Monday, August 23, 2010
vampires + davey d.
that's right, people. davy d. the acerbic activist, radio and online journalist is a twish. i'll say that since he was a bit shy to admit it. i ain't! twilight: eclipse was probably the best in the series so far. it had (for twilight) good, cheeky dialogue 'i'm hotter than you,' jacob quips to edward as they hassle over how to keep bella from going into hypothermia (edward of course can not since vampires are cold-blooded). some excellent action scenes and yes the hotness that is jacob, his character is more prominent in eclipse.
you'd be surprised how many of us gen-xery people (over 35) are fans of either the books or the movies. i myself have noticed interesting trends with folks. black girls and women in general are team jacob. white girls and women in general, team edward. we all equally dish passionately about the plot arch or have some degree of disdain for bella's whining.
i also geeked out on the soundtrack. there were several songs that caught my attention. so i did some digging and it listed really cool musicians who actually make good music - florence and the machine, cee lo, sia, bat for lashes and beck. nice! i played this out for days.
what surprised me is that after the first two twilight films i talked a whole bunch of shit. first, the whole sexual abstinence trip edward is on, which is conveniently explained as the moral code of 'his age' (turn of the 19th century or whatever). in fact, stephanie meyer is a mormon, a religious group that has been that toots the chaste until marriage horn. still what makes her a good writer i suppose is making all this non-getting-it-on vampire and human action hot. second, it was mind-numbing to sit through trite teen dialogue obviously written by grown folks. the two first films were also seriously mediocre in direction and editing, new moon being the worst.
i also got over the hysteria real quick. i'm many years older and several generations ahead of today's teen. they could be my own kids! when i was a teen i was way too cool to lose my shit over anyone (nicholas cage, daniel day lewis, luke skywalker, etc). meh. i would work out my fantasies and write horribly earnest short stories of young love set against the backdrop of apartheid south africa or sci-fi wanna-be adventures where i save luke or luke saves me or at least i got to play with a light saber and fight off a stormtrooper. good jedi-type chick.
in my day it was interview with the vampire. i was 20 when a friend gave me the second book, the vampire lestat. i lost my shit. i made drawings of lestat, wrote my own fan fiction, was full of ire when tom cruise was cast as lestat for the film (i have come to humble resignation and acceptnace since). any fan of the vampire chronicles knows that that role should have gone to julian sands, an english actor. sting would have been cool perhaps if he had been younger at the time. daniel day lewis was my first choice for louis. but did hollywood receive my telepathic genius? no!
i've always loved the vampire genre and gothic romanticism. i think this stems from being a romantic nerd. the moody aesthetic of ambient rooms, dark shadows, deep sensuous purples, reds, and black. i've seen countless vampire films from bela lugosi, to nosferatu (a fave is the slient version), the hunger, the 1978 dracula with frank langella, and bram stoker's dracula with gary oldman. one of my favorite vampire films of all time has to be near dark, an obsure early indie directed by kathryn bigelow. after near dark, it would be the swedish film let the right one in. both are absolutely awesome in their originality.
since having seen eclipse i'm more how can i say? down with the whole twilight thing. i'm certainly not writing my own fan fiction or surfing websites, or devouring every bit of trending goss about the cast. i'm more a laid back fan; purely for the fun and fantasy of it. so maybe davey d is a bit reticent to admit it, but he agreed eclipse is the coolest thing yet in the series.
vampire kitty
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