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...just lucky. He's a lively, fluent writer with a sharp sense of tone and pace. And as in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the mashup is not as arbitrary as it first seems. Vampirism is a metaphor for slavery: like slave owners, vampires live off the blood of others. (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...favorite book as a teen was Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which he thought was far scarier than any Hitchcock psychodrama because it had actually happened to a particular family in Holcomb, Kans. "Capote's horror," Hanks says, "has stuck with me." Capote called his work a nonfiction novel - informed by reporting but drawing on the techniques of fiction for its dramatic power. It's a fair description of Hanks' productions, in which historical events and figures are drawn together along fictionalized story arcs, and characters have the psychological interiority of characters in novels...
These slow-turning narrative gears gives you time to notice Fuqua's lack of subtlety - as the camera panned over a stack of money for what had to be the fifth time, the preview audience I was with tittered - and his love of blood. It's not enough to be gunned down in this movie; you must cough up blood as you die, a gently burbling cascade that connects with whatever goop you've got coming out of your head. By the time the last corpse slumped to the ground it started to seem almost rhythmic: Bang bang, burble burble...
Coagulation, which stops the loss of blood at vascular injury sites, is essential for the process of stopping bleeding, or hemostasis, but it can be dangerous in the case of blood clotting complications like deep vein thrombosis. Warfarin, an anticoagulant, inhibits the function of the VKOR enzyme...
...sectarian groups. The duopolistic ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan find themselves under threat from a breakaway movement - Goran, or "change" - more interested in cleaning up politics in the Kurdistan Regional Government than in accelerating Kurdish autonomy from the rest of Iraq. And there's been plenty of bad blood between al-Maliki and the fundamentalist Shi'ite parties of the Iraqi National Alliance ever since the Prime Minister sent the army to put down Muqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra...