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Posted by: Ender at July 16, 2008, 3:20 am

Topic: Hellboy II: The Golden Army Forum: JoBlo

Quote: Originally Posted by spacemonkey ************SPOILER***************************** I dont think the similarities are all that thin! Aside from the Royal Feud issues that I mentioned on a past post, theres other similarities. For example: remember how Blade II ended with the vampiress Nyssa fading away, as her body was being burned by the sun, until finally it desintegrates into ashes? Now, how did Princess and Prince Nuada die on this movie? They turn to stone and desintegrate into smithereens, very similar to the deaths of Nomak and Nyssa in Blade II. I dunno, I'm not convinced. The brother and sister in this flick have a very close (even incestuous) relationship and being at odds with one another creates internal conflict for them, whereas the characters in BLADE II didn't even know they were related and they hated each other (ditto for the father son relationship, which is pretty nonexistant in BLADE II whereas in THE GOLDEN ARMY the bad guy seems genuinely pained at killing his father). The alliance of the hero and the family in BLADE II was one of convenience and inevitable treachery, whereas Hellboy and the Princess (and the King, not that he was around long enough for it to make a difference) are legitimiately on the same side. The Reapers in BLADE II didn't really have a largescale goal comparable to Prince Nuada's quest for the Golden Army, and there was no real MacGuffin for Goss' character in the previous flick. The death scenes dont' seem terribly similar to me either, and I'm reminded of a film critic who once pointed out that the death scene of the ape in KING KONG and Leslie Banks in THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME were very similar in appearance, but after he realized he was overanalyzing he simply admitted "Then again, how many different ways are there to fall off a ledge?"

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