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Blade
Movie poster for Blade
Directed by	Stephen Norrington
Produced by	Peter Frankfurt Wesley Snipes Robert Engelman Andrew J. Horne
Written by	Screenplay: David S. Goyer Comic book: Marv Wolfman Gene Colan
Starring	Wesley Snipes Stephen Dorff Kris Kristofferson N'Bushe Wright Donal Logue Sanaa Lathan
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Theo Van De Sande
Editing by	Paul Rubell
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	August 21, 1998
Running time	120 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$45,000,000 (est.)
Gross revenue	$131,183,530
Followed by	Blade II

Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character Blade. The film was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays Blade, a half-human and half-vampire who protects humans against vampires. Blade grossed $70 million at the U.S. box office, and over $131 million worldwide. Two sequels, Blade II and Blade: Trinity, were subsequently produced.

Plot

The movie begins with a flashback of a pregnant woman being hospitalized after being bitten by, as one of the doctors said, some kind of wild animal. In the process of trying to revive her, she gives birth to her baby boy and dies. The next scene proceeds to the present and continues with a seductive woman bringing an unsuspecting man to a strange nightclub. As the scene progresses, the man realizes something is amiss in the club yet cannot quite discern why. However, his fears are soon confirmed when blood begins to pour down from the sprinkler system (signifying blood raining from the heavens, one of the signs of the apocalypse, as profiled in "The Book of the Damned"). Then it is revealed that the club's patrons are vampires. Unable to escape from the hideous creatures which have now surrounded him, the young man seems doomed until one of the vampires notices an individual who has just entered, whom he calls "the daywalker."

Blade (Wesley Snipes) coolly enters the main dance floor, wreaking havoc amongst the vampire crowd. He immediately begins a no-holds-barred slaughter of the vampires, using a combination of martial arts and firearms to pick them off. Eventually, after fighting his way through numerous guards, Blade singles out one vampire in particular named Quinn (Donal Logue), nailing him to the wall with stakes and setting him alight. Upon hearing police sirens, Blade turns to Quinn and tells him "Give my regards to Frost", leaving a burnt Quinn along with the confused human as the only surviving inhabitants of his attack. The police take Quinn's crisp remains and send them for identification.

Doctor Karen Jenson (N'Bushe Wright) is the unlucky individual who performs the examination on Quinn's "corpse". During the examination, Quinn shockingly returns to life and feeds on both Jenson and her co-worker. However, Blade enters the morgue, having pre-supposed that Quinn would come back. He attacks the rejuvenated vampire, but is yet again forced to flee when the police arrive. As he makes to leave, Blade sees a bleeding Doctor Jensen lying on the floor, beckoning for him to help her. Due to the doctor's similarity to Blade's mother, he rescues Jensen and they head back to his base of operations. Quinn also escapes.

The scene changes to the meeting room of The House of Erebus, a vampire Shadow Council. The Elder Dragonetti (Udo Kier) discusses Blade's recent intensified attacks, and berates a young Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) for his recklessness in running these clubs. During this scene, there is a short explanation of vampire politics - most vampires believe that they should more or less co-exist with the humans (maintaining a secret, Mafia-like power cabal), while renegades such as Frost believe they should rule them outright. It is also established that there is some stigma from "pure-blood" vampires (i.e. those who are born vampires) towards those born human and later turned into vampires.

The storyline switches back to Blade's lair, where Jenson meets Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), Blade's mentor and weapons technician in their fight against vampire-kind. Whistler delivers a small speech outlining Blade's past, their current mission and the nature of vampires, along with the power they hold in the outside world. Jenson decides to head home, although Blade reminds her it is a possibility that, due to Quinn's bite, she too may become a vampire. It is also established in this scene that Blade is a half-vampire, and requires a serum to prevent his need to drink blood. Jenson begins to work on a permanent cure for the vampire condition, using Whistler's research as her starting ground.

