Matthew's Lead Blog Post Response

I am delighted that Matthew chose to write about What We Do In The shadows in his lead blog post. I only went through several scenes of the film, but what I watched was hilarious and is true to what Matthew discussed. From what I saw, there were a lot of incongruous moments that were very entertaining. For example, one vampire was trying to shoot an arrow at a dart board and accidentally pierces one of his friends in the leg. This moment was particularly funny to me because of how unreactive the vampires were. To any human, an arrow to the leg would usually lead to a considerable amount of panic. However, since vampires live forever, any injury to them is virtually non-existent. There was also a scene where the police came to the vampire’s home to check on a noise complaint. The vampires had to hypnotize the officers so they wouldn’t notice the dead bodies and buckets of blood they were walking around. This kept me at the edge of my seat as I did not know what would happen next or if the vampires would eventually get caught. Like the incongruity theory, the superiority theory proved to contribute to the film’s comedic success. There were various scenes where the vampires would try to take control of each other which produced a lot of tension. I found this very interesting since each vampire living in the house was over 800 years old. Therefore, no one could take control of the group just based on age, and ultimately aroused rowdy and hilarious disputes. Conflicts in the movie also gave the audience a sense of relief and are spot on to what Matthew explained in his blog post. Overall, What We Do In The Shadows was a great film to analyze and is an excellent example to many of the things that were discussed in class.

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  1. Shane HerronSeptember 20, 2018 at 6:19 PM

    It does seem that much of the interest of the show is not so much from horror or traditional vampire things but from seeing them just in ordinary movie situations. It's almost easy to forget what they are in some moments

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  2. Abigail BarfordSeptember 20, 2018 at 6:39 PM

    This was a very well written response. I like how you brought in the example of one of the vampires being hit in the leg with an arrow.

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