He leaves the people crowded and huddled at the doorway and tentatively starts the long climb up the steep steps to the top - to his questionable future.Rats scurry about and wolves howl.Two of Dracula's three undead brides glide silently along.[A vampire is a reanimated corpse that feeds off he blood of the living, turning victims into vampires.As the IMF team in the back of a van driven by Dunn sped away from the Russian prison, Carter described Hanaway's failed IMF mission ("a simple intercept"), seen again in flashback.There are many opposing and conflicting forces being balanced: the individual vs.the power of big business, the populist little people in the peaceful country vs.the chaotic metropolitan city, good vs.evil, and innocent idealism vs.hardened cynicism.A "Cinderella" romance subplot involves a deceitful, hard-edged, and sardonic female newspaper reporter who falls in love with the newly-rich, guileless fortune inheritor while getting an "inside story" and making fun of him in her newspaper.Maverick Austrian-born Wilder, the writer and director of a number of daring, caustic, provocative films with controversial themes, ultimately received 21 Academy Award nominations and won 6 Oscars during his long career.