Description
Blade in his pitch-black gear, guns, and duo swords spend the day killing vampires and protecting the human race with the help of his mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), who has helped create a serum that will keep Blade’s vampire thirst at bay. This is where Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) enters the picture as the poster boy for the ultimate 1990’s villain of all time. Deacon is ousted from his vampire community for trying to start a global vampire vs human war, but in retaliation, he kills the elder vampires and takes control in order to bring back an ancient vampire blood god to murder the planet. Only Blade can stop this maniacal man through the use of some excellent martial arts and swordplay.
Special Features:
Audio Commentary by cast and Crew – There is a whole slew of people on this commentary including Snipes, Stephen Dorff, David S. Goyer, and three others. Besides the fact that it is kind of disorienting to have six people on this track, it has some awesome info about the film. My favorite bit of info is the train chase scene. I had no idea that there was no train in the actual scene and it was all green screen, just incredible. There is also a part where they talk about an effect they did to heighten the white levels, so they would have a steel quality to them. This is probably why the levels on the transfers are way off.
La Magra (14 minutes) – This was a pretty informative doc that focused on how Blade came to be, and shows the alternate ending where Deacon literally turns into a bloody whirlwind and talks some trash to Blade. But my favorite part was the mention of Snipes leaving a Black Panther movie. Could we have gotten a Wesley Snipes movie about the comic book character Black Panther if we didn’t get this movie? Who knows.
Designing Blade (22 minutes) – This is also a cool doc about the mindset behind designing Blade. It’s cool to see where all Blade’s toys come from. This also goes into the green screen that they used behind the train chase scene and the scene with Pearl.
The Origins of Blade: A look at Dark Comics (12 minutes) – This doc doesn’t actually focus too much on Blade’s origins at all. Instead, it focuses on the Comics’ Code Authority of the 50s and 60s. They had ridiculous rules about even referencing a vampire or the living dead. The highlight of the doc is just hearing Stan Lee talk about the Comics’ Code Authority.
The Blood Tide (20 minutes) – This is the least interesting doc about religion, and the lore of vampires throughout time.
I really found these special features to be quite informative and really taught me quite a bit about the production of this film.
