This week in class we talked about good crap versus bad crap. Now since i've been sick for the last 2 weeks, that’s all I remember talking about, so I will write about that. The general consensus in our class is that Twilight is bad crap. Some of the reasons being given is that while it’s supposed to be about vampires, all the typical vampire traits are either dulled down or completely gone. For example, vampires are supposed to be these bad ass, sex loving, free beings. But in twilight, they act as a symbolic figure for abstinence. Throughout maybe the first 3 movies in the franchise, Bella, the main character in the movie, tries to have sex with Edward, her vampire boyfriend, with no luck. Edward is a 108 year old vampire virgin who refuses sex because he doesn’t want to hurt/kill Bella. What kind of message is this sending to the target audience, these 10 to 15 year old girls?
Angel And Buffy
In every other vampire movie, sex has never been an issue. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for example, Buffy and Angel have sex, and while it does end up turning Angel into Angelus, the evil part of him, it still shows that it isn’t impossible for humans and vampires to have sex, like they make it seem in twilight. And even after that, Buffy has sex with another vampire, Spike and nothing goes wrong then.
Sookie and Bill from True Blood
True Blood is another example. That show is basically all about sex with maybe some plot thrown in. true Blood is quite possibly the complete opposite of what twilight is. They have different target audiences (one teenagers, the other adults). Also in True Blood, the Vampires just don’t sparkle, and they actually have fangs. In twilight, they try so hard to keep them being vampires a secret, but in True Blood it’s really no big deal. All of this probably has a lot to do with who the writers of the books/movies/TV shows actually are. The writer of Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, is a Mormon, which is more than likely the reason why she decided to do vampires as a symbol of abstinence thing. The writer of True Blood, the TV show, Alan Ball, is an openly gay man, whose previous shows include Six Feet Under.
Off the sex subject, Twilight is just bad. Yes, I did subject myself to reading the books (back in high school). I’m not saying that other vampire movies are great in comparison, like say Underworld, Blade, Queen Of The Damned, Interview With A Vampire, etc. but they certainly have what I would consider traditional vampires, and they also have better actors, dialogue and are just plain old better than the crap called Twilight. Well I guess what I am saying is that that they are all better than Twilight.
