Thought this might make a good discussion...
And here's an article to start it off with.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31deltoro.html?_r=1
Lucky
librarian_7 wrote:Well, Phoenix, it may not be quite as obvious as Langella's drop dead sexy performance, but actually, Lugosi, first on stage and then in the 1931 film, was considered very, very sexy and seductive. (Yes, I know, I don't quite see it, either, but trust me, at the time he was a "matinee idol.")
Lucky
allegrita wrote:I love that op-ed piece. And it brings up one of the things I like most about Moonlight-- and one of the things that separate it from most other vampire stories. In Moonlight, vampirism is a purely physiological phenomenon. The process of becoming a vampire has absolutely nothing to do with a person's soul. Vampirism does not mean that one is damned for eternity, or cursed, or forced to change one's personality forever. It's simply a physical change. People...who happen to be vampires.
How refreshing this idea is! Humanistic vampires. Vampirism completely divorced from religion. Moonlight vamps have the ability to decide what kind of person they are going to be--their fate isn't forced upon them...
AussieJo wrote:... I am re-reading Stephen King's "'Salem's Lot" at the moment.
It's about scary vampires taking over and turning all the people in a small town in Maine (natch!)
It is years and years since I read it.
Here I am reading a book about very scary vampires,
and I am using a bookmark that I made myself with "A Vampire stole my Heart" on it!![]()
Such is the power of Moonlight Magic!![]()
Fishy wrote:Have I been a suppressed vampire follower for 40 years without knowing it? Is there something in us that relates to fear and the unobtainable? Should I have counselling?
Fishy
Fishy wrote:Phoenix,
I'd LOVE to meet the person who'd take us on!
Fishy
one.zebra wrote:I'm always to odd duck, it seems....
Except for watching 'Dark Shadows' as a teen after school, (really, my mother left me alone way too much..[don't let your children languish while you're out doing 'more important' things..)
..I have never been a vampire fan....that is, until that first Moonlight episode where I stumbled across Mick St.John..
..then there's the Twilight series that true vampire lovers seem to hate...
Yeah, I completely reject that vampires have to be they way they were written in the olden days...
The darkness written about through history is real, obviously, or we wouldn't still have people doing the heinous things to their fellow humans that go on all over the world, every day.
I'll take my vampires in the modern day version anyday....
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