TWILIGHT THE MUSICAL!!!- Page 3

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:36pm

Good God -- Someone, anyone, PLEASE DELETE THIS THREAD.
I'm disgusted.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:52pm

I hate Twilight because it has terrible writing, static characters, is essentially Mormon propaganda, sets feminism back decades, and romanticizes an extremely unhealthy relationship. The fans just make it worse.

Updated On: 11/29/08 at 10:52 PM

[abominableerror]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 11:22pm

It could happen...

and then Susan Blackwell would kill it, saving everyone from the screaming fangirls.

[Weez]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:29am

'Dracula' may have been enjoyable, but it still flopped.

Isn't there still supposed to be a fifth book also? so its 5 books into 5.5 hours

Nah; the fifth book is the first book retold from Edward's point-of-view. And has there ever been such an unappealing romantic lead? Ick. XP

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:53am

Nah; the fifth book is the first book retold from Edward's point-of-view.

Really? What a hack she is.

[RyToast1]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 3:14pm

So...any thread we want to have deleted, we should just start talking about January 4, 2009.

Yes?

[sleepyguy1717]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 3:53pm

If this did come to fruition, they should be smart and just stick to the first book instead of trying to put condense everything. Same goes for any attempts made at a Harry Potter musical.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 4:26pm

Yes, I was being sarcastic, thank you sleepyguy.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:03pm

I hate Twilight because I had to read all four books to my little sister and have to put up with her constant rhapsodizing about the dreaminess of Mr. Cullen. And then I escape from my sister to hang out with my friends and they're all rhapsodizing on the dreaminess of Mr. Cullen as well.

So yeah, I guess I do hate it because of the teen fans, but mostly, I hate it because teenagers my age don't have the brains to read anything worthwhile and stick to material that makes women look like helpless losers who need a man to complete them (the book goes BLANK for pages when her boyfriend leaves her and doesn't resume until she finds another love interest like four months later) and that makes men look like utter perverted stalker creeps and GLORIFIES this. Any story that glamorizes abuse and pedophilia is not something I'd call 'dreamy.'

And then there's the fact that the writing is worse than the vampire fanfiction that my little sister wrote when she was twelve-- and she's learning disabled.

[sleepyguy1717]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:15pm

My English teacher told me that Twilight started out as a inspirational Christian novel. I wonder what happened....

Abuse and pedophilia? I don't remember that part.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:17pm

The Twilight books are terrible but I can't help but be addicted to them, it's like a really bad soap opera I feel like I have to watch.

Schmerg, I would LOVE to read some song parodies of yours. =D

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:26pm

*SPOILERS* (Not like anyone cares...)

Sleepyguy-- in the fourth book, after Edward and Bella sleep together, her body is covered from head to toe in bruises. Edward feels guilty, but Bella tells him she likes it and guilt trips him into sleeping with her again. And then there's the fact that Sam ripped up his fiancee's face and everyone treats it like, 'oh, he couldn't help it.' When Jacob kisses Bella against her will and she punches him (breaking her hand but not injuring him) and she complains to her father, he laughs and says, 'good for him!' And so many instances of emotional abuse all throughout the books, with Edward always treating Bella like he has some supreme godlike authority over her. Both Edward and Jacob treat Bella like that, actually, with Jacob going so far as constantly insisting to Bella that she DOES love him and she is wrong to think otherwise. And both of them break into her bedroom.

As for pedophilia, after Bella's baby is born, Jacob falls in love with it. Turns out he never loved Bella, just the unfertilized egg inside her that later turned out to be a demon half-vampire baby named Renesmee. Apparently it's 'destiny' and he can't help it, and that makes it "okay."

There are so many creepy parallel to the Mormon religion in there, too-- http://stoney321.livejournal.com/317176.html#cutid1

Updated On: 11/30/08 at 05:26 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:31pm

Don't forget that the other pedophilic relationship (Clare and Quilty) references Lolita.

[RoxieRose]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:58pm

What the **** is this birth ****?? That entire series seems straight ****ed up!!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 7:00pm

Oh good god, how did I forget that? Because it was Jacob who kept ranting about how sick that was, and he was the only character who EVER questioned any of the crazy actions in the book... and then he ended up madly in love with a baby and Everything Was Fine And Dandy.

(Dude's name was Quil, though... you wouldn't happen to be a Jake Quilty-Dunn fan, by any chance, would you?)

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 7:11pm

Oh, right. I've repressed the books.

Sorry, I just said Quilty because it was the name of the guy from Lolita.

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 8:09pm

the book was not that good.
the movie I heard was laughable.
I don't think this would or should be a musical.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 8:42pm

LOL I would not be surprised if they tried it, It seems that producers will never learn that singing vampires simply don't work on Broadway.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 8:42pm

Don't worry, neither does anyone else on this thread-- including the Original Poster.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:15pm

"'Dracula' may have been enjoyable, but it still flopped."

This is true.

I actually tried to read Twilight and I could not get into it to save my life.

[Little-Lotte]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:33pm

In case anyone hasn't heard they ARE already developing this. A girl in my acting class was cast as Angela and they're going to be doing the workshops/demo starting early next year. Whatever happens with it is yet to be seen, but they are attempting it.

[MCfan2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:42pm

Oh my gosh. I had to read all four books (which I hated) to write a review -- and I can't believe I never noticed that the Claire/Quil thing does sound like Clare Quilty!

Meyer is one sick woman. I'm a religious believer myself -- Christian, not Mormon -- but I don't give her a pass because of that. She writes some of the most unhealthy relationships ever.

[deadparrot]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:55pm

I bought the first book for my flight home over Thanksgiving, since I'm all for a good trashy read, especially while traveling, and despite vampires not really being my "thing." I lost it about 300 pages in, and I really couldn't care less. Of Edward Cullen, I kept wondering, "THIS is the guy my peers (twenty-somethings) are swooning over?" Add to that the undertones of conservative Christian propaganda, and I'd be perfectly content to never pick it up again.

It was pretty disappointing, considering that apparently Edward Cullen was based on Jane Eyre's Mr. Rochester, my favorite literary hero. I've read Harlequin romances that engaged me much more than my foray into Twilight.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 1:26am

Haven't we all learned something from:

Dance of the Vampires
Dracula

and

Lestat?

Vampire musicals don't really work...

[TheHierarch]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 7:20pm

Actually, I came across a legitimate site for this musical a while back. I'm not sure if it'll be set on stage, because they said that they'll just be uploading the movie onto the site, but it looks pretty professional: http://www.twilightthemusical.com
Updated On: 12/4/08 at 07:20 PM