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Originally posted by AquilaCat
And how would we know it was about vampires? We can't read your mind. And now that I know what you were talking about, I think you've just been reading too much Stephanie Meyer.
[edit on 14-11-2008 by AquilaCat]
Originally posted by Bellexista
when classic is used as describing something, u add an "al" to the end of it.
I'd be very interested if anyone can show me how much of this 'modern mythos' that surround vampires actually predates the film version of 'Interview With a Vampire'. I think the film version of the book really was the cultural springboard that started all of this and the other books, games, films, TV series followed and somehow added to this, or took it as a template and tried to 'correct' it - "well, Anne was right about that part but what we really do is this...".
Originally posted by emmy
Bell - no need to throw a fit about it. Your best bet, I guess, is to go to a website dedicated to the 'vampires' amongst us - one I saw advertised called Vampire Freaks - not sure if it will be of any use, but it certainly jumped out to me. Plus, you could have been talking about anything, for all I know you could have been talking Werewolves or something. It helps just to make your original point clear, that is all, as I definitely am not a mind reader and sometimes get confused easily!
Merriman, quick question! What exactly did you mean by this?
I'd be very interested if anyone can show me how much of this 'modern mythos' that surround vampires actually predates the film version of 'Interview With a Vampire'. I think the film version of the book really was the cultural springboard that started all of this and the other books, games, films, TV series followed and somehow added to this, or took it as a template and tried to 'correct' it - "well, Anne was right about that part but what we really do is this...".
Did you just mean an example of a 'Vampire' case/scenario which came before Interview with a Vampire? If so I have the perfect case for you
The Highgate Vampire is a great read, you just need to google it and there's lots of stuff Great bedtime reading too
Originally posted by emmy
Bell - no need to throw a fit about it. Your best bet, I guess, is to go to a website dedicated to the 'vampires' amongst us - one I saw advertised called Vampire Freaks - not sure if it will be of any use, but it certainly jumped out to me. Plus, you could have been talking about anything, for all I know you could have been talking Werewolves or something. It helps just to make your original point clear, that is all, as I definitely am not a mind reader and sometimes get confused easily!
Originally posted by Merriman Weir
What I meant by the paragraph you quoted is that, having had an interest in the paranormal or the occult for relatively long time it's interesting/telling to plot claims that vampires are real &c with what appears in popular culture at any given time. For example, and to keep this on topic, where was the talk of 'classicals and inheritors' in the 1960s when the likes of Hammer films were the big purveyors of vampire-related popular culture? Where was the talk of clans and vampire wars or the V5 virus in the 1930s when Universal were making their vampire films?
Originally posted by Bellexista
see again, ur talking about films. these things were not discovered then. the v5 virus was not discovered until AIDS was. Classic and Vampires were all the same then, u got bit, u died, ur lived forever. Then, they did not believe vampires can have children and the only way to become a vampire was to be "turned". This is no longer true. It has been found out that Vampires can have children! And those are called inheritors. Because they inherit the v5 virus from their parents. Alot like AIDS. It is also commutable the same way AIDS is. But they did not understand this until the 70's i think. but hollywood doesnt want to include major scientific finding in movies. they want blood, gore, action. vampires are only scary if they hunt humans. so in some books, ull find more out about real vampires because a true vampire fan would want to know more and more about the real things. Anne Rice, is very OFF from the real thing. Thats why her books make the better movies! But if u want to know about these things then do research, dont just go to the movies!
Originally posted by Bellexista
but hollywood doesnt want to include major scientific finding in movies. they want blood, gore, action.
Originally posted by pieman
v5 virus? wtf. gimme a link. AIDS was first described in the 80's i think, so how they could have realised "v5" had the same mechanism in the 70's is beyond me.