Today's vampire – a needy, neurotic wimp
By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent
Friday, 25 June 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/todays-vampire-ndash-a-needy-neurotic-wimp-2010057.html
Did the vampire lose his toughness? Movies and books like the twilight saga are a big mainstream hit nowadays but some of us doubt if this does the ‘’vampire image’’ any good.Vampires should not be depicted as vegetarians, as they are by Meyer. In other books they tend to be quite neurotic. Bram Stoker's Dracula was entertaining because it was dark, multi-layered with violence that was inferred. Teen vampire fiction is spoiling the image of the vampire. Writers hope that mainstream culture would lose its interest in the undead so that vampire fiction could regain its potency. Many in the horror fiction community felt that the rise of glamorous, fanged creations in books and shows have helped to create a new generation of "softer" vampires.
I personally agree with the members of the horror fiction society, vampires ought to be evil mysterious creatures of the night and not self controlled vegetarian good guy s who try to save the les powerful. Vampires are turning in to the ‘’good guys’’ of the story this is not how they are supposed to be, it is like blue grass and green skies. I am pretty fed up with the vampire hype it is time to watch something else instead of another ‘’vampire love affair’’.
By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent
Friday, 25 June 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/todays-vampire-ndash-a-needy-neurotic-wimp-2010057.html
Did the vampire lose his toughness? Movies and books like the twilight saga are a big mainstream hit nowadays but some of us doubt if this does the ‘’vampire image’’ any good.Vampires should not be depicted as vegetarians, as they are by Meyer. In other books they tend to be quite neurotic. Bram Stoker's Dracula was entertaining because it was dark, multi-layered with violence that was inferred. Teen vampire fiction is spoiling the image of the vampire. Writers hope that mainstream culture would lose its interest in the undead so that vampire fiction could regain its potency. Many in the horror fiction community felt that the rise of glamorous, fanged creations in books and shows have helped to create a new generation of "softer" vampires.
I personally agree with the members of the horror fiction society, vampires ought to be evil mysterious creatures of the night and not self controlled vegetarian good guy s who try to save the les powerful. Vampires are turning in to the ‘’good guys’’ of the story this is not how they are supposed to be, it is like blue grass and green skies. I am pretty fed up with the vampire hype it is time to watch something else instead of another ‘’vampire love affair’’.
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