The Twilight Is Here
Today at the school I had an actual discussion with two of the teachers (and one of my classmates) about Twilight.
Now, I've never read any of the Twilight books and I've never seen any of the Twilight movies. But my classmate pointed out, in the English newspaper, the new Spiderman and one of the teachers, who was sitting right across from us, was triggered, I guess, to ask if we had seen the new Twilight movie. Apparently, she's seen them all. She claimed it was because of her daughter, but I don't know about that.
Anyway, another teacher was sitting at her desk right next to where we were and she started talking about it, too. The first teacher said she had heard there was a lot of kissing in the new movie and the second teacher said, "Well, yes, aren't they together now?" And then they started discussing the whole vampire pregnancy bit in the fourth book and the first teacher mentioned how the baby in the fourth book ends up with Jacob.
Then, even better, the first teacher mentioned how Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart were in a relationship in real life, brought together because of the movies. And then both teachers started talking about vampires and I'm pretty sure the first teacher used the Malay word for "half breed" when discussing the baby from the fourth book and then they teased my classmate, saying that she might be a vampire because she's so incredibly pale.
It's just so funny. I'm not sure I would have ever expected to have the conversation in Malaysia. Here we were, two twenty something Americans sitting in a Malaysian teacher's staff room talking about Twilight with a woman in a hijab and another woman likely old enough to be my mother.
It's so fun when expectations and stereotypes are shattered. I don't want to expose myself to Twilight but I'd totally go see Eclipse with those two women just because I'm pretty sure we'd have a blast.
(But I'll probably end up seeing it in Kuala Lumpur because my classmates are determined to see it and someone guaranteed me that I'd get a good solid laugh out of it, if nothing else.)
Now, I've never read any of the Twilight books and I've never seen any of the Twilight movies. But my classmate pointed out, in the English newspaper, the new Spiderman and one of the teachers, who was sitting right across from us, was triggered, I guess, to ask if we had seen the new Twilight movie. Apparently, she's seen them all. She claimed it was because of her daughter, but I don't know about that.
Anyway, another teacher was sitting at her desk right next to where we were and she started talking about it, too. The first teacher said she had heard there was a lot of kissing in the new movie and the second teacher said, "Well, yes, aren't they together now?" And then they started discussing the whole vampire pregnancy bit in the fourth book and the first teacher mentioned how the baby in the fourth book ends up with Jacob.
Then, even better, the first teacher mentioned how Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart were in a relationship in real life, brought together because of the movies. And then both teachers started talking about vampires and I'm pretty sure the first teacher used the Malay word for "half breed" when discussing the baby from the fourth book and then they teased my classmate, saying that she might be a vampire because she's so incredibly pale.
It's just so funny. I'm not sure I would have ever expected to have the conversation in Malaysia. Here we were, two twenty something Americans sitting in a Malaysian teacher's staff room talking about Twilight with a woman in a hijab and another woman likely old enough to be my mother.
It's so fun when expectations and stereotypes are shattered. I don't want to expose myself to Twilight but I'd totally go see Eclipse with those two women just because I'm pretty sure we'd have a blast.
(But I'll probably end up seeing it in Kuala Lumpur because my classmates are determined to see it and someone guaranteed me that I'd get a good solid laugh out of it, if nothing else.)