>>>>For anyone who has seen Buffy the Vampire and the movie Twilight:
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>>>>http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2009/buffy-vs-edward-twilight-remixed
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>>>I LOVE IT ! As I've mentioned before I think Buffy is great art. Saw Twilight on DVD to see what the fuss was about. All I could think of was it was the kind of thing a 13 year old girl would be embarassed about 5 years later. The creepy emovamp looked like the kind of guy Spike or Angel would have beat up to take his lunch money. All I could think of was how Buffy would have laughed at this guy - and then staked him.
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>>>Nothing wrong with fiction that targets niche markets, but that stuff only holds up if now juxtaposed with art - that trancends genre and generation. And up a against Twilight - Buffy kills.
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>>>Could be a real teaching moment if you had an adolescent daughter.
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>>Teenage girls seem to be the primary market for the Twilight series.
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>>I don't think they look at it in terms of who can kick whose butt.
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>But the point is the girl is Twilight is a loser obsessed with a dweeb. Buffy is a strong, funny, fearless heroine and the vamps (Angel and Spike) are men worthy of her attention and interesting people - not brooding little emo boys. If I had a daughter who thought Buffy was cool I'd be pleased. If she identified with Bella I'd be very concerned.

I would be pleased if I had a daughter who liked Buffy, too. Actually I have two of them, and they have watched the whole series more than once. Allie likes Bella as well (I assume that is the heroine's name) but probably not in the same way. I'm here to tell you females think differently than we do, LOL. Alert the media!

While waiting for my car to be repaired just now I read an article in the NYT about how "Catcher in the Rye" no longer captures the imagination of high schoolers, who are still assigned to read it. The article says they consider old Holden a whiny, passive preppy loser. He seems to be coming across differently in their information saturated world.