Dracula Untold

Movie
German title	Dracula Untold
Original title	Dracula Untold
Country of production	United States United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	2014
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 JMK 14
Rod
Director	Gary Shore
script	Matt Sazama , Burk Sharpless
production	Michael De Luca
music	Ramin Djawadi
camera	John Schwartzman
cut	Richard Pearson
occupation
Luke Evans : Vlad the Impaler / Dracula Dominic Cooper : Mehmed II. Sarah Gadon : Mirena Type Parkinson's : Ingeras Charles Dance : Vampire in the Cave Paul Kaye : Lucian William Houston : Cazan Diarmaid Murtagh : Dimitru
synchronization

Dracula Untold is an American - British fantasy film directed by Gary Shore from 2014. The film deals with a fictional prehistory of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and is based very freely on the story of the real life Vlad III. Drăculea . The leading roles are played by Luke Evans , Dominic Cooper , Sarah Gadon , Art Parkinson and Charles Dance . The film opened in German cinemas on October 2, 2014.

action

Vlad III. Drăculea

The Transylvanian prince Vlad lived as a janissary in the Ottoman Empire from childhood . There he was forced to fight and kill with other children from his region. He becomes one of the best fighters the Balkans has ever seen, and a close friend of the future Sultan Mehmed . When he grows up and his father dies, he returns and becomes the ruler of his little principality. He marries Mirena and has a son Ingeras with her.

When Mehmed becomes Sultan and wants to invade Central Europe, he demands 1000 young men from the Transylvanian province for combat training. Ingeras should also be trained and even be allowed to live in the Sultan's palace. Vlad wants to spare the young men this fate, but sees no way of rejecting Mehmed's request. Finally he chooses the last resort: he seeks out a vampire in the Fang Mountains . Since he wanted eternal life, he conjured a demon. The latter, however, deceived him and gave him eternal life in the darkness; only when another person drinks his blood and thus takes his place as a vampire can he be redeemed. To gain the vampire's powers, Vlad drinks his blood. At first he only gets an insight into its powers. If he withstands the thirst for human blood for three days, he will lose his strength and remain a mortal.

Although Vlad was able to repel the attack by the Ottomans, the castle in the valley remains unprotected. Vlad and his subjects flee to a monastery in the mountains. Since Vlad can no longer stand the daylight without damage, he has to let the column go alone. Shortly before reaching the monastery, it was attacked again by the Ottomans. She also survived this attack almost unscathed, as Vlad can still intervene at dusk. In the monastery, the monk Lucian becomes suspicious and wants to kill Vlad before he harms any of the people. But the prince survived and the people accepted him, since this is the only way to save them. When the Ottomans march, Vlad can almost destroy them, but he leaves Mirena and Ingeras out of sight. Ingeras is kidnapped and Mirena falls from a tower and dies in Vlad's arms. She sacrifices herself to save Ingeras, and Vlad drinks her blood, making him a complete vampire. In order to destroy the remaining Ottomans, he lets his followers, who are mostly dying, drink his blood, and they too become vampires. While a fierce battle is raging outside, which can only end victoriously for the vampires, Vlad finds Ingeras in Mehmed's tent. After a long struggle , he stakes Mehmed and thus saves Ingeras. When he and Ingeras leave the tent, the other vampires smell his human blood and want to quench their thirst for blood on him. Only the monk Lucian has remained human and keeps the vampires at bay with the help of a cross. He takes Ingeras with him and Vlad opens the cloud cover so that all vampires die.

However, Vlad is brought back from death by a stranger, who had offered him his services and his blood a few days earlier, by dripping his blood into his mouth. So Vlad can live on to the present. There he meets a woman who, it seems, is the reincarnation of Mirena, who now bears the name Mina. As the two of them go for a walk, the vampire from the Transylvanian cave, who has now become human, is sitting in a bistro, but who is still immortal. He smiles as he softly says, "Let the games begin".

background

After Sam Worthington and Alex Proyas were supposed to direct in 2011, but the budget was too high, Universal stopped producing the film. In February 2012 it was announced that Universal had resumed the project with Gary Shore as director. In addition, a new script was written by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless.

