26th
Underworld perspective
Over the weekend, I went to see the movie Underworld. This is a series of movies about an ongoing war between werewolves and vampires. I thought it was interesting because of the perspective that this movie took as opposed to the first two in the series. The first two were from the point of view of the vampires. The werewolves are portrayed as mindless beasts who should be destroyed. The reason for their war is never explained, however viewers see vampires in a good light. In the most recent movie, which is a prequel describing the beginning of the war, the opposite is true. Despite how the viewers will later see these creatures, the writers were able to give the story and entirely different spin and make the werewolves seem oppressed and taken advantage of and therefore fighting a noble fight. I thought it was interesting how the writers were able to change up the roles of protagonist and antagonist so easily, even in the middle of a series. It is always easy to see who the writers want the “good guy” to be. However the fact that they were so easily able to change these roles made me think about what they did to make me see the characters in this light. In the first few movies, there was little to go on. The werewolves were perceived as mindless, but there was no mention of why they needed to be killed. So the only real reason that the viewer is on the vampires’ side is that they are from the vampire point of view. In this third movie, however, there was a specific reason for the werewolves to be the protagonist, which made me change my opinion. This was easily done even though many of the werewolves were still perceived as mindless beasts.
