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Abstract
Vampire movies appeared in the form of short films shortly after the film was
born. Vampire movies originated from the exploration and influence of European
culture and European movies. European movies are one of the birthplaces of world
movies. Movies like vampires have become popular and favorite themes in terms of
themes, content, forms of expression, and expression media since their creation. The
Chinese Dictionary says: "Popular, simple and easy to understand. It’s also suitable
for ordinary people’s needs." Vampire movies are a kind of popular culture, which
exists in folklore, historical records and artistic expressions. The "Oxford
English-Chinese Dictionary" defines vampires as a supernatural creature with evil in
nature, and is considered to be through the blood of living people. To obtain nutrition
and harm humans; males or females born with similar habits other than humans.
And where does the audience charm of vampire movies come from?
In the original images of the vampire movie, the vampire is an ugly, cruel,
terrifying, and evil image. This image is full of greed, sexual desire, blood and
debauchery. Not to mention whether the existence of a vampire is real, but the image
of these abstract human characteristics combined is completely the image of a
vampire. The development of human beings is seen as a process of getting rid of
animality towards rationality, and a process of getting rid of naturalness towards
sociality. A vampire is a person in the middle, a person who is both alive and dead.
He was neither completely dead nor completely alive. When the audience sees this
body expression, they will find that they have to face the eternal dilemma of being a
human being. He/she, they/they will grow old and die. Such a fear erodes the human
heart day and night. The more you fear, the more you plan your body, and the more
you plan, the more you find the sadness of this behavior. The body broke away from
the curse of modernity, but fell into the trap of consumption.
Although the body of a vampire is ugly, it is immortal. Although human beings
are "beautiful", they are facing death and aging day by day. It seems that vampires
are the opposite of human beings, a phantom created by humans to compensate for
their own physical defects. Since the 21st century, the body in vampire movies has
tended to beautify. In addition to youth, speed, power, and delicate facial features,
human self-imagination of the body has finally reached its peak. In this sense, the
concept of body in the state of consumer society is an extension of the concept of
body in the state of modernity. Modern society and post-modern society have
reached a reconciliation here, and their common enemy is the body, to be precise, the
death of the body.
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People's fear and fascination with vampire culture and its image have become
their own inner and spiritual narrative methods. This ambivalence is that it is not
only a taboo, but also a complex that concerns the entire human race. Vampires no
longer intuitively explain the objective meaning of ugliness or evil, but present a
kind of self-consciousness, fear and desire of people who have gotten rid of religious
theological explanations. At the psychological level, the audience's acceptance of
vampire films and the popularity of such films means that we are self-gazing in a
phenomenon of "aesthetic abnormality". In vampire movies, fear comes from the loss
of something, which is embodied in the physical death that accompanies the loss of
blood. However, vampires are immortal, which makes the audience attached to the
fantasy of the end when watching the movie. Above the image, that is, longing for
the immortality of the body. On the one hand, the source of this desire is presented
through images, and on the other hand, it is made up for by the objective fact that the
body is easy to die.
Therefore, the happy choice of the subject's self does not simply exist, but is
always accompanied by painful rejection. In other words, pleasure is always
accompanied by pain, beauty is always accompanied by ugliness, and infatuation is
always accompanied by fear. The watching of vampire movies creates a kind of
ambivalence, and with this kind of psychology is the characteristic of the movie as a
"daydream", that is, when the audience is watching the movie, they arouse the
psychology of the past, present and future, and the audience sits in front of the screen.
It seems to have returned to the period when the baby was sitting in front of the
mirror.
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