Yes, it's all fan fiction, but still...

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I was nearly over my agonized reaction to the latest TV ad for the ahistoric "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" -- seriously, folks, are we just playing high-concept Mad Libs here? why not Marie Antoinette, or Woodrow Wilson, or Adlai Stevenson? -- when the ad for the upcoming Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant came on, and I screamed

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What you said. I'm open to crossing the streams, really I am, and I even started to read P & P & $, but couldn't get beyond the first 30-40 pages. It's something about This Being History. Real life is full of amazing stories, things most fiction writers couldn't imagine if they tried, and yet you know that somewhere in Hollywood a writer is doing his or her level best to shoehorn a Kardashian into World War II.

[neddy_s]

Well you know Fevre Dream (which I recently reread) is a vampire story that takes place around that time, and does draw some parallels between slavery and vampires....

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I hear that's the plot twist in the AL:VK book. The book would undoubtedly be easier for me to read, if only because it wouldn't shove 3D explosions down my optic nerve.

Also, Fevre Dream is fiction. People are already saying "I'll never think of Abraham Lincoln in the same way again." This is maddening. Isn't it enough to walk down streets in Virginia and know that Lincoln took the same path to the theater work? Or he wrote at this desk, wore this top hat? That's already science fiction of a sort.

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[neddy_s]

True--I guess all I wanted to suggest is that someone has successfully made a conceptually solid link between the traditional vampire story and the issues around the Civl War. Sorry, will go away now. *kicks self for commenting in someone's LJ*

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Is commenting in a journal bad? Please come back and comment more! I'm cranky about wanting more history in my movies about major historical figures, not about your comment.