Good and evil are very popular in novels and movies of vampire themes. In the past, people always think that good is good, bad is bad. They do not think there is also good side in the bad people and good people can not do anything terrible. But recently, people are changing their minds. Good and bad people can have both good and bad sides within them, because they are human beings and human beings have every different feeling. In Buffy, Buffy and her friends are the good ones. On the other hand, the Vampires are the bad ones. But the director and the screenwriter have changed the traditional literary notion of good and bad. Although Buffy is a good girl, she also does something not perfect. She has weaknesses, she may make mistakes. On the contrary, even the vampires are evil to be thought of by human, they kill people and drink their blood to feed and fulfill themselves, and they have good vampires and good sides within them. Spike is a good example in Buffy. He is a vampire, he has to drink blood and he can not stay outside in broad day light, though he can not control his own fate, he knows that he should not bite people any more. As a consequence, he is not a total bad person. Buffy and he are good friends.
How do you think Buffy has influenced the contemporary vampire drama “True Blood” and the “Twilight” serious of novels and films?
In these two years, I have given more and more interests to Twilight as it has getting more and more hot and popular. The hot spot that attracts me is how things will go on between Bella and Edward. In addition, ever since Edward had gone for a while and left Bella alone, the relationship between Jacob and Bella has been getting better and better, stronger and stronger, and maybe I should also say more and more mysterious. Everyone has noticed that Jacob likes Bella a lot, and Bella do care about Jacob, but will Bella choose Jacob instead of Edward? This is a conflict in this novel. In the meantime, True Blood is kind of same as Twilight. True Blood is about a girl Sookie who has fallen in love with a vampire guy Bill and all the difficulties they must face in order to be together. In the end of the first season, a new vampire who is called Eric has attended in this story. Bill is a good no doubt vampire because he never killed a human being because of his hunger, he always drinks the true blood (a kind of fake blood that Japanese has created for vampires. In this TV serious, vampires do exist in people’s life has be known by human, so vampires can act freely) instead of drinking actual human blood. On the other hand, Eric drinks human’s blood and kills people. You may say he is evil, but he is still my favorite character. He is definitely loyal to his master and he is willing to die for him. From this aspect, how he treats his master is really moving. As far as I am concerned, the traditional literary good and evil concept has been deconstructed since Buffy, so it has been continued in Twilight and True Blood. Vampires are not all bad, there are good vampires and good sides do exist in other vampires.
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