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Originally Posted by wooÐs
Hey, all I know is it involves vampires, boy loves girl and girl loves boy. It's like the dark version of 90210.
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Are you saying you believe that something in the vampire mythos is attractive to young females? There are many other books with vampires in them, and I bet not very many Twilight fans have watched Nosferatu or Bram Stoker's Dracula. Also, the Blade series was not a smash chick-flick hit, so that element doesn't appear to have UNIVERSAL appeal. Is there something particularly attractive about the way this series has tweaked its definition of vampire?
Are you saying it is because there is a romance? What aspects of the romance do you think the viewers find attractive? Many MANY MANY movies have "boy loves girl and girl loves boy" in them, and I don't have coworkers taking days off to go see the openings of THOSE.
These are the concepts I started this thread to explore, and I think to dismiss the series popularity as "Vampires and love story, duh" is not sufficient analysis for my taste...I want to know from people who know (like Cinn for example...way to take one for the team with the reading!!) what SPECIFICALLY is it about the Twilight universe that created such a reaction?
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Originally Posted by CinnamonGirl
Fine, I admit to reading three of the books... but... I don't get it. I can only imagine that teen girls think being stalked is hot.
Okay, seriously... there's the fairy tale element, I suppose. Bella is the helpless princess in the tower, who has not one, but two princes fighting for her honor or...whatever.
The problem, of course, is when they get into real life relationships and think either a) they have to be the helpless princess for the guy to love them, or b) in order to prove that he loves her, the guy has to be utterly devoted in such a way that he's bordering on Creepy Stalker Guy.
hmmm...the more I think about it (and believe me, I'm struggling very hard not to go into Rant Mode), I guess one could also argue the "Bad Boy With a Heart of Gold" angle. Yes, he's an evil blood-sucking vampire... but he doesn't eat PEOPLE. And he's so GENTLE with Bella. Awwww, swoon.
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Cinn, sorry I missed your reply in today's chaos. I think you're probably very close to the truth with your 'bad boy with a heart of gold gives up his bad ways for the special princess' idea. I wonder why you had resistance to swooning for these concepts, as opposed to so many people who just immerse themselves and watch the movies a bunch of times.