The Vampire Assistant/Funny Circus/The Adventures of Darren/The Legend of Vampire Darren Shan.
◎ freak circus: vampire's assistant
◎2009
America.
◎ Action/adventure/comedy/fantasy/horror/thriller
Language English
Chinese and English characters on the screen
◎IMDB score 6.4/ 10 2668 votes.
◎ file format DVD-RMVB
◎ Video size 640 x 272
◎ File size 1CD
◎ Film length 104 minutes.
◎ Director paul weitz paul weitz.
Starring John C.Reilly John C. Reilly ... Raton Crep.
Chris Kelly Chris Kelly Darren Shan
Josh Hutchison josh hutcherson ... Steve (male name)
Jessica Carlson ... Rebecca (whose name means charming beauty)
Michael cerveris ... Mr. Tiny.
Ray Stevenson, ray stevenson ... chuckled.
Patrick fugit patrick fugit ... Evras the Snake Child.
Daniel newman daniel newman ... The silver box.
Morgan Saylor ... Annie.
Don McManus ... Mr. Shan.
Colleen Kemp colleen camp ... Mrs. Shan.
Ken Watanabe Ken Watanabe ... Mr. Gao
Salma Hayek salma hayek ... Madame Traska.
Orlando jones orlando jones ... Alexander ribs.
Frankie Faison ... double-bellied pika.
Willem dafoe willem dafoe ... Gafner Poole
Kristen schaal ... Gertesa's teeth.
Patrick Breen ... Mr. Kersey.
Tom Woodruff Jr. ... werewolf.
Jane krakowski jane krakowski ... Bulb limbs.
Drew Lin Varick ... Bread head.
John Crawford ... Members of the audience.
Ritchie montgomery ... Reverend.
Ted Manson, ted manson ... Police.
Ann Mackenzie ... the women of this town.
Monica Monica ... Teacher
Adela Gautier ... Nurse.
Bo holden ... Truck driver.
Patrick Fulton ... A passing child.
Tyler Chetta ... The kid in the hallway.
Sean Grant ... Vampaneze
Trey Bowen ... Singing Dad.
Beth Burvant ... Mother Singepin.
Evelyn Beauvant ... Singing Child # 1
Anna Eileen Dawson ... Singing Child #2
Jonathan Northam ... Hans Hands
Madeleine Golde ... A frightened student.
Erica Zhan Sen ... Rain Girl.
Amar J Perkins ... Mr. Pips.
Ron Fagan ... the weeping man.
Sean Knowles ... Mr. Kersey.
Natasha Sasha Angeletti ... Circus freak (unedited)
Dwain Bateman ... Audience members (unedited)
Gino Galento ... Madame Traska's man (unedited)
Jewel grosz ... student (unregistered)
Mark Hess ... circus camp worker (unregistered)
Cynthia LeBron ... undertaker (unregistered)
Elton leblanc ... undertaker (unregistered)
Brandon Molale ... Vampaneze (unedited)
Jack Moreland ... Victim of Snake Boy (unedited)
Daniel Vincent ... Theatre audience (unregistered)
◎ Jane
Darren Yamahara is an ordinary boy who likes football, horror stories and keeping spiders. By chance, he watched the performance of the Monster Circus. Since then, he and his friend Steve have both died.
Luck changes with this. Steve found out that the members of Monster Circus were actually vampires, and Darren stole the poisonous spider performed by vampires. Finally, in order to save Steve, a friend who was bitten by a poisonous spider and was unconscious,
Darren was forced to agree to Mr. Twilight's request, became a half vampire, became a vampire's assistant, and lived a different life from his peers. But he doesn't want to live like this. He doesn't want to drink human blood. He doesn't want to.
Losing humanity, he hopes to be human again. However, Mr. Twilight told him that becoming a vampire is irreversible. ...
Comment in one sentence
The most striking thing about this film is the clear and colorful young actors. Facts have proved that these fledgling new faces are fully capable of supporting a mainstream comedy.
Let John C.Reilly play the vampire? This idea is really great. Since then, there has been another type of vampire on the screen-comedy.
The film has added too many old traditions and elements of "vampire movies", which makes people feel very boring.
