TyRuben Ellingson refined the concept.
Del Toro envisioned iris glasses as central components of the lightproof outfits Nyssa and Asad wear during their initial confrontation with Blade.
Del Toro played with the idea of basing some of the Bloodpack costumes on samurai armor but abandoned many of the details for Blade II,
Eventually applying them to the design of Prince Nuada in Hellboy II.
In the end, I couldn’t do it in this movie, but this exact color and pattern are found on Prince Nuada in Hellboy II. I like very much the fact that you can have a look that is very armored, but the true design of a really good warrior is to have a very, very exposed area. Now, what a lot of the Japanese samurai did is they layered the silk so dense that it would take longer to cut through the silk than it would take to cut through the armor. It’s a very curious notion.
But as I started investigating this for Blade II, the teeth of Chupa on the left came to me. He has two golden teeth. He was going to be a Mexican vampire. Eventually, we cast a nice guy called Matt Schulze, who is as Mexican as a hot dog, y’know?
And you can see the idea of the row of lights on the right, next to Nyssa.
And there [opposite], next to the armored figure, is the corroded concrete wall that ended up in the church.
The little eye is more or less the beginning of how we started playing with the contact lenses of the Reapers.
NOTEBOOK 3, PAGE 24B
–It hides in your spinal cord and then it migrates along your nerves.
–Speed Bumps by cuts to give “speed”
–Bite and then run away FAST.
–We’ve been training in the abstract, but as of tomorrow things get real. You wanna know just how real? I’ll tell ya… It’s my guess that a lot of us won’t make it through the day.
–“Stray dogs growl at Chupa in alley
Wall in HOP.
–Everybody wears goggles for daylight.
–Low [?] for sunlight.
–Light [?] frame.
–Reinhardt CORNERS HIMSELF by punching light holes in the ceiling.
Make the iris smaller or much bigger.
Long and thin teeth.
My eyes without your eyes aren’t eyes at all. They’re two lonely holes—.
NOTEBOOK 3, PAGE25A
–There are things in life which are beautiful. To enjoy them is heaven. Not being capable of it, that’s Hell
–It is impossible to outwit a stupid person. They never realize that they’ve been outwitted.
–You need space? Well, asshole, look out the window, see all that space? Well, so, go get the fuck outta here.
–Even I’ve been infected by time.
–You can choose a destiny. I was born into one.
–I’ve known you a long time, watch you become a man over the years I thought I knew who you were. So did I. But there’s something inside.
–Scud watches I. CH. Talk ’bout it.
–When the sword stops, the air “blows” his/ her hair.
–The fight, use their leg to break beams
To stand up. Blood pack.
• GDT: Here [above] you can see a lot of stuff that made it, and a lot of stuff that didn’t. On the left, I really wanted speakers that were four stories high in the party place, but we couldn’t afford them.
And you can see me insisting on a Gothic architecture door! [laughs]
That shot of the sliding feet that is described there is in the movie. It’s in the fight on the scaffolding.
And the gold artificial spinal cord is in the movie in the House of Pain.
The figure on the ground was an idea for how I could introduce one of the Bloodpack. I wanted one of them to be really petulant. When Blade arrives, he’s lying on the floor, and he gets up, which is directly stealing from Mad Max.
The suit on the right [opposite] didn’t make it, but this is what I wanted the vampire guards to wear. You can see how I’m echoing the helmet I became obsessed with for Abe Sapien with the asymmetry thing.
To the left of the vampire guard suit, you can see the bomb that Blade attaches to the head of Reinhardt.
MSZ: And what’s this guy making the muscles?
GDT: I wanted a guy that was shaped like that to be part of the Bloodpack, but I couldn’t find him.
NOTEBOOK 3, PAGE 25B
–Talk with carol about the elevator’s design—.
–Beam splitter
–Roman bath scene for Damaskinos
–Lighthammer becomes a Reaper.
–Pin “sewing machine.” ID machine.
–Nyssa appears blurry and in slow motion to Blade, her blood in ROSTRUM—
–Red, Blue, Green, Amber.
–Flechette for Rheinhardt’s head—
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Douglas N
Jhonson B
“Healer” C
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–Base code:
Dry Leaves/ Wind
3 cameras on fan
R 4 45° medium.
Short and long
High/Low LC
Frame
skip.
Vam
Speed
MUD!! when Verlaine dies because of L.hammer
Eye with pupil that contracts.
Del Toro originally wanted to have Nomak feast on the head of a helmeted guard as if it were a soft-boiled egg.
NOTEBOOK 3, PAGE 26A
–Is this closure? As close as its gonna get…
–Panicked crowd reveals Reaper latched on Priest. BAM!! BAM!! It turns around.
–Someone is DRAGGED away.
–Speak urgently with Carol about the possibility of a tunnel like this:
–For the 4 WAY INTERSECTION
–Large goggles, 22 FPS TATTOO
Use negative space!!
Blood cascades out in SLOW MOTION in the wind
– Use the G CALVE [?] in the scene with Segura—.
While this particular scene didn’t make it to the film, Nomak (Luke Goss) adopted a similar pose while finishing off Priest (Tony Curran).
• GDT: Some stuff here [above] made it into Blade II; some stuff didn’t.
On the bottom of the page is a very brutal moment I wanted to put in the film—of Nomak with a broken helmet of a guard, eating him like a boiled egg. I couldn’t quite get it, though.
And I just liked the pose of this figure [on left] for one of the Bloodpack.
I wanted one guy to have a crash test dummy tattoo because I thought it would be, like, really hardass.
The rest didn’t make it. Little ideas about scares, or fight techniques. The little box there, with the face in it—that’s a cheat that I like to do. I haven’t done it much, but the idea is that if the audience sees negative space on the right, they expect something to come out on that side. The idea was to use a shadow because it makes it doubly intriguing—you know, the audience immediately says, “Oh, something’s going to come out of the shadows there.” So you get them scared that something is going to come out from the right, and then it comes from the left.