Upon arriving in her apartment, Jenson is assaulted by a policeman who is revealed to be a familiar - a human being who serves vampires (a collaborator, essentially, that after years of service might get rewarded by being turned into a vampire). Blade rescues Jenson, and later follows the familiar back to another club of Frost's, there discovering that Frost has plans involving a vampire blood-god named La Magra. The officer is killed by Frost at a party thrown by Deacon. Blade and Karen proceed to interrogate a comically obese vampire named Pearl. Blade and Karen kill Pearl with a UV-Lamp, searing the vampire's flesh and turning him to ash. Blade and Karen enter the vampire library but are ambushed by Quinn and Frost's henchmen, along with Mercury (Played by Arly Jover), a love interest for Deacon. Although Blade and Jenson are assaulted by Frost's private army, they escape due to the timely arrival of Whistler.

However, shortly after this, Frost makes a second strike. While Blade heads out to fetch the ingredients for his serum, Frost abducts Dr. Jenson from the lair and badly beats Whistler, leaving Quinn and the rest of his crew to finish him off. Upon Blade's return, he finds a taunting video left from Frost. In a poignant scene, Blade aids a bleeding Whistler in suicide (Blade hears a gunshot from outside, but does not see it happen). Stricken with grief, Blade vows to find and kill Frost. During this time, Frost kills Elder Dragonetti by subjecting him to a sunrise, and forcibly gathers the other members of the Shadow Council as "volunteers".

Blade arms himself for a raid on Frost's base, taking along with him specially-designed pneumatic syringes loaded with EDTA (normally used as a blood thinner to clear blood clots in the heart, which has a highly volatile reaction to vampire blood). During his attack on the base, Blade fights his way through a horde of vampires, yet discovers a horrible truth once he reaches the top floor of the building. He learns that his mother (the pregnant woman from the flashback scene) did not in fact die, and is now Frost's vampire mistress, as it was Frost himself who had bitten his mother during her pregnancy. Overcome with shock, Blade is easily subdued by the guards, who knock him out and take him to the Temple of Eternal Night, where Frost reveals the final stages of his plan - Using his resources and vast wealth, Frost has managed to rebuild the temple and intends to use it for La Magra's resurrection, a key ingredient of which is Blade's sunlight-resistant vampiric blood, along with the sacrifice of the other twelve council members (Ashe, Cianteto, Dragonetti, Faustinas who held two seats, Ligaroo, Lemure, Kobejitsu, Lobishomen, Von Esper, Upier, and Pallintine). Through the ritual Frost becomes an eminently more powerful vampire, far surpassing any other vampire's strength or speed, and gains the powers and attributes of each sacrificed member, including immunity to silver, instant regeneration of lost limbs, superior strength and speed, red bulging eyes (from the Kobejitsu tribe), and the ability to walk during the day (from Blade's blood).

With Dr. Jenson's intervention Blade breaks free from his sacrificial housing, killing his mother and nearly draining Dr. Jenson to renew his strength. After Blade disposes of Frost's minions, including the death of Quinn and Mercury, the two meet for one final climactic battle at the base of the temple. Upon discovering that Frost cannot be killed by any conventional means, Blade empties every single EDTA syringe he has on Frost (who is now constituted entirely of vampire blood), causing his body to swell and explode.

Climbing out from the underground temple, Karen offers Blade her cure. Blade refuses, because "curing" him of his need for blood would also remove his Daywalker powers and he would be unable to hunt vampires, and he requests that she make him a better serum, reminding her that "there's still a war going on". The final scene shows Blade in Moscow, hunting down and killing a Russian vampire who persuaded a human to follow him to a vampire club. This sets the stage for the second film.

Cast

Deacon Frost.

• Wesley Snipes as Blade: A half-vampire "daywalker" who hunts vampires.
• N'Bushe Wright as Dr. Karen Jenson: A plucky hematologist who is bitten by a vampire.
• Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost: An upstart vampire with great ambitions and influence.
• Kris Kristofferson as Abraham Whistler: Blade's mentor and weaponsmith.
• Donal Logue as Quinn: A cocky minion of Frost's, capable of surviving wounds that kill lesser vampires.
• Udo Kier as Gitano Dragonetti: A vampire elder.
• Sanaa Lathan as Vanessa Brooks: Blade's mother, who has become a vampire.
• Arly Jover as Mercury: A fleet-footed vampire and Frost's lover.
• Kevin Patrick Walls as Officer Krieger: A "familiar", or human servant, of Frost's.
• Tim Guinee as Dr. Curtis Webb: Karen's ex-boyfriend who later becomes a decomposing vampire.
• Traci Lords as Racquel: A seductive vampire who leads a man to the blood rave.

