I haven't jumped on the Twilight bandwagon yet. Chances are I'm not going to. I realize there are now many women out there that are gasping and would like to pull me through the computer screen, shake me violently, and ask me what in the world can possibly be wrong with me. I assure you, I am fine. Judging from my friends, it seems the most devoted fans are in the 20- and 30-something crowd and nearly all women. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a male post anything about being on Team Edward on Facebook.
Vampires are too nice nowadays. Here is a fact: vampires are not nice. They have one goal, and that is to drain you of your blood. They don't want to fall in love with a human, no matter how lovely and voluptuous you are. A vampire views us like some of us may view a cow, and think about what a plump and juicy meal it could be. Vampires are scary, or at least they would be scary if they were real.
Rest assured, I do not believe vampires are real. Please do not recommend my name to a psychologist or anything like that. I am simply telling you that if they were real they would be scary and you would not trust them and you certainly would not fall in love with them. All these women who are fanatical for the Twilight series would probably beg for their mommy if an actual vampire ever appeared in her bedroom at 3am on a moonlit night.
I do suppose there has always been a trend for women to gravitate to the bad boy, to the criminal, to the man her father always warned her to stay away from. Maybe this Twilight craze is just the newest, faddiest extension of this phenomenon. It used to be that the hunky hero in a film was a pirate or outlaw cowboy. There is something sexy about a man that can handle a weapon and not injure himself, I admit. Then there were films that cast the rebel or the patriot, the 'lone wolf', as the protagonist; he usually has lost the love of his life and has been wronged by his country and we ladies just sigh and swoon as if he is simply the most amazing specimen of manhood ever. We dream at night of British spies, muscular Native American chiefs, and masked bandits coming in a whirlwind of passion into our lives and whisking us away to an exotic Paradise. Well, I don't dream that. I am a happily married woman.
But the vampire, that blight on human's mortal existence being the protagonist I simply cannot abide. Whatever kind of offspring would come forth from such an unholy union? What if his fangs accidentally bit you? Can you imagine nursing a vampire baby? I shudder at the thought. At some point you would need to decide whether you want to get old and withered and die while he's still young and beautiful or if you want to spend the rest of your (un)life consuming blood because you decided to become a vampire as well.
I realize I am in the minority here and please don't take offense to what I say. Look at the positives of my indifference to the Twilight films. It leaves more Edward for all the rest of you! It also leaves two empty seats at the movie theater since I won't be dragging my unwilling, yet wonderfully loving husband with me. If Edward decides to come choose someone to join a harem of vampire followers in the future, I guarantee he will come for you and not me.
Besides, if I truly had to fall for a vampire, it would definitely be Brad Pitt in Interview With A Vampire. Ladies, your Edward is safe from me.
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about these books.. the jacket alone is enough to bore me to tears...Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire and Lestat The Vampire was much more interesting... When I ask womyn who love these books if they have read Anne Rice, they just look at me with a blank stare..lol
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As a writer I would love to be so "lucky"!
Oh, BTW, I am team Jacob and I am glad he doesn't own a shirt!
Dianna Sandora
www.secretstowritingsuccess.com
You are correct, though. She is making a killing on these books!
It used to be that the drain of blood from the victim was a metaphor for the taking of the soul.
Now, it's a metaphor for the taking of virginity (it may also be a metaphor for rape).
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZJUgsZ56vQ
1. vampires do not sparkle
2. vampires do not play baseball
3. vampires do not make babies (mostly because they are D E A D )
4. vampires do not drive Volvo S T A T I O N W A G O N S
5. vampires are not interested in the affairs of humans,
and least of all teenagers
6. vampires do not start vampire wars because of the affairs of humans,
and least of all teenagers
7. vampires reject werewolves as a reality--but they get a little nervous around the Quileute
8. vampires reject Mormonism and all its pomps and all its empty promises
9. vampires shun and sometimes outright destroy other vampires that insist on attending
high school
10. vampires reject attending high school just to "blend in" with humanity or whatever...
However, as a thirty-something woman, I consider myself too mature to watch films about the fraught, convoluted and artificially sophisticated love lives of angst-ridden teens. It just doesn't interest me.
And the site of all those screaming girls (and women!!) camping out on the side-walk to buy tickets to the new film, just makes me shake my head. Especially since the books are notorious for being poorly written.
I happen to like Anne Rice's or C. Harris' approach which much more directed to an adult audience which explores more fully the vampire lore & mythos, as well as the overt sexuality of these creatures[whether male or female]. One overiding, omnipresent feature of ALL vampires is that they are by their very nature-predators. Therefore all of their preternatural(or if you will,supernatural) abilities are directed to one thing: to hunt, subdue & feed off their victims, as well as avoid being caught or detected. The current Twilight phenomenon is more of a watered down version with the typical bad boy, forbidden love theme that is directed to a teenage(or maybe 18-34) demographic & that's ok, because it sells books & puts butts in movies theatre seats. Yet the good ol' combo of romance, sex & the supernatural, predatory immortal world these creatures inhabit, is always a perennial favorite to every demographic.
Even a few of the depraved, evil vampires in True Blood can come by for a visit.
Sure they're scary, but millions of women's fantasies cant be all wrong.
BY THE WAY, if forced Id be on team werewolf (whatever the character's name is). Edward has little of the dangerous vampire genes that live in my fantasies. At least with the werewolf I know there's SOME animal magnatism!