Friday, January 16, 2009/5:29 PM
Mr. Jeremy,
I am an avid reader of your work. I look forward to reading your articles every week because I think that your views about several movies are light-hearted and witty.
I admire your writing style and how you are able to engage the reader when you are describing your movie viewing experiences. I've always thought your comments were fair and just but a recent article of yours left me baffled.
Ever since I heard that the movie Twilight would be coming out at the end of 2008, I was anticipating your review on it. I'd wonder about how you'd find the movie and whether your opinions were parallel to mine.
I had set an expectation of the movie, like many others had done. I am a fan of the Twilight Series and Stephenie Meyer. However, let me just say first off that this letter of mine was not the result of a deranged teenaged girl addiction gone wild.
I would just like to express my views in a very mature manner and I would appreciate that your judgement of my sincerity on the matter would not be clouded by the fact that I am sixteen going on seventeen this year. Youths are capable of rational thought.
Let me first start off by asking, have you ever read any of the Twilight books before? I'm assuming that you had considering the fact that you were skeptical of the popularity of the series. That, or you were too quick to judge. I understand that you were adversed to the idea of watching Twilight. But why? Aren't movie reviewers supposed to watch movies and give appropriate comments regardless of their fancy for the movie or otherwise and not let their prejudice get in the way?
Nonetheless, I am not here to question your reliability as a journalist. I am writing this so that perhaps the other side of the story can be brought forward. Perhaps, I would be able to give reasons for why the movies and the books are they way the are.
Everything isn't what it seems to be anymore. Like blood-sucking mythological creatures. Characters so dark and so malicious that we would not even stop to consider the fact that they were once human, with feelings and emotions, with passion and yearning. Why? Because they do not exist in our world. How can we make sense of something that is not there? It is because we all lack something that is needed to make sense of things that are nonsense and vice versa. It is something called imagination.
We all need a little nonsense in our lives. Nonsense keeps us sane. We cannot chain ourselves to objectivity and soulless comprehension.
Stephenie Meyer broke free of the boundaries of imagination and with that, gave a whole new definition to the term Vampire. She made something that was so unreal into something we can relate to. She made perfection imperfect.
Number 1: Repeating High School.
If you were a teenaged immortal and wanted to live a life free of murder and loss while maintaining inconspicuous, you'd have to repeat high school. It's not about academics or education with them. It's about maintaining their disguise. Their camouflage. It's about keeping their 'superhuman powers' in check.
Sure they could go around the whole world killing humans and drinking their blood and exercising their 'powers' but they were once human too. You're a human. Don't you feel adversed to the idea of killing? I do. It's something called compassion and humanity.
Number 2: Vampire houses and sleeping.
Yes they do not need sleep. So? The whole 'doom and gloom' spooky castles idea is so outdone. Vampires are also materialistic, you know. Meanwhile, don't you think a castle in the middle of Washington is a hint too noticable? I don't know about you but I sure don't want mobs at my front door holding stakes and torches wanting to kill me.
I know what you're thinking. Just kill them right? See paragraph about compassion.
Number 3: Their outfits.
My goodness. Where is your imagination? Are you so incredibly bound to the idea of vampires in capes? I'm sure Sesame Street got this right. Does that mean that Vampires should go around calling themselves The Count and start counting all the cookies that Cookie Monster wants to eat or how many crayons Elmo should bring to his birthday party?
It's something called positive reinvention. Taking something that is so unreal, twisting and turning it until it becomes a subject that can be understood and positive. Nothing is as bad as it seems because there is always a story or an explaination behind it. Please don't take anything I've said to heart. I was not meaning to personally slam you or anything. I am still a fan of your work and I still look forward to your articles.
After all the evil that is consuming the world, don't you think that a little good might help? What with all of the economic crisis, war in the Middle East and floods in the region, perhaps thinking that there will always be some good in someone or something, or that everything will turn out well eventually, might be best for the world.
We all need positive reinvention.
Yours truly,
Namira Nasir.