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 possible 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.

Production notes and cameos

• Filming was in large part done in Los Angeles, with some scenes being shot in Death Valley.^[1]
• Flat Earth Productions created the effects for the film.^[2]
• Stan Lee originally had a cameo that was ultimately cut from the film. Although Blade is a Marvel Comics character, he was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. So far, Stan Lee only has had cameos in movies based on characters that he helped create.
• David Goyer explains in the DVD commentary that when Karen Jenson wakes up at Blade's hideout after her initial attack and rescue by Blade, the script had her discover a jar with a vampire baby in it. The baby would be alive and used by Blade and Whistler as a guinea pig for testing out weapons to fight the vampires. The studio found this concept to be far too disturbing and refused to allow it.
• The original ending included an eight-story monstrous version of La Magra. This was scrapped and re-done to the current known ending after many fans were disappointed when Stephen Dorff (Frost) was taken off-camera during the film's first screening. The original ending can be found in the special features section of the DVD.
• An alternate ending can be found on the LaMagra section of the DVD where Karen Jenson points out a shadowy figure wrapped in rags on a distant rooftop. The character is supposed to be the Marvel Comic vampire Morbius.

La Magra

One of the major plots of the film was to prevent Frost from raising La Magra, the Vampire blood god, and causing a vampire apocalypse. When Frost successfully became La Magra he gained certain powers, making him almost invincible. Each ability he gained was from the twelve pure bloods (Ashe, Cianteto, Dragonetti, Faustinas who held two seats, Ligaroo, Lemure, Kobejitsu, Lobishomen, Von Esper, Upier, and Pallintine) sacrificed in the ritual. Some of those powers/abilities include:

• Far superior strength and speed from that of a regular vampire.

• Red, bulging eyes.

• Instant regeneration of lost limbs.

• Impervious to silver due to Blade's blood

• The ability to walk during the day due to Blade's blood.

• The ability to turn any humans in his path into vampires instantly. (This is open to debate since Dr. Karen Jenson was in the same area where La Magra and Blade's battle took place and was not instantly turned, though it's a probability that La Magra needs to concentrate his powers in order to achieve the turning.)

• The ability to control minds, matter and the elements. (Gained from the Faustinas tribe)

• The ability to shed his skin, turning into a ball of fire to stalk his prey methodically. (Gained from the Ligaroo tribe.)

The majority of these powers were never seen or mentioned in the film since Frost's reign as La Magra was short-lived, but it is believed that since all of the pure bloods' spirits lived within Frost's body, he would have gained their abilities as well.

Connections to the comic

The character Blade was created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan as a supporting character in the 1970s comic The Tomb of Dracula. The comic Blade used steak knives and was much more the everyman in his behavior and attitude. Though courageous and brave, he displayed flaws as well, such as an inability to get along with certain other supporting cast members and a hatred of vampires that bordered on fanaticism.

The character was not originally a "daywalker" but a human being immune to being turned into a vampire. Lacking the superhuman speed and strength of his undead quarry, he relied solely on his wits and skill until he was bitten by the character Morbius. The film version of Blade was updated for a 1990's audience and the comics character was subsequently modified to match. The film's version of Deacon Frost also differs greatly from his comic counterpart.

Release

Box office

Blade went to number one in both Spain and Australia for their opening weekends. With 200 theatres showing the film, Spain's cinema goers earned the film $1.5 million (US) in three days, whilst Australia earned $1 million from 132 cinemas showing the film.^[3] In the Flemish Region of Belgium, the film earned $323,000 from 20 cinemas, and the Netherlands earned the film $246,000 from 44 cinemas.^[4] France made $1.9 million in five days from 241 cinemas, but the film was less successful in Hong Kong (with $182,000 from 22 cinemas) and South Africa ($159,000 from 64 cinemas). The United Kingdom was more successful, taking in $5.7 million over 10 days,^[5] as was Brazil, making $855,000 in four days from 133 cinemas.^[6] The film was banned from showing in Malaysia, whom are widely considered to be the most conservative censors in Southeast Asia.^[7]

Critical reaction

Reaction to Blade among critics was mixed, with the film earning a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[8] Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, writing: "Blade ... is a movie that relishes high visual style. It uses the extreme camera angles, the bizarre costumes and sets, the exaggerated shadows, the confident cutting between long shots and extreme closeups. It slams ahead in pure visceral imagery."^[9] Conversely, James Berardinelli gave the film 2½ stars out of 4, writing: "Blade has the capacity to dazzle, but it also will leave many viewers dissatisfied."^[10].

