week 10

Week 10 : How do you think Buffy has influenced the contemporary vampire drama “True Blood” and the “Twilight” series of novels and films?

In late 1990s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actually can be thought as a master work of this type of TV, it's one of the most popular American TV series. Later on, there is a great mass fervour of vampire move in American. There are two examples of contemporary works which are ‘true blood’ and ‘twilight’. I am most of teenagers have seen any of them and wait to see more with passion.

These three works have similarity that they all got romantic gothic literature. Romantic gothic literature emphasizes that creation freedom, against classism and requires breakthrough literature reality. They re-excavate the history themes that classism thinks it’s dark. These three vampire TV shows do break the normal traditional way of against forces of darkness. Not only excellent special effects and confusing plots have appeal us so much but also the film has add the elements of youth and love. In these stories, love has been a clue. Buffy has fallen in love Angel however it makes Angel loses his soul become a monster. In season 5, Buffy sacrifice herself in order to save the world. While Buffy is hunting the vampires, she is try find a balance of the family, friendship and love.

Through what I find in the ‘Buffy’, these are what happen in the ‘true blood’ and ‘twilight’ as well. ‘Buffy’ has been the leader of this type of film is because it breaks the rules of saying darkness and love. Vampires are not always bad, they have got love same as human. But human sometimes can be so selfish and evil while they feel lost. We can easily find the later work of vampire films has some shadow of ‘Buffy’.

Has courage to break down the normal rules to represent the niceness in a different way. It’s like find a little bit sunshine in the dark, its novelty. That’s the reason ‘buffy’ would have a impressive effect to later vampire works.

Rose, A (2002) Of creatures and creators: Buffy does Frankenstein, in R. Wilcox & D. Lavery (eds) Fighting the forces: what’s at stake in Buffy the vampire slayer. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.