Sunday, September 19, 2010

Why You Should See Daybreakers

By Floyd Middleton

It is not hard to see that vampire media is something that is in full swing. There are new television shows coming out all the time headlining vampire relationships or existing with vampires. They are everywhere you turn around, and people have tried to go above and beyond to make their versions and stories unique from anything that you might have heard or seen before. Such is the case with "Daybreakers".

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.

Before you get into the events of the film, you should understand the plot premise by which this film takes a stand in a new story. This is the fact that after years of people being vampires and making new vampires, the world is very overrun with them. So much in fact that the human race is dying out and there is only a very small percentage of humans left on the Earth.

You should understand that this particular plot synopsis might contain spoilers that could ruin the film for those that have not seen it. This won't be the most detailed of plot rundowns that you are likely to find, but there's enough to tell someone too much if they didn't want to know. The film opens on the world that is overrun with vampires, and there are only a small percentage of humans left.

Ethan Hawke portrays Edward Dalton, who is one of the scientists that is desperately trying to create a synthetic blood supply. He never wanted to be a vampire, and rather is disgusted by many of the behaviors and mannerisms common to them. He is told that if he cannot devise a suitable solution by the end of the month, the entire vampire race could suffer untimely deaths.

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.

Having been inspired by this possibility, Edward takes it upon himself with the help of Cormac to return to being human again himself. Through exposure to the sunlight, long enough to almost cause death, the heart is shocked back into functionality.

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. - 40725

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