tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post6391994266754286928..comments2024-03-29T01:33:56.188-07:00Comments on Taliesin meets the vampires: Vampire – reviewTaliesin_ttlghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-48227788665202224832018-01-12T15:40:22.577-08:002018-01-12T15:40:22.577-08:00Thanks Matt, I really appreciate the info from the...Thanks Matt, I really appreciate the info from the making of :)Taliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-88414731593613744342018-01-12T15:38:00.121-08:002018-01-12T15:38:00.121-08:00Matt has tried to leave a comment and it hasn'...Matt has tried to leave a comment and it hasn't worked. This is his comment:<br /><br />"I just watched this film for the first time. And as always after writing my own review I came straight here to see what you thought of it. <br /><br />The German DVD (which has far more suitable cover art than the one you complained about) counts a "making of" among its special features. That "making of" is 73 minutes long, so I did not watch it (I found the film dreary enough as it is, without sitting through an overly-long "making of" featurette). But I caught a few glimpses and so might be able to clear up that imdb-user's claim about this being based on a true story (not that it matters).<br /><br />If the German subtitles they slapped under the Japanese interviews in that "making of" are accurate, then the film was based on two separate ideas by Shunji Iwai. A long time ago, he came up with an idea for a story about a young boy who becomes convinced that he is a vampire - but that story remained a fragment. Five years after that, Iwai came up with an (unrelated) idea for a story about a serial killer who targets suicidal women. But while he was still working on that story, a very similar thing happened in real life. This might very well be the story you found in your research. So Iwai abandoned the script, mostly because - as I understand it - he believed that no studio/producer would pay him for a script if they could just as well base a film on the real-life story. It was only after working on <i>New York, I Love You</i> that he had the idea to combine these two old abandoned story ideas of his and turn them into something new - and this is how the script for <i>Vampire</i> was born. <br /><br />So it is much more complicated than the imdb-user suggested, and Iwai did not actually draw any inspiration from this real-life event, but rather experienced it as an obstacle. And from all this information I would also infer that the real-life Japanese case never involved any blood-drinking, etc."Taliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.com