Twilight Saga V.S Harry Potter. Part ONE.
Note : This article is PURELY on my point on view. No offence is meant.
Well, I shouldn’t be having this conversation @ all. Because they are both equally nice.
I am BOTH a twilight fan and a Harry potter fan. Kudos to both Stephanie Meyer and J.K Rowling for providing us with fantasies that we have ever imagined.
The difference between them is VAST.
Harry Potter is the most complicated series that i have ever read in my life, even though i still have a long life well ahead of me. Although the first book came out when I am still 2, the years that I have spent idling in my childhood never affected the Harry Potter Spirit. I remember when I was 7 or 8 , the first movie came out on theatres. My dad brought the DVD and I stared @ the movie. Without understanding any part of it. My first attempt at Harry Potter was quite a few year later and the memories were vivid. I once marvelled at the“simplicity“ the plot, it was like the characters was still living. I would never forgot every time there was a surprise. I can do a character analysis of each and every one of the characters and still be not contented on the information that was given in the entire series. The thirst for more is unquenchable. There is always room for more curiosity.
Twilight Saga on the other hand , belongs to the slightly romance cum fantasy genre. It is perhaps the first of the genre to break out of the shell. I have read many romance book from Korea, China ,Taiwan and I never fails to predict the plot. Simple, because the plot is so predictable as that there is school tomorrow.
I used to spend hours in trying to figure out how did Twilight attracted me. Then I realise is the movie. Well, I wasn’t the typical book fan that will rush to the bookstore to buy new books every other fan. I sort of wait it out, see if there is any REAL fan talking about it all the time that the book is VERY nice. Then I buy. In this case , I waited and waited. There was a few of my classmates reading the series though they did not talk about it a lot. So I thought it was the usual rush for new books. Then I realised I was wrong. So wrong that I went for the movies first then the book. The movie can be described in a single phrase .Lack of information. My urge for information rose and the fan mania started.
Of course there will be similaries in the two best sellers. Well, they both belongs to the fantasy genre. To be slightly more specific, the two ideas came from ancient times. First, both witches and Wizards and vampires and werewolves are totally the monsters that humans “tried” to kill many centuries ago. Second, we don’t believe in them any more. Until perhaps when the books came out and fans rushed to buy them.
- end of part 1 , to be continued/
Leanne
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