Blade 1998 - Caravan Of Garbage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2019
- Blade 1998 is considered an overlooked classic kicking off what is considered the modern MCU movie. Others think it's dated and not good. HOWEVER in this retrospective review, this Caravan Of Garbage if you will explores whether it holds up as well as it did when released.
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Bit of trivia: The humans hanging in Deacon Frost's blood snack fridge were so cold, their fingers and toes turned blue, which led to the working title of this film being "Blue Harvest," which was also the working title of the original Star Wars.
Blue Harvest was a codename for Return of the Jedi so fans wouldn't know it was being filmed and turn up to the shooting.
It was never going to be called that. Other films may have used the same codename to hide filming but I can say with certainty that Blade was never, ever, going to be called Blue Harvest.
@@matthewnicholas6365 oh yeah no I know. I don't know if you've been watching more recent episodes of Caravan of Garbage but in them, they always make some joke trying to claim that the film they're reviewing's working title was Blue Harvest. CoG is a good show, you should watch it!
@@avahartwell3985 Good on you for not replying like doucher would haha
@@johnnylawrence9686 the world is harsh enough, why add more cruelty to it, you know? That running joke about Blue Harvest is one of my favorites.
@@avahartwell3985 Same
Some MF’s always trying to ice-skate uphill
Some Martin Freeman's always trying to iceskate uphill
Some mother fathers always tryin a ass skat up heel
Haha now it makes sence, I thought blade was saying, trying to ice skate from paying your bill.
I saw the MF and thought MF Doom
But water doesn't freeze on a gradient?!
You guys should do the 2003 Daredevil for this series.
Director's Cut
That's too painful to watch
CazBrown That movie was really fcking Terrible i even thought it sucked when i was 10 years old
@@TbYolo It does have some merits for a "so bad, it's kinda fun" watch. Like the snake sound bullseye emits from time to time (perfect drinking game) and the fighting game framing of one of the most idiotic fights ever, Murdock vs Elektra.
Thread BombcM xVbXmn
You should totally do Caravan Of Garbage on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
with comparison to the comics
Yes and also Wanted.
Agreed! 🤝
I bet you knew that was coming... :D thumbs up for it!
Still wishing here in the future
I think it holds up. I recently watched it with my 22 year old stepdaughter, and she loved it. She knew what she was getting into, and still had fun with it. When Blade catches his sunglasses (right after killing Quinn with the garrote) and the techno music starts, she turned to me and said "Yes. Good." LOL
She has good taste. You're doing a good job sir.
I watched this when i was a kid and i thought it was the coolest shit ever ngl 🤣🤣🤣
That moment when frost's number 2 in command is anticipating becoming a god and says, "I'm gonna be naughty, i'm gonna be a naughty god" had me rolling until i realized we'll never get another marvel movie this original again.
Did her hand get stuck in the dvd player?
You sound like a great stepdad LOL
“Don’t ask for blade 2 or 3 we’ll get to it”
*11 months later*
…
still waiting.....
😔
Still waiting
I think they are keeping them for the reboot build up
@@Kenny-lz3gh bro this video was made 3 years ago, a Blade reboot wasn't even rumored at the time
Saving them for disneys p.g funny blade
*Blade gets bit by Morbius*
Blade: It's Morbin time
The track Bloodbath (I mean Confusion by New Order) from the Rave scene is still used in clubs today. Sneaky shocking fact
MFs always tryin to rave uphill
@@JKribbit 🤣🤣🤣
Do you mean Confusion by Pump Panel ?
@@thisisfyne oh yeh confusion by new order
I blew a 6x9 driving around and listening the shit out of that track back in the 90's.
Blade is like a fine wine, it gets better as it ages. We just haven't waited long enough.
and wine is blood
PattyFuryGaming Exactly. Wesley Snipes and crew don’t get nearly enough credit.
