I've read the first two Twilight books and seen all the movies. But I think that Twilight is stupid and cheesy as hell, and I'm embarrassed that I enjoy the movies. I also think that Edward Cullen is ugly. However, I LOVE this vampire trend. It's so cool that pop culture these days is filled with vampire movies and television shows. True Blood is where it's at. Vampires in Louisiana! Though I've only seen some of the first season, I think it's a great show. What a crazy idea; vampires living in harmony with regular humans, in addition to synthetic human blood for vampires, in addition to vampire blood being an insane hallucinogenic drug for humans. Vampire Bill is so sexy too. I wish I had more to say about True Blood, but I just haven't seen enough episodes.
More vampires in Louisiana: Interview with the Vampire! Vampires in New Orleans! What an awesome movie. I have not read anything by Anne Rice, but I do know I want to visit the orphanage-turned Anne Rice doll collection storage-turned apartment complex on St. Charles. It's gotta be haunted. Anyway, Interview with the Vampire is so awesome. Th best part is when Brad Pitt turns Kirsten Dunst, who had been living in squalor with her diseased dead mother, into a vampire. Then her hair curls and she looks like a doll. So humans become more beautiful when they are turned to vampires. That's so cool! Agh I want to be a vampire.
It's interesting how every writer adds a different characteristic to vampires. I've found a Wikipedia page that compares characteristics of vampires in different cultures and works of fiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction
I think that if vampires are real, they are nothing like Edward Cullen or Bill. They've got to be reclusive, tortured, beautiful beings. Whenever I pass the Ann Rice orphanage, I think that there must be a man living in one of those apartments, but he's not really a man. He's a vampire.
It's crazy how popular vampires are in pop culture now isn't it? I mean, when we were kids vampires used to be a thing off dread. They used to be scary, nightmarish creatures who you'd never want to meet. Typical vampires back in the day were ones who can turn into bats, who can be warded off with garlic, who can be killed with a wooden stake, and who didn't have reflections. Nowadays vampires are like second nature to our society. Vampires sexy and hot now. They're going to high school, facing teenage problems, going through drama, etc. The vampires depicted in films and television shows are like regular people, just with special powers. It kind of ruins the whole "scary" image vampires have had for centuries.
ReplyDeleteWhen the whole vampire fad took the world by storm (there's no denying Twilight caused the fad), I rolled my eyes. I dissed every new show or movie that joined the vampire bandwagon. The Twilight films, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Being Human are the most popular examples of films and television shows based on vampires, and they were all released within a four-to-five year period. It's ridiculous! I hate when there are unusual trends in media, like how Hollywood keeps releasing excessive 3D films.
But I will say I enjoy the Twilight films, and I have never seen any of the television shows on vampires to judge their quality. I've heard that True Blood was good, and I'm sure it is considering it's from HBO and has received critical acclaimed. The Twilight series, on the other hand, are terrible films that I just enjoy for some reason. They're just my guilty pleasure, I guess.