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Back Story

posted 11 years ago by ocramavaf
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Let me begin this by saying this is a very under rated vampire movie, it gives a run for it's money to anything Hollywood has to offer in that area, the acting is superb the story just as good, i came across it looking for movies with Karoline Herfurth which i first came across in the perfume and the reader and i was intrigued and to see her in a major acting role has been exhilarating. Now this said if there had to be anything else made of it, after the ending (and for reference i saw the classical ending) i would make it a prequel, i loved the 4 main vamipers, they all had very strong back stories that defined them and motivated them and each actress made it happen but the one i could not figure out is luise, the matriarch if you will to the little coven, she seems like a way deeper and much more faceted character than what is directly discernible from the movie, i mean simple things like her taking the shoes out of Charlotte hands when in the shopping center tell me that she may have had kids and knew the pain of losing them or how she seemed much less distraught at the thought of losing nora than she did Charlotte and also how she related to nora more in the party scene than she did with any of the others, that to me are tell tale signs of anguish ad pain that she is looking to fill for whatever reason.

Hence why i would like to know more about her, her origins how she first became a vampire and how she adapted to it so well/\. Has nobody else felt the same way?

[–] AgentSniff 11 years ago

SPOILERS

It's stated in interviews that Nora was created to be "the child" of Louise and Charlotte, which makes their interactions rather creepy. When Nora dies she is in a life threatning situation and it is realistic for people to be rather numb in those situations because they need to get out of trouble. Louise seemed rather distraught that she had died. On the other hand she had been with Charlotte for a much longer time and had been i love with her and probably was still.

If I read her backstory right it would seem that her creator actually commited suicide (not unlike Charlotte) and the experiance was traumatic for Louise. She surronds herself with a "family" of attractive women, she seems to be afraid of being left alone. That's why she becomes so possesive over Lena. She has been searching for the reincarnation of her lost love and creator for 100 years and then her "family" is being taken away from her and she fear she will lose the one she belives to be her lover reborn.

[–] Posh_babe 11 years ago

I was going to ask these questions myself and if there was a director's cut/version that told us a little bit more about the girls and their respective pasts.

Charlotte had the most to lose. Nora seemed happy and adjusted and it makes sense now that Louise turned her to be a "child" for Charlotte. Of course we don't know much about Louise as she may have had a family but we know for a fact Charlotte did. I'm surprised Charlotte didn't try to kill Louise for what she took away from her or at least try to leave her. I'm kind of curious to understand what Louise was thinking when she turned Charlotte, she may have been so lonely that she didn't care or stop to think Charlotte had a famlily or Charlotte was not gay.

One twist I didn't get is that Charlotte's daughter was still alive, that was a shock. Good surprise on the part of the writer.

[–] AgentSniff 11 years ago

According to Jennifer Ulrich, the actress who played Charlotte, Charlotte actually agreed to be turned and had a relationship with Louise. That explains why she did not run away or killed Louise. I think she is blaming not only Louise, but also herself.

I read it as Louise having boderline personality disorder, being extremly afraid of being alone and/or abandoned and she is taking these bad descisions based on impulse.

As for a "director's cut/version", I think the final film is Gansel's vision. Having seen the deleted scenes, I can say there is not really any scenes giving the vampires more backstory. A bunch of the deleted scenes would make Louise to much a straigh villian and it was good they did not use them.

[–] Posh_babe 11 years ago

Thanks AgentSniff.

Am very surprised that Charlotte agreed to be turned. I'd like to have seen a flashback to that scene as did she realise she would have to leave her family behind? Maybe Louise tried to let her think she could still see them or even take them with her and then Charlotte realised she couldn't?

[–] AgentSniff 11 years ago

I don't think she realised what she got herself into. Lena left her mother althrough there technically where nothing that prevented her from seeing her. But if she had stuck around longer her mother (or that probation officer) would have found out there was something strange going on. If Charlotte would have stayed with her husband there was the chance that she might have killed him if they got down on it. Or he might realise that his wife never goes out in the sun.

By the way. Here is one of the interviews where Ulrich stated that Charlotte was bitten willingly:
http://www.wicked-vision.com/artikel/WirSindDieNacht/InterviewJenniferUlrich.php

You will have to do a goggle translate for it is in German.

[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 11 years ago

Why do you keep mentioning "leaving her family behind" in all of your
posts, like that is a shocking thing. People get up and
leave their families behind all the time. You might be seeing Charlotte
looking nostalgic now, but she was turned almost 100 years ago, so she
is getting a bit worn out. Think about it, she is just now seeing her
daughter for the first time since 1923, so I don't think she cared much
earlier in life. And as far as being gay??? If you anything about
vampires, they are not human, and gay/straight doesn't apply. The straightest
person in the world would lust after the supernatural lure of a vampire that
is the same sex. Watch some "Trueblood" sometime, they swing any which way, lol.

I really dont know why anybody is asking about backstories, they are very
much explained throughout the movie, and anything that was left out, didn't
seem very important, IMO.

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[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

A paragraph of some 300 - 400 words and only 2 sentences? OMG!🐭