Blade 1 is iconic and untouchable
Honestly, I don't like it and think it's aged pretty poorly, but honestly I don't like the genere blade is in so probably not the best review
I love the first Blade film. It was quite special to me back in late '98. I was a huge vampire fan in those days and this film came out, with it's cool techno/hip hop soundtrack and its blood rave, and just blew my mind. Donal Logue stole the show and we all know it. This was a fun flick.
Luke Dodge IIRC I don’t think any of the soundtrack was Hip Hop, just only techno instead. But yeah I appreciate your comment aside from that. Good movie
@@firstnamelastname364 Half the soundtrack was rap, maybe most of it
Luke Dodge Ah, you’re right. I was just thinking of the music in the movie.
I didn’t realise they had a separate soundtrack album. That album must’ve went under my radar
16:11 - "Yah it's dated.. but not bad."
James condensing the entire video down to a second.
That moment when someone puts a time code with a quote and you press it and the quote isn't there and you start rewinding forwards and backwards to find it and end up finding it 7 seconds before the time code and you're like WTF? Yeah, this is one of those moments
Glad you know how to properly timestamp
Please please please do League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
League of Extraordinary Failures, amiright?
@@JustJohnny wasn't a bad movie. Actually 🤷🏿♂️. Pretty interesting movie.
Just Johnny haha got em! Nah it’s alright.
It's weird, League is certainly not great, but the reputation as absolutely atrocious, while stuff like Blade "holds up" seems kind of random to me. Maybe I gotta rewatch it.
How did you comment on a video 1 week before it came out?
Blade is the unsung hero and became a cult classic.
Everybody wear black! Hip Hop ,Goth or RnB , there was no other colour!
Agreed !
i thought this said blade was a samsung
Wesley should play Whistler in the new Blade movie.
The 90s were the trench coat era
Late 90s-early 00s, to be exact.
Too soon?
Thread Bomb No. The frickin’ 90’s. Gambit, anyone?
Trench coats will always be cool.
In Germany it was more a 30s and 40s thing
Karen Jenson was not a love interest of Blade, it's a big part of what made her awesome.
I watched Blade in theaters and it was just awesome. Since then, I haven't stopped watching comic book movies in theaters.
Even the shitty ones?
k
Fuck that shit. I'd rather lie in bed and stare at the ceiling than sit watching a 2 hour 40 PlayStation cut scene. Blade was awesome though!
I pretty much stopped after the first Spider-man movie with Maguire with only the occasional exception.
I think the 90’s was just an amazing era of now unsung amazing comic characters.
90s had the best sci-fi and horror b movies.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do the Spawn movie from the 90's
Hey! I’m in this video! I’m the guy with the blue hair who walks past Jared Leto in the Mornius clip around 12:40. My friend (the blonde dude behind me) and I do extras work and we were filming for Morbius in Manchester that day
The first two Blade movies were fantastic. That third one though...oy
Third one Had Jessica Biel in her defining role.
@@OB.x And also it was Ryan Reynold's first audition for Deadpool. With one of the great insults of our time. So, while it was a bad Blade movie, it was still a positively historic one.
The second one had a lot of plot holes
The word is Snipes really, REALLY didn't want to be there for 3. That parade was rained on before it started.
Also, seconding Jessica Biel. I don't know how to spell the snarl of an aroused wildcat, but......damn.
The 3rd one was ass because it wasn’t a blade movie. It was a let’s make the movie about these other 2 people and that idea was meh 🤷♂️
"They gave it enough variation, you barely even notice."
"You don't even not-"
"You notice every time"
"You can't help but notice"
BLADE is incredible, and underrated - amazing cinematography, editing, production design, screenplay, and far better than BLADE II in my opinion. My second favorite film of all time.
I couldn't agree anymore thank you Aidan green for stating out the obvious.
Agreed. We all know why it’s underrated.
Same story, different day.
Way better than Blade 2, agreed-- and 3, but that's absurdly obvious.
