Post by loverofbeers on Sept 25, 2011 2:54:11 GMT -5
I just read Madman's post again, and I finally realized why I was and am still not sympathetic to the little girl.
Since I saw the original Nosferatu and the abomination none of you should ever watch, Andy Warhol's Dracula, I have seen vampires as pussy-ass junkies or carriers of disease like vermin, not just rats, but dangerously flea infested rats.
I am never sympathetic to the undead, and I will repeat, they all remind me of junkies, just replace the heroine addiction with blood. I've always viewed extreme addiction to be a parallel to vampirism in vampire stories from Bram Stoker to Marvel Comics.
And the only junkie movie I ever liked was Requiem for a Dream. I liked Trainspotting alright, but was bored to tears with Sid and Nancy (and I'm a huuuuge Alex Cox fan otherwise, he should have been in my top ten!) and the Basketball Diaries was terrible, to me. I don't get into the junkie genre. I honestly can't stand junkies or their depiction in film.
The girl therefore was seen as a perversion of nature and man (boy) to me, and simply, she always was a monster to me, just not the worst monster in the film. The worst monsters were the bullies, but even though she saved the little boy, he was doomed to stay in love with her, and someday have to play the role of the old man and watch helplessly as his love becomes distracted with a new little boy in need of a monster bodyguard.
She was a user and abuser to me. But I now see what the point of her character was, I just don't personally have the heart to empathize with the little pale hellspawn. Don't get me wrong, I usually like the hell-spawned, they're my peeps.....
Since I saw the original Nosferatu and the abomination none of you should ever watch, Andy Warhol's Dracula, I have seen vampires as pussy-ass junkies or carriers of disease like vermin, not just rats, but dangerously flea infested rats.
I am never sympathetic to the undead, and I will repeat, they all remind me of junkies, just replace the heroine addiction with blood. I've always viewed extreme addiction to be a parallel to vampirism in vampire stories from Bram Stoker to Marvel Comics.
And the only junkie movie I ever liked was Requiem for a Dream. I liked Trainspotting alright, but was bored to tears with Sid and Nancy (and I'm a huuuuge Alex Cox fan otherwise, he should have been in my top ten!) and the Basketball Diaries was terrible, to me. I don't get into the junkie genre. I honestly can't stand junkies or their depiction in film.
The girl therefore was seen as a perversion of nature and man (boy) to me, and simply, she always was a monster to me, just not the worst monster in the film. The worst monsters were the bullies, but even though she saved the little boy, he was doomed to stay in love with her, and someday have to play the role of the old man and watch helplessly as his love becomes distracted with a new little boy in need of a monster bodyguard.
She was a user and abuser to me. But I now see what the point of her character was, I just don't personally have the heart to empathize with the little pale hellspawn. Don't get me wrong, I usually like the hell-spawned, they're my peeps.....