I expect a lot of hate for this, but it's my honest opinion that Twilight is actually a decent love story. Yes, it has silly aspects of sparkling vampires and the majority of hatred it has received over the internet is the ridiculous fan girl craze it has sparked and the movie franchise just made it worse (primarily due to the acting involved). But this doesn't necessarily have to translate into hatred for the series itself.
The human representation of anything supernatural, be it vampires, werewolves or even zombies, has always been romanticized. Authors have either portrayed them as monsters or as creatures worth our love. If you strip the series of the sparkling vampires and the towering werewolves, you have a girl trying to find herself and finding true love. The supernatural element just makes the books stand apart from the crowd and that is exact what Stephenie Meyer seems to be trying to achieve.
As we go through the books, we read about Bella growing as a person, finding and losing love and in the end, she has her happy ending. Isn't that what everyone person wants? To be able to find that one person you would do anything for even if it means risking your life many times over? That's the notion of true love that has been drilled into us from when we are young children and is fuelled by the media and society. The Twilight series just reinstates this notion.
What the fans seem to be mad about isn't the fact that it's a love story between a vampire and a girl. No, there are plenty of those stories to go around. It's the fact that despite everything, despite all the odds, these two people always seem to find each other and have a Happily Ever After.
And well, maybe having a bunch of actors who could act and eliminating the sparkly vampires may have helped in the process of making it more likeable :P
The human representation of anything supernatural, be it vampires, werewolves or even zombies, has always been romanticized. Authors have either portrayed them as monsters or as creatures worth our love. If you strip the series of the sparkling vampires and the towering werewolves, you have a girl trying to find herself and finding true love. The supernatural element just makes the books stand apart from the crowd and that is exact what Stephenie Meyer seems to be trying to achieve.
As we go through the books, we read about Bella growing as a person, finding and losing love and in the end, she has her happy ending. Isn't that what everyone person wants? To be able to find that one person you would do anything for even if it means risking your life many times over? That's the notion of true love that has been drilled into us from when we are young children and is fuelled by the media and society. The Twilight series just reinstates this notion.
What the fans seem to be mad about isn't the fact that it's a love story between a vampire and a girl. No, there are plenty of those stories to go around. It's the fact that despite everything, despite all the odds, these two people always seem to find each other and have a Happily Ever After.
And well, maybe having a bunch of actors who could act and eliminating the sparkly vampires may have helped in the process of making it more likeable :P
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