PS: His name is EDWARD. Not Ed.
I am an avid reader of your work. I look forward to reading your articles every week because I think that your views about several movies are light-hearted and witty.
I admire your writing style and how you are able to engage the reader when you are describing your movie viewing experiences. I've always thought your comments were fair and just but a recent article of yours left me baffled.
Ever since I heard that the movie Twilight would be coming out at the end of 2008, I was anticipating your review on it. I'd wonder about how you'd find the movie and whether your opinions were parallel to mine.
I had set an expectation of the movie, like many others had done. I am a fan of the Twilight Series and Stephenie Meyer. However, let me just say first off that this letter of mine was not the result of a deranged teenaged girl addiction gone wild.
I would just like to express my views in a very mature manner and I would appreciate that your judgement of my sincerity on the matter would not be clouded by the fact that I am sixteen going on seventeen this year. Youths are capable of rational thought.
Let me first start off by asking, have you ever read any of the Twilight books before? I'm assuming that you had considering the fact that you were skeptical of the popularity of the series. That, or you were too quick to judge. I understand that you were adversed to the idea of watching Twilight. But why? Aren't movie reviewers supposed to watch movies and give appropriate comments regardless of their fancy for the movie or otherwise and not let their prejudice get in the way?
Nonetheless, I am not here to question your reliability as a journalist. I am writing this so that perhaps the other side of the story can be brought forward. Perhaps, I would be able to give reasons for why the movies and the books are they way the are.
Everything isn't what it seems to be anymore. Like blood-sucking mythological creatures. Characters so dark and so malicious that we would not even stop to consider the fact that they were once human, with feelings and emotions, with passion and yearning. Why? Because they do not exist in our world. How can we make sense of something that is not there? It is because we all lack something that is needed to make sense of things that are nonsense and vice versa. It is something called imagination.
We all need a little nonsense in our lives. Nonsense keeps us sane. We cannot chain ourselves to objectivity and soulless comprehension.
Stephenie Meyer broke free of the boundaries of imagination and with that, gave a whole new definition to the term Vampire. She made something that was so unreal into something we can relate to. She made perfection imperfect.
Number 1: Repeating High School.
If you were a teenaged immortal and wanted to live a life free of murder and loss while maintaining inconspicuous, you'd have to repeat high school. It's not about academics or education with them. It's about maintaining their disguise. Their camouflage. It's about keeping their 'superhuman powers' in check.
Sure they could go around the whole world killing humans and drinking their blood and exercising their 'powers' but they were once human too. You're a human. Don't you feel adversed to the idea of killing? I do. It's something called compassion and humanity.
Number 2: Vampire houses and sleeping.
Yes they do not need sleep. So? The whole 'doom and gloom' spooky castles idea is so outdone. Vampires are also materialistic, you know. Meanwhile, don't you think a castle in the middle of Washington is a hint too noticable? I don't know about you but I sure don't want mobs at my front door holding stakes and torches wanting to kill me.
I know what you're thinking. Just kill them right? See paragraph about compassion.
Number 3: Their outfits.
My goodness. Where is your imagination? Are you so incredibly bound to the idea of vampires in capes? I'm sure Sesame Street got this right. Does that mean that Vampires should go around calling themselves The Count and start counting all the cookies that Cookie Monster wants to eat or how many crayons Elmo should bring to his birthday party?
It's something called positive reinvention. Taking something that is so unreal, twisting and turning it until it becomes a subject that can be understood and positive. Nothing is as bad as it seems because there is always a story or an explaination behind it. Please don't take anything I've said to heart. I was not meaning to personally slam you or anything. I am still a fan of your work and I still look forward to your articles.
After all the evil that is consuming the world, don't you think that a little good might help? What with all of the economic crisis, war in the Middle East and floods in the region, perhaps thinking that there will always be some good in someone or something, or that everything will turn out well eventually, might be best for the world.
We all need positive reinvention.
Yours truly,
Namira Nasir.
PS: His name is EDWARD. Not Ed.
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