I always assumed that the Matrix borrowed a lot of their style from this movie as well.
They did. They also “borrowed” the script, theme, narrative and everything that is “The Matrix” as well.
Don't forget Dark City.
That’s part of why The Matrix is so overrated to me. A lot of other movies that were just as influential that have aged better, are more well made but not as rated as The Matrix.
Like I’d say how something like The Bourne Identity was ahead of its time for action movies is just as admirable as Matrix’s influence on the early 00s movies and pop culture.
They did.
That would need for the Wachowskis siblings to be time travelers, since filming was mostly over by the time Blade came out.
Until 2002 you could purchase a replica of Blade's sword WITH the blades that pop out of the handle. It was recalled obviously for taking fingers off. Hahaha I regret not buying it when I had the chance.
I mean if you bought the sword its probably because you saw this movie so you should know it had that function.
I'd give this comment a thumbs up but I lost it to the damn sword... and the blade glaive was also dangerous
Source?
@History and Reviews I saw it in a mall in Bowling Green, KY. I think you can still get one from The Noble Collection website but without the handle mechanism.
They were faulty. Some of them worked properly.
As a 17 year old when Blade was released, I had NFI it was Marvel or comic related.
As far as I was concerned, it was just an awesome Vampire action movie for adults.
If you haven't already seen it, Daybreakers is a film about a world run by vampires, but the blood supply is running out, they even keep humans in more sophisticated facilities to use like cattle. It stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neil
That movie was very interesting.
This Movie is the definition of awesome!! Blade looked so cool and blade still has one of the best opening scenes to any movie I’ve ever seen ... the blood bath ... ICONIC
Fun fact: Wesley Snipes was a trained martial artist at the time and was able to do his own fight scenes. Big part of why he got the role as Blade.
Is he no longer a trained martial artist?
Edit your comment snipes is a martial artists
There fixed it for you
@@frankfrega1302 Edit your comment Snipes is a martial artist
There fixed it for you
@@Derek_Keenan you edit my comment to put the exact sane thing? You forgot to take your meds?
@@frankfrega1302 no, i fixed the mistakes you still had left in your corrected comment, like saying a single person is "a martial artists"
The Blood Rave song is called Confusion by Pump Panel in case anyone wanted to know!
Great Caravan of Garbage! Blade was always criminally underappreciated. I can't wait to see what the MCU does with Blade, I couldn't think of a better casting choice! (Aside from Snipes himself!)
Morbius was the most movie movie of all time
You know you’re parents are werid when ur named after a villain from blade lol
That’s how you know it was/is an awesome film. 🤣
13:02 "That's Doctor Michael Morbius (2022)" - Alternative Ending, Blade (1998)
This film is not as dated as people claim it is. I think it holds up quite well, even compared to most of today's movies.
I've seen far worse CGI in just the past few years.
Exactly. We know why people hate on it, though.
The CGI in this movie was amazing
How DARE they insult Wesley Snipes' greatest gift to America.
I would love you forever if you did the absolute classic that is 'DEEP RISING'!
Another badass line from Whistler:
"Catch you fuckers at a bad time?!"
I'll always love this movie lol
Blade was one of the first DVDs I got, back in 2000 I got my first DVD player for £200 and with it I bought Blade & The Iron Giant.
Me too, except mine were Blade and American Psycho.
One and a half year later and still no Blade 2 and 3. Guys please i need this!
First blade is fucking awesome
Grew up on blade will always be the goat
I watched Blade (1998) and it really holds up in my opinion! I really hope Wesley Snipes appears as "Whistler" in the new Blade film. Either way I really want to know how people say Blade (1998) doesn't hold up, but The Matrix does. Blade did most of the heavy lifting for The Matrix, and it doesn't get the credit it deserves.
The Matrix definitely doesn’t hold up for me..or at least not to the level of the insanely high reputation it has.
