There is particular upscale apartment building in Edgewood Towers that serves as(at least one) safe house for the city's vampire population and as the stronghold of the renegade vampire lord Deacon Frost and his faction of vampires. Located somewhere in the downtown core of Center City, Edgewood Towers appears to be an upscale development that is controlled by the city's vampire establishment. The archive is the means through which the good guy finds out what the bad guy is up to, thus progressing the story.Edgewood Towers is a key location in Center City, a key setting of the first Blade film. Blade the sets out to try and stop Frost. Frost was trying to enact a prophecy he found in the Bible, which would give him enough power to take over the world and bring an end to humans. Frost has been using the archive to translate the the Book of Erebus, the vampire bible whose meaning had been long since forgotten. Jensen the plans of the film’s baddie, evil vampire Deacon Frost. Inside, they find futuristic data banks and a grossly overweight and flatulent archivist, who reveals to Blade and Dr. Karen Jenson fight their way through a club to find a vampire archive, the entrance to which is hidden in an industrial fridge. Blade and his plucky but naive companion Dr. Archives, libraries, and other repositories of knowledge are often used in films as a method of exposition, or of revealing some information that moves the plot along, and Blade is no different. I recently rewatched Blade, and apart from being shocked by the dodgy CGI, I was interested by the film’s representation of archives. We will probably never know if the mistake was my parents’ or Blockbusters’, but my Mum still thinks Blade Runner is about a leather-clad vampire hunter. ![]() Instead of Ridley Scott’s epic visual masterpiece they ended up with Blade (1998), an over-the-top vampire film starring Wesley Snipes. ![]() There is an anecdote in my family that my parents once tried to rent Blade Runner (1982).
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