Post by Saffyre on Sept 17, 2006 21:46:54 GMT -5
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A few months ago, my husband brought home the movie Night Watch. Since I often don't get into the same kinds of movie my husband does (he usually likes cheesey Kung Fu movies and such), I was initially heistant to watch it. Till I found out it was sort of a vampire movie (which again gave me some other concerns, and I didn't want to see another Blade movie at the time). Despite my hesitation, I ended up watching it with him while we ate dinner.
It was AWESOME.
The movie follows the life of an "Other", Anton. He works for a group called the Night Watch. The Night Watch (and the Day Watch) was established to keep the balance of power equal between the forces of Evil and Goodness, who are in a state of Truce.
Anton is assigned to hunt down a group of renegade vampires who are violating the Truce. While doing this, he discovers an Other that was one of the intended victims of the vampires, a kid named Yegor. He also finds a woman who has a very powerful curse on her - one that could destory all of Moscow. All of those points weave together to pull Anton deeper into the fight between Light and Dark.
The movie was awesome, but I learned after watching it that it was based on a series of novels, Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk Watch, and Final Watch. I also learned the sequal, Day Watch, was released in Russia in January 2006, but not yet released or generally avaliable outside of Russia yet. So, I ordered the novel and the movie to have for my very own!
The novel is MUCH more complex than the movie, but I'm glad I watched the movie before reading the book. While they are both very different, they are both very good - you just have to view them as seperate entities, related, but not the same. In any case, the novel is divided into three books, the events from the first book is the subject of the movie Night Watch while the other two books make up the movie Day Watch.
What really facinated me about the book and movie was how the author portrayed and explained "Others". While it fell short of matching the defination by which we define Otherkin, it was in many ways very similar. For example, he included with in the defination of Others several types of Otherkin we recognize - shapeshifters, vampires, "Light and Dark Others" (similar to a degree to Angelkin), and mages/witches. The theory of Others goes back to the fact they are fundimentally different from "humans" because they have the ability to enter the "Gloom (or Twilight)". Though I've not studied or practiced with the astral plane, it seems that the Gloom maybe vaguely similar with it.
Has anyone else seen the movie or read the book? I highly recommend them both - they are both worth the effort of finding. And the cinematography in the movie is very cool - reminding some people of Underworld or The Crow. You can find out more information about the movie at www.intothegloom.com/.
Enjoy!
-Saffyre
A few months ago, my husband brought home the movie Night Watch. Since I often don't get into the same kinds of movie my husband does (he usually likes cheesey Kung Fu movies and such), I was initially heistant to watch it. Till I found out it was sort of a vampire movie (which again gave me some other concerns, and I didn't want to see another Blade movie at the time). Despite my hesitation, I ended up watching it with him while we ate dinner.
It was AWESOME.
The movie follows the life of an "Other", Anton. He works for a group called the Night Watch. The Night Watch (and the Day Watch) was established to keep the balance of power equal between the forces of Evil and Goodness, who are in a state of Truce.
Anton is assigned to hunt down a group of renegade vampires who are violating the Truce. While doing this, he discovers an Other that was one of the intended victims of the vampires, a kid named Yegor. He also finds a woman who has a very powerful curse on her - one that could destory all of Moscow. All of those points weave together to pull Anton deeper into the fight between Light and Dark.
The movie was awesome, but I learned after watching it that it was based on a series of novels, Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk Watch, and Final Watch. I also learned the sequal, Day Watch, was released in Russia in January 2006, but not yet released or generally avaliable outside of Russia yet. So, I ordered the novel and the movie to have for my very own!
The novel is MUCH more complex than the movie, but I'm glad I watched the movie before reading the book. While they are both very different, they are both very good - you just have to view them as seperate entities, related, but not the same. In any case, the novel is divided into three books, the events from the first book is the subject of the movie Night Watch while the other two books make up the movie Day Watch.
What really facinated me about the book and movie was how the author portrayed and explained "Others". While it fell short of matching the defination by which we define Otherkin, it was in many ways very similar. For example, he included with in the defination of Others several types of Otherkin we recognize - shapeshifters, vampires, "Light and Dark Others" (similar to a degree to Angelkin), and mages/witches. The theory of Others goes back to the fact they are fundimentally different from "humans" because they have the ability to enter the "Gloom (or Twilight)". Though I've not studied or practiced with the astral plane, it seems that the Gloom maybe vaguely similar with it.
Has anyone else seen the movie or read the book? I highly recommend them both - they are both worth the effort of finding. And the cinematography in the movie is very cool - reminding some people of Underworld or The Crow. You can find out more information about the movie at www.intothegloom.com/.
Enjoy!
-Saffyre