AHHH! Lost Boys! Almost every girl in my dormitory Freshman year had a Lost Boys poster on their wall (That and Patrick Swayze from Dirty Dancing- *SNIFF* R.I.P
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I take it back. Billy Wirth's character was named "DWAYNE" Where did I get Draco from? Must have been my subconscious's attempt to give him a better character name. Seriously? Dwayne? The Vampire... Dwayne? No wonder they never named him in the movie!
Perhaps you were thinking of Marco? The first vamp to get staked.
I do so love this movie as something of a time capsule of the 80s. Not so much in an "accurate" historic sense, but in the "this is what was really cool" sense.
It's so 80s, and yet, the story isn't really dated at all.
TV Guide . . . back when it was actually worth the price.
I usually hate revamped (heh) and re-edited movies (See many a rant against Greedo shooting first) But in this case, I think they do need to go back and have Keifer Sutherland reloop one line-
DAVID: Now you know what we are, now you know what you are. You'll never grow old, Michael, and you'll never die. But you must feed!...Oh and P.S. WE DON'T SPARKLE!
Watching it with my son, several times over the years, we developed backstory for David, Paul, Dwayne, and Marko. That Max obviously turned David first, and Marko had been his best friend and offered himself to stay with David. If you watch the dynamic of the four, Marko always keys off David. It's like David's his sun. Paul was obviously the newest member of the group, a loud, proud, Valley Boy. Dwayne was a dark and tortured soul with a romantic streak of kindness before he was turned, and remained more withdrawn than his friends.
David gets most of the attention, after Michael and Sam, Star and Laddie (The return of Eddie Munster! Aghhh!), the Frog brothers and the adults. But Marko's devotion caught my attention, and it was fun to posit motivation for him, and then for Dwayne and Paul as well.
AWW! I can totally see that. Marco does sort of orbit around David and is very eager to please. And David cries when they kill "the little guy" first. And then Paul and Dwayne are so mysterious (I mean really, Dwayne never even has his name mentioned) that you almost have to fill in the blanks.
And what was their original connection to Max? Did he turn David by force? Trick him? Or did he just see potential in him one day.
There's so many possibilities. Such a great film that you really can watch over and over again- big hair, shoulder pads and all!
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I do so love this movie as something of a time capsule of the 80s. Not so much in an "accurate" historic sense, but in the "this is what was really cool" sense.
It's so 80s, and yet, the story isn't really dated at all.
TV Guide . . . back when it was actually worth the price.
Such a fun, fun movie.
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DAVID: Now you know what we are, now you know what you are. You'll never grow old, Michael, and you'll never die. But you must feed!...Oh and P.S. WE DON'T SPARKLE!
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David gets most of the attention, after Michael and Sam, Star and Laddie (The return of Eddie Munster! Aghhh!), the Frog brothers and the adults. But Marko's devotion caught my attention, and it was fun to posit motivation for him, and then for Dwayne and Paul as well.
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And what was their original connection to Max? Did he turn David by force? Trick him? Or did he just see potential in him one day.
There's so many possibilities. Such a great film that you really can watch over and over again- big hair, shoulder pads and all!
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