Sunday, November 27, 2011

Culturally Relevant blog about Twilight

In a last ditch effort for this blog to be somewhat culturally relevant I decided to hop on the bandwagon and write a post about Twilight. Now I have never read nor seen any of the Twilight books or movies but I thought to myself “Why not report on something I know nothing about?  Cable news does it every day!”  HEYO!
I never read any of the Harry Potter books either.  And I am glad I never did because every time I was leaving the theater after seeing a new Potter flick I would overhear nothing but a bunch of whiney know-it all’s complaining that the movie wasn’t as good as the book.  I don’t get these people.  If you are going to be disappointed by the movie because it doesn’t live up to the book then you probably shouldn’t read the book!  Movies tickets are expensive nowadays and you don’t want to cheapen the theatrical experience by frittering away your time reading.  At least that’s what my mother taught me.
It seems like the only reason they even write books is to advertise for the movie that’s going to come out about the book.  Take for example, say, The Bible.  I’d bet you anything that had The Bible not been written “The Passion of The Christ” and “The Ten Commandments” would have bombed worse than the 4th Indiana Jones movie.  (Which coincidentally was not based off of a book.)
I wonder if this formula applies to other aspects of life.  If basing a movie off a book is the key to having a successful movie then maybe basing a job application off of a book would mean getting the job?  Perhaps you could submit your job application as a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. 
“It was a dark time for Pizza Hut.  Their delivery boy had recently fallen victim to college graduation and was forced by his new wife, against his will, to get ‘real job.’  Pizzas were stacking up around the store by the hundreds because there was nobody to deliver them to the hungry citizens of Gotham City.  What is a Pizza Hut Manager to do in such perilous times?
Hire Isaac Thomas as the new delivery boy (turn to page 53)
Hope and pray for some other form of miracle (turn to page 79)

(page 53)  Isaac Thomas courageously steps into his new position as delivery boy, relieving thousands of Gotham City’s hungriest occupants from suffering the slow and agonizingly painful death of starvation.  Innocent lives are spared and even more important Pizza Hut is saved.  The mayor awards the key to the city to the Pizza Hut Manager for his wise decision of hiring Isaac Thomas.  Pizza Hut is forever indebted to Isaac’s selfless service.

(page 79)  Due to no pizza’s being delivered, innocent lives are lost as the city’s pizza supply continues to go undelivered.  Pizza Hut’s convenient location on Harrison Blvd becomes so full of pizzas that its management and staff are suffocated and burned by the pile-up of cooked pizzas.  The remains of the Pizza Hut are discovered by archaeologists two thousand years later.  Historians liken the findings unto the findings of the destroyed ancient city of Pompeii.  The only remnant of people found is the outline of a store manager trying to protect a small child from being burned by the explosion of melted cheese.”
So yea, that’s my blog about Twilight.

2 comments:

TifMarBab said...

I liked how you said that if people were disappointed because the movie isn't like the book then don't read the books...I really enjoy the Twilight and HP movies but when I go with people that have read the books, I can't enjoy it as much. I read the HP but the movies were still good. I'm NOT going to read the Twilight however because I like the movies.
You have made really good points and I thank you for that. Also, nice story about you and pizza!

Anonymous said...

I prefer to think that the movies ruin the books. I just recently read and saw all of the Harry Potter books and movies. I loved the books. The movies were okay. My biggest issues came not so much when they changed things, but when they changed things that didn't need to be changed. I understand you can't fit a 700+ page book into a 2 1/2 hour movie. But don't change things just for the sake of changing them.

I never read the Twilight books. I saw the first movie. And I thought it was awful.

Either way, I think this is probably the first post I've seen that's about Twilight that I actually enjoyed reading. :P