This is what we’re talking about twilight Again. If for no other reason than it won’t just die, we’ll accept it as a blight on the vampire genre. former twilight Star Robert Pattinson – The Batman that awaits us, and also the lead(s) in the upcoming Bong Joon Ho Mickey 17-Celre remembered GQ Spain about the frenzy that surrounded the franchise, and how it shaped him in his post-Edward Cullen era
“I think it’s a fascinating phenomenon. I can’t believe it. I think it’s making a comeback [interest] Like in Korea [similarly] to K-pop,” he said, comparing the twilight fandom to K-drama and K-pop music fandom, “but then seduced Western youth. I like to believe [Twilight’s] Cultural importance is because they are very old [movies]. He laughed as he noted that “the first one was released in 2008, fuck!”
And his response to those of us who roll our eyes? “I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, twilight ruined the vampire genre, ‘… are you still on that shit? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy. “
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Over the years he has had a contentious relationship with the movies. “twilight it’s about this guy who finds the one girl he wants to be with and also wants to eat her. Well don’t eat her, drink her blood,” he said in 2019 Variety Interview. “I thought there were definitely bits that were very romantic. But to me, I thought it was a pretty weird story. And even when I was promoting it, I was pretty open about how weird I thought it was when I was doing it. “
That’s a nice way to be vague about parallels to abusive and gaslighting relationships that abound twilight Series Author Stephenie Meyer The Work. Main character Bella bends over Trad wife really likes the Mormon background of the author And it doesn’t help The writer taught filmmakers not to throw out various for the Cullens. So there is that sense of normalization and of course the usage of natives that many overlook the widespread harm it does to women and the marginalized because it feels good to give twilight pass now So we agree with Pattinson on the whole a strange thing of the story of the franchise.
Fortunately, he broke away from being a mere heartthrob, playing fewer freaks in art-house films and bringing some of that to the bigger films he’s been in since. The Batman and, if the trailers are any indication, Mickey 17. He also told The lighthouse: “With Batman It was a different feeling. There was so much anticipation, the tension was palpable. “
In case of Mickey 17It is a collaboration with which he feels more at ease. “Bong Joon Ho is probably one of five directors in the world who can direct a film of such an enormous caliber and turn it into something idiosyncratic, unique and interesting,” he said.
He continued, describing how Mickey 17 stood out to him as a dystopian film to deal with now; Over the years, he has apparently been offered roles in numerous concepts that explored civilization on the edge. “Honestly, I don’t think the world has changed too much. It’s good that humanity is leaning towards collective thought,” he said. “It’s rare to work in an industry founded on storytelling because you get to see how people think about themselves and about culture. Out of nowhere the post-apocalyptic was the conversation. I think we are past that era, but not because we now live in a dystopia and need to talk about other things to entertain ourselves. “
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