But since Blade’s reputation is more of a niche fun superhero movie, my expectations aren’t as high so I enjoy that film more in retrospect and I think it’s aged better than the Matrix
Blade came out one year before The Matrix. Super underrated movie
I imagine it's just a small enclave of vampires who are running operations in the background and trying not to attract attention, and then one of them comes along and decides to just start making more vampires to improve his lot in life and that's where blade comes in and is why we haven't heard of them before.
They're barely even on Shield's level if you think about it.
I don't think the scientist woman was meant to be a love interest, just a new ally for Blade
Yeah, it's cool that they weren't forced together.
Yea highly under rated character, sorely missed in Blade 2, swing as Norman's character essentially served the same purpose, down to introducing Blade to EDTA.
@@YakBat Blade in the first film clearly was more socially competent, the guy who made his serum was clearly seen as a friend and Blade even gave him a brotherly hug and a handshake manouver. Not to mention his reaction when the cops shot at him (AND when he was joking around with Donal Louges character in the beging, when he staked him to the wall).
Yet in Blade 2 he barley showed any "normal" emotions and in Blade 3 he was full on brooding lone wolf who didn't even try to connect with what was essentially his "sister" (Whistler's daughter), nor did he have anything to talk to with Hannibal King, who, just like Blade, knows how bad it feels to feel hunger for blood etc. Blade from "Blade 1" would have loved to meet a guy like Hannibal King.
I guess N´Bushe's character didn't fit into that version of Blade they where going for later.
@@Mukation Got all that, I was just saying having Norman repeat exactly what Kate said made no sense. What, somehow Blade forgot how to kill vamps with EDTA between movies?
I usually don’t male and female characters having sexual tension but if does just remain platonic then that’s fine.
I loved Blade 1998... Wesley Snipes played it perfectly!
Sure. In fact it was Wesley whose touch to the character(mainly the one liners and action sequences) which made it so memorable
My youngest brother was obsessed with “bwade” when he was little. I don’t know why my parents let him watch them but I can say between blade 2,3 and Jurassic park 3 even I can recite lines to this day.
Review Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight.
Please.
Hell yeah!
Yes
In Spider-Man TAS from the 90’s, Blade’s origin was that his mother was bitten by a vamp while he was in the womb.
Predates the movie
Just to be clear... this was pre Matrix, but after The Crow... right?
The Crow was 1993/94. The Matrix was 1999. so just right before the latter.
I believe so
Seeing Stephen Dorff in this and now in True Detective season 3, feels fucking weird.He's awesome in both though.
He's the kind of actor that is actually really good, but sort of never got the "big" brake, eventhough he's been in some good films.
@@Mukation i think it's his look and i think he looks great and should be in more movies but Hollywood certainly does have an obsession with a certain type of physique that appeals to their perverted nature and one that they think works for the fans and the other doesn't( hope that made sense, sorry, English isn't really my 1st or 2nd language)
@@hamzaorakzai3490 ya he doesn't fit the stereotype of what people like in Hollywood but he is a great actor
@@P3DR0877 that's a much better way to put it and i completely agree.
I recall first seeing Dorff in the early 90s movie "SFW".
Which was actually pretty damn good for a lower budget movie of the time. Especially the mocking of news media sensationalism which is still very much a thing.
Caravan of garbage? You mean: Caravan of the best Marvel film ever made.
Exactly. I was seriously in my feelings when I saw the thumbnail. But, they knew better than to trash greatness. 😂
The first 2 Blade movies are so underrated. Everyone goes on about Logan and Black Panther but this was a rated R superhero movie with a black lead and saved Marvel comics.
You said you would review Blade 2. You never did…
My Favorite Movie is BLADE
Wesley and the entire cast did an awesome job!
If people hated, I'd say this! 7:45
Blade was the most relevant hero movie in the 90s.It painted the dark tone For Comicbook movies before Nolan’s Batman
Same guy wrote both trilogies also. He just can’t get his that third one right, huh?