Impact

Blade was one of the first successful comic book based films to be released after the disastrous performance of Batman & Robin. Its success convinced Marvel to develop the X-Men film series as well as the Spider-Man film series.

Lawsuit

Marv Wolfman, the original creator of the Blade character, unsuccessfully sued Marvel and New Line for $50 million after the release of the film. He, along with artist Gene Colan, receives a "based on characters created by" credit in this film, but does not receive credit in the sequels or TV series.

Soundtrack

A soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on August 25, 1998 by TVT Records. It peaked at #36 on the Billboard 200 and #28 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

References

External links

• Blade at Marvel.com
• Blade at the Internet Movie Database
• Blade at Allmovie
• Blade at Rotten Tomatoes
• Blade at Metacritic
• Blade at Box Office Mojo
• Blade turns Ten. Interviews with the cast members from the movie

From Wikiquote

Blade (1998) is a film about a half-mortal half-vampire who protects the human race from other evil vampires, and the first film in the Blade trilogy.

Blade

• Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.

• You better wake up. The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping. There is another world beneath it - the real world. And if you want to survive it, you better [shouts] learn to pull the trigger!

• Say what you want, but I promise you, you will be dead by dawn.

• Motherfucker, are you outta yo damn mind?!? [said while cops shoot at HIM after a charred vampire just escaped a hospital]

• When you understand the nature of a thing, you know what it's capable of.

• FROST!!!
• "ready to die blade?" blade responds " I was born ready muthafucka!!"

Dr. Karen Jenson

• You know, my mother used to say: A cold heart is a dead heart.

Deacon Frost

• You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.

• Tonight, the age of man comes to an end.

• I need twelve volunteers.

• Is everybody thirsty?! I hope you're all very fuckin' thirsty!

• Look at you. You're a little bitch. [Blade looks up at the EDTA vial] What? Your serum? Can't help you now, stud.

• (Last Words) Nice shot.

• The Blood god's coming and after tonight, you people are fucking history. He's a hurricane. An act of God. Anyone caught in his path will instantly be turned. Everyone you've ever known... everyone you've ever fucking loved... it won't matter who's pureblood and who's not. How are you gonna cure the whole fucking world? Hm?

Quinn

• You took my arm, man. Remember? But its cool. I got a new one. [Shows his new arm] Think I'll ever play piano again?

• You can slice him, you can dice him, but the Quinn man just keeps on comin'!

• Stay with me, sweetness, cause I'm not finished with you yet.

• I'm gonna be naughty! I'm gonna be a naughty vampire god!

• We're gonna be gods!

• [Last words] I got two new hands, Blade, and I don't know which one to use to kill you with!

Whistler

• I'm getting too old for this shit! Somebody get me a goddamn wheelchair!

• Catch you fuckers at a bad time?

• Had a family once. Wife, two daughters. Then a drifter came callin' one evenin'. Vampire. He toyed with 'em first. Tried to make me decide which order they'd die in.

Other Quotes

Dr. Karen Jenson: You used me as bait?

Blade: Get over it.

Dr. Karen Jenson: Oh, great. Now you're robbing him. You gonna rob me, too?

Blade: How do you think we fund this organization? We're not exactly the March of Dimes.

Dr. Karen Jenson: So what do you use? Stakes? Crosses?

Whistler: Crosses don't do squat.

Officer Krieger: Go fuck yourself!

Blade: Fuck me?! No, you fuck this! [pulls out his gun]

Dr. Karen Jenson: Wait! I'm coming with you.

Blade: You're useless.

Blade: There are worse things out tonight than vampires.

Dr. Karen Jenson: Like what?

Blade: Like me.