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On August 19, 2010, it was confirmed that Sam Worthington will play the male lead. On February 10, 2012 it was announced that the contract between Worthington and Universal was canceled. In April 2013 it was clear that Luke Evans would play the main character Dracula. It's Evan's first lead role in a blockbuster. A month later, Sarah Gadon joined for the female lead. A few days later, Dominic Cooper joined the project, who had already starred in the vampire film Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter . On July 26, 2013, Samantha Barks was cast for the role of Baba Jaga , a young woman who has turned into a witch. In the final cut, however, her scenes were completely cut out because, according to Shore, the character didn't fit into the plot. In addition to Barks, Thor Kristjansson , Art Parkinson and Charlie Cox followed .

Filming

In May 2013, Universal announced that filming would take place in Northern Ireland from August to November 2013. Filming began on August 5, 2013 at Roe Valley Country Park in Limavady , Northern Ireland . The park remained open to the public during filming, only a few areas were closed. The production company was given two days of shooting in the park. Among other things, the film was shot in Belfast on Divis and Black Mountain (battle scenes), in Mount Stewart House & Gardens (Dracula's Castle) and in Scrabo Tower & Country Park (Vlads Camp) in Newtownards.

music

In February 2014 Ramin Djawadi was hired to compose the film music. On October 7, 2014, the soundtrack for the film was released on the Backlot Music label. The soundtrack contains 20 songs and has a total length of approx. 50 minutes.

reception

The film received mixed reviews overall. Most of the critics agreed that the film tends to humanize Dracula. While some praised this approach as an interesting approach, others complained that it lost too much of the horror factor. It was also criticized that the film would concentrate too much on action scenes. The visual effects were largely received positively.

Islamophobia was also alleged , which shows itself, among other things, in a distortion of historical facts. In the New Statesman , Elest Ali wrote in his article “What the historical inaccuracies in 'Dracula Untold' tell us about the rise of Islamophobia”, which reappeared in several news portals or linked to it: “The vilification of Islam has reached such heights that when the Muslim Sultan Mehmet II is cast opposite history's bloodiest psycho-tyrant, it's Dracula who emerges as the tragic hero ” (The demonization of Islam has reached such heights that the Muslim Sultan Mehmet II has to face the bloodiest psycho-tyrant in history, Dracula as the tragic hero appear) In Muslim portals, too, there is corresponding clear criticism, which is primarily countered with historical facts. In the daily news portal io9 , the editor Annalee Newitz points out the updating of the originally racist motifs in Bram Stoker's Dracula and the early film adaptations, which were still directed against Dracula as an Eastern European immigrant who was buying up land and turning Western women into "blood-sucking whores". While this was pushed into the background in later film adaptations, with Dracula Untold this motif was turned around and turned against Muslims in the sense of the current political situation, thus reproducing the prejudices of that time without reflection.

Dracula Untold achieved a Metascore of 40/100 points at Metacritic , based on 30 ratings. At Rotten Tomatoes , 24% of the reviews are positive and are therefore "certified rotten" ( German certified rotten ). The average rating is 4.5 / 10 based on 88 ratings.  

The film-dienst describes Dracula Untold as an "action variation of Count Vlad's story, which neither explores the mythical potential of the material nor its pop-cultural references and is lost stylistically in a blurred aesthetic."

The film magazine Cinema ruled that Universal had "a tolerably unfortunate start" with Dracula Untold and was simply "not really scary, not really romantic". In conclusion, Cinema wrote: “An attempt to put the Dracula material on a realistic foundation, which appears to be artificial”.

Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts found Dracula Untold “with his 92 minutes simply too short to be able to fully meet his own demands.” But at the same time praised the battle scenes and the acting performance of Evans: “But he offers some extraordinary fantasy battle scenes and Luke Evans is highly recommended for other blockbuster leading roles ”.

In her review, Antje Wessels fromquote meter wrote that Dracula Untold has “great approaches and a breathtaking look”. The main actor also convinces her. Unfortunately, she disapproves of the “gross blunders in the script and extremely weak supporting characters”, which means that the film becomes “someone whose visit to the cinema is ultimately not regretted, but neither does [!] Miss it”.