"He's got a big legbrace down one leg, and we're to assume that he got that in battle with vampires, but he probably just got it caught in a revolving door or something" made me lol aloud xD
Great video!
Lol stands for "laugh out loud" haha
I'd like to add a #4 to best lines in the film: The moment where Whistler blows the wall open, the audio cuts, the camera zooms in on him, and he says "Catch you fuckers at a bad time?". Still makes me chuckle, years later.
Blade is one of the only comic book movies I actually enjoy, and it's because they made it a proper film for adults and a lot more grounded and original than the modern era of cookie-cutter comic book movies.
Blade is a good time. It did something fairly original with overlooked material, and for that it deserves a place in history. The sequels weren't as good, but that first film stands up.
Wesley & Sticky should both have cameos in the new Blade movie
Woah, Sticky is a deep cut! I would be cool with that. After all, he actually played the character longer than Wesley.
Thread Bomb Since when?
When I saw Blade with my brother we were both so impressed. We had seen the future of cinema!
The spin kicks scene is peak fighting game footsies, and we should all appreciate that 😂
I am genuinely looking forward to a Blade vs Morbius movie.
Hopefully wesley snipes will be in the new blade as like a mentor to the new blade
DBV he won’t. Disney’s Marvel wouldn’t go near a once-convicted tax evader who had a documented history of domestic violence. Especially not after his Blade 3 antics.
I do think it would be cool though, but will never happen since Wesley’s essentially damaged goods..especially to squeaky clean Disney.
@@dbv9134 at most he'll get a little cameo in the new movie like the SNL guy who played Ant Man in the one skit in the 70s in the Ant Man film
@@firstnamelastname364 This kinda rings shallow when you realize RDJ did three years for trespassing and drug abuse and no other studios would touch him with a ten foot pole. I find it hard to believe RDJ gets a clean slate and a starring role but Snipes can't get a cameo.
2:19 Fantastic, thanks for the acknowledgement that blade is British in the comics 😁
I like that instead of "ice skate uphill" the subtitles have it as "mesh skatopia".
Do Blade tv series (2006)!!! :D
They wouldn't do the whole series, but I wish they'd watch the pilot movie.
I loved this when i saw it in theaters back in the day .....and i think it still holds up to this day! Wesley Snipes was awesome as Blade! And i hope they give him a cameo in the new one......
Great job guys! Lol my favorite line on this CoG is “It’s Michael Morbius from the comic books nobody reads.”
So literally i have smoked cigarettes while emptying fuel/petrol tanks. The ember on a cigarette is not hot enough to flash gasoline. You could throw it into gas and itd go out. Now if you puff the shit out of it MAYBE. But yeah the lighter would blow up the fumes 100%. But yeah can totally smoke around gasoline eventhough its a HORRIBLE idea
I saw this movie in theaters twice. It absolutely holds up and should be watched once a year.
The Trailer Nerd with Eight no bull, I at least watch it twice a year lol
Blade 1 is so good!
I love the whole Blade trilogy because they came out in August, close to my b-day, so ever since the first one, it became a sort of tradition to get a group of friends together and go see a Blade movie! :D
Did anyone mention the superhero movie with Qui-Gon Jinn? Super dark, super gritty, pretty hilarious? Had a crime boss that was kingpin before we ever saw kingpin on the big or small screen? DARKMAN, the first. It even had a sequel, but without Liam Neeson
Blade made vampires cool again after a slew of shit 90s vampire movies. I'm sure it can do it again.
That and Buffy. But then came Twilight...
From dusk till dawn made vampires cool again, Buffy and Blade made them mainstream. Either way, all good shit.
@@Ekinoxe And twilight made them shit again.
What was the "slew of shit 90s vampire movies"?
90s had Interview with the Vampire, and From Dusk till Dawn, both great films.
