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DRÁCULA, LA LEYENDA JAMÁS CONTADA

Dracula Untold

2014 US HMDB
octubre 1, 2014

Los orígenes del mito se revelan en esta película ambientada en los años de reinado de Vlad Tepes, príncipe de Rumania que inspiró la leyenda por sus peculiares métodos para provocar el miedo entre su población y sus enemigos. Una mezcla de mitología e historia para recoger cómo se transformó el sanguinario emperador en el primer vampiro de la historia. Uno de los más terribles y sádicos personajes de Europa que inspiró la clásica obra literaria de Bram Stoker mezclando el terror sobrenatural, las leyendas y pinceladas de amor, para cautivar por completo.

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Produccion: Michael De Luca (Producer)Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. (Executive Producer)Jon Jashni (Executive Producer)Alissa Phillips (Executive Producer)Thomas Tull (Executive Producer)
Guion: Matt Sazama (Writer)Burk Sharpless (Writer)
Musica: Ramin Djawadi (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: John Schwartzman (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
El príncipe Vlad hace todo lo posible por repeler los intentos del Imperio Otomano de utilizar Rumanía como un punto de apoyo para conquistar el resto de Europa. Después de enterarse de que el malvado sultán Mehmed II quiere arrebatarle a su hijo para anexarlo al ejército turco, Vlad sube a una montaña donde reside un oscuro demonio con la esperanza de hacer un pacto con él hasta que pueda derrotar a las hordas turcas. El demonio acepta su petición, pero esto ocurre pagando el precio de su transformación en una criatura de la noche. Antes, Drácula daba miedo. Este es el objetivo con el que el escritor Bram Stoker lo creó en 1987 inspirándose en la despiadada figura de Vlad Tepes y esta es la razón por la que el vampiro más famoso de todos se ha convertido quizás en la criatura más representativa del panteón de horror multimedia. Lo entendió bien Tod Browning, que en 1931 encargó a la inquietante figura de Bela Lugosi la tarea de llevarlo al cine, así como Terence Fisher, quien con «Drácula, el vampiro» de 1958 quizás creó el mejor Drácula de todos los tiempos gracias al acertado casting de Christopher Lee en el papel del famoso chupasangre. No olvidemos el excelente «Drácula de Bram Stoker» dirigido en 1992 por Francis Ford Coppola e interpretado por un camaleónico Gary Oldman, quien dio al noble vampiro una inédita dignidad de cine mainstream… luego la oscuridad. De hecho, si excluimos la relectura no muy exitosa pero igualmente apreciable por su originalidad realizada por Patrick Lussier con «Drácula's Legacy «El encanto del mal» en el 2000, las otras películas en las que el Príncipe Vampiro ha sido protagonista no han dejado huella. Todos hemos (afortunadamente) olvidado el vampiro despreciable visto en el juguete «Van Helsing», que parecía una versión menos kitsch de Renato Zero, sin mencionar al anónimo Thomas Kretschmann protagonista del pésimo «Drácula 3D» de Dario Argento o el indefendible Jonathan Rhys Meyers que dio cuerpo al vampiro en la serie de televisión de la NBC. En resumen, muchas versiones del mismo personaje que la mayoría de las veces han dejado que desear. No escapa a la regla «Dracula Untold» dirigido por el debutante Gary Shore e interpretado por Luke Evans, que, realísticamente, se inserta entre las peores versiones cinematográficas de un «peso cierto» realizadas sobre el personaje creado por Bram Stoker. Partamos del supuesto de que este Drácula no tiene realmente nada que ver con el Drácula creado por el escritor irlandés, más bien los guionistas Matt Sazama y Burk Sharpless han desarrollado la idea de contar un Drácula inédito que partiera del lado más humano del personaje. Por eso «Dracula Untold», que en el título de trabajo se llamaba «Drácula: Año Cero», es el relato del origen del personaje, una especie de preámbulo a la historia que ya conocemos, que parte del hombre y no del monstruo. En teoría, esta intuición era buena: contar el aspecto