Movie round up
Has anybody seen Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland yet? I had mixed feelings after watching it. While it was overall entertaining and had some beautiful visuals and a few (but not enough) Burtonesque trademark characters, it lacked the magic many of his earlier works had. The technical possibilities didn't really work in his favor. But Johnny was
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He's a charismatic villain, but as far as I recall, not presented as sexy (unless you're into overbearing control freaks, that is). Bela Lugosi is also more the domineering kind, and Nosferatu, well - they were clearly going for grotesque. Poor guy is bald, has a raging case of buck teeth, obviously a hyperactive thyroid gland and his fingernails could really use some trimming.
The Victorian vampires are all very connected to sexuality, but there is no equal partnership. They have victims, who turn into vampires themselves at some point, but at least in Dracula (the novel), that's more like a parody on immortal love - apparently everyone gets on each other's nerves pretty quickly, and like I said, the guy is awfully overbearing. I'd think in general, these stories are less about sex and more about fear (I've recently been rereading Dracula, and I'd swear that's mostly concerned with xenophobia: foreign monsters taking over merry old England and stealing English women. And that's really only somewhat paraphrased.)
And of course not everybody can be as fierce as Pam. ;)
I'm sure under different circumstances, Diamondback would have been totally fierce, she was simply stuck in an unfortunate universe.*g*
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