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Re: Info Needed: "Blade" and "Dark Skies" (longish)

From:Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 31, 2001, 0:51
On 26 Jan 2001, 23:06,
J Matthew Pearson writes:

> Paul Bennett wrote: >
[snip]
> > I hadn't really > > done much of the actual deciphering, so I bow out completely to > > Matt's greater knowledge and determination...
> Determination, perhaps. Knowledge? Hardly.
Feh! Okay then, "training". Possibly "education" might be the best word. [snip]
> [* In the first "Blade" movie we learn that there is a Vampire Bible, > written in Vampiric hieroglyphs.]
Idge, yurg. I don't envy you if you have to do a similar reconstruction job on that script. Makes me shudder just to think of it. "Arcane" is probably a good term. Have you taken into account the (admittedly fragmentary) bits of Vampire that appear without subtitles? At the end of the nightclub scene (the first "real" scene), when Blade pins Quinn to the wall, Quinn utters a whole bunch of stuff in something that definately isn't English. Most of it is incoherent, but the phrase "nu bwerti, nabo sakatani" is clear, the last two words of which are repeated several times. I dunno if that's Russian or not, though... --- Paul