This film is almost certainly a revamp (npi) of John Polidori's tale, The Vampyre (1816) , which was written before Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). The main character of the story, Lord Ruthven, is a strikingly handsome and charming, but completely immoral vampire. His hobbies are: Completely cleaning out all the cash reserves and bank accounts of good men with families to feed, by psychically cheating at card games and winning, so that their children will starve to death; Enriching beyond measure mortal men who are as cold, charming, and immoral as he is, through psychically losing at said card games, and losing; And seducing the best and most virtuous women so completely that they proudly debase themselves in public by performing the most depraved acts, both carnal and otherwise, in public.
The first time Ruthven kills a woman our hero, Aubrey (nobleman and orphan in the care of rather distant legal guardians, along with his little sister) loves, they are both in Greece. Aubrey receives letters from England that reveal the truth about the man that Aubrey assumed must have been a nice guy, for the fact that Ruthven doesn't hang around with lewd or loose women, but only with virginal maidens and married women of the most impeccable character. The truth that these letters reveal is that Ruthven, like nice guys of our own times, is only hanging around with these women in order to sleep with them. Being a magical vampire, he can always unlock the door to the infamous Friend Zone, no matter what. He can also change the women's basic character. He does both the same way he cheats at cards: It's one of the powers that come standard with vampirism.
The fact that the girl that Aubrey loves, Ianthe, lives in Greece, is the probably source of the hotel's name, Byzantium. In Byzantium = In Greece. Get it?
This film is almost certainly a revamp (npi) of John Polidori's tale, The Vampyre (1816) , which was written before Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). The main character of the story, Lord Ruthven, is a strikingly handsome and charming, but completely immoral vampire. His hobbies are: Completely cleaning out all the cash reserves and bank accounts of good men with families to feed, by psychically cheating at card games and winning, so that their children will starve to death; Enriching beyond measure mortal men who are as cold, charming, and immoral as he is, through psychically losing at said card games, and losing; And seducing the best and most virtuous women so completely that they proudly debase themselves in public by performing the most depraved acts, both carnal and otherwise, in public.
The first time Ruthven kills a woman our hero, Aubrey (nobleman and orphan in the care of rather distant legal guardians, along with his little sister) loves, they are both in Greece. Aubrey receives letters from England that reveal the truth about the man that Aubrey assumed must have been a nice guy, for the fact that Ruthven doesn't hang around with lewd or loose women, but only with virginal maidens and married women of the most impeccable character. The truth that these letters reveal is that Ruthven, like nice guys of our own times, is only hanging around with these women in order to sleep with them. Being a magical vampire, he can always unlock the door to the infamous Friend Zone, no matter what. He can also change the women's basic character. He does both the same way he cheats at cards: It's one of the powers that come standard with vampirism.
The fact that the girl that Aubrey loves, Ianthe, lives in Greece, is the probably source of the hotel's name, Byzantium. In Byzantium = In Greece. Get it?