![]() Their portraits adorn the walls of his almost dilapidated Victorian home in Detroit. In essence, Jarmusch recreates the vampire mythology to bolster his lament for the arduous plight of the self-preserving auteur.Īdam is a brooding reclusive vampire preoccupied with an intense alienation from the new millennia after having lived through centuries where he has befriended exceptional literary contemporaries of his time such as Lord Byron, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, Billie Holiday, Franz Kafka, and Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() This is especially depicted through Adam’s existential displacement, as his vampiric “immortality” leads him into a new millennia where commodity takes precedence over creative risks-all of which becomes an allegorical representation of defeated artists (such as Jarmusch himself) whose artistic inspiration is constantly halted or threatened by the demands for profit. Therefore, Only Lovers Left Aliveexploits the vampire mythology to comment on the hardships of artistic endeavors. Such an approach to art lends itself to a greater appreciation and a higher aesthetic value. ![]() The hunger is also a metaphor for the pursuit of the forgotten time where the creation of art is genuine, personal and untouched by mainstream demands and corporate control. He hungers for the pristine blood of the living for sustenance. Adam is a melancholic musician whose sentiments for genuine art are metaphorically echoed through the plight of a vampire. This is allegorically explored through his main character, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) who is also Jarmusch’s alter ego. Jim Jarmusch’s vampire film Only Lovers Left Aliveexemplifies the “uncontaminated” art that he hopes for. Through this, he implicitly bemoans the commodification of art-its threats to taking risks amid the creative process. In a 2018 interview with Time magazine, Francis Ford Coppola makes an astute distinction between two directors-off-Hollywood directors and Hollywood directors. Whereas Jarmusch, he makes these little art films, and they don’t make a ton of money, but they’re also very beautiful.
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