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The current popularity of vampires
southendmd:
Here's a link to a rather comprehensive survey of vampires and psychological thought. From Freud to Jung to Kohut.
http://www.answers.com/topic/psychological-perspectives-on-vampire-mythology
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on July 06, 2009, 03:58:34 pm ---Later on I saw Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and detested it mightily - what pathetic misogynistic drivel!! But Gary Oldman was way cool as the fanged Count, nevertheless.
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Very petty, but what annoyed me about Coppola's film was that I thought the costumes, or some of them, at least, were too "early" for a story supposedly set in the 1890s.
Gary Oldman was very good, however, and I remember liking the "backstory" of how Dracula became a vampire.
oilgun:
American Vampire League PSA:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-EgBLcQneQ[/youtube]
oilgun:
The Perspective's Vampire Report #2
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJeEd1MqTBE&feature=channel[/youtube]
And the trailer for season 2-episode 4:
Oooh, looks gooooood!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Y-82QiBXo[/youtube]
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on July 05, 2009, 09:41:35 pm ---Vampires are supposed to be feared, and we're supposed to be sustenance for them......not potential lovers.
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Agree. But of course, the literature and movies/shows about suave vampires have always really been about sex. Back in the Victorian era you couldn't really write about that kind of open sexuality in decent society, but you could if it was a vampire story.
That's why I like Anne Rice, her vampires don't really hang around with humans or fall in love with them and keep them around because they're food. They either convert them or kill them or leave. They don't do this 'struggling to be human/express their human side' tension thing while keeping their human loved ones around.
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