I’ve been wondering something for awhile
2009 October 28
Doesn’t this
and/or this
and/or this
violate some kind of copyright code?
I mean, we get it. It’s a perfect storm of symbolism. Yonic, bleeding mouth. Pure white skin, drippy red stain. Dangerous parts and vulnerable parts. Blah blah blah. I’m just asking… can’t we think of any other ways to visually dramatize the virgin/whore obsession that drives this vampire craze?
Anyway, Happy Halloween!
That is pretty sad!
I can think of so many better ways to sell sex with vampires. It’s like when I used to sit in 215 and figure out how to make ads better. Remember when I wanted to be in advertising?
I think using 2 people would help! Vampire and Mortal, Vampire and Vampire, etc.
I guess it can be kind of daunting to avoid all of the tableaus that Twilight has been using.
Aw. Yeah! Well, maybe advertising can be something to do while law positions are thin on the ground. ; )
Twilight’s tableaux are mostly pretty standard sexual iconography too: white arms red apple (purity! temptation!), white flower red streaks (purity! stained!), etc. I do think the chess set on Breaking Dawn is kind of clever, in that it keeps the visually striking color scheme but doesn’t rely so heavily on the sex/purity images. (Maybe because they’re MARRIED by then. LoL.)
It’s fun to think of alternatives, though… I mean, focus on the mouth makes sense since teeth are sort of the defining element of vampires. But how to make that not cheesy? Would it change everything to focus on a male mouth? Different colors? Focusing on the weird eyes instead? I don’t know.
Not exactly what you were asking about, but the True Blood/Dead Until Dark thing isn’t copyright infringement because the TV series is based on Charlaine Harris’ books, though I suspect you knew that. It does seem, though, like the people who did the Charlaine Harris images could file some kind of claim against the Jennifer’s Body people for ganking their whole concept, soup to nuts.
True, Margaret, and I realized that when I found the images online and the DUD image has the TVseries info attached to it. When I first saw the book’s cover, though, sitting up in a nest of vampire books in Barns & Noble, I didn’t yet know the connection and just felt like the world was FULL of images of women’s mouths licking blood from their lips. LoL.
I feel like the phrase “soup to nuts” should always be used in a sentence with “gank.”