Twilight Phenomenon
Posted by VickyC on November 19th, 2009
The phenomenon is huge. They’re marketing candy, shower curtains, lip gloss. Farm owners in Utah are combine harvesting their faces into their fields. See more pictures here.
Twilight isn't corny...
Yes, I’m talking about TWILIGHT. You KNOW some crazy fan girl is super mad that the Team Jacob field is bigger than the Team Edward one… AS IF!
Anyway, I have not read any of the books or seen any of the movies. I think it’s because there is WAY too much hype surrounding them! I mean, what’s with the crazy fan girls that are going around biting people and attacking people?! That’s not ok at all! I just don’t get it. And there’s one crazy fan girl who posts videos on youtube where she gets really worked up and starts hurling abuse at people who hurl abuse at her for being in love with these Twilight movies/books/etc. Her videos have had a total of over 500,000 views. Which is pretty crazy! I’ve seen a few of the “extreme-fan” videos and they’re actually quite scary. Makes you wonder if some of them are a little unstable in the brain area..
And the actors.. The main guy Robert Pattinson has done some interviews where he talks about his personal hygiene being disgusting.. YUCK! Why would you even want to talk about that?! And these crazy girls are still fawning over him. The guy is an actor.. Not a vampire.. He’s just a guy that apparently doesn’t shower on a regular basis… Great guy to have a teen crush on…
And the girl.. Kristen Stewart. She’s a very pretty girl, but she looks so bloody miserable all the time. I’m sure it must be pretty weird becoming super famous in such a short space of time, but she just doesn’t look very happy about it. Maybe she’s just staying in character for all her interviews…?!
But the whole Twilight phenomenon thing is kind of cultish, one reporter wrote that the success of this series of books has “filled the hole left by Harry Potter”, while another wrote “Move over Harry Potter”. But I think the “Crazy Fan Syndrome” been taken a step or 5 further with Twilight when compared with Harry Potter. People pretend they are the characters and write their own stories and post them online. If we think for a second about the Harry Potter books, they did definitely have a huge following, but because of the sexual undertones that is apparent in ANYTHING written about vampires (even Stoker’s Dracula), it takes the coming of age story and sucks the innocence out of it – literally! But saying that, Anne Rice’s vampire books had a pretty big following too, but it was more of a goth following – as opposed to millions of teenage girls.
Well, on the flip side, I guess it’s good that these kids are actually reading books..
Zac & his girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens
But what makes me uncomfortable is the Twilight-moms that go to the movies and there’s videos of them sitting there FREAKING out when the guy comes on the screen. It’s embarrassing to watch.. And I’m not knocking crushes on teenage boys haha.. I think Zac Efron is beautiful.. (I don’t care if he looks a bit like a girl!!!) but that doesn’t mean I’m going to memorise the words to High School Musical and scream like a crazy person every time I see a picture of him or something. I haven’t even seen the High School Musical movies….. hmm.. weekend project!
Well, the second Twilight movie screens at midnight, so I hope all of you Twilight fans enjoy the movie. Maybe when these books become not so in the spot light, I’ll read them!
Find out how much The Twilight Saga: New Moon made in its opening weekend here on VickyC.me
Tags: Crazy, Cult, Fan, Film, Following, Girl, Kristen Stuart, Moon, Movie, New, Phenomenon, Robert Pattinson, Team Edward, Team Jacob, Twilight, Vampire, VickyC, VickyC.me
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