@@algiersc9957 So I heard, I never actually bothered watching them lol
I loved this movies,and i went to school with Stephen Norrington me an my brother were mates with him and he made a full size alien then went on to work on Aliens :)
Blade tried to kill the Donald Louge character at the beginning of the movie BUT the method he tried wound up failing. Blade said something like, "I'm tired of killing you. Though I'd try fire this time."
On the commentary track, they said that some vampires can only be killed in specific ways. There isn't any way to know just by looking at the vampire. The theatrical release doesn't mention or explain that that, which is why Louge's survival is so confusing.
High Heel Knight it’s intimidation. He will go back and scare other vamps with Blades legend, making him their “boogeyman”.
Batman would have done the same thing.
It also pretty much popularized the Superhero Landing too (2:53)
It started it.
Typical Black People. Always starting shit! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Blade 1 and 2 still hold up
Do the 2005 Constantine movie with Keanu Reeves. It’s kinda trash and doesn’t follow the comics at all but somehow became a cult classic.
It's not trash. The only reason some dislike it is because of the title. If it had nothing to do with Constantine it would get a lot more love.
darksaint0124 it’s only not good because of the title as first off he isn’t even British and doesn’t have blonde hair. The chain smoking is the one thing they got right as John doesn’t even use magic in the movie he just has that weird crossbow. I’d still like to see them pick this movie apart tho could be a fun episode.
@@luisz222 like I said. If he wasn't supposed to be John Constantine then there would be no problems with it.
The scene where he showed satan himself the middle finger rendered your comment about the movie being trash moot
Constantine is a great movie. Wasn't trash.
He wasn’t turned by Morbius in the comic he was similarly “turned” when his mother was bitten while still giving birth to him
His mother was bitten by Deacon Frost at the whorehouse house he pretended to be a doctor🦇
Its been two years and I'm still waiting for the sequels CoG guys
I remember the first time I watch blade and man I was like "Holy Cow this guy is a badass"! Plus I haven't watch Blade since 2002
Blade is great. I saw it at least 3 times in the theater. Deacon Frost is one of my favorite villains of all time.
Was there a bit in that alternate ending where the guy standing on the roof said 'It's Morbin' time'?
It's been a year and no Blade II, III OR LoEG! Get on with it! That would be so great! Love your stuff
Best thing about this movie
He drives a 68 Charger
Actually one of my favorite comicbook movies.
Everything about this that is dated, I can see through and more than apperciate the rest.
I’m so glad you mentioned the sword clanging in the final fight. The choreography in the sequel is actually quite good and rewatching the first got pretty difficult. “Motherfucker, you outa your damn mind!?” Was my reaction to that choreography.
I remember that the opening scene was amazing!
What about the soundtrack? I remember my friends and I would jam the hell out of that while driving down the streets. I know it's dated but at the time, it was decent.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
The Japanese vampire club music...
I can't wait for Blade Trinity
Wesley Snipes did a "blade" cameo in What We Do In The Shadows
@@MaxArturo yeah, I believe it's the season finale or episode before..
@@MaxArturo there's actually cameos and references from vampires of different movies
Boba DeLarge That’s so awesome my friend told me about the project but I still haven’t seen it yet
I love how when Black Panther came out people were like “finally, a black superhero”. And I’m over here like🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Spawn be like: "enough! will the clown..."
Sooooo… y’all doing Blade 2 & 3?
I would 100% watch a Lord of the Rings trilogy covered by you guys... But I also don't want it torn the shreds by Mason so swings and roundabouts I guess.
Great job on the edit, Ben.
Usually a movie is underrated then everybody thinks it's great later. Blade is the movie that does that in reverse ! Everybody went crazy when about it when first came out , but as time went it got overshadowed by the MCU and became underrated !
I feel like we dont see a lot of good action movies anymore with hand to hand fighting like this.
I say this all the time. I miss movies where everyone from the mob boss to the street goon knew martial arts. Gun fu just isn't the same.
