Summery

Summary

            In popular culture there have been movie series since 1916 with “Fall of a Nation” by D.W Griffiths (Movie Sequel). We began our investigation into the movie series with Twilight Saga and discovered that the popular beliefs about vampires are challenged, the myths about vampires and werewolves are challenged, and popular icons of the series are Edward and Jacob. We then turned to rituals and stereotypes of movie series. To many people seeing a movie is a ritual in itself, because they have a “family night” where the whole family gathers to watch a movie and spend time together. The Twilight saga also has a family ritual where they do not drink human blood they drink animal blood and consider themselves “vegetarian”. The saga also contradicts the normal stereotype that vampires burst into flames when they go out in the sun, it is one of the more significant alterations that the author chooses to make different from the norm. Then we took the time to look at how heroes and celebrities play a role in the movie series. I believe that there is more often than not a hero in a movie series and most movie starts are also considered to be a celebrity. I believe the most popular hero movie series to be X-Men. Finally we looked at the movie formula which is in essence the way the plot in the movie plays out depending on the type of movie. The Twilight Saga is a romance series and that lends it to the formula of struggle or issues and then in the end the boy gets the girl, but the question is which boy? In the end the movie series and popular culture are intertwined and seem to have an ability to bring out people of all kinds to watch and participate in this part of our culture, which in turn makes it popular!

References

Movie Sequel. Retrieved from http://ask.yahoo.com/20050919.html