Dracula The Untold Full Movie
Kay Hamling
Dracula Untold leaves us wondering just who is this Master Vampire. The film is very obscure about his origins, but when I looked online at the cast lists, I found references to Caligula, and at one site, -untold-set-visit/ this information:
Also, as a minor note, Vlad Dracula did not kill Mehmet, who died in 1481 of natural causes. At the time of the movie, Mehmet II was in his mid-teens. He was a major figure in Turkish history, so killing him in the 1440s is sort of like killing Elizabeth I in the late 1550s not long after she has started her reign.
The movie is neither particularly feminist nor anti-feminist for the most part. Mirena (Sarah Gadon) is a generic cinematic wife. She gets one moment of being commanding, but is otherwise just there to give Dracula a motive to do anything to fight the Turks. She and his essentially pointless son are mostly just the triggers for all the manpain modern cinematic heroes are required to experience.
But then, as the film approaches its climax, it suddenly veers into one of the most horrifically misogynistic tropes developed by the video game industry. Mirena falls off a high balcony of a monastery (why did these monks build a pointless balcony over a high cliff and forget to include a railing?) and Dracula is unable to catch her in time. As she lies dying (having been tough enough to actually not die instantly from the long fall), she begs Dracula to kill her by drinking her blood, knowing that this will transform him permanently into a vampire and give him the power to defeat Mehmet. Dracula does as she asks and thereby gains vengeance on Mehmet.
Interesting fact: The janissaries were actually a very elite guild and most of the grand veziers in the divan (ministers in the turkish government) were actually high ranking janissaries. I said that they chose people at random at this certain time period because as time passed people actually started bribing the turks in an attempt to get their children into the janissary guild. Some actual turkish muslims pretended that they were christians with the same aspiration.
As a scholar, my current research project is looking at why students at the university of Oxford were so violent (14th century Oxford appears to have had a homicide rate only comparable to the most violent slums of South America). My conclusions at this point in my research are that student violence was caused by numerous factors, including the age of students (14-25 year olds are consistently throughout time far more violent than any other segment of the population), easy access to weapons and alcohol, poor supervision, a legal environment in which they were unlikely to be punished seriously for violence, economic disputes with the non-student portion of the town, and group identities that encouraged them to engage in violence against those outside the group. So there were lots of factors.
oooo westert people and your fake heros, since dracula is not real, then all what they talk about ottoman is also not real! all your life is fake, fake heros fake histories fake religion fake faka fake!
Did you know, Vlad himself is a younger brother? Vlad II had numerous mistresses and several illegitimate children, two of which were named, Vlad Călugărul (born 1425) and Mircea. But he did have three legitimate children, another son named Mircea II with his first wife, Vlad III, and Radu.
Mircea II of Wallachia was born 1428. He would have been 2-3 when Vlad III was born Nov. 14 1431. Radu was born 1435. Mircea II ascended to the throne in 1442, as Vlad Dracul was in the Ottoman court negotiating for support from the Ottomans in an effort to better defend his rule against John Hunyadi, the voivode of Transylvania. Following the battle of Marosszentimre (Romanian Sntimbru) in 1442, Hunyadi forcefully entered Wallachia and forced Dracul to submit.[2] In 1443, Mircea II was ousted from the throne by an invading army led by Hunyadi, and was forced to flee. Hunyadi placed Basarab II, son to Dan II, on the throne. However, Basarab II held the throne for only a short time, losing it within a year to Vlad Dracul, supported by armies of the Ottoman Empire. Vlad Dracul had made a treaty with the Ottomans insuring that he would give them annual tribute, as well as sending Wallachian boys to them yearly to be trained for service in their armies. He also had left his two sons, Vlad Tepes and Radu the Handsome, with the Ottomans.
(Since Varna was mentioned in the movie, I thought I should add this here too): In 1443, the new King of Hungary, Ulaszlo I (also King of Poland as Władysław III Warneńczyk), launched the Varna campaign against the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Hunyadi, in an effort to drive the Turks out of Europe. Hunyadi demanded that Vlad II fulfill his oath as a member of the Order of the Dragon and a vassal of Hungary: Vlad was commanded to join the campaign but declined.
Mircea II supported his father, but did not support his politics with the Ottoman Empire. Mircea II led Wallachian forces in a successful campaign against the Ottomans with the full knowledge of his father, but with neither support nor opposition from him. An able military commander, Mircea II successfully recaptured the fortress of Giurgiu in 1445. However, in yet another treaty with the Ottomans, his father allowed the Ottomans to again have control of the fortress in an effort to retain their support of his having the throne, and in an effort to keep his two captive sons safe.
In 1447, Hunyadi launched yet another attack against Wallachia, once more defeating the armies supporting Vlad Dracul and Mircea II, forcing Vlad Dracul to flee. Mircea II, however, was captured by boyars from Trgoviște, tortured and was blinded with a red-hot poker, then buried alive. Shortly after, on December 2, 1447 in the marshes near Balteni, Vlad II was killed by boyars. (Mircea would have been 18-19 when he died. Vlad 16. Radu 11 or 12.)
In 1457, the townsfolk of Trgoviște were punished by Vlad III Dracula for their involvement in the assassination of his brother: the elite of city was killed, while the young people were sent to work at his Poenari Castle.
Mihnea was Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia from 1508 to 1509, having replaced his first cousin Radu cel Mare. During his reign, he ruled alongside his son Mircea III Dracul in the year 1509. Unpopular among the boyars, he was overthrown with Ottoman assistance, prompting him to take refuge in Transylvania. After he fled Wallachia in 1510 while being pursued by the Craiovescu faction, he was finally cornered in the Roman Catholic Church of Sibiu where he was attending Mass. As he was leaving the service, he was stabbed by hired assassin Dimitrije Iaxici, a Serbian partisan of the Craiovescu faction. Mihnea is buried in this church and can still be visited today.
Such Movies leads to misguidance, Wrong message is sent to the community and the whole world. If however, they make such movies, they must inform that it is fi is fictional video and has nothing to do with the living or non living beings. Otherwise such men have no rights to show wrong and insensible history through their stage acting.
Seeing movie about rivalry between Vlad and Radu would be amazing. It is my fancy to imagine, that in Untold it is Radu and not Mehmet. I too hoped for a bit more accurate portrayal, but I think that what I got instead is not that bad either. In my opinion part of my fondness for the film is that I sense the potential it tapped into, some started, but unbuilt motions combined with good and bad ideas and halfsatysfied but unfulfilled I yearn for more. Tantalizing, that is what this movie is. And basicaly middle-ages batman.
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