Sunday, September 19, 2010

Watch The Movie Daybreakers

By Floyd Middleton

There has been a considerable push in recent years for vampire media in different modes to be brought to light, no pun intended. The interesting thing, is that this might be the most frenzied people have ever been about vampire stories and programming. While this is all the case, it had become difficult for storytellers to give us something new and unique that was unlike something that was heard before. The film "Daybreakers" was able to do this.

This is a film that has taken an age old tale about vampires and put a spin on it unlike anything that has been seen in vampire cinema to date. Through the course of this article, you will get a brief plot synopsis as well as what makes this particular movie so unique from some of the other alternatives that are out there to view.

Apart from just having a good plot synopsis, you really should appreciate what makes this film so unique to the genre. For starters, this is taken from a perspective of the fact that nearly everyone in the world is a vampire. So much in fact, that the humans that are remaining are slowly becoming extinct and hard to come by. This will fuel a lot of the decisions made in the film.

This synopsis might contain spoilers for those that have not seen the film, so beware of this if you are trying to find a very non-descript synopsis, this is not it. The film itself opens on the knowledge that the world is 95 percent vampire. With this knowledge, a team of people have been placed together to develop synthetic blood to sustain the population, as humans are becoming scarce.

Ethan Hawke is Edward Dalton, a man who is in charge of seeing that a synthetic form of blood is created to sustain the population of vampires. If he cannot come up with a solution such as this, than millions of vampires could die of starvation, which is grotesque and painful to say the very least.

Dalton runs into some humans and he decides to help them stay alive. He is given some valuable information from Willem DaFoe's character, Elvis. He is a human that is leading the group and he was at one point a vampire. Through a freak accident, he was able to learn the secret to becoming human again.

Edward Dalton is so intrigued by this possibility that he attempts it several times on himself, which eventually works. The process involves exposing the vampire to direct sunlight for a short period of time. This is enough to get the blood pumping again and the heart beating. Now, the vampire is a human once more.

Before he is able to do this, you learn that this blood in the new human is different. It has the power to change the vampire drinking it human as well. So Dalton has a showdown with his boss, Charles Bromley to tell him about his new cure. In anger, Bromley bites him and is turned back into a vampire. This series of events would likely be the salvation of mankind. That is "Daybreakers" in a nutshell, and you should check it out if you are into vampire flicks at all. - 40729

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