[ SECRET POST #5594 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5594 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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05. https://i.imgur.com/xWEqqxW.png

[(Anonymous)]

That looks like Robert Carlyle with a long mustache.

[(Anonymous)]

check out his look in Ravenous if you like the concept of 'Robert Carlyle with Great Facial Hair'

but looking back, he would have been a good Vlad in his younger days.

[(Anonymous)]

Well there is our horror story hook right there. Vlad Tepes somehow still living in modern Scotland, still not able to break the staking people habit. Starts slaughtering a group of teens, before the last plucky girl breaks the curse and drives him onto a stake with her car and a quippy last line.

[(Anonymous)]

The only reason I can come up with is that real people suffered, which would change the tone a bit from a normal horror movie. But, taking that into consideration, it would be really cool to see a movie about Vlad the Impaler.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get your reasoning here, I mean there's movies about irl people suffering now tho.

[(Anonymous)]

(SA) But the tone in horror movie franchises is different. It's scary, but in a fun way, because none of it was real, and the things that happen in them are so over the top. I think of them in a different way than I would think of a crime drama about a real-life serial killer, for example. They're both scary, but in different ways.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean theoretically I'd be in favor of that, but that hairstyle/facial hair combo would be really hard to pull off without looking like Evil!Weird Al Yankovic. I feel like it would undermine the scary parts.

[(Anonymous)]

As far as I know historical Vlad wasn't crazy. He was sent as a hostage to Ottoman Empire by his father. Later on he fought for throne, against Turks and neighbors. Reading about him, he doesn't seem worse than other rulers at that time.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he wasn't called "The Impaler" for nothing, although iirc some of the stories may have been propaganda by his/his country's enemies, but not all of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but mostly agains Ottoman Empire.
I'm personally not sure if his biopic'd be more interesting than Count Dracula stories.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of my interest in Dracula circles around proto-himbo John Harker and the blatant homoeroticism, so I'm guessing Vlad's real life political shenanigans aren't going to hold the same appeal. I think they could be interesting in their own right as political drama.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt
I googled John Harker and I'm interested.

[(Anonymous)]

This. While his impaling fallen enemies to frighten the rest of the troops was a genuinely disturbing war tactic that even unsettled his subjects, not to mention critics among the populace and nobles, he was considered a hero for his country. It’s just that being seen as a war hero can involve great violence, and sometimes even barbarism and horrific body counts. Especially in those old warring times. A lot of historians really don’t believe Vlad III was some kind of monster, much less one of history’s worst monsters.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people consider Hitler a hero to his country too, if we're talking nutjobs who conducted wholesale grotesque slaughters.

[(Anonymous)]

I was saying being a war hero isn’t really as glamorous and honorable as some people think, because it’s often times about violence more than helping people. Sometimes helping people isn’t even part of the equation. Just saying someone wasn’t a literal horror movie monster who did all of this strictly for fun isn’t glorifying it? That’s why I used all that negative language to describe the bloodshed he committed, and said it even unsettled his subjects(which led to many problems he should have seen coming if he wasn’t crazy, which I never disputed just by saying he wasn’t a movie villain). And then you equate anything I said to Hitler, that’s so ridiculously bad faith it’s scary. You do know invoking Hitler to try to win arguments is a transparent technique everyone knows about, right?

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like the sort of thing Hitler would accuse people of.

[(Anonymous)]

This does make you seem like a troll, but I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that this last comment was tongue in cheek rather than a trolling attempt.

[(Anonymous)]

Always assume tongue in cheek, usually it is correct, and even when it isn't it is better for your blood pressure to assume it is.

[(Anonymous)]

He was nutso. You don't start nailing people's hats to their heads, or sticking whole armies on giant stakes, and get to call yourself the very picture of mental health. That is certifiable nutjob material right there.