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As with all the books in the series, the essays included here are sophisticated and richly analytic, yet aimed as much at fans as at scholars. Whether you're interested in analysing its initial popularity or its impact on society more than a decade later, there's no question you'll find plenty in Fan Phenomena: The TwilightSaga to sink your teeth into. Intellect Books uses cookies on this website.
I think the weirder, more fucked-up choice would be if Edward was, say, forty eight. A forty eight year-old dating a seventeen year-old is creepier because it could actually happen. In what has to be one of the weirdest love triangles of all time, a werewolf falls in love with a girl who is in love with an old man vampire.
Weird on so many levels. Recently, I caught part of one of the Twilight movies. A bunch of vampires met in a field, started brawling, and then started decapitating each other, barehanded. Enormous werewolves jump in. Is this what Twilight is!? Sort of like the end of Rogue One where it turns into a Star Wars horror movie for about thirty seconds. It's sort of annoying that Twilight vampires seem so flawless.
Nobody seems to complain about Kate Beckinsale as a sexy vampire in Underworld , which came out a few years later.
True Blood has more sexy vampires than you can shake a sharpened oak stick at. Everything has silliness. Ghostbusters has a ghost blowjob scene that makes no sense in an otherwise perfect movie. I'm not here to say Twilight is perfect literature. Just that art isn't defined by its flaws. If you started in on Harry Potter when the first book came out, if you were in first or second grade, then you were about fourteen or fifteen when Twilight hit shelves.
I suspect Twilight was the next step for a lot of readers who grew up following a group of ultra-chaste wizards. Even so, Twilight is in a no-win situation. Sex-wise, Twilight is almost Victorian. Dare I say that Stephanie Meyer is in touch with those feelings in a way that most adults aren't?
And that she re-created it better than most of us are able? Dorsey-Elson 5. Characters and Their Cultural Referents 7. Beyond the Twilight Universe Since that time the books have gone on to be international bestsellers and the movies adaptations have been just as well received.
The fact that this series has been an international success makes it worthwhile to examine what it is about the characters, the storyline, and the genre that make it appeal to such a wide audience.
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