tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post6819555526837863276..comments2024-03-29T01:33:56.188-07:00Comments on Taliesin meets the vampires: Vamp or Not? NomadsTaliesin_ttlghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-35168987609744808862021-09-13T00:53:01.855-07:002021-09-13T00:53:01.855-07:00Hi Propheme, thanks for the additional information...Hi Propheme, thanks for the additional information. It's over a decade since I watched the film for this so couldn't tell you where I picked up "Einwetok" - perhaps from wiki as I researched the film, perhaps from elsewhere on the net, I don't know.<br /><br />Interesting that they got used in Nightlife and, as you say, unfortunate that the game called them inuitsTaliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-50289243373065964742021-09-12T12:43:01.621-07:002021-09-12T12:43:01.621-07:00In the movie they're actually called "Des...In the movie they're actually called "Des Innois" and "Inuat", after the concept in Inuit folklore. "Einwetok" seems to be a mondegreen that originated on Wikipedia. Judging by their behavior, I think they may have been inspired by the Ijiraq, a malevolent shapeshifting trickster in Inuit folklore. Assuming they weren't just made up wholesale by the director.<br /><br />You may be interested to know that the movie inspired a character class in the obscure 1990 vampire-themed roleplaying game "Nightlife". Rather unfortunately, the writer misheard the name and called them "Inuits."Prophemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08766593568707886371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-66841888353674307782011-04-01T09:44:07.476-07:002011-04-01T09:44:07.476-07:00Fair comment, there certainly are subtexts to the ...Fair comment, there certainly are subtexts to the narrative. As I said I might be <i>"looking too deeply between the lines and seeing vampires because I want to"</i><br /><br />This leaves me remaining in a fence sitting place, but, beyond anything else, if the exercise introduces some new viewers to the film then it was worthwhile :)Taliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-68124085471961528012011-04-01T09:22:03.121-07:002011-04-01T09:22:03.121-07:00I have loved this film since first seeing it years...I have loved this film since first seeing it years ago, but honestly I don't see it as particularly vampiric. Seems to me to fit more into the "haunting" category, wherein the guilty past reaches out to consume the innocent present.Zahir Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14533361554787004824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-34680962402332151372011-03-11T09:30:36.657-08:002011-03-11T09:30:36.657-08:00Thank you Margaret for introducing me to it and I ...Thank you Margaret for introducing me to it and I like the puzzle analogy as it certainly is. You also make a good point about the bite and that also fits with her haemorrhage, blood being the medium in that shot.<br /><br />I have a timeline, you may have noticed, which gets updated from time to time. When it is next updated you'll see that I have added the film to it with an undecided caveat - which, I think, is the first time I have done that.<br /><br />I'm glad you're enjoying the blogTaliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-60601065757628484292011-03-11T06:28:22.194-08:002011-03-11T06:28:22.194-08:00Great review!
This is definitely one that I waff...Great review! <br /><br />This is definitely one that I waffled on as well. I think that is what is most interesting about the film, though. It is a puzzle to watch. You are never entirely sure what the Nomads are. I think I eventually decided they were vampires at least in the loosest sense mainly because Lesley Anne-Down's character is initiated into their world by being bitten, at which point she begins to share his essence and memories somehow. That seemed to fit the idea of vampire at least in the loosest sense for me,(similar to the transference in "Blood and Roses") and the ending solidified it for me, (although again the ending scene could be interpreted any number of ways). <br /><br />Certainly this is a film that relies on the viewer to do a lot of the work to puzzle it all out, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much. You may after thinking about it, disagree and decide that it is not a vampire film, which is certainly just as likely as that it is, depending on your interpretation of the meaning behind the pieces of the puzzle.<br /><br />In any case, thanks for the great review and for the acknowledgment! I really enjoyed reading it, as I have enjoyed so many of your reviews lately! I look forward to reading more of them as you write them.<br /><br />Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06677605637257952349noreply@blogger.com