Petyr - Why did he look weird?


I know he was 8000 years old but why did he look completely weird? Thought they don't age

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He's a Nosferatu homage. This movie uses a lot of vampire lore from various sources.

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Oh yeah, haha, makes more sense now. Cool, thanks

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My buds and I tried to figure out which character was a homage to what famous vampire and here's what we came up with (or tried to):

Petyr - Nosferatu
Vladislav - Count Dracula
Deacon - Lestat
Viago - Louis? (not sure)
Nick - Edward? (this too)
2 girls - Claudia

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I've read that Deacon was also inspired by The Lost Boys.

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No.

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Guys, it's in the trivia section.

Each of the main characters are similar to a vampire from a famous vampire movie: Petyr is analogous to Nosferatu, Deacon reflects Bela Lugosi's Dracula, Vladislav is comparable to Gary Oldman's Dracula, Nick is reminiscent of Edward from Twilight (2008), and Viago is like Louis de Pointe du Lac from Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994).
I thought Deacon was more like Lestat, but just because he thought he was so sexy. LOL!

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No, it's Adam Silver!

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They don't age, but they change over time. He doesn't get older, but he becomes more and more "pure" vampire the longer he lives.

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They don't age, but they change over time. He doesn't get older, but he becomes more and more "pure" vampire the longer he lives.


No, that's a theory. At no point in the film was this stated, you're just pulling things out of your @ss. The reason, that's been stated in the press, is that the filmmakers wanted to work in homages to vampire films and Max Shreck as Count Orlock, being the first major vampire in cinema, was a mandatory homage.

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My guess is he was one of the early vampires who were probably more creature like. All other vampires we know are more like hybrids.

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No, that's a theory.


No. That's what the movie went out of its way to imply.

At no point in the film was this stated, you're just pulling things out of your @ss


Oh I see. You're one of those people who don't understand that something can be implied without being directly stated. Got it.

The reason, that's been stated in the press, is that the filmmakers wanted to work in homages to vampire films and Max Shreck as Count Orlock, being the first major vampire in cinema, was a mandatory homage.


No *beep* That does not change a thing I said. The film making reason and the in story reason need not be the same.

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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! Dis iss de Var Ruum!!




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What's with the accent?

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The accent goes with the quote.

Also vampires have a faux mythology around them so a film does not need to imply something for it to be considered a fact (within the realms of a made up set of rules.) Since Count Orlov it has been stated in various films that vampires eventually lose their humanity. Dracula Untold and the Underworld series both feature vampire elders or 'ancients' who appear withered and alien.



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The problem is the American President is the one who says that quote. He has no Russian accent.

You are sin.

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Bat fight!

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