Self-described geeks and horror fans are especially upset at how the series introduces the conventions of the romance novel — that most stereotypically feminine, most scorned of literary forms — into their far more highbrow and culturally relevant monster stories. At the 2009 Comic-Con, Twilight fans were protested and said to be “ruining” the event. Fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Men, and Harry Potter are seen as dorks at worst, participants in era-defining cultural phenomena at best. Not so for Twilight fans. What sets Twilight apart from Marvel comics? The answer is fairly obvious, and it’s not — as geeks and feminists might hope — the quality of the books or movies. It’s the number of boys in the fan base.
If you want to matter, though, apparently you need boys. The third film adaptation of the Twilight series, Eclipse, will be helmed by horror director David Slade, who has made such movies as Hard Candy and Thirty Days of Night. Even though it will not hit theaters until June 2010, it is already being touted as “darker,” more action-packed, and more “guy friendly.” Because the popularity of the Twilight formula guarantees Eclipse will be a box-office smash, the decision to consciously appeal to boys seems more like a grab at credibility than at profit. Romance-loving Twi-Hards be damned! Who cares about disappointing a huge, passionate, lucrative fan base if they’re all a bunch of girls?
HAHAHA. They finally realise that they have to target guys if the movie is going to hit it big. Girls (and women) merely make up half the population.
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Life is one big fancy dress party.
hahaha well I disagree!!! how could it be???
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I feel exactly this way, this year, period.
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Let go the past, to embrace the present. Simply put :)
Bil Keane (via kari-shma)
HAHAHA. I suddenly miss Aussie… where it was the first time I heard about a boomerang and what it does.
