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Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks
gyrogeerloose writes "In a column in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune, Peter Rowe makes a connection between the popularity of horror movie genres and the political party in the White House. A Republican administration presides over a period of zombie movies while a Democrat in the Oval Office brings on a cycle of vampire movies. Why? Possibly because the two genres 'are really competing parables about class warfare.' Hmmmm, maybe. On the other hand, it might just be a coincidence." Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.
Finally something on idle that isn't a complete turd. I still say idle should be dropped.
Wow, actually that makes perfect sense. Democrats suck, Republicans are mindless, socialists are hairy lunatics, and the best way to get rid of a libertarian is to nuke the site from orbit...It's the only way to be sure.
//Thinks the vampire movies have been coming out for a while now, actually.
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Libertarian elements in space, pretty good except the angry icy cold republican chick butt fucked on election night was social conservative. She'd definitely be at home on Pluto though.
Aren't libertarians tied to freedom lovers on the moon?
hot foreign sheep.
Sorry, just couldn't resist.
Which maybe isn't saying much, but this makes more sense than expected. However I doubt that zombies will suddenly drop off the map (Evil Dead 4 where are you!?) just because Obama took over the reigns. Also the line about competing tales of class warfare is total nonsense. Vampires = scary liberal democrats while zombies = brain dead republicans? I think some writer was just trying to be funny while letting his political bias show.
Assuming this was right, why wouldn't democrats out of power want to portray republicans as vampires too? And ditto with republicans showing democrats as zombies. The door swings both ways on this, clearly the argument was made without thinking it through.
And now I have officially spent as much time on this post as the writer did on the column
Not a movie, a series. HBO. Pretty good if you can sit through the first two or three episodes.
I think I speak for everyone when I say: "...what?"
Would living dead films be considered horror films or documentaries?
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What amazes me is that most people don't know that Senator Barack Obama was affectionately known to his friends as "Barry" during high school. My CEO's wife knew him immediately when he started his campaign, and was quoted as saying "Why is Barry on TV?" when she saw him announce his candidacy. That's not the message that peple got through the mass-media moron-tube though.
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Apparently he was known as Barry before he become famous.
Not so much a hook as Barack Hussien Obama as some would like us to know him as.
So to the US's new head guy, Barry. /salute
I've seen sexy vamps in the movies but never sexy zombies. Who'd want to have sex with zombies? Well, maybe some might like these.
If Dems are vamps and Republicans are zombies, I'll stick with the vamps.
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And Bush presided over the resurgence of Torture Porn
I guess I'll go with the fuzzy fella.
> Would living dead films be considered horror films or documentaries?
Depend on who they voted for.
Though I guess that McCain *would* vote for himself, so...
Along the same lines as this, I have seemed to notice that when a more "liberal" administration is in office, the dominant auto commercial music tends toward "country" and when a "conservative" administration is in office, the car commercials seems to trend more toward "rock" genre music.
What?
It is not the democrat in the white house that causes the resurgence in vampire media, but vampire media that causes a democrat to be elected. Tru Blood on HBO and the Twilight movie are two examples that have become popular recently, prior to the election. At least the twilight movie was in production and scheduled for release before the election. Maybe the increased visibility of vampires reminds people of the negative qualities of the republican party?
I can't see Zombies representing much politically except the a mass of unthinking people, unconcerned with whats going on around them. If a zombie votes, someone's made them do it (surely?). I wouldn't myself give a Zombie movie a political leaning. If you see a Zombie movie like George Remiro's "Days of the Dead", with supermarkets full of Zombie Shoppers, then you might consider the emptiness of the consumer economy, maybe, but did you also consider that next time you go shopping you're less likely to think about other Shoppers a people with lives, and more like to shoot them a "get out of my way, idiot" insult.
If Vampires are aristocrats, then I guess the working class would be werewolf's, certainly true of say "Underworld" (on TV tonight in the UK, with Kate Berkensale looking good in a leather catsuit). Of course need group really has much control over there Dark Appetites, but somehow the Vampires style, makes then Cool, while a werewolf is just a big angry dog, that was once human.
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat were written during the Reagan years, though she's been cranking out sequels through Bush and Clinton years and for all I know more recently. The movies got made a few years after the book, but it was Reagan-era vampirism.
