I'm watching it write now and I'm completely stupefied that they stole the whole origin of Dracula, specifically it's connection to Judas Iscariot, from the movie Dracula 2000. Come up with your own ideas next time Mr. Schnabel.
shareWatching it right now too. I wonder if you've said that about lots of other movies. Have you ever noticed that most supernatural mysteries in movies, books and on TV (Indy, National Treasure, Harry, Da Vinci Code, Charmed, Buffy, etc) all pull from the same stories? Like any genre, unless you are delving into fantasy or space, writers become limited when it comes to themes and specific corroborating material.
Just get over it and enjoy the show...or flip the channel.
Nope. Never complained about it before because most of those ideas you listed like DaVinci Code at least concede that they got the idea from some other source material. It's also rather blatant in this case since I've never seen the Judas/Dracula premise used before anywhere except Dracula 2000 and frankly was the only thing good about that movie.
shareWell after viewing this. While they took the Vampire started with Judas angle from Dracula 2000. Dracula himself was Vlad transformed during his time period.
shareI couldn't recall the movie I thought this stole from until I read your coment. AGREED.
shareIs it possible that the idea was around before dracula 2000? just a thought. i wouldnt say they stole anything, considering the whole idea of dracula has been around for quite sometime.
shareSure the vamps have been around forever, but the Judas Escariot slant was new to me in Dracula 2000. Perhaps to the OP as well.
shareYup. To the best of my knowledge the Judas/Dracula connection was first introduced in Dracula 2000. I remember it vividly because it was just about the only thing that was brilliant about that movie.
shareYes, it is actually MUCH older than Dracula 2000. I know it was published about at least as early as the 1920's in a book called Vampire's Kith and Kin as a known origin.
I wrote a research paper on the origin myths of vampires in the early 90's and it was in a lot of the literature about origins then.
For some reason, this myth was not one that got popular until Dracula 2000, leading everyone to think they came up with a centuries old myth.
Now, whether this movie pulled from the original myth or the Dracula 200, who knows. But really, who cares?
Blade II ending, too. Pffffft. A poor follow-up to two pretty enjoyable movies.
shareYeah, I noticed that. I tried to recall if that Judas reference had been used in other books/films, but I couldn't think of any. At first I thought they were going to go down the Count Vlad road, but then the Professor told his students that he was not a vampire, and they made it clear that they were going with the Judas angle.
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thanks for that bit SamDash. I had heard of Judas as a vamp before that Drac 2000 flick came out. I just didnt know where it came from.
shareAlso, the way Simone died in the end was *almost* a direct rip off of the way the vampire daughter died at the end of Blade 3. It was still a good movie though!
sharePlus both are also set mostly in New Orleans.
sharethe film struck me as a bit ridiculous so perhaps it was a bit of a parody
sharenew orleans is a popular town for vampire stories... and filming there came with so very many tax breaks i would assume.
i can't pull up something besides dracula 2000 for the origin of the judas as a vampire myth... even blade 2 came out 2 years later.
it's a good spin on an old mythos though, i can see why they lifted it.