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Victor Khomenko

In Reply to: RE: agreed the swimming pool scene was necessary to sway the boy posted by PhilJ on August 11, 2010 at 21:38:44

I am sure that I am not alone in this... I can count probably three major decisions in my life that came gradually, with no stupid melodrama. While a profound event might indeed change the course of your life, this is I suspect rather atypical, and any story that reaches for an atypical to make a point is weak.

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I guess that would make Shakespeare a hack - Analog Scott 15:29:37 08/12/10 (0)
And Hamlet a failure.
Becoming the devoted partner of a vampire is pretty atypical - Analog Scott 15:28:17 08/12/10 (0)
me thinks that rule will make all genre films weak in your book
"any story that reaches for an atypical to make a point is weak" - Chris from Lafayette 08:51:01 08/12/10 (1)
Wow - that's awfully doctrinaire! :-)
- Well, in a more typical centuries old girl vampire meets boy story.... - Enophile 12:09:29 08/12/10 (0)
  :D
this was to influence the decison that he would be a cold blooded killer to aid the girl - PhilJ 07:12:08 08/12/10 (3)
the melodrama worked on his young mind

I do think it was done in a spectacular fashion that is a bit out of context with the rest of the film thus distracting...
Phil
- The incongruity ....... - afilado 11:03:48 08/12/10 (0)
  .of that scene is only one of a complexity of elements that it contained which "weakened" the film.
  
  I don't really care. It is what it is and I think it is a classic-in-the-making contribution to the vampire genre. I love watching it.
- "he would be a cold blooded killer " Yeah, but he was cute! :) - Victor Khomenko 10:14:46 08/12/10 (1)
  Plus, he was no CEO, so we can easily forgive him some minor transgressions!
  - remember early on in the film we get to see the boys scrapbook of serial killers... - Elizabeth 15:50:53 08/12/10 (0)
    So he IS the right one, and we see that right from the early scenes.

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