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Can anyone please tell me what was the purpose of the pointy teeth?
When she was looking through the coffin? And when Fields was getting the bullet removed they made sure to focus on his teeth?
Anyone?
Thanks
It could be a reference to Poe's story, "Berenice". In that story, the narrator's cousin, a once-beautiful woman named Berenice, becomes sick with a disease that causes her to waste away. The narrator becomes obsessed with her teeth because they're the only beautiful things left about her in the end.
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After Berenice "dies", the narrator digs up her corpse and rips out her teeth to keep them in a box by his bed. But, to add to the horror of that, Berenice had been buried prematurely and therefore was still alive when he ripped out her teeth.
Nevermore!
This is interesting. I wonder if that's what they were going for cause if it was, it went way over my head haha. I'm not a major poe fan in the slightest but I really enjoyed this movie.
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I was wondering if they were referencing that Fields had something to do with the murder or what? Very intrigued to hear what people have to say on this matter.
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I saw zero reason to believe that Fields had anything to do with the murders. My impression of him was that he was a detective with a strong sense of professionalism and that he was a decent man who cared about justice and saving innocent lives.
All humans are born with canine teeth, some more pointed than others. I know a guy who thought his own mother was a vampire back when he was a preschooler because her canine teeth were so pointed. I wouldn't read too much into Fields having pointed canine teeth. And frankly, it wasn't pronounced enough for me to notice on either man.
But I thought Luke Evans did an excellent job in this film, and I'm intrigued to see what he'll do with the role of Dracula.
Teeth are used symbolically in many of Poe's stories to symbolize mortality. Other uses include the "sepulchral and disgusting" horse's teeth in "Metzengerstein", lips writhing about the teeth of the mesmerized man in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", and the sound of grating teeth in "Hop-Frog"
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
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I was sure that it Fields distinctive teeth that Emily saw when she saw part of the killer's face through the coffin.
But we know that Fields was chasing the killer in the tunnels, ergo different people. Also, the printer's ink reveal suggests that Fields was in the dark as to who the killer was.
No idea why, but Fields professes to the doctor at the end he doesn't know the meaning of Poe's last words. But he shows up to kill Reynolds at the end, like he knew his schedule.
So were they collaborating somehow?
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I do not believe that Fields knew the identity of the killer until the end. IIRC, what Fields said was more along the lines of "Maybe nothing," suggesting that he was not sure at that time whether the name was significant. It's possible that Fields did not know or did not remember Ivan's last name when the doctor told Fields what Poe's last words were. I don't think Fields had had any reason up to that point to take any particular note of Ivan. Furthermore, as a detective who clearly took the duties and responsibilities of his job very seriously, Fields would not have revealed the identity of a possible murderer who was still at large to someone who was not part of the active, ongoing investigation. Fields was far too much of a professional for that.
Can't say if the mouth close-ups were specifically in homage to anything, but those are Luke Evans' (Fields) real teeth. There's an interview for Dracula Untold on YouTube where he talks about his vampire teeth.
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