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But no studies have been done--or could have been done to show what movies prevail under a black President. I betcha Blade is about to make a comeback.
I think you mean Plan 9...from outer space!
In D&D terminology, Bush/Cheney were clearly Chaotic Evil. Some of their advisers and henchpersons like John Yoo may have been Lawful Evil or Neutral Evil, and their main enemies were probably Lawful Evil, as well as the Neutral and Good folks who were collateral damage. Seems to be a good environment for Zombies.
Vampire movies sometimes have vamps who are protagonists, certainly since The Vampire Lestat novels. And then you get the occasional Vampires vs. Werewolves sort of movie, which was obviously a literary reference to the Cold War...
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Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.
No, that is way off base. Many of the classic space invasion movies were about the communist threat associated with the Red Scare or were about the Cold War. For example, the The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic example of metaphorical critique of the Cold War and the threat of nations nuking the hell out of each other during that period.
Libertarians do not have a large enough influence, in percentage of voters, to get either direct or metaphorical criticism from Hollywood. Libertarians are like Pauly Shore movies, or really bad documentaries. Sure people watch them, but nobody cares about them, or takes them seriously.
I am a registered Libertarian, and I am in the 1-2% that do take them seriously. However, I can't say the same for Pauly Shore, so perhaps that was a really bad example.
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... of the worst sort.
And actually, the Sci-Fi Channel has been airing an astonishing number of vampire-related movies in recent years... more than I have ever seen and far more than I want to see.
It has also been showing more zombie movies than I ever recall seeing in past years... but the vampire movies have outnumbered them by perhaps three to one.
(When I say "showing more", I include repeat showings of the same movie.)
For the most part, I could do without either one of them, for a very long time. And for that matter, I could do without Republicans or Democrats, too, for a very long time. They ALL disgust me.
Ah yes, like the dreaded Ronulans.
Once you drink the Ronulan ale, you'll be under their power.
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A bloody comeblack on the black and white tellie? I wonder how long for "24" an Jack Bauer get a makeover for the real world...
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The way I interpret the popularity of one type of horror movie over another has more to do with what people fear. People who tend to vote for republicans fear the throngs of poor huddled teaming masses coming to eat their brains (and their hard-earned cash). People who tend to vote for democrats find it more fear-inspiring to think about some powerful unseen force swooping in and draining them from above. So zombies would represent fears of tax and spend while vampires would represent corporate greed.
The Zombie/Unthinking follower (ie, everybody who blithely marched after Bush into the Iraq war and all his other self-made disasters), makes sense. --It is quite natural for Thinking People to fear this kind of monster threat. McCain supporters certainly seemed utterly mindless and vile, and there were altogether too many of them. I felt at times like holing up in my house with a golf club. --Or that any time I shot one down in debate, (easy enough to do), it JUST WOULDN'T DIE because it was too stupid to realize it was dead. --Or it would simply be replaced by another slavering ghoul.
Vampires exist in healthier environments, where people are aware enough to create strong, milk & honey societies, which by contrast, are fed upon by the leeches of society.
It all boils down to psychopathy and evil people either feeding on the masses, or convincing people to follow self-destructive courses of action. I have no trouble believing that the Vampie/Zombie thing is a subconscious manifestation in fiction of these forces.
I must say that I definitely feel the threat of destruction by mindless zombies has lifted for the time being. I didn't realize just how heavy it had gotten until it was gone!
So. . . bring on the Vampires! I got my stakes ready!
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Don't worry they only feed on zombie-republicans....
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
No no, the monsters are not the party. The monsters are the party's adversary. The aristocratic vampire leeches off the hapless working folks. The mindless horde of cannibals destroys a productive society.
"They had fangs. They were biting people. They had this look in their eyes â" totally cold. Animal. I think they were Young Republicans."
You know why bankrupt america elected Obama..?
He was the only one to spare some change..
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The popular conception of Democrat politics is that they are fighting against a small cadre of unnaturally advantaged inhuman elites who only see the public as cattle and want to drain the vitality from of the world.
The popular conception of Republican politics is that they are fighting against a larger bulk of subhuman, mindless things that are only a threat because there are too many of them to kill.
The Libertarians, at least in the public eye, are a bunch of inhuman elites who are only concerned with their own ambitions
The Socialists, to the public, are are mindless creatures who value only rote instinct and do not give a damn about civilization.
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