Friday, February 19, 2010

Baaaaaah!!!

My vampire books are officially ruined. It’s a shame really. They were soooo good. That is saying something coming from someone who has somehow avoided all vampire literature in the past and pretty much anything that can be classified as popular literature as well. Forgive me, it is not by choice, but due to limited access. I live in a foreign country in which the local bookshop apparently thinks English-speaking people read only John Grisham and Jeremy Clarkson books.

image They were 4 beautifully new books. I read the first one, borrowed, as a total skeptic. Then, I patiently awaited the arrival of the next three books, ordered from Empik. I was excited to find that the books were in and then disappointed that the second book hadn’t arrived yet, just the third and fourth. Finally, they had all arrived. And now they are ruined.

I guess I should consider myself lucky that I made it all the way to the 4th book before the ruining took place. It’s not that anyone told me what happened before I had a chance to read them, although a few people have tried to spoil the surprise. It’s not that I couldn’t resist the temptation to find out what was coming next, and I read the last chapter for answers. Never! I enjoy the suspense. It’s not that I watched the first movie and was disappointed by the film version. The film was pretty good. No, it is none of that.

imageIt is this, some knowledge that I now possess which has ruined the quite serious vision in my imagination of a vampire and werewolf world intertwined with the human world. It is this, that in the vampire hierarchy, in the royalty of vampires, that one of the most frightening of the vampire kind existing in my imagination as a horrifying, terrifying yet at the same time beautiful and intriguing creature will be portrayed in the film version by Tony Blair. Ok, not the real Tony Blair, but the actor who played Tony Blair in The Queen, who will forever be, in my mind, Tony Blair plus a little bit of David Frost from Nixon/Frost mixed in, but still, that doesn’t help. Baaaaaaah!!!!

sheen.blairTo be fair to the actor Michael Sheen, I’m sure that he does a lovely job as a vampire in the film. That’s not the point. I’m not upset that he has been cast in the role of vampire in the film. I’m upset that the knowledge of his being cast in that role has now cemented the image of him as Tony Blair in my imagination sheen.frostas I am reading my books. I don’t see in my mind the actor Michael Sheen as the thrillingly frightening vampire. I see Michael Sheen as Tony Blair-ula, the Prime Minister vampire. And now that the image is there, I cannot get it out. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

5 comments:

ania_2000 said...

What vampire stories you're talking about? Which one?
Recently I had the same feeling. After I read whole Millenium series, I've found out there is a movie. Movie made by some danish? or swedish tv?? I am not sure who've done it, but unfortunately I saw picture of actor who plays Mikeal Blomqvist...:(((( ooo nooo... My milenium stories are totaly ruined too!

ania_2000 said...

oh, never mind Chris - i just found out. Aro? ehm... For me the most important thing is Robert Pattison:))) I've read all books ofkorz:) but haven't seen New Moon yet, - still waiting for dvd release.

Chris said...

Ania-I'm glad someone else can understand me! I haven't seen the 2nd film either. Waiting, waiting...

Anonymous said...

First: its a great blog, I visit you "na zlecenie Zgagi".
I understand your problem with the character, something else happend to me other times. But for me this actor seems a good joice. For three reasons: I saw him as "wilkolak" in "Underworld Evoulution" - he did a real good job. Try and see it. And then read on ;) (The other reasons: never saw him as Blair or Frost)

Chris said...

That's what other people have told me as well, that in the film his portrayal will be great. It was my own imagination which was causing me grief but now I have finished the 4th book and I can give my imagination a rest.

Thanks for the compliment of my blog. I'm a sucker for a compliment ;)