Vampire Hunter D in a lot of ways is very reminiscent of the romanticized west that you see in old films. The way D enters the movie and purges the area of evil is very much like old western films such as Sagecoach or Hang Em High. I enjoyed this movie but found the animation to be very dated. I know that this film came out in 1985 and that they didn’t have, as much money as Akira, but this wasn’t as Visually pleasing as I would have liked it to be. We also discussed earlier in the week the difference between a film and a movie. Vampire Hunter D being a movie did a good job of providing action and entertainment. It is interesting how vampiers were depicted back in 1985, people depict vampires as being super handsome and loveable due to the hit book and movie sires Twilight. Count Mangus Lee is nothing like Edward from twilight. in fact he resembles more of a demon than anything else. This brings up the question of how we got from demon looking lord of darkness hot smoking hot and very pale Edward of the Twilight saga. Also it seems that the values that Vampires hold are much different in twilight as apposed to Vampire Hunter D. Like in old westerns D seems to be the last good man/vampire on the planet. Even the other humans are corrupt. This is not the only western aspect of this movie. The scenery is very barren and dark at least until D slays the Count. It is also interesting that Dracula is depicted as the good guy in this film as apposed to the traditional bad guy. The movie was over all good, it had a lot of cool action but kind of a weak plot. they should really make a vampire western, now that would be cool. 
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