Let's talk Lincoln.
I'm not as much of a history buff as I should be. I mean, I appreciate history and how its gotten us to where we are. I thank our past for the free access to pictures of hawt laydays as much as the next person, but I also appreciate complete badasses of our past such as Teddy Roosevelt and good ol' honest Abe.
So here's my issue with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (The movie).
I read ALVH quite a while ago. Being not a huge historyman I wikipedia'd quite a bit of the book and found it to be a nice venture into historical fiction. Seth Grahame-Smith painted a nice offshoot of history by injecting the supernatural into it, much as he did with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
The movie, however, was awesome for an entirely different reason.
The ALVH was a great book because of it's historical retelling of an undead slaying president, painting his entire life as a crusade against the blood sucking south. The move paints a much more streamlined portrait of everyone's favorite emancipator as a handsome hero who is ready to axe any vampire to the grave.
The movie is wrought with historical inaccuracies that the book does not seem to trip over. There are more than a few blatantly ridiculous scenes with glaring historical and cinematographic inaccuracies.
If you want to learn about Lincoln, and also want to read about visceral vampires, then the book is for you. If you want to see a president use an axe that is also a shotgun, then you'll probably enjoy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
I'm not as much of a history buff as I should be. I mean, I appreciate history and how its gotten us to where we are. I thank our past for the free access to pictures of hawt laydays as much as the next person, but I also appreciate complete badasses of our past such as Teddy Roosevelt and good ol' honest Abe.
So here's my issue with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (The movie).
I read ALVH quite a while ago. Being not a huge historyman I wikipedia'd quite a bit of the book and found it to be a nice venture into historical fiction. Seth Grahame-Smith painted a nice offshoot of history by injecting the supernatural into it, much as he did with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
The movie, however, was awesome for an entirely different reason.
The ALVH was a great book because of it's historical retelling of an undead slaying president, painting his entire life as a crusade against the blood sucking south. The move paints a much more streamlined portrait of everyone's favorite emancipator as a handsome hero who is ready to axe any vampire to the grave.
The movie is wrought with historical inaccuracies that the book does not seem to trip over. There are more than a few blatantly ridiculous scenes with glaring historical and cinematographic inaccuracies.
If you want to learn about Lincoln, and also want to read about visceral vampires, then the book is for you. If you want to see a president use an axe that is also a shotgun, then you'll probably enjoy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
the book was fking amazing, philippa gregory is one of my favorite writers, she really researches historical accuracy in her works...
the movie just tore the book to shreds, and made me dry heave because I wanted to cry... it just sort of rewrote history (as did movies like brave heart)... and I actually am a nerdy history buff... so yea.. it was painful.
anyway... ass far as AL:VH goes.... the book may have an inkling of historical threads... mostly people, places, names, times.. etc.. but it doesn't even fall under historical fiction.. it's fantasy/sci fi...
so I personally don't lose sleep over it... as for movie vs book... depends on your center of entertainment. the movie was decent as well.. sort of highlighted the alternate universe theory of some movies/books... kind of like inglorious bastards did.. that movie really pissed me off until I took a breath and realized exactly what it was...
mk I'm done ranting all over your page >.>
AL:VH may fall under the category of sci-fi/horror, but the book did stay true to a lot of Lincoln's history, something the movie did nothing with, which was a major disappointment. I guess I shouldn't classify it under Historical Fiction since vampires aren't exactly something that could be classified as "Real Deal".
I get Grahame-Smith's formula (Take history, throw some supernatural stuff into it. Profit). I just thought they totally phoned it in with this film. Though I am looking forward to "Teddy Roosevelt vs the Sasquatch" and "JFK punches aliens:The movie: The game: The Book".