-"Diversity"
Behind the scenes production
Different vampires
Irish novelist Darren Shan's vampire novel The Legend of Vampire Darren Shan is a fantasy novel that is second only to Harry Potter in the eyes of many British and American children readers, and won the J·K· Rowling.
I highly recommend it. This adaptation into a movie is very exciting.
Talking about this role, starring John C.Reilly said: "This vampire is so different from the traditional vampire in my mind. I read the original work specially for it. I found that this role has
Many characteristics are different from ordinary vampires. It is more like a human than a vampire. In front of children, he is sometimes even a teacher. Although the author has given this role so many differences.
Traits, but he is still a devil. For example, he has bloodsucking fangs, a scar on his face, red hair and a pointed tail, that's all. I didn't refuse such a dress anyway.
This is the costume of this character. This reminds me of Faust. That's my favorite play. I always think of the devil in the same dress. Who plays opposite me?
A child less than 20 years old, watching them shivering on the set, I can't help but think of myself when I was young. However, these children have little experience and sometimes they don't even know it.
Where to put your hands, or how to play with other actors. After all, working with them is tiring. "
However, according to director paul weitz, this costume is well founded, and it is not a simple costume. He said, "That's what the original author Darren Shan wrote in the novel. Red hair and
A pointed tail is a symbol of age. Riley's vampire is 220 years old. The long dark life changed his hair from black to red, and also made him grow a satanic tail. however
He is not Satan at all. When you saw him, he was teasing the children in the circus. This is the uniqueness of this film. Both the author of the novel and I strive to make a relaxed and moving film.
Funny movie. So I deliberately shaped the image of vampires in a fun direction. This movie is PG- 13, so there are few violent scenes in it. This is a comedy.
So I cast Riley. Besides Riley, willem dafoe, Ken Watanabe and salma hayek are all my actors. It's really a pleasure to get these people together. remain; stay
In the past, I didn't even dare to think about such a good thing. "
Hard shooting process
Although the whole movie is a light and humorous comedy, the shooting process is not as funny as the last movie. In these difficult shooting processes, the first problem is makeup. because
Many actors need to wake up the "whole" face in order to modify the role of Miss Taobao to meet the standards of novels and directors.
Form ". Riley had a chin pad treatment, and he scratched a deep scar on his face. For some actors with special roles, it is useless to make up or dress, so we have to use body double.
. For example, the tall gentleman played by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, Ken Watanabe himself is already 1.83 meters tall, but in some distant scenes where two actors appear at the same time, because he can't walk on stilts or
Standing on the bench, the crew had to find a basketball player with a height of 2.09 meters from the local basketball team. This 2.09-meter-high 2 10-pound behemoth really shocked other actors.
The director at the other end of the camera. So that in the later scenes, as long as there is no face shot and no body language shot, Weitz will find this basketball player to replace Ken Watanabe.
After solving the makeup problem, there are still some action scenes that need to be completed by directors and actors. Riley, who is not good at fighting, suffered a lot this time, because in this movie, Riley plays the role of blood sucking.
Ghosts and ghosts have a lot of action scenes to deal with, and Riley, who is mainly comedy, naturally suffered a lot when performing these scenes. He said: "Vampires' fighting is surreal. They can be in the air."
Teleportation, powerful supernatural ability. These elements make me feel like I'm dreaming, not making a movie. I'm getting old because I often forget my pointed fingernails.
I will cut myself, there are many movie downloads that require me to jump from a height, and I sometimes fall-all this.
It's all because I don't often make action movies. Sometimes when I see two people fighting in the air, I always think it's two birds. Hanging wires also made me suffer a lot. Because I never hung up.
Walking a tightrope, poor balance, often hanged. I'm always black and blue. However, when I see myself flying around on the screen, I still feel very cool. "
titbits
The film is adapted from the legend of Darren Shan by Irish novelist Darren Shan. There are 12 novels in this novel.
On the basis of the first three books. According to director paul weitz's vision, it is no problem to make the remaining nine books into three films.
This is the first cooperation between John C.Reilly and willem dafoe.
This is paul weitz's first independent film. His previous works were co-produced with his younger brother chris weitz.
Part of this film was shot in Studio 28 of Universal Studios Los Angeles, which is the oldest studio in this studio.