histórico de Drácula, al que el mismo Stoker se inspiró, y no la típica y trillada historia del noble vampiro que circunda a Harker, intenta seducir a Mina y es cazado por Van Helsing. Sin embargo, a pesar de las buenas premisas, el equipo de «Dracula Untold» logró hacer lo peor posible. En primer lugar, esta película traiciona todo y a todos: novela, Historia (con la «S» mayúscula) y filmografía vampírica anterior, transformando a Drácula en un superhéroe tipo los que hoy van tanto al taquilla. «Dracula Untold», de hecho, bien podría haberse titulado «Superman Untold» resultando más honesto con el público pagante porque un Vampiro así, francamente, hace reír y suena mucho a tomadura de pelo. Aquí Vlad III de Valacchia es un soberano leal y valiente, que ama a su esposa Mirena, admira a su hijo pequeño Ingeras y hace el bien a su pueblo, buscando contrarrestar el ejército otomano liderado por el despiadado Sultán Mehmed II. Cuando el villano, interpretado por un ridículo Dominic Cooper con delineador de ojos al estilo Serse de «300», ordena que el hijo de Drácula debe unirse al ejército turco, su padre decide que es hora de rebelarse contra el invasor y se arrastra hasta una montaña donde se dice que vive un demonio. El monstruo está realmente allí, es interpretado por Charles Dance de «Last Action Hero» y «Game of Thrones», tiene el aspecto de la Muerte en «El séptimo sello» y en realidad es un vampiro que a su vez vampiriza a Vlad. A partir de este momento comienza el iter del superhéroe que descubre sus superpoderes: oído hiperdesarrollado, vista de fuego, posibilidad de teletransporte, super fuerza, la inevitable «kryptonita» (que aquí es la plata, como para los hombres lobo) y quien más tenga más ponga. Y todo esto ocurre exactamente como suele suceder en las películas de Marvel, o más bien como ocurre en Spiderman, en particular. Y vamos con las fanfarronadas a raudales que no se conjugan bien con la imagen que todos tenemos de Drácula, que en un momento dado se tiñe de fantasía épica, con batallas al estilo «Señor de los Anillos», que nos dicen cuánto los guionistas, productores y director han equivocado película. Todo esto va a traicionar el personaje literario del cual culpablemente la película se apropia, malinterpreta y reescribe malamente la iconografía vampírica, que sufre otro duro golpe después del abuso de Stephenie Meyer y sus «Twilight», y cuenta un escenario histórico completamente falsificado. En resumen, un desastre. Además, «Dracula Untold», que costó alrededor de cien millones de dólares, se beneficia de muchos efectos visuales que, desafortunadamente, parecen bastante burdos, hace un uso de la violencia de PG-13, y no se distingue tampoco por la espectacularidad de la acción, de la cual, sin embargo, en más de una ocasión se jacta. Luke Evans tiene demasiado el aspecto de modelo para el papel que se le pide interpretar, Sarah Gadon, que interpreta a su esposa, es una muñeca llorona de la cual nos importa muy poco su suerte, Dominic Cooper «como ya se dijo» hace reír por el look y además resulta bastante irrelevante. ¡Es difícil encontrar un aspecto positivo en «Dracula Untold»! Parece que esta película será la primera del anunciado Monster Universe, es decir, el relanzamiento de las icónicas clásicas del terror que Universal Pictures quiere emprender mirando a un proyecto multi-película similar al desarrollado por Marvel. En este punto «visto también el final abierto de «Dracula Untold»» debemos esperar uno o más secuelas y luego un nuevo Frankenstein, La Momia, El Hombre Invisible, El Hombre Lobo, La Criatura de la Laguna Negra y luego toda una serie de cruces entre este y aquel monstruo y luego todos los monstruos juntos estilo «The Avengers» y luego… y luego… ¡basta, diría!
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Andres Gomez

5 /10

FX, Evans and Dance's performances are the only things to save in this movie.

If you think Dracula becoming a hero and a martyr is a good idea, you will like it. Otherwise, like in my case, you will think that it was the worst idea in quite some time.