The Raid and the Raid 2 aren’t “new” but they’re way newer than Blade.
I think People today would stil pay to see this movie in the cinemas
Blade on, Bro
When David S. Goyer first pitched the idea of doing a Blade movie, the executives of New Line felt there were only three actors who could possibly do the role: Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington and Laurence Fishburne, but in Goyer's mind, Snipes was always the perfect choice for the character of Blade
Kris Kristofferson's character, Whistler, was created for Blade's cameo on Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994). He was liked so much by Marvel's CEO that he was adopted into the Marvel universe.
The scene where Quinn (Donal Logue) attacks Karen in the hospital corridor features lots of screaming, but they knew something was wrong when Logue started yelling too. During the tussle, he fell face first onto the hard floor and completely dislodged his jaw. He had broken it in an accident years prior, and opening his mouth too wide and too fast can unhinge it. They were filming in an abandoned hospital but had to rush to a real one, "but I've got this guy who's dressed as a third-degree burn victim, essentially naked, running in with his jaw hanging down." The room cleared out pretty fast.
Wesley Snipes was interested in doing a movie adaptation of the Black Panther comics when he was offered the project. He said that he was unfamiliar with the Blade comics, seeing more of a connection to the blaxploitation heroes of the 1970s. "I just approached him as this really cool character where I'd get to do martial arts and wear a leather suit," he said.
Karen was originally going to be played by a white actress, but Wesley Snipes encouraged them to cast a black actress.
In updating the vampire lore, Stephen Norrington and David S. Goyer decided that crosses wouldn't work against vampires, citing "What if a vampire was Jewish? Why would a cross work against him?"
Michael Morbius was to be used as the main antagonist in Blade II (2002), but the idea was dropped when Marvel sold the character's rights to Artisan Entertainment to produce a standalone Morbius film. The vampire on the rooftop in the alternate ending is Morbius, played by director Stephen Norrington. Morbius eventually made his live-action debut in Morbius (2022), played by Jared Leto.
In the original Marvel comics storyline, the character Blade was British - not American.
Stephen Dorff wasn't a fan of commercial movies, in particularly comic book movies, but Stephen Norrington convinced him to take the role of Deacon Frost.
Stephen Dorff modelled Frost on several other villains, especially Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman (1989).
at around 26 mins) When Whistler first introduces himself to Karen he says his first name is Abraham. Bram Stoker, who's first full name is Abraham wrote the original Dracula novel. He even used the name for one of his leading characters a.k.a Abraham Van Helsing.
Although she's credited as Mercury, Arly Jover never is called by her name throughout the movie.
Blade was born in 1967. In real life, Wesley Snipes was born in 1962.
Even though he plays her son, Wesley Snipes (Blade) is actually 9 years older than Sanaa Lathan (Vanessa Brooks).
The subway trains in the subway sequence are all CGI.
The film was released during the late cycle of vampire films in the 1990s. Other films are Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Innocent Blood (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), The Night Flier (1997), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Vampires (1998).
Artist Gene Colan originally modeled Blade after a number of black actors, including Jim Brown.
Marvel made only $25,000 off this film
The first theatrically-released Marvel movie since Howard the Duck (1986).
(at around 45 mins) When the bed opens up and reveals Vanessa (Sanaa Lathan), the sound effect used is lifted from Aliens (1986) (the scene where Ripley & Co. wake up on the Sulaco).
Blade's real name is Eric Brooks. He is referred to as 'Eric' towards the end of the film, and his mother's driver's license says Vanessa Brooks of Bradenton, Florida.
Body count: 88
The final fight scene sees Blade attack Frost, only for him to "brush off" the effort before exclaiming '...My Turn!' and retaliating. This is very similar (and most likely based on/an homage) to a fight scene in the vampire classic The Lost Boys (1987), where the same happens between the "hero" and vampire villain. Additionally, the vampire make-up effects for both movies were done by Greg Cannom.