Never once have I seen a movie so drastically different from the book. The only things these two have in common are the name of each piece and some character names.
1. Aiden is a total tool in the book, not a over-glorified "graphic novelist". He isn't courageous. He doesn't have any substantial feelings for Vivian. From the film's perspective he comes off as totally hokey. Why would he care about some obviously disturbed young woman hanging out in closed churches? She obviously doesn't have a thing for him (which later in the movie he asks her "Why didn't you make me stop?" when she had made clear that she didn't want to talk to him.) If werewolves were "hunting" me in Romania, I would flee the country as soon as possible, not hang around to be rescued by the girl I'm suddenly afraid of.
2. Gabriel is tall, not old, and certainly not her uncle. His character is very one-dimensional in the movie, where in the book he takes a more deeper role. The accent the actor had was the only one in the movie that actually seemed like it might have fitted in Romania, even as faked as it seemed, whereas the rest of the cast either had misplaced British or American accents that the only reason I could draw from was because they congregated in Romania from different areas. This fact not being presented in the movie, but only taken from my own desperate attempts to try and rationalize the movie.
3. Who, with the exception of Goths, drinks absinthe? As a person that traveled through Europe, the only bar or club I ever went to that had absinthe was a goth club in Leipzig and the only ones drinking it were American tourists.
4. If they were at least to differ from the book, I had at least hopes that they would maybe make the history believable. How can I say it, right...They had wolf-people in the stained glass in the cathedral! Any high school student with the most brief of World History classes could tell you that Europe went through a rather large movement that burned witches, werewolves, vampires, and the like. They did not revere them at all, especially not in churches. Heck, even the species of the European Wolf was hunted to near extinction (even currently "critically endangered") because of this. In the movie they said that the humans killed them but once in another scene they said that they had just "gone extinct" or something to that extent with no explanation. They could have at least blamed the plague and I would've been happier.
5. The general character development of the entire movie was a sham. What a massacre of great characters. Someone earlier said that they destroyed the message from the original book about knowing who you are and coming to terms with it. This movie completely compromised that since Vivian decided to run off with her "graphic novelist" and go to "the Age of Hope". Vivian had no depth other than "vague" and "defiant", for no apparent purpose. Apparently the makers of the movie didn't even keep the author informed of the works in the movie and she had to get all her info online.
6. Why does everyone in this Romania speak English, even with other Romanians, except for the one poor lady that worked in the chocolate shop? She must have a hard time getting around.
Don't see this movie. Regardless of having read the book or not, its a bad movie. It seems that the makers of Underworld couldn't sell the idea of Underworld 3, and so stole the name "Blood and Chocolate". They took vampire wars out of the picture, kept some of the names accurate, and the title to attract the book's previously established fan base to make a quick buck.
I'm going to go buy the book now, not the movie edition, and make sure I give some of my money to the real deal.
1. Aiden is a total tool in the book, not a over-glorified "graphic novelist". He isn't courageous. He doesn't have any substantial feelings for Vivian. From the film's perspective he comes off as totally hokey. Why would he care about some obviously disturbed young woman hanging out in closed churches? She obviously doesn't have a thing for him (which later in the movie he asks her "Why didn't you make me stop?" when she had made clear that she didn't want to talk to him.) If werewolves were "hunting" me in Romania, I would flee the country as soon as possible, not hang around to be rescued by the girl I'm suddenly afraid of.
2. Gabriel is tall, not old, and certainly not her uncle. His character is very one-dimensional in the movie, where in the book he takes a more deeper role. The accent the actor had was the only one in the movie that actually seemed like it might have fitted in Romania, even as faked as it seemed, whereas the rest of the cast either had misplaced British or American accents that the only reason I could draw from was because they congregated in Romania from different areas. This fact not being presented in the movie, but only taken from my own desperate attempts to try and rationalize the movie.
3. Who, with the exception of Goths, drinks absinthe? As a person that traveled through Europe, the only bar or club I ever went to that had absinthe was a goth club in Leipzig and the only ones drinking it were American tourists.
4. If they were at least to differ from the book, I had at least hopes that they would maybe make the history believable. How can I say it, right...They had wolf-people in the stained glass in the cathedral! Any high school student with the most brief of World History classes could tell you that Europe went through a rather large movement that burned witches, werewolves, vampires, and the like. They did not revere them at all, especially not in churches. Heck, even the species of the European Wolf was hunted to near extinction (even currently "critically endangered") because of this. In the movie they said that the humans killed them but once in another scene they said that they had just "gone extinct" or something to that extent with no explanation. They could have at least blamed the plague and I would've been happier.
5. The general character development of the entire movie was a sham. What a massacre of great characters. Someone earlier said that they destroyed the message from the original book about knowing who you are and coming to terms with it. This movie completely compromised that since Vivian decided to run off with her "graphic novelist" and go to "the Age of Hope". Vivian had no depth other than "vague" and "defiant", for no apparent purpose. Apparently the makers of the movie didn't even keep the author informed of the works in the movie and she had to get all her info online.
6. Why does everyone in this Romania speak English, even with other Romanians, except for the one poor lady that worked in the chocolate shop? She must have a hard time getting around.
Don't see this movie. Regardless of having read the book or not, its a bad movie. It seems that the makers of Underworld couldn't sell the idea of Underworld 3, and so stole the name "Blood and Chocolate". They took vampire wars out of the picture, kept some of the names accurate, and the title to attract the book's previously established fan base to make a quick buck.
I'm going to go buy the book now, not the movie edition, and make sure I give some of my money to the real deal.