So, Dracula is not the most evil creature in the world any more ... :(

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8 /10

That the so called “critics” at Rotten Tomatoes screws this movie over is not really a surprise. Said “critics” are usually out of sync with both my opinions and the opinions of most of the viewers which can be seen again from the fact that these people give this movie a 23% rating whereas the actual viewers give it a 60% rating. At lot of “purists” also seem to take a disliking to this movie. Well, the movie is named Dracula Untold so it should be no surprise that the story would be a new one.

Personally I found this movie quite enjoyable. Yes it is not the original Dracula story but it is not straying too far from the basic origins and it is really a quite decent story unlike some of the disastrous Hollywood rewrites. The original story claims that Dracula became a vampire during his battles with the Turks and this movie picks up on that and tells the story of how that happened. Unlike most (all?) Dracula movies, Dracula is not really the bad guy but rather the inverse and the movie tells a story about sacrifices and Dracula’s quest to keep some of his humanity, moral and sanity.

It would not be a Dracula movie without some blood flowing and this movie delivers without overdoing it. Actually the actual bloodsucking stuff is quite played down until the end of the movie. There are a fair amount of fights against the Turks (who are the real bad guys in this movie) though and blood as well as various body parts no longer attached to their proper places does float around quite a bit. The special effects are not forgotten and I quite liked the bat swarms that Dracula commanded during the final fights against the Turks.

I found Luke Evans performance as the prince and unwilling Dracula to be quite good. The rest of the characters were also well played. I am sure that none of them will be nominated for Oscars due to their part in this movie but I have nothing negative to say about their performance.

On the whole I found this movie quite enjoyable and I definitely disagree with all the people blasting it. I did also quite like the last couple of scenes in modern time at the end which teased of a follow up movie. I would definitely like to see that happen.

Wuchak

Wuchak

7 /10

Dracula: The dark Superman

RELEASED IN 2014 and directed by Gary Shore, "Dracula Untold” tells the origin of Dracula: In the 15th century Prince Vlad the Impaler (Luke Evans) must protect his small kingdom of Wallachia (in modern-day Romania) from a Turk warlord (Dominic Cooper) who demands a thousand boys from Wallachia & Transylvania, including Vlad’s son. Threatened by the unsurmountable Turk army, Vlad desperately makes a dubious pact with a formidable caged vampire in order to acquire its dark powers and save his family & kingdom. Sarah Gadon plays Vlad’s winsome wife.

The producers flirted with the idea of “Dracula Untold” being part of Universal’s Dark Universe; and the epilogue of the movie, set in the modern world, suggests this, insinuating a franchise. This idea was dropped, however, and “The Mummy” (2017) became the first official film in the Dark Universe. In any case, “Dracula Untold” was fairly successful at the Box Office, making $56.3 million in North America and $217.1 million worldwide against a cost of $70 million.

My title blurb pretty much tells you all you need to know: “Dracula Untold” is basically the dark Superman of 15th century Eastern Europe where Dracula wields the power to defeat a thousand-man army. If you like the great prologue to Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992), you’ll probably like this movie, which gives several nods to that forerunner.

The film LOOKS awesome and has a fine cast. But unlike “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” it’s rapidly paced and doesn’t leave much room to breathe; so the characterizations aren’t quite deep enough. It’s good, but somehow hollow and forgettable. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was perhaps a little too slow while “Dracula Untold” is too hurried. I wish the creators found the happy medium between the two because, with just a little bit more time and attention to detail, it could’ve been great.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 32 minutes and was shot entirely in Northern Ireland. WRITERS: Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

GRADE: B

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1 /10

Bram Stoker's Count Dracula is textbook example of my Evil Iceberg Theory (the less you see of and know about a villain, the better). In an epistolary novel, the title character is the only one who doesn’t set his thoughts down in letters or in a diary (or, like Dr. Seward, a phonograph recording).

If, as Lovecraft wrote, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown," then Dracula is the embodiment of this fear; inscrutable, unknowable, unreachable, impossible to negotiate or reason with.

Moreover, it’s futile to try to assign him complex motivation; like the shark in Jaws or Dr. Lecter, the Count kills to feed — no more, no less. Taking all this into account, it's easy to see how bad an idea Dracula Untold really is.

