{"id":39189,"date":"2022-10-05T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39189"},"modified":"2022-10-05T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:49:43","slug":"flying-a-kite-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/05\/flying-a-kite-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying a Kite at Night?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was flipping through an old comic when I came across this advertisement which made me think of the truly terrible 1979 version of Dracula<\/em> starring Frank Langella<\/em> as the count and Laurence Olivier<\/em> recycling his awful accent from A Little Romance<\/em> as Van Helsing. What reminds me of this ad is during the film’s climax, Dracula appears to be destroyed by being hoisted from the hold of a ship into the purifying rays of the sun. As he melts there is a cut away and then there is a cut back where the count is replaced by what is obviously a kite. The kite flies off into the sky. It looks as if they wanted to leave a window open in case the box office returns warranted a sequel, but it did not. It felt like the film’s crew just wanted to get it over with so they shot a kite. They didn’t know how to end the movie. It may have worked in a small, fleeting glimpse, but the camera held onto an unmistakable kite flapping in the wind. Awful. \"\"Honestly, this doesn’t look too bad as a still, but it’s much worse in motion. It’s not a bat. It’s not a man. It’s a kite. The cartoony flying count would have been a preferable substitute.<\/p>\n

\"Eerie<\/a>