How Dracula became a vampire is ridiculous
I don't get it... He renounced God then stabbed a cross, blood came out of it, and he drank it... then he became a vampire?
That makes no sense...
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Don't take it too literally. Prologue is like a legend. A myth. Vlad committed a sacrilege and was cursed. It's not some ritual to become a vampire. I take it as he killed God and drank his blood, thus was cursed to live forever and drink blood of his victims.
shareThis is the time honored pact with the devil. Dracula is furious that in acting as the Crusader for God, he not only loses his wife to the betrayal of men, but also loses the possibility of uniting with her in Heaven when God's priest condemns his wife because she dies a suicide. Dracula, stricken by grief and betrayal, renounces God. Satan is assumed to be involved in his conversion. Presumably, God is not such a bad guy. Elizabet transmigrates into Mina.
shareIn the book a deal with the devil or black magic of some sort is heavily implied. In life, he attended a school of sorcery called the Scholomance rumored to be led by the devil and most likely became a vampire there. In the film he's cursed for sacrilege and renouncing God in this movie, and pledges, "I will rise with all the powers of darkness to avenge my wife!" or something to that effect.
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Yup...in old folklore, someone who was very evil and/or violent in life could rise as a vampire, just because of who they were in life.
Practicing black magic in life was also usually a ticket to becoming a vampire after death.
Interestingly, in some parts of Europe, it was believed that if you were a werewolf while you were alive, you could become a vampire after death. Something that's forgotten today is that in Ye Olde Days, it was commonly believed that werewolves were people who had sold their souls to the Devil and/or were involved in witchcraft and black magic. There are actually many amusing/revolting recipes for spells and potions meant to summon the Devil and ask to be turned into a werewolf. The modern notions, that you become a werewolf after being bitten and are immortal ever after, are pretty much inventions of Hollywood.
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Love that scene.
shareThat makes no sense...
It's not supposed to, it's not logical it's supposed to be supernatural. share
Not to mention a little extreme. He could've just taken his own life.
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A) It's still a badass scene
B) Vampires aren't real. I get people attacking Nolan's science in Interstellar. This, though, not so much.
Except by far and away, most of the science in Interstellar is real science.
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That's fine - what I'm saying is that debating scientific theory makes sense - debating mythological origin stories doesn't
sharewhy is there always some bafoon athiest on these boards that feels they HAVE to trash talk relgion, something of which is totally lost on these poor souls?
I guess we are to assume that dracula is the first ever vampire, and then since has made others? why would God make a creature like him who could infect other people and make them evil? i think its more the devil who did that to him. because van helsing seems to know all about vampires, implying there are others who exist. not sure if dracula made them or not, or if he was the first. dracula says "look at what your God has done to me", but yet HE is the one who cursed himself with the powers of darkness! so i think the count is being as stubborn and ignorant as he always was, and still very selfish. he got what he wanted!
Nobody's attacking religion - vampires aren't real and physics is, so you can't debate them in the same manner - stop being so defensive
shareHe renounces God, switches to the side of darkness loudly and all that implies ( demonic influence and control ), and then messes with a supernatural event that he doesn't understand to an extreme like a fool ( drinking the blood instead of running away ).
Since he was told his bride-to-be was damned and therefore in hell, I suppose he thought this stunt would kill him and send him to hell so he could be with her.
He did not get that wish but instead was cursed to become undead, mostly by his own hand.