other way around . although the movie does make an effort to justify this by saying that god wanted to turn the lightbringer into an instrument of divine retribution to atone for its use as history’s first murder weapon .
is this a plan spawned from creative desire or simply a push towards mega - profit off the back of famous names ? is this going to harm both the legacy of the 1930s - ' 40s heyday and the literary legend of all the iconic characters involved ? only time will tell and , once again , it depends a great deal on the artists involved and the motivations driving them . coming back to dracula , as a fan of stoker ' s fiend i optimistically hope that moviemakers adapt him with sincere intentions , and not as ' dracsploitation ' .
william brent bell ( the devil inside ) is directing the project , which has begun production , shooting in victoria , british columbia , and the surrounding community .
눉 there is not enough light blocking so if you need darkness to sleep its not very good . we stayed at the suite and woke up in the midlle of the night because we heard the neighbors shower .
눇 very theatrical and atmospheric , seems to be by far the best hotel in the centre of turda .
rooms are not large but the beds are the most comfortable we had in our entire stay in romania .
we ' ll find out with this new quasi - adaptation as it goes back to before bram stoker ' s novel to showcase vlad the impaler ' s inauspicious metamorphosis into monstrous familiar form . it ' s something we haven ' t seen much on screen , in spite of the sheer quantity of diverse dracula flicks that have been made over the decades .
nonetheless , no matter how distinct and artistically brilliant each individual new version is , we can ' t escape the fact that this guy ' s constant comebacks are now cliché . listen to them . the children of the night ? no that ' s ac / dc ' s back in black on your mental soundtrack as you encounter another dracula screen return .
off the top of my head , only francis ford coppola ' s take ( official title : bram stoker ' s dracula ) has ventured into that territory and really left a resonant mark . the opening sequence where gary oldman gets swept up in grief - rage , desecrates a crucifix and drinks a lot of blood is probably my favourite moment in coppola ' s lurid , operatic vision of vlad . now , with dracula untold we get a similar fresh re - spin of the vampiric awakening stretched out to feature length with even more action and supernaturalist verve .
alternatively - in the most extreme , from a perspective that is pushing maximum scepticism - it could be an uninspired cash - in on an existing brand name that adds nothing and means very little either as blockbuster entertainment , as a work of art or as an extension to the massive mythology that surrounds dracula .