The Twilight debate

The Twilight Debate

Hola mis amigos! I am really excited about writing this blog its been something I’ve been keen to write for a while now, and the time is now!

What exactly is the twilight debate?

Essentially the debate is those who love it, adore it, basically it is their life Vs those whom hate it, loathe it, made a movie vampires suck just to prove how stupid it is (good movie by the way.)

I’ve never heard of twilight, what is it?

All I can say is, do you live in a shell? Where have you been, whether you hate it or love it very few people haven’t heard of twilight. It’s a series of books (4 books and 4 films now will be 5 later this year I think.) The author Stephanie Meyers who currently lives in Arizona America is a millionaire due to her Twilight concept.

 

The Story
 

Twilight is basically about a girl named Bella Swan who ends up going to live with her father down in Forks. At school she meets various people, the most important being Edward Cullen whom she appears to essentially ‘like at first site’. He saves her from a dangerous situation and she ends up discovering that he’s in fact a vampire alongside the rest of his ‘family’. They fall in love and then loads of shindig goes down and Bella ends up in serious danger with these ‘not cool’ bunch of vampires. It’s a close call but she ends up being saved by the Cullen’s and that’s pretty much it to be honest. But because of my rather ‘naff’ description I’ll put in a summary I found on the internet :) - wikapedia

Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf.

Twi hard fan or sexualised vampire hater?

I have very mixed opinions on the subject.

On one hand no one can deny the success of these books and now film (and I suppose even t-shirt franchise) that have made author Stephanie Meyer millions. Furthermore when I originally read the books I’m going to admit...if a little embarrassingly that I was a pretty major fan. I couldn’t wait until the new book Breaking Dawn came out (at the time it hadn’t quite been released) after speed reading through the first three.

Also as partial evidence so the argument that Twilight books are geniounly good books, is it often that people who criticise the books have actually read them? Moreover the majority of those who appear to have negative comments about the novels themselves haven’t actually read them but have been obsessively told about them by their girlfriends or have been dragged to each film showing on the release dates by younger sisters of husbands by excitable wives (my friends husband said he remembered saying he’d love her till death however he didn’t quite remember the added part that required him to watch ‘the most tedious film on earth three times’. Only to be corrected by his wife that actually she had secretly added it into the contract.)

Now if someone said to me that they had never read the books so didn’t really have an valid opinion on them but hated the films I can easily understand.
I personally really dislike the majority of the actors/actresses in the Twilight film and think that they do the books no justice and don’t really play the characters that well. Kristin Stuart seriously ‘does my head in’ and I really don’t understand why everyone seems obsessed with Robert Patterson or R-Patz as the magazines have named him...yes I know it’s really quite bad he sounds like some dodgy past his time rap star.

However I think the books are quite good, quite light hearted (to an extent) and good for teenagers (mainly girls I’m afraid probably guys.)

But despite all that I’ve said in favour of this franchise I’d have to say that I’d much rather ‘take the mick’ out of the films and books as there is when you look critically a lot of badly done things from the suicidal teenager being represented as a role model to a bedazzled vampire contrasting from any typical evil vampire type images.

If you fancy a film that...well...here’s the description and a link below but I promise all you twilight haters you will truly enjoy this ‘take’ on this teen obsessed books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkPJ1ACLrg

Furthermore check out the barley political you tubers who have done several Kristin Stuart inspired videos such as her explaining Christmas and Valentine’s Day (newest ones) link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKAVYI7vdU

Other vampire TV series/films

Vampire diaries – Seriously if you are a teenage girl and are not watching this then you have no life, or maybe it is me who has no life? Either way this series is amazing.

Being Human – Truly traditional vampires meet cute aggressive wolves meets awesome afterlife friends, this is a must watch for everyone.

True Blood – A saucy, southern American blood bath that stars some mega hot stars, what’s your excuse for not watching it?

So that’s my Twilight debate blog post, I hope you enjoyed it and please (with cherries on top) comment, do you prefer beauty or bonkers blog posts please reveal all and your wishes are my command.

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Foreverblonde
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