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Anyone Else Tired of Vampires? |
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Is there anyone else out there who's tired of hearing about them? What with all the whining and complaining people do about Twilight Vampires and the squealing fangirls who would dump their own boyfriend just because he wasn't a vampire?
I used to love vampires with a firey passion. I had read Dracula as my first vampire novel ever, which was an excellent choice too, since it is considered a classic. Not just as a great vampire novel, but as a book itself.
I'd watched what I believe was a 2005 version of Dracula, though I could be sorely mistaken about the date. I remember sitting and watching a bit of Dusk Til Dawn and remembering how fascinated I was by the vampires. For my birthday I was given an English dubbed version of the Swedish film Let the Right One In, which was one of the best vampire films I had ever seen in my life.
I adored the manga Vampire Doll and was beginning to get envolved in others such as Vampire Knights and Hellsing.
I had read Twilight, though what killed it for me was I found the books just weren't keeping me interested anymore, which was how I had come across books like L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries, Nightworld and Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D. Despite it having lost my interest in Twilight, I was still very much a fan.
I will admit that I was irritated by the fact that the Twilight vampires were too perfect, hence wise I am not fond of Twilight-based Vampires in my rps if I allow vampires, but I had to give Stephanie Meyer credit for at least trying to take a good idea and make it original. After all, that's how come we haven't run out of ideas for movies and stories, is because we've learned to take something and try to make it our own.
However, my opinion doesn't stop others from making a fuss. I have friends who go to the movies and they watch Twilight films just to mock the series, which I find isn't fair to the people who pay good money to watch it because they actually like it.
People who have a specific idea of a 'classic' vampire, which is most closely related to Dracula, seem to have forgotten a point or two that Bram Stroker had about Count Dracula and seem to not accept factors that have come from other cultures about vampires.
They believe that a vampire can't walk out in sunlight and think the only reason is that it can kill them. That was not one of the original ideas for Stroker's Dracula. That, in fact, was an element used in the fiml Nosferatu, which was based off of Dracula.
In some cultures, vampires live in tall trees in Africa. Some people believe that a vampire becomes bloated after frshly drinking blood. Vampires become very, very sick in sunlight, they don't burn. Vampires can shape-shift, and element brought up in Bram Stroker's Dracula that has been overlooked by some of the people I've found proclaiming to be fans of 'real, classical' vampires. In fact, it was the fact that Vampires and werewolfs, or as some people like to call them lycans, while are considered sworn enemies may actually be considered cousins. Vampires can have red hair, Vampires can be born naturally, they do not necessarily have to be bitten to transform. Vampires exchange blood to transform, not just have a victim bitten.
There are so many variations to a vampire, so it gets tiring listening to people whine and complain about it. I had thought that after the Twilight movies, the thing would blow over and we would all be able to watch vampire movies that have a vast varity into a vampire's style, and so we wouldn't have to sit and listen to people complain either because they really have a problem with the vampires, or because they're just kicking up a stink.
However, what with Vampire Diaries having it's own television series and all the vampire movies appearing such as the vampire flick Daybreakers that are coming out right now, I'm having a hard time being able to enjoy vampires now adays with people arguing all the time. What ever happened to politely decidng that you just didn't like a certain way that a vampire was depicted without turning it into a big deal?
Does anyone else feel the way I do, or am I just wasting my time?
 Hedera Helix · Thu Jan 07, 2010 @ 01:52am · 1 Comments |
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