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Originally Posted by iPhantom
If you'd read it better, I said that Twilight was messing with today's generation head with this new vampire crap. A mythology is meant to remain as it is, not to be changed by a person just because she uses it with a shitty love story.
Leave aside vampires, if someone made a movie with greek mythology, screwed it up and it was so popular to screw up all today's generation minds that everybody learns it as it is in the movie.
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If someone gains an interest in the myth rather than simply the book / movie - then I am pretty sure they are going to look into it a bit more. I think it`s been made pretty clear with the vampire boom that those who gain interest via a certain piece of media do not stop there and do not totally form their knowledge off of that small first encounter.
I will agree with what you are saying if suddenly all the books out there about or featuring vampires / werewolves suddenly change to fit this new "version". But that isn`t going to happen.
Vampire and werewolf myths are being changed bit by bit every generation. If you go far enough back, "vampires" were little different from the modern image of a zombie. At exactly what point was this myth the "right version" in your eyes? The very early half rotting corpses rising to linger around the houses of relatives? The Victorian total remake? 20th century movie versions?
Folklore is something that is constantly changing - it always has been and likely always will be.