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emilie_rainbow) wrote2008-11-27 05:33 am
emilie_rainbow) wrote2008-11-27 05:33 am
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My jetlag is ridiculous, you guys. I went to bed at about 8 PM. It's 5:30 AM and I have been awake for half an hour with no signs of going back to sleep. Yesterday, I went to bed at 6 PM and woke up at midnight(!) and went back to sleep at about 2, then woke up again at 7. It's like my body doesn't need a full 8 hours of sleep all together anymore, it just needs them here and there. THERE IS NOTHING TO DO AT 5 AM Y'ALL, NOTHING.
So, I read Midnight Sun over the past couple of days. It was...interesting. It made Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Edward make more sense (he read it and based Edward more off of that than Twilight). It's good to know that Edward isn't as OMGSOOOOPERFECT!!!1!1 as Bella thinks he is in the first book, but he's also a bit....um, well, I'll let RPattz himself sum up what I'm starting to think Edward is like (also, this is why I love RPattz so much, he actually says stuff like this out loud in official interviews):
"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."
Edward is totally a manic depressive stalker mess. HE WATCHES HER SLEEP EVERY NIGHT FOR MONTHS. She does not know that he climbs into her room at night and stares at her. If he were anyone but Edward Cullen, all the girls reading these books would be like OMFG NOT COOL CREEEEEPER. But SMeyer makes it seem like that is what EPIC AND TRUE love does. Watching a girl sleep, cute. Romantic. Okay. Climbing into the window of a girl you've pretty much barely met at night and watching her sleep when she has no idea you are there, not so much. Reading Midnight Sun makes him seem much worse, too. Like, he's a vampire so he gets away with some stuff. They have different rules, I am okay with that. But the problem is that SMeyer does everything in her power to make him NOT a real vampire, to make him seem like the perfect boyfriendexcept for that whole vampire thing that we'll overlook, and that is that part I am concerned girls are taking away from these books.
And that's the problem right there: what girls might be taking away from these books. I don't mind that he's a vampire stalker. Vampire books operate on their own moral code that would be really wrong if it were real people. Girls leave everything behind to go join this ridiculous overwhelming love. That's not healthy, but it's vampiric fantasy so it's okay. Twilight is like that. EXCEPT THAT PEOPLE DONT SEEM TO GET THE "VAMPIRIC FANTASY" PART. Like, moms read these books with their daughters and think they have "good messages" and that, if only Edward Cullen were real! He would be the perrrrrrrrfect boyfriend. He would not be the perfect boyfriend in real life. In real life, he would be a creepy stalker who basically wants to kidnap Bella and kind of doesn't give her a lot of choice in the matter. If you took a lot of the things he does (watching her sleep, disabling her truck so she can't see Jacob, hurting her during sex, etc etc), in real life they would really REALLY not be okay. But the books don't scream HEY WE HAVE DIFFERENT MORALS BECAUSE WE ARE VAMPIRES, they scream HEY WE HAVE GOOD MORALS BECAUSE WE ARE MORMON so girls just think "omg, Edward Cullen is perfect. I want a boyfriend just like him! It's soooo romantic that he watches over her and loves her sooooo much!"
Sorry, that was an intense ramble. I love the books, I promise. I love vampires and always have. I just wish SMeyer would have made them more like vampires and less like normal people so that the 13 yeard olds don't get the wrong idea, I guess. I dunno.
It's 6 AM, there's nothing to do. Thus, I write long ridiculous entries about Twilight.
Oh, also: Growing Up Cullen
So, I read Midnight Sun over the past couple of days. It was...interesting. It made Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Edward make more sense (he read it and based Edward more off of that than Twilight). It's good to know that Edward isn't as OMGSOOOOPERFECT!!!1!1 as Bella thinks he is in the first book, but he's also a bit....um, well, I'll let RPattz himself sum up what I'm starting to think Edward is like (also, this is why I love RPattz so much, he actually says stuff like this out loud in official interviews):
"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."
Edward is totally a manic depressive stalker mess. HE WATCHES HER SLEEP EVERY NIGHT FOR MONTHS. She does not know that he climbs into her room at night and stares at her. If he were anyone but Edward Cullen, all the girls reading these books would be like OMFG NOT COOL CREEEEEPER. But SMeyer makes it seem like that is what EPIC AND TRUE love does. Watching a girl sleep, cute. Romantic. Okay. Climbing into the window of a girl you've pretty much barely met at night and watching her sleep when she has no idea you are there, not so much. Reading Midnight Sun makes him seem much worse, too. Like, he's a vampire so he gets away with some stuff. They have different rules, I am okay with that. But the problem is that SMeyer does everything in her power to make him NOT a real vampire, to make him seem like the perfect boyfriend
And that's the problem right there: what girls might be taking away from these books. I don't mind that he's a vampire stalker. Vampire books operate on their own moral code that would be really wrong if it were real people. Girls leave everything behind to go join this ridiculous overwhelming love. That's not healthy, but it's vampiric fantasy so it's okay. Twilight is like that. EXCEPT THAT PEOPLE DONT SEEM TO GET THE "VAMPIRIC FANTASY" PART. Like, moms read these books with their daughters and think they have "good messages" and that, if only Edward Cullen were real! He would be the perrrrrrrrfect boyfriend. He would not be the perfect boyfriend in real life. In real life, he would be a creepy stalker who basically wants to kidnap Bella and kind of doesn't give her a lot of choice in the matter. If you took a lot of the things he does (watching her sleep, disabling her truck so she can't see Jacob, hurting her during sex, etc etc), in real life they would really REALLY not be okay. But the books don't scream HEY WE HAVE DIFFERENT MORALS BECAUSE WE ARE VAMPIRES, they scream HEY WE HAVE GOOD MORALS BECAUSE WE ARE MORMON so girls just think "omg, Edward Cullen is perfect. I want a boyfriend just like him! It's soooo romantic that he watches over her and loves her sooooo much!"
Sorry, that was an intense ramble. I love the books, I promise. I love vampires and always have. I just wish SMeyer would have made them more like vampires and less like normal people so that the 13 yeard olds don't get the wrong idea, I guess. I dunno.
It's 6 AM, there's nothing to do. Thus, I write long ridiculous entries about Twilight.
Oh, also: Growing Up Cullen