I am always the big fan of paranormal and action movies (except twilight). And after watching Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug last year, I was totally into Luke Evans and when the trailer of Dracula Untold came out, I was ecstatic. So when it came out last week, I decided to watch it with my siblings. And guess what?
I am dissappointed.
From what I've been told, Dracula Untold was based on Vlad the Impaler, or known as the original vampire. We Malaysian also have a mythical character similar to Vlad, we know him as Raja Bersiung. The king was known as the person who accidentally drank his maid blood in his food, ending up killing prisioner just so to have his thirst for blood.
In the other hands, Vlad the Impaler, or the Prince of Wallachia was from Romania. Vlad and his younger brother, Radu the Handsome has been sent to Andrianople, to appeased the sultan. He was known as Kazıklı Bey (Sir Impaler) by the Ottoman Empire after their armies encountered his "forests" of impalement victims. Since child, he and Radu has been trained as a soldier to fought the enemy of Turkey and each time he killed, he have this 'fascinating' ideas of impale his victims on a stick. So, yeah, that's why he was called Vlad the Impaler.
(taken from http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Vlad)
Thousands were often impaled at a single time. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in 1460. In 1459, on St. Bartholomew’s Day, Vlad III had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled. One of the most famous woodcuts of the period shows Vlad Dracula feasting amongst a forest of stakes and their grisly burdens outside Brasov while a nearby executioner cuts apart other victims.
Although impalement was Vlad Dracula’s favorite method of torture, it was by no means his only method. The list of tortures employed by this cruel prince reads like an inventory of hell’s tools: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to wild animals, and burning alive.
No one was immune to Vlad’s attentions. His victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants. However, the vast majority of his victims came from the merchants and boyars of Transylvania and his own Wallachia.
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Going back to the fiction story of Dracula Untold. Is it different? When I saw the trailer, I remember one of his line - "to protect his family and people". From whom? The Ottomans. And who are the they? The muslims. And because of that, they changed the history, yay!
I know it was a fiction, a made-up story to make it blockbuster. But have they thought about what would the non-muslims who saw the movies would think of the muslims nowaday.
As a muslim myself, I was dumbstruck when they potrayed the muslims (the ottoman, of course) as the vile and cruel creature, even though it wasn't play by muslim, of course again. And before the people who thought if this is how the muslim really are in the past, learn to read the history first. It may help you. The part when Allah's name shown in the screen really insensitive,
I love the movie but at the same time, my heart was crushed. No wonder my friend urge me to watch Annabelle, but I can't. Seriously, no, guys. No possessed ghost stories. Enough with Chucky, guys.
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