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actor	Voice actor	role
Luke Evans	Sascha Rotermund	Vlad Tepes / Dracula
Paul Kaye	Frank Röth	Brother Lucian
Charles Dance	Hans-Jürgen Wolf	Vampire in cave
William Houston	Roland Hemmo	Cazan
Diarmaid Murtagh	Matthias Deutelmoser	Dimitru
Arkie Reece	Samir Fox	General Ismail
Ferdinand Kingsley	Tayfun Bademsoy	Hamza Bey
Dominic Cooper	Karim Chamlali	Mehmed
Sarah Gadon	Josephine Schmidt	Mirena
Paul Bullion	Simon Derksen	Nicolae
Mish Boyko	Martin Brücker	Radu
Zach McGowan	Martin Kautz	Shkelgim

Web links

• Dracula Untold in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Dracula Untold atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for Dracula Untold . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 122 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Dracula Untold . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Universal Revives 'Dracula Year Zero' With Director Gary Shore . In: Deadline.com . February 10, 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
4. ↑ Sam Worthington Confirmed to Star in Alex Proyas' Dracula: Year Zero . In: Sam Worthington Confirmed to Star in Alex Proyas' Dracula: Year Zero . August 19, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
5. ↑ Now it's getting snappy: Luke Evans plays the bloodsucker in Gary Shore's "Dracula" . In: film starts . April 9, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
6. ^ Luke Evans Found His First Lead Role in Dracula Untold Exhausting . In: clickonline.com . September 24, 2014. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2014. ( English ) 
7. ↑ Sarah Gadon Under 'Dracula' Spell for Universal . In: Variety.com . May 2, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
8. ↑ Dominic Cooper On For Dracula . In: empireonline.com . May 8, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
9. ↑ ^{a b} 'Les Miserables,' 'Game of Thrones' Actors Join Universal's 'Dracula' . In: hollywoodreporter . June 26, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
10. ↑ Samantha Barks is Tres Miserables after being dropped from Dracula movie . In: dailymail.co.uk . September 20, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
11. ↑ Universal Pictures' Dracula to film in Northern Ireland . In: http://northernirelandscreen.co.uk . May 20, 2013. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2014. ( English ) 
12. ^ Dracula filming at Limavady park . In: u.tv . August 5, 2013. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2014. ( English ) 
13. ↑ Dracula Untold filming locations . In: discovernorthernireland.com . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
14. ↑ Ramin Djawadi to Score 'Dracula Untold' . In: filmmusicreporter.com . February 10, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
15. ↑ 'Dracula Untold' soundtrack details . In: filmmusicreporter.com . October 2, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
16. ^ What the historical inaccuracies in "Dracula Untold" tell us about the rise of Islamophobia . In: Elest Ali in New Statesman . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
17. ↑ Is 'Dracula Untold' An Islamophobic Movie? . In: Elest Ali in The New Republic . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
18. ^ New Statesman. What the historical inaccuracies in “Dracula Untold” tell us about the rise of Islamophobia . In: The Gothic Society . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
19. ↑ Dracula: Hollywood's desperate attack on Islām. The Real Untold Story of How the Muslims Killed the Dracula. . In: ZA Rahman in islam21c.com . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
20. ↑ Updated: How the Muslims Killed Dracula . In: Shibli Zaman in virtual mosque . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
21. ↑ Dracula Gets a Makeover for the ISIS Age in Dracula Untold . In: Annalee Newitz in io9 . Retrieved May 14, 2015.
22. ^ Dracula Untold Reviews . In: Metacritic . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
23. ^ Dracula Untold Reviews . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
24. ↑ Dracula Untold short review . In: film service . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
25. ^ Film review: Dracula Untold . In: Cinema . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
26. ^ Film review: Dracula Untold . In: filmstarts.de . Retrieved November 16, 2014.
27. ^ Film review: Dracula Untold . In: quota meter . October 1, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
28. ↑ Dracula Untold. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 28, 2014 .