I don't know if Wesley was shagging her in real life, but I always thought their scenes were quite weird. It wasn't a mother/son vibe, more like an old flame. The casting was a little off too, he looks older than her.
shareLMAO...WTF...NOW I NEED TO REWATCH BLADE FOR INCESTUOUS UNDERTONES.🤔
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzloGdnZGIs
Tell me that's not incestuous. She's practically kissing him.
WOW...MY GUT REACTION IS HER "BEHAVIOR" IS MEANT TO ILLUSTRATE THAT SHE ISNT REALLY HIS MOM ANYMORE..SHE IS A MONSTER...BUT DAMN...THAT WAS PRETTY FUCKING UNCOMFORTABLE.😯
shareShe flat out tells him that she isn't his mother anymore. What she is now isn't the woman who gave birth. Now whether she was really trying to seduce him, or just trying to get him off guard to get the advantage is up for debate. But I thought it (and Sanaa) was pretty hot.
shareBlade has undertones of psychology and in this they tried to play off Greek tragedies.
Like his mother love, and the fact that he didn't have a father and she didn't have husband.
So they tried to play off he was trying to replace the role.
She also saw that as his weakness so she tried to play off that.
I think the sexual tension was the unknown.
Blade wasn't really sexual but he also at times seemed confused and this confusion could've blurred his conscious.
I think incest is just common in the vampire world. It only makes sense. Think about it, vampires do not age and cannot get pregnant. They can have sex anytime they want with whoever. So naturally, a lot of them would probably end up shagging their blood relatives. Let's not kid ourselves here, the only reason why incest is really considered immoral (assuming that it isn't the result of grooming or molestation), is because of birth defects only.
In the case of Blade, since he didn't grow up with this woman, there isn't that mother/son dynamic that makes them resistant towards the thought of having sex with one another. I bet if most of us just met our biological parent of the opposite sex for the first time at that age (assuming that they were smoking hot too, of course), we probably wouldn't find ourselves resisting the thought of banging them quite as much. There are a bunch of cases where people have found themselves falling in love with a family member after not having known them their entire life out there.
If we look deeper into the character of Blade, he's probably been a virgin his entire life. Think about it, he can't have sex with humans as his thirst would kick in, and he won't sleep with vampires either out of his sheer disdain for them. If he did take up his mother's offer, she'd probably provide him with all the physical pleasures he's suppressed all this time. So in a way, Blade makes the biggest sacrifice any superhero has ever had to make. He gives up not only the chance to be with his family, but also any and all possibility of ever getting to experience sexual intercourse. If that's not a hero, I don't know what is.
Though, I'd have to admit, this is probably way deeper than anything David Goyer intended in the script. He probably thought it was just something sexy and edgy to include, without having thought of the deeper implications that scene brings. He just so happens to have come up with something brilliant and meaningful by mistake, that I'm now filling in the blanks for him.
"I bet if most of us just met our biological parent of the opposite sex for the first time at that age (assuming that they were smoking hot too, of course), we probably wouldn't find ourselves resisting the thought of banging them quite as much."
This is an interesting topic. Years ago, I watched a show on Discovery about "the science of sex." They had random men exercise in white T-shirts. Then had random women smell the shirts and rate the attractiveness of the man based solely on the smell. They found that each woman was attracted, indifferent, or actively repulsed by different men based solely on the body odor. The conclusion was that women were attracted to those that offered more diversity in resistance to specific genetic diseases and repulsed by those that are genetically similar.
The bottom line is that (for the most part) we want to bang those that we would make the healthiest babies with and are repulsed by those we wouldn't.
Obviously, we can't apply anything real world to a fictional vampire, but under normal circumstances, we avoid incestuous relationships naturally. Exceptions always exist.
True, nature created us to generally desire those with the most healthy bodies to mate with (hence why all the hot models are curvy bikini-wearing babes and six-pack shirtless dudes) But as we all know, the desire for sex and romantic partners doesn't lie solely with the need to procreate. Nature may have wanted us to bang those that can make the healthiest babies, but human beings are also programmed with an innate sense of attachment to those born in the same bloodline as us, even if we didn't know them growing up. It makes sense, as human beings tend to look for those who are similar in attitude and viewpoints to be romantic partners. Many siblings naturally, have similar personality traits to one another as a result of being born under the same genetic tree so naturally, romantic attraction is bound to happen if they don't have that platonic familial bond growing up. There's also that Freudian thing of people being attracted to those who remind them of their parent of the opposite sex, which may also explain why people develop feelings for relatives they've only just gotten to know as an adult.
Nature tends to be incredibly complex and contradictory in the way it's been designed, and genetic sexual attraction is just one of its many puzzles. For the sake of carrying our genetic legacy successfully, our general societal attitude towards incest does help in assuring us to be safe in the way we reproduce, but it isn't based as much in morality as we claim it to be.
our general societal attitude towards incest does help in assuring us to be safe in the way we reproduce, but it isn't based as much in morality as we claim it to be.