![]() ![]() And you have to not bet afraid of talking about silver hurting them, them living in a coffin, being allergic to sunlight. So you have to make sure that you cross every door and every cellar you don't have to go into. You have to embrace the fact that if Pandora doesn't open the box, there's no story to tell. No-you cannot be postmodern about these things. ![]() Were there any vampire tropes you deliberately avoided? And the pandemic is the perfect way to twist them. So vampirism, to make it palatable, you have to make an uncanny and shameless fusion between medieval and really tired tropes of a myth that you've seen a hundred times, and then twist them a little. And any epidemic generates a patina of medieval fear in the most civilized, normal people. I know very few people that can explain to you how a pandemic works-everybody is nevertheless afraid of it. In order to abandon the make-up of civilized thinking, and become medieval in our thoughts, we need an alibi-the plague, the pandemic, is an alibi by which most modern people adopt a, literally, superstitious stance. If you're alone in your house and you know nobody's there and you hear the faucet in your bathroom open, it's not a terrifying sound, it's terrifying because of the context in which we can become vulnerable again. In order to get scared, we have to lose the confidence in what we know. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |