Twilight fans read Dracula...

[Tom Tickle]

Well it's a bit like the surprise they get, judging by critiques of Bram Stoker's classic by Twilight fans on Amazon and such, but it's a horrible feeling when it happens to something you like (I just don't like vampires that much).

I would appreciate it if dubstep fans would not bother listening to electronic music genius Aphex Twin after hearing that Flim is Skrillex's favourite track. No, it doesn't have a drop. Why would it? Now Youtube videos of Mr James' music are full of nonsense about Skrillex and drops, rather than the highly entertaining musings of the rapt men, women, children and animals, casting about for similes to describe the listening experience, and then failing as if trying to explain Hegel to the not-that-beautiful women on Beauty and the Geek. (I find that some of the geeks are quite handsome chaps compared to their orange opposites, and have concluded that sometimes both the brains and beauty rest with one of the pair. It's a situation I often find myself in - I adore beautiful and intelligent women.)

It's as if the fans of Katy Perry tried listening to Captain Beefheart or Led Zeppelin, or fans of James Last listening to Mahler.
(actually there may be some weird overlap in that last comparison, given their teutonic backgrounds... perhaps Mahler's fans get masochistic every so often. I imagine Doctor Doom listens to both, as well as Snoop Dogg's early work.)

Um... I should be colouring comic pages, shouldn't I.

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Psh. THEY'RE JUST JEALOUS that we have a MUCH BETTER Vampire than they do. Hell, even CASTLEVANIA'S DRACULA is better than Edward! Look, LOOK! I'll COMPARE THE TWO:

This is Edward: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6071/edwardculleno.jpg

AND THIS IS OUR TOTALLY BADASS DRACULA: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg9/scaled.php?server=9&filename=draculasotn.png&res=landing

Now tell, me, who would you be jealous of more and if you say Edward I'm going to hatchet your SKULL! Seriously! No jury alive would CONVICT ME!

 

[tff69]

Amen Sox!

 

[oman]

Heck nosforatu was more of a vampire than edward and old nosforatu never drank blood but he did give people the plague when he bit them. Even with his big goofy ears and nose he's more of a vampire than Edward "TINKERBELL" Cullen

 

[captain bender]

so no one is aloud to like more than one type of thing? I guess I don't get the problem.

 

[Tom Tickle]

so no one is aloud to like more than one type of thing? I guess I don't get the problem.

No it wasn't really that. It was to do with something fairly niche you've liked for a while suddenly being 'out there' as a big influence on a popular artist/writer/filmmaker of the moment and their rather dull fans coming along and not really having the patience to understand what makes it so great, so they trash it because it's not what they expected. It would be like a modern director of sci-fi films saying his big visual influences are Stanley Kubrick and Doug Trumbull, then a load of fanboys checking out Kubrick and Trumbull and trashing them because they don't use wise cracking robots or something equally dumb.

Hopefully i'm not alone in this.

 

[sevenduster]

Yeah, more or less. I liked Aphex Twin before Skrillex, and I still enjoy both (Come to Daddy Mummy Mix is still my favorite track of his!), and to be honest, Twilight fans need to check out some old school vampy stuff. Maybe skip over the Hammer Horror's take on Dracula, but still.

 

[captain bender]

Oh, i might have misread the part where they were bitching about it. In htat case i get where you're coming from. Although i never cared much for Dracula myself.

 

[Deleted member 178358]

See, and follow me here, this is the thing about Twilight as a piece of literature. It's not a piece of literature. Those old Bodice-Rippers with Fabio on the cover? Those were trashy literature, but still literature.

Here is why.

A: The PROTAGONIST of the book is meant to be a Cypher. That is to say, she is meant to represent an everywoman, to whom all will relate and associate with. Not to go to deeply into this, but Bella had literally no immediately accessible character flaws. This, added to the fact that throughout the series, her reactions are exaggerated and completely unrealistic, and you may rule out the "Coming of Age Story"

B: The Vampires were a representation of sin. Now, this is fine, you can represent vampires as Sin, Dracula was the Prince of Sin, if such a thing exists. But here is the thing. You cannot represent them as such, and then have them be a representation of the refusal of sin the next.

C: Edward attends High School. I think I've said enough here. You can't have a vampire attend school, and expect them to not drink blood. It would be like sending someone into their wildest sexual fantasy, and saying "Don't get aroused."

D: No actions have consequence. Bella crashes a bike and hurts herself. Nothing happens. She's constantly "in danger" but nothing happens. Vampires have skin like diamonds, and therefore, are practically invincible, and nothing happens. It's like the entire series you're waiting for something to happen which never does.

The whole story is simply that of a woman who knows nothing about literature, playing with a very specific genre of Gothic Literature, and writing about vampire baseball. Really? Vampire Baseball? They aren't even from the United States! Unless they are from Canada or Tokyo, you'd think they'd lived long enough to be playing a different sport....

 

[Tom Tickle]

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That really is the nail in the coffin (b'dum sshh) as far as any minute chance of reading any of those books is concerned.

I always saw Dracula as being about the Victorian fear and fascination of the foreign, the mystical and the sexual. I'm not a great admirer of the format or prose that Stoker used to tell his tale, but the story itself has a lot of the concerns of the time behind it, and I don't think any film really captures that atmosphere or the eponymous antagonist. He's an elusive character, and a compelling one.