Hotel Transylvania

Specs

• Title: Hotel Transylvania

• Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Family, Comedy

• Series: Hotel Transylvania

• Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

• Writers: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel

• Release date: September 28, 2012

• Production company: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation

• Country: USA

• Characters: Dracula (Drac), Mavis, Frankenstein, Jonathan, Wayne, Griffin, Murray

• Setting: Transylvania, Romania

Outline/synopsis:

Dracula builds a hotel for monsters in Transylvania, hidden from the humans, hoping to keep his daughter Mavis in a safe environment. When Mavis turns 118 years old, she manages to get permission from her father to visit a nearby village and see for herself how humans really are like, while her father makes the necessary preparations for her party. However, her father tricks her into believing that humans are bad and so she returns home. Before the party starts, Jonathan, an American tourist, stumbles upon the resort and decides to visit it. Dracula, sensing the danger the human is in, tries to disguise him into a monster in order to hide him from his guests.

Personal view:

• Some of Edward Said’s theories in relation to Orientalism and Occidentalism can be used.

Tropes:

• The Vampire;

• Monsters;

• Strict parent;

• Behind the mask;

• Learning how to accept others;

• Fascination with the Oriental;

• Interracial love;

• Crazed mob;

• What is more important.

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