The story is narrated — a long time after it took place, though oddly in the same childlike voice the narrator had when the events trasnspired — by Ingeras (Art Parkinson), son of Vlad III Draculea, aka the Impaler, aka Son of the Dragon, aka Son of the Devil, aka Dracula; let's just call him Vlad (Luke Evans).

"In the year of our Lord 1442, the Turkish sultan enslaved 1,000 children from Transylvania to fill the ranks of his army." One of these children grew up to become Vlad, who "disgusted by his monstrous deeds ... buried his past with the dead and returned to Transylvania to rule in peace." So Vlad just took his ball and went home. Just like that, no revolt required. Someone should tell the Sultan how slavery really works.

This notwithstanding, Wallachia and Transylvania remain under Ottoman rule, and Vlad must pay an annual tribute to Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper); one can't help wondering why these two peoples are so hostile to each other, especially seeing how they share the lingua franca of British English.

Mehmed takes it upon himself to 'enslaving' a thousand other children (perhaps the first thousand just walked away like Vlad?), including Ingeras. Vlad refuses, and knowing that this means war, goes to a cave in a mountain to seek help from "a vampire. From the Greek word pi, to drink [actually 'pi' is a Greek letter; the language in which it is a word that means 'drink' or 'suck' is Albanian]. The beast was once a mortal man who summoned a demon from the depths of hell to barter for his dark power. The demon deceived the man, granting his wish, but his price was an eternity condemned to the darkness of that cave, where he remains until he finds another to free him."

The cave vampire (Charles Dance), who once was a Roman and thus speaks, like all Romans do in the movies, the Queen's English, gives Vlad a sip of his blood, and with it “a taste of my power. The strength of 100 men. The speed of a shooting star. Domain of the night and all its creatures. See and hear through your senses. Even heal grievous wounds ... Once you drink, your thirst for human blood will be insatiable. But if you can hold out for three days, you will return to your mortal state having tasted my power, and perhaps saved your people. [What if I feed?] I will be freed having granted the darkness a worthy offering. You will become … like me. A scourge on this earth destined to destroy everything you love… I, however, will be free to unleash my wrath against the one who betrayed me. And one day, I will call upon you to serve me, my pawn, in an immortal game of revenge."

All this does is show that sometimes no explanation is the best explanation. Let's compare Coppola’s Dracula, in whose introduction — featuring modern Romanian dialogue with medieval English syntax (perhaps not historically correct but still much better than English-English) — Gary Oldman plunges his sword into the stone cross of a chapel, and drinks the blood that flows from it.

This doesn't necessarily make any more sense, but at least it's short and to the point, and Coppola has the good sense to not even try to explain it.

Conversely, all of Dracula Untold’s heavy exposition only raises more questions than it answers. How did this Roman guy end up in Transylvania? Are there no caves in Rome? Why can't he leave the cave and Vlad can? What exactly does "an immortal game of revenge" mean? This phrase simply reeks of oxymoron.

Speaking of Coppola, he was the second to make the character of Dracula and the historical Dracula one and the same person, and add a Reincarnation Romance to the plot (the first was Dan Curtis in his own 1974 Bram Stoker's Dracula, written by Richard Matheson).

Director Gary Shore and screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless repeat the formula in Dracula Untold, but their mistake is making an entire movie out of this premise. If they had done their homework, they would know that the link to Vlad III is tenuous at best, and that the real and probably only reason Stoker used the name 'Dracula' is because he was under the mistaken impression that it meant 'devil' in Romanian (but who knows; maybe the confusion of ' Greek pi' with Albanian 'pi' was a tribute to this linguistic faux pas on the Irish author’s part).

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6 /10

I think you have to treat this depiction of Dracula on it's own merits. There is no point comparing it with anything you've seen already. Given that, it is a perfectly watchable, and forgettable, adventure film with Luke Evans as Prince Vlad making the vampiric equivalent of a "deal with the devil" with Charles Dance to prevent his family and his kingdom from being over-run by the Turks. Dominic Cooper is really terrible as the Ottoman Sultan, though - his accent sounds like it's been finessed in his local kebab shop after too many tequila slammers on a Friday night. Evans is fine in the role, there is plenty of action and the visual effects are adequate too. Expect nothing earth shattering and you won't be let down.

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