Blade: OK, Vampire Anatomy 101, crosses and holy water don't do dick so forget what you've seen in the movies. You use a stake, silver or sunlight. You know how to use one of these? [hands her a gun]

Dr. Karen Jenson: No, but I'll damn sure learn quick.

Blade: Safety's off, round's already chambered. Silver hollowpoint filled with garlic. You aim for the head or the heart. Anything else, it's your ass...

Dr. Karen Jenson: Isn't this just a little high-tech?

Blade: They've got their claws into everything - politics, finance, real estate. They already own half of downtown.

Dr. Karen Jenson: What's that smell?

Pearl: [Distantly]...image carefully, Frost. You will need 12 purebloods to make the ritual work. [Realizes that someone is in the room] Kreiger, is that you? [Blade reveals himself] He's here! He's here!

Blade: This must be Pearl, the record keeper.

[Pearl lets out a rather disgusting fart]

Pearl: He's gonna kill me! You need me, Frost! You need me!

Frost: Pearl, you're history. Have the good grace to die with some fucking dignity.

Pearl: Frost. [Blade twists the laptop Frost is communicating through] Ruthless bloodsucker.

Frost: Congratulations, Blade.

Blade: Frost.

Frost: I hear you've been looking for me. I'm flattered.

Blade: It'll pass.

[Frost turns off the laptop]

Frost: Fuck.

Pearl: [After Dr. Jenson takes out a flashlight] What's that?

Blade: That, biscuit boy, is a UV lamp. We're gonna play a game of 20 questions. Depending on how you answer, you may walk out of here with a tan. [Points to a computer screen] What's that?

Pearl: That? Oh, it's nothing. It's routine research. Actually it's a video game.

[Blade snaps his fingers; Dr. Jenson momentarily shines the UV light on Pearl]

Blade: That must've hurt.

Pearl: It's a fragment! A piece of the prophecy!

Blade: What prophecy?

Pearl: Oh, I'm not really sure. There's so many of them out--

[Without warning, Jenson automatically fries Pearl again]

Pearl: [in vampire tongue] La Magra is coming! The souls of the twelve will awaken the Blood God! [in English] And there's nothing you can do about it, Daywalker!

Blade: Is that so?

Pearl: Well, that's what Frost says.

Blade: Then you won't mind me borrowing this, will you? [Takes a disk from the computer] If he moves, fry him. [Walks to an armored door] What's in here?

Pearl: Nothing! It's a storeroom. But you're wasting your time. There's nothing of importance to anyone.

Blade: Then you won't mind if I take a peek.

Pearl: NO!!

[Dr. Jenson fries Pearl almost immediately; A look from Blade stops her]

Dr. Karen Jenson: He moved.

Quinn: Hola, amigo! [Mercury destroys Blade's UV light] Do you remember me?

[Blade fights Quinn's guards and is quickly defeated. One of them takes his sword]

Quinn: Well, well, well. You took my arm, man. Remember? But it's cool. [Takes off his glove, showing his burnt new left arm] I got a new one. [Starts laughing] Think I'll ever play piano again? [Motions as if he were playing a piano] You can slice him, you can dice him, but the Quinn-man just keeps on comin'!

Crease: [Holding Blade's sword] Check it out! I've... got his pigsticker!!

[Blade grins as the sword explodes in Crease's hand, much to the amusement of everyone else, including Crease himself]

Quinn: You're a fuck up, Crease! [Imitates him] "I got his pigsticker!" Oh, man. You're just full of surprises, ain't you chief? [Punches Blade several times] Stay with me, sweetness. 'Cause I'm not through with you yet. Oh, lookie here. [he removes a silver stake from Blade's holster] Silver. Must have cost you a pretty penny, huh? Now this here is a man who takes his job just a little too seriously, don't you think? Come to think of it, Blade, I owe you one. [he stabs the stake into Blade's shoulder] Actually, if you want to get technical, Blade... [lifts another stake] I owe you two.

[Blade starts laughing]

Quinn: Oh, what's so funny, bright eyes?

Blade: I'm expecting company.

[Quinn looks closer, and sees the radio piece in Blade's ear, which is chattering. The wall explodes behind them]

Whistler: Catch you fuckers at a bad time?

Dr. Karen Jenson: You're one of them, aren't you?

