Coogler never explicitly refers to the mythological crossroads, and Johnson is not mentioned by his name, but the one who is mentioned several times is a blues musician who acted as a mentor of Johnsons, Willie Brown and others: Charley Patton. Patton considered the father of the Delta Blues (a title corroborated by the musical journalist Robert Palmer), and in the film, the budding musician, Sammie (Miles Caton), is in possession of a resonant guitar which, according to Elias “Stack” Moore (Michael B. Jordan), was formerly that of Patton. The guitar turns out to have belonged to the abusive father of the twins, but Sammie permeates the instrument with respect and his own talent. Combined with the use of guitar as a defense against vampires, this continues the theme of sin film being inexorably linked to kindness.

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Where Johnson’s myth is really evoked resides in the mythology of coogling created for the film, which indicates that over time, there are people whose music is so pure that they can unravel the veil between the past, the present and the future, allowing the spirits of those who have been and who have not yet been to be to be to be to be to be to be to be find yourself mentioned during a representation. It is a capacity that can create a community but also attract evil … like a group of nomadic vampires. Sammie is one of these people, and his talent is thus considered a blessing and a curse. Throughout the film, the father of the preacher of Sammie, Jedidiah (played by the poet and rapper Saul Williams), tries to ensure that his son renounces his musical ambitions, saying to him: “If you continue to dance with the devil, he will follow you at home.” Sammie, who keeps playing blues or getting rid of his uncle’s guitar, continues to become a famous musician (Played by the legend of real blues Buddy Guy), only to note that some vampires found it during the decades.

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Although vampires do not kill the old man Sammie, they make an offer to turn it, an offer similar to that which the chief of the vampire Remimick (Jack O’Connell) did when Sammie was young. It is a good affair Faustian, the one that the other characters in the film do. Sammie never does this business, but coogling seems to indicate that being an artist is a good affair Faustian. The “sinners” postulate that art reflects the individual, their culture and their community, and therefore it is neither entirely good nor evil. Like smoke and pile, like vampires and humans, the relationship between art and the artist is mercury, the two sides of each room needing a balance rather than a simple eradication.

As Sammie learns and Robert Johnson would have discovered, a person can do something guilty for good reasons and vice versa, and the devil is all around us on a daily basis, so sometimes an agreement must be concluded.