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Oh, and no offense to the vampire guy, but I don’t really like vampire movies. Are you going with the whole horror movie concept, or something original? I think maybe I’m just jaded from so many bad vampire movies. Show me the light.[/quote]
Oh, it’ll be something different no matter how good or bad it turns out to be. I absolutely hate the latest surge of vampire films, and, yes, every single one of them sucks big time. I’m thinking about taking a pyschological perspective on the transformation from human to vampire and the vampire’s motive for maintaining its own life even at the expense of others. The protagonists’ motive, in this case, is revenge (think more like the Count of Monte Cristo type revenge as opposed to Kill Bill). Revenge that is self destructive and is more prone to harm innocents than it is for some noble cause (such as the elimination of evil). A few vampiric stories have played around with the concept such as Blade and Vampire Hunter D, but I don’t think any have really explored it very in depth. Blade was so poorly written and so craptacular that the writers just glossed over the coolest thing about the comic book character and the Vampire Hunter D movies placed more of an emphasis on the virtues of the character as opposed to his inevitable flaws.
I want to write a story about a good guy, that ends up as demented, twisted, and perhaps even darker than the forces he’s fighting against by the end of the film. Of course, the fatal flaw with that, is that if I make the character too unlikable - too selfish and blood thirsty - by the end of the script, no one in hell would ever buy the thing.
I know the concept doesn’t sound very interesting in a general sense, but then again, if you were to summarize most of the best movies ever created in a couple paragraphs, they would sound terrible and silly, too.