Blade: No, I'm something else.

Dr. Karen Jenson: Why do you hunt them?

Whistler: I had a family once - wife, two daughters. Then a drifter came callin' one evenin'. A vampire. He toyed with them first. Tried to make me decide what order they'd die in.

Blade: I'm not human.

Dr. Karen Jenson: You look human to me.

Blade: Humans don't drink blood.

Dr. Karen Jenson: You know, maybe you could think about letting it go? Try to be like everyone else.

Blade: I have spent my entire life searching for that thing that killed my mother, and made me what I am. And every time I take one of those monsters out, I get a little piece of that life back. So don't you talk to me about forgetting.

Quinn: It's not my fault he took us by surprise!

Mercury: Two of them against your entire security force?

Qiunn: Don't point your finger at me! Don't you put that shit on me, 'cause you were there, too!

Mercury: I'm sure Deacon will appreciate...

Quinn: I was out there doing my best and I got stabbed in the balls for it, all right? [The girl putting his bandage on bites his severed arm] You little skeez!

Mercury: Don't see this fancy lifestyle really suits you.

Quinn: [Shows her his arm] I should shove this stump through that shit-eating grin of yours.

Mercury: Face it, angel. You were sloppy. You got what you deserved.

[Frost enters]

Quinn: Deac, let me take this guy out, man. Look. Look what he fucking did! He took my hand again!

Frost: Listen to me. I want him alive.

Quinn: What the fuck you talk--- "Want him alive?" We've been trying to kill this motherfucker for years. Are you out of your fucking mind?!

Frost: Big guy, relax. Be patient. Now we got a lot to do, here. I need you, man. I need you.

Dr. Karen Jenson: You have a lot of love for him, don't you?

Blade: We have a good arrangement. He makes the weapons. I use them.

Frost: How you doin' chief? [Blade reaches for his gun] Easy. Wouldn't want our little friend here to wind up on the back of a milk carton now, would we? It's nice to finally meet you, man. Had my eye on you for years. I know all about you: your serum, Whistler, everything.

Blade: Sunblock.

Frost: Hey, it's a start, right? The goal, of course to be like you: [With mock amazement] the Daywalker! You've got the best of both worlds, don't you? All our strengths, none of our weaknesses.

Blade: Maybe I don't see it that way.

Frost: Oh, so it's back to pretending we're human again? Come on. Spare me the Uncle Tom routine, okay? You can't keep denying what you are, man. You think the humans will ever accept a half-breed like you? They can't. They're afraid of you. And they should be. You're an animal. You're a fuckin' maniac. Look at 'em. They're cattle. Pieces of meat. What difference does it make how their world ends? Plague. War. Famine. Morality doesn't even enter into it. We're just a function of natural selection, man. The new race.

Blade: Looks like your mascara's running.

Frost: I'm offering you a truce. I want you with us.

Blade: What do you think, I'm stupid? [in vampire tongue] "The spirits of the twelve will awaken La Magra."

Frost: You're familiar with the blood god.

Blade: Frost, you're nothing to me but another dead vampire.

Frost: You're an idiot, you know that? I came down here offering you an easy way out and you spit it right back in my fuckin' face. [Blade reaches for his gun] Careful. [Lifts the girl into the air]

Blade: What do I care? They're cattle. Just like you said.

Frost: If you want to take the hard road, be my guest, pal. But I promise you, by the time this is over, you're gonna wish they never cut you from your mother's--

Whistler: Frost took her. Listen to me. The disk. We decoded it. Frost is tryin' to trigger a fuckin' vampire apocalypse. There's some kind of... vampire god he's trying to resurrect.

Blade: La Magra.

Whistler: You're the key. He needs your blood. The blood of the Daywalker. You're the chosen one. Listen to me, Blade. You can't go after him.

Blade: Bullshit.

Whistler: If Frost gets his hands on you, it's all over. There'll be armies of the motherfuckers. [Blade wipes one of his wounds] Shit. You're going to have to finish me off. Don't want me comin' back.

Blade: We can treat the wounds.

Whistler: It's too far gone. You know that. Give me your gun.

Blade: No.

Whistler: Give me the goddamn gun. [Blade reluctantly hands him the gun] Now walk away, you stupid son of a bitch. [Blade doesn't move] Walk the fuck away.

