The film I will be discussing is Blood: The Last Vampire, which is a 2000 manga directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The main character Saya follows the hero's quest very well by her call to action, challenges, revelation, atonement and her disappearance from society which is like her return to never being seen again unless called upon. Each item she uses to stay alive is symbolic to getting her mission complete. Saya's background is unknown to the viewer but the only clues you get is a picture of her in the year 1892 with the word vampire next to it and being called the "the only remaining original".
Her call to action is by her human commander David, informing her on her next assignment which takes place in a high school to kill demons called chiroptra. The symbols that help guide her through her mission and high school is her school uniform which blends her into the environment, her katana which is a Japanese sword to kill the demons hidden in a backpack, a shovel, and a fake sword. Another symbol she uses is her vampire senses like sensing the demons.
Well her challenges are pretty easy to identify like killing the demons at the high school before they kill another student. Saya's other challenge is to do it without causing a scene but nothing is ever done quietly because the nurse ends up seeing Saya kill one of the demons causing her sword to break and watches the second demon transform in front of her. The demon then uses the halloween poster to disguise itself and kidnaps the nurse to try and prevent Saya from attacking it. She ends up using the broken end of the sword that snapped off when she killed the first chiroptra but merely wounds it.
Saya's revelation begins when she notices a third demon appears and the second sword she gets is a fake while trying the kill the second demon causing no damage at all. She finally kills the second demon using a shovel by decapitating its head. David her commander comes to the rescue with a brand new katana and they both hunt down the last chiroptra. With a final swing on a airfield tarmac, she mortally wounds the demon but before it dies. You can see Saya have some atonement for killing it by offering it some of her blood as an apology for the pain she caused. She then disappears with David to never be seen again by any of her associates like she just wants to be left alone or she moved on to another mission.
Her call to action is by her human commander David, informing her on her next assignment which takes place in a high school to kill demons called chiroptra. The symbols that help guide her through her mission and high school is her school uniform which blends her into the environment, her katana which is a Japanese sword to kill the demons hidden in a backpack, a shovel, and a fake sword. Another symbol she uses is her vampire senses like sensing the demons.
Well her challenges are pretty easy to identify like killing the demons at the high school before they kill another student. Saya's other challenge is to do it without causing a scene but nothing is ever done quietly because the nurse ends up seeing Saya kill one of the demons causing her sword to break and watches the second demon transform in front of her. The demon then uses the halloween poster to disguise itself and kidnaps the nurse to try and prevent Saya from attacking it. She ends up using the broken end of the sword that snapped off when she killed the first chiroptra but merely wounds it.
Saya's revelation begins when she notices a third demon appears and the second sword she gets is a fake while trying the kill the second demon causing no damage at all. She finally kills the second demon using a shovel by decapitating its head. David her commander comes to the rescue with a brand new katana and they both hunt down the last chiroptra. With a final swing on a airfield tarmac, she mortally wounds the demon but before it dies. You can see Saya have some atonement for killing it by offering it some of her blood as an apology for the pain she caused. She then disappears with David to never be seen again by any of her associates like she just wants to be left alone or she moved on to another mission.
What the movie is trying to say is that, you should never give up on tough situation's, no matter how hard it gets. We all have to keep in are minds that we can overcome any obstacle presented in front of us. To always help, not just are self's but anyone in need of assistance. Then we all can make are hero's quest come true for others to read and hear about.
Work Cited
Blood: The Last Vampire. Wikipedia.Web. April 27, 2010.
Blood: The Last Vampire. Dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo. Wiriter. Kenji Kamiyama. Perf. Youki Kudoh, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa. Production I.G.,2000.
I feel you did a good job with your essay but havent included some of the details needed.Look back at what the professor wants in the essay like "myth to live by".
ReplyDeleteI agree, it looks good. Howeever, you should give us more details and explain more about the hero's journey. I liked the symbolims part.
ReplyDeleteGood essay, you just need to identify some of the elements of the Monomyth.
ReplyDeleteHi Bryan! i think you are following the first part of the assignment but you should work on other parts like symbols, archetypes, and "myths to live by"
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above. You have the basics all here, but there is little detail and I can't really "see" the movie, so there are not enough details.
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