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How does Jerry get in to the club?
Jack Nicholson had the best mix for Joker
Is the little girl one of Freddy's victims or does she represent Kristen?
A movie in which a small boy stabs his baby brother with a pin (Solved)
Karen should be in this
Why is Cornelius a misfit?
The ending ignores Ed's highly inappropriate and discomfiting death
Is Billy a reference to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?
Laurie should not go to the Wallaces' house
How does Spider-Man know which floor the baby is on?
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Okay, maybe that could count as an invitation, but Jerry appears as a man in his forties despite being centuries old, so his shoving an identification card in to the face of the doorman would be suspicious. Perhaps the vampire would <i>not</i> be let in after that. Nonetheless, your scenario creates for me a funny image of Jerry wanting to throw his suaveness and smugness about in every way and proving to the world that he belongs anywhere the instant that he wishes to be there.
Thank you, Ranb. That is a decent thought, but asking permission for entry is not the same as being invited inside, so I don't believe that it would work for a vampire.
Thank you, George. Yes, it is.
Whoever has created vampires has made the rules about the nocturnal specie. Fictional creatures need laws so that we know how to present them. They would not serve their entertaining purpose if their lives were constantly morphed because then we would be unable to recognize who or what they were.
Thank you, Zarkoff. Your joke makes me ponder something. If there were such a sign, then it would be a playful assertion, so would Jerry have to take it seriously? He would know that the staff don't believe that vampires are real which might invalidate the warning.
Thank you. That is another way to view the matter. However, I think that it would be more fitting for the rule to apply to all indoor places, and in some stories about vampires, that is the case.
KaiMaster, yes and no. Those things happen, but are not shown. The final scene is a hallucination that Rose has as she is dying. She is aware that she is about to see Jack again and her brain is creating an image of how she knows him. The appearance of the bright light in the ceiling is the instant that Rose dies because it represents heaven.
Thank you, DoctorThirteen. That is not true for me. Rules should be consistent. Those are part of the appeal.
Thank you, Syb. That might be the suggestion in this film, but it doesn't make sense. I don't see why it matters if the place is private or public. The point is that an establishment is still an indoor facility, unlike a town square.
It's actually <i>easier</i> to give set rules to creatures when they are fictional, but there are always going to be arguments among writers. This isn't the first instance of a disparity that I have seen along the line of vampires. In some movies, a cross must also be a crucifix to repel the people of the night, but in this one, that is not required.
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