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Tim Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter

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Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter

One of the greatest men to walk this earth was our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. As we all know Lincoln achieved many attributes in his time. Including signing off on the Emancipation Proclamation, giving famous speeches like the Inaugural Address and Gettysburg Address, and ending one of the most brutal battles in history, the Civil War. What we didn’t read about in the history books was that Lincoln became a unique type of hunter that killed vampires while on his road to presidency. Hunting vampires for Lincoln became a reality in 2012 when director Tim Bekmambetov turned the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter into a film. According to Mike Scott in his Vampire Hunter review, the film “re-imagines our 16th …show more content…

Rather than her dying from ingesting milk that was tainted with the poisonous plant, snakeroot. Years later he fails to kill the man who killed his mother, instead he meets Henry Sturgess who shows him the way of killing vampires. Lincoln is told to only kill the vampires that Sturgess directs him to. Lincoln eventually moves to Springfield where he receives a job as a store clerk while he studies books on the law during the day and hunts vampires at night. Lincoln also meets and later marries Mary Todd. Finally, later down the road Lincoln becomes President of the United States, he comes to the realization that vampires are fighting with the Confederate army. Resulting in Lincoln creating his own campaign to kill them all. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a piece of work that is completely fictional and should defiantly not be taken seriously. While it’s main purpose is to entertain and not teach us about history it gives us a different insight on the life of our 16th president. An insight that is about Lincoln fighting against blood sucking vampires rather than fighting for …show more content…

In Mike Scott’s Vampire Hunter review, he refers to it as “the Great Emancipator becomes the Great Decapitator.”(Mike Scott) The film covers a lot of freedom. Not just individual freedom but from the vampires point of view they want to have freedom as well. Mainly so they can take over the United States and eventually the world. In an interview with director Tim Bekmambetov and Steve Weintraub with Collider, Bekmambetov explains: “ And in our movie-this movie is about freedom and Lincoln gave us freedom and he didn’t get- he held us to be free and the vampires they have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, individuals say they think that- who has the power of course has to rule the world.” (Steve

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