Twilight... a little disturbing?
Saw this on a Facebook discussion about it's box office numbers versus how good a movie it really is :)
"Someone called it "Let the Wrong One In", and it stuck in my mind. That the fan base blithely skips over the creep factor of being stalked by a hundreds?-year-old mass murderer disguised as a teenage boy says some very bad things about contemporary culture."
It does indeed make one think... Now I fully admit I have neither read the books nor seen the movies but I do know enough about them from reviews and such to know it basically soft porn with vamps. Is this really a good thing for millions of teenage girls to idolize?
Not that I have any problem with vamp sex in fiction for adults, but I far prefer Laurell K Hamilton myself :) But seriously is this good for 14-16 year old girls? Think about vampire lore, they are mesmerizing, virtually immortal, romantic but have to drink blood to survive and have to kill to pro-create.
I am all about creative freedom, and I would love to see HBO some do Anita Blake as a series...only HBO could do it well. I have only seen a couple episodes of True Blood and it didn't really grab me.
So, I have absolutely no problem with the idea of the Twilight books and movies as fiction but the marketing of this franchise to that particular demographic does , after I thought about it...kinda disturb me.
I'm a realist and realize that it's no huge conspiracy, it's all about making insane amounts of money...I just wonder if the people pushing the marketing have ever actually thought about the message they are pushing?
My 2cp
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"Someone called it "Let the Wrong One In", and it stuck in my mind. That the fan base blithely skips over the creep factor of being stalked by a hundreds?-year-old mass murderer disguised as a teenage boy says some very bad things about contemporary culture."
It does indeed make one think... Now I fully admit I have neither read the books nor seen the movies but I do know enough about them from reviews and such to know it basically soft porn with vamps. Is this really a good thing for millions of teenage girls to idolize?
Not that I have any problem with vamp sex in fiction for adults, but I far prefer Laurell K Hamilton myself :) But seriously is this good for 14-16 year old girls? Think about vampire lore, they are mesmerizing, virtually immortal, romantic but have to drink blood to survive and have to kill to pro-create.
I am all about creative freedom, and I would love to see HBO some do Anita Blake as a series...only HBO could do it well. I have only seen a couple episodes of True Blood and it didn't really grab me.
So, I have absolutely no problem with the idea of the Twilight books and movies as fiction but the marketing of this franchise to that particular demographic does , after I thought about it...kinda disturb me.
I'm a realist and realize that it's no huge conspiracy, it's all about making insane amounts of money...I just wonder if the people pushing the marketing have ever actually thought about the message they are pushing?
My 2cp
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People doing marketing know perfectly well what message they are pushing. They pay psychologists to analyze the market carefully, and to tailor the advertising precisely. Look at what the tobacco industry did for decades, in full knowledge of the effects of what they were marketing.
I've read the books, and was surprised by the way the writer ended up portraying the main heart-throb vamp. He's sworn off of human blood and only drinks animal blood, so no worries there. And although the swooning teen girl desperately wants some vampire lovin', he won't give it to her until they're married. That's right, an abstinence-until-marriage vampire.
You don't have to see the movie. There's a great play-by-play here