[Blade walks away. A gunshot is heard as he does]

Frost: You seem a bit tense. A bit pent up, maybe. Like you need to release something. You know? Blade not... giving it to you, maybe? I don't know. I just... I see such a beautiful woman. Great skin. I'd like to see you happy, that's all.

Dr. Karen Jenson: Is this the part where you offer to turn me?

Frost: Well, it's either that or a body bag.

Dr. Karen Jenson: Go ahead. Bite me. I'll just cure myself. I did it before, and I can do it again.

Frost: There is no cure, baby.

Dr. Karen Jenson: There is if you've been bitten. If you were once... human.

[Frost smokes a cigarrette. She notices he is wearing a band-aid]

Dr. Karen Jenson: How'd you get that scar, Deacon? A born vampire would have the power to regenerate from birth. You must've gotten scarred. Before you were turned. Isn't that right? Vampires like you aren't a species. You're just infected. A virus, a sexually transmitted disease.

Frost: I'll tell you what we are, sister: We're the top of the fucking food chain. The Blood God's comin' and after tonight, you people are fuckin' history. He's a hurricane. An act of god. Anyone caught in his path will instantly be turned. Everyone you've ever known. Everyone you've ever fucking loved. It won't matter who's pure-blood and who's not. How are you goin' to cure the whole fucking world? [Stands] And Blade's blood is the key.

Quinn: Deac, I don't think you understand. This dude is fuckin' bad.

Frost: What?

Quinn: He's like --We had 20 guys around him, man. I was there man, and he's got shit he throws at you--

Frost: [Mocking Quinn] Yeah, he's got the sword and shit, yeah? He throws it in the air, catches it underneath. Yeah? Shut the fuck up! Look, make it happen. It's one guy on foot.

Frost: Let's see this sword of yours. [Mercury tosses him Blade's sword] Titanium, right? Acid-etched. I'll get used to a weapon like this. [Turns the security device off in Blade's face] What? You look surprised. I told you, Blade. I know everything about you. Hold out your arm Quinn.

Quinn: Why, man? I mean, these are like all better.

Frost: Hold out your arm. Now.

Quinn: Deac, I-- [Extends his arm]

Frost: [Prepares to cut off Quinn's arm] Just kidding. [Tosses the sword back to Mercury]

Quinn: [Laughs loudly] He was fuckin' with me, man! I mean he was like fuckin'...

Dr. Karen Jenson: [Whispers] Blade. Blade.

Frost: He can't hear you, honey. The thirst has got him now. [Quinn hands him the EDTA vials] What do we have here? The precious serum. How long's it been since you shot up? 12, 13 hours maybe? [Holds a vial to Blade's face] Bet your just dyin' for a drink, aren't you? What's it feel like? Is your blood on fire?

Blade: Try some. You might like it.

Frost: Thanks, but I prefer the real thing. In any event, I don't think you'll be needing these anymore.

[Frost throws them into the abyss]

Frost: Tonight, the age of man comes to an end. No more compromises.

Quinn: We're gonna be gods.

Frost: Of course we are.

Quinn: I'm gonna be naughty. I'm gonna be a naughty vampire god!

Mercury: Deacon?

Frost: Not anymore.

Blade: FROST!

Frost: Kill him.

Quinn: Wait! I owe you, man. I got two new hands, Blade, and I don't know which one to use to kill you with!

[Quinn runs to Blade, who decapitates him]

[Blade has cut Frost's arm off, then cut him in half, only for him to reattatch himself]

Blade: [Mouths] What the fuck?

Frost: You're too late, Blade. [Regrows his arm]

Dr. Karen Jenson: I need to get back to the lab if I'm going to cure you.

Blade: It's not over. You keep your cure. There's still a war going on and I've got a job to do. You want to help, make me a better serum.

[Last lines, in Moscow]

Russian Woman: It's cold. Where are we going?

Russian Vampire: It's a suprise.

Russian Woman: Surprise? I like surprises.

Russian Vampire: Then you'll like this. [Attacks her]

Blade: [In Russian] Zastal nevovremya, tovarisch? (Catch you at a bad time, comrade?)

External links

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