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Trekker4747

Trekker4747

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"What the fuck did I start?"

Between the glittery tweeny emo nonsense of the "Twilight" series and the loons out there who believe themselves to be vampires (to the point of get fangs capped to their teeth) people are nuts with vampires. And not "real vampires" in the sense of ancient folklore but the romanticised vampires of Anne Rice.

She's got to be looking t them and saying, "Geeze, people. All I did was write a damn book. Get over yourselves.

Or even Bram Stoker has to be shaking his head and going, "Sheesh, people."
 
Trekker4747 said:
"What the fuck did I start?"

Between the glittery tweeny emo nonsense of the "Twilight" series and the loons out there who believe themselves to be vampires (to the point of get fangs capped to their teeth) people are nuts with vampires. And not "real vampires" in the sense of ancient folklore but the romanticised vampires of Anne Rice.

She's got to be looking t them and saying, "Geeze, people. All I did was write a damn book. Get over yourselves.

Or even Bram Stoker has to be shaking his head and going, "Sheesh, people."
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People were cosplaying as vampires long before Anne Rice wrote her books & before Twilight even existed. Part of it was developed out of the Goth movement of the early '80s, in which people would wear black all of the time, and never go out in the sun that much (or even swim)-some of these goths were fans of horror novels and movies like Dracula. So no, I don't think that it's new, although it Twilight had become popular in the '80s, you would have seen a lot of goth girls going to the movies, and booing the female character because they want to be the one being wooed and possibly bit by Edward.
 
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I blame Dark Shadows.

...and I wish someone would put it back on TV! I can't stand all this vampire nonsense but that's one I'd watch.
 
First, to Trekker - No, I think you're giving Rice far too much credit.

Temis the Vorta said:
I blame Dark Shadows.

...and I wish someone would put it back on TV! I can't stand all this vampire nonsense but that's one I'd watch.
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I remember watching the remake back in the 90s, the Ben Cross version, and loved it. After that, I remember catching a handful of episodes of the original series on sci-fi, then renting the tapes of the two movies from the 70s. But I don't remember a thing about the movies. All I remember of the original series was that it had the same sort of plot that was in the updated show, and that I saw a couple people bump into walls, and the walls moved.

I would like to see the original series again from the beginning, but 1) it's way way way too expensive, and 2) I just don't have time to add yet another series, I have too much to watch already.
 
As noted above, Anne Rice started nothing. This sort of stuff dates back to at least Dark Shadows in the late 1960s, and more accurately to Bela Lugosi's original Dracula film and Bram Stoker's novel.

Alex
 
23skidoo said:
As noted above, Anne Rice started nothing. This sort of stuff dates back to at least Dark Shadows in the late 1960s, and more accurately to Bela Lugosi's original Dracula film and Bram Stoker's novel.

Alex
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...and then back to The Vampyr, where the first modern vampire of the literary tradition was a thinly veiled Lord Byron.

Yeah, vampires as we've always understood them in the literary tradition have always had a sex component, and how that's been treated is pretty flexible. I read somewhere that the Twilight author claims to not have read Anne Rice, so I don't know how much influence her work can really be said to have had.

Hey, maybe it's all Joss Whedon's fault. Maybe Meyer liked that Buffy show and decided to do her own spin. Who can say?
 
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23skidoo said:
As noted above, Anne Rice started nothing. This sort of stuff dates back to at least Dark Shadows in the late 1960s, and more accurately to Bela Lugosi's original Dracula film and Bram Stoker's novel.

Alex
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And even Bela's version wasn't the first one. I think there were two or three with the name "Dracula" before Bela's, plus Nosferatu, and that's just with that character. There were probably earlier movies with vampires, ... ok, before hitting submit, I googled, and yep, the first known vampire movie was from 1909 and called "Vampire of the Coast."

So yeah, Rice didn't create the phenomenon, but she did add to what was already there.



Edited to add Kegg wins. The Vampyr is from 1828; Stoker's Dracula was not published until 1897.
 
It's not that surprising because it's basically mixed teen idols with vampires.

I'm pretty sure the same thing would have happened if Twilight was written in the 70s and David Cassidy or Shaun Cassidy whichever one was the more 'teen idol' of the two was in it.
 
sidious618 said:
Anne Rice is a bit of a weirdo herself I hear so she probably doesn't care.
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She does religious books now.:wtf:

As to the OP, I get what he is saying. While Anne was not the first to write about vampires, her books were definitly responsible for an explosion in popularity.

People were cosplaying as vampires long before Anne Rice wrote her books & before Twilight even existed. Part of it was developed out of the Goth movement of the early '80s, in which people would wear black all of the time, and never go out in the sun that much (or even swim)-some of these goths were fans of horror novels and movies like Dracula. So no, I don't think that it's new, although it Twilight had become popular in the '80s, you would have seen a lot of goth girls going to the movies, and booing the female character because they want to be the one being wooed and possibly bit by Edward.
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And being that "Interview with the Vampire" was published in 1976, I would say that she predates the "goth" movement of the 80's.
 
OmahaStar said:
And even Bela's version wasn't the first one. I think there were two or three with the name "Dracula" before Bela's, plus Nosferatu, and that's just with that character.......
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Just to keep details clear, Nosferatu's vampire was named Count Orlok - no Dracula in that flick.
 
sojourner said:
sidious618 said:
Anne Rice is a bit of a weirdo herself I hear so she probably doesn't care.
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She does religious books now.:wtf:
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She has said that she wants to write one last Lestat novel, with Lestat having a crisis of faith.

I can't quite figure out how this will work, since in Mnenoch the Devil Lestat discovers that Christian cosmology is absolutely true, so there's nothing that requires Lestat to have faith in.
 
Bram Stoker is rolling around in his grave. Or at least, his bones are.

Rice has her part to play, as does The Lost Boys, Buffy, etc. Vampires have always been popular. Twilight is just the latest one in a long line. Personally, I'm more of a Whedonite, but if teenage girls want their Rob Pattinson fix, I'm not gonna stop em.

I think Lestat was a huge influence on both Angel and Edward Cullen. So her influence is certainly a big one.
 
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