so darrell and i just finished watching new moon. you know, that one movie with the vampires ("emo love vampires" as darrell would call them) and wolves? i really don't understand the hype. really. from what i gather all the movies is about two love struck teenagers who are unable to carry on complete conversations, constantly glower and each other and look like they are in pain whenever they are around each other. mix that in with a girl who doesn't open her mouth when she speaks, a boy who is abnormally pale with horrible bags under his eyes and greasy hair, an unbelievably built sixteen year old and some "monsters" and you pretty much have the story.
i just don't "get it". you know, the "craze."
what is it about the books and the movies that are making girls swoon? one of my professors last year gave an interview to one of the newspapers here in utah and said “Different cultures and periods re-invent the vampires they need,” said Brian McCuskey, an associate professor of English and specialist in 19th-century British literature at Utah State University in Logan. “Monsters are an embodiment of our desires and anxieties, they shift. ...Vampires are constantly reinvented.” (you can read the whole article here... do it its really good he is an amazing professor) i think he might be right in one sense... but i think that what is really happening is that young girls are craving something that they can't have and edward is just that. something they all want but can't have. imagining him is flirting with a danger they never have to face in real life.
i guess i just don't buy into it.
mean while i suppose i will just go along with it and wonder what the next craze will be... maybe a new story about frankenstein.... who knows?
amen. Thank you. Another sane female.
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ReplyDeleteBella's personality is the same in real life! Pretty much she doesn't have one!
ReplyDeleteHoorahh! Ditto, Ditto, Ditto!!! I watched her on a talk show and thought what a ditz! She talks like she is in pain and has to think for 5 minutes before she can speak. You are right about your theory. I know a girl about 21 that has never been on a date and has seen the movie about 6 times. It is because it takes the place of something she is missing in her life, romance! But, the married women that are crazed over this? come on, get a life! Actually, I never liked vampires and watched the first movie at Makenna's in Dec. and had nightmares all night that a vampire was pulling me from my bed. Ha, Ha nothing romantic about it for me!
ReplyDeleteThis is Leah. Well you should never, ever read Dracula because you will never sleep again. I read the book with Adam because I always read one required book from school with my kids each year. By the time the book ended I was scared to go to the bathroom at my regular 4 am visit. When we finally finished I slunk into bed at 1 am and said to David, "I've never been so happy someone died in my life" I thought I can go to the bathroom at 4 am and he won't be behind the shower curtain waiting to eat me!!!!!
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