Twilight vs. Christopher Moore's Satirical Vampire Love Stories

It's August 25th, first day of school, and I walk into my English Literature class, which is a lot better than I thought it was for a first day.

We had a discussion on everyone's new obsession with vampires, like Twilight, and New blood and so on and so forth. We discussed about why the whole vampire fad is so great. We discussed about how Vampire love was hot, sexy, and dirty. So thus starts my rant and comparison to Twilight and Blood sucking Fiends: A Love Story, and it's sequel, You Suck: A Love Story.

I somewhat opinionated when it comes to Twilight because I have never read the books, and i hvae only watched the film. I'm a film person, (i plan on screenwriting and directing films one day) so i take my films very personally and expect them to be worth the millions of dollars it costs to make film. So I am comparing Twilight the Movie, with Christopher Moore's satire novels. Which he wrote the first novel, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story in 1994, almost a decade before Twilight. And wrote the sequel, You Suck: A Love Story in 2007. (so Christopher Moore beat Meyers to the punch)

First off, The love stories are completely different, meaning the way they were written was done in a different way. In Twilight, Bella, mysterious falls in love with the cold, and emotionless Edward. This is different already from Blood Sucking Fiends because The main protagonist, Jody, has recently become a vampire, and in desperation to find a human to do her errands for her during the day, she finds Thomas C. Flood. (his friends call him Tommy) The relationship between Jody and Tommy is very natural, and makes sense. Where in Twilight I'm trying to figure out why Bella falls for a cold-hearted, beast in the first place. The love story in Twilight seems very unnatural, and forced. Where In Fiends, Jody and Tommy basically fall into lust and have sex with each other. Normally I don't enjoy main characters having sex because I enjoy a more innocent feel to it. But it flows a lot more, and shows that Jody is more human, unlike Edward, who can't kiss Bella without ripping her to shreds. Being ripped to shreds is romantic, huh? Jody is periodically fighting her vampire, beast instinct, along with her human instincts. She questions on if she's transforming from human to a beast, which every time the audience is shown that Her love for Tommy is stronger than her beast instincts. Which makes the love story more romantic, even though its making fun of the whole vampire love story idea.

Twilight pisses me off sometime because of Bella falling for a cold guy who starts off treating her like crap. Many girls in America always date the guy that treats her like crap. It's very sexist in my opinion, because the media says that girls should date the good looking guy that will treat her like a sack of crap. In my movies and films I want the female lead to be strong, independent, a not having to rely on a guy just in order to be happy. (I'm not saying that girls should never be with the guy at the end of the film, but that shouldn't be the only reason to be happy.) In The Love Story series, Jody mentions the fear she used to have when she was human. The fear of walking down the street, that some guy would mug her, rape her, or attack her. She mentions that once she became a vampire, and immortal, she lost all of that fear, and i think that is how women should feel when they live life everyday. Strong. Independent. Fearless.

This concludes my blog, I'd write more but I'm hungry, and tired. Be back later.

-Johnny