Vampires Never Die by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

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Do not open your eyes! One thinks to themselves as you believe there is something or someone there. It is dark your breath getting heavier and heavier, faster and faster, shaking and slowly you open your eyes… No! The fear paralyzes you, something is there it is getting closer and suddenly Ah! Suspenseful right? Every once in a while we may get frightened at the supernatural events that occur to us, but we never stop to think about how it impacts our society. In the article “Vampires Never Die” by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan they reveal their perspectives about why the supernatural is important in our society. The supernatural impacts our society by using the supernatural popularity to make profit, connecting the human desire to the unrealistic and using technology to keep individuals interested in the supernatural.
Today the entertainment industry overpowers society, millions of people spend their time watching shows, movies and soap operas. How can the industry keep all the people satisfied? Many people get reeled in by the supernatural, so majority of todays industry revolves around the supernatural such as vampires, werewolves etc. . Taking vampires for example, vampires have become a huge part of teenage fictional literature and the entertainment business takes advantage of it and creates film adaptations of books such as “Twilight”. Since individuals are so hooked they rush to buy movie tickets to see the film, according to Del Toro and Hogan, “ In a society that moves as fast as ours, where every week a new “blockbuster” must be enthroned at the box office…” (323). In the end the entertainment industry uses the supernatural theme to make a great amount of profit and they keep making sequels and new movies rap...

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...The supernatural is a topic that many people are interested in and by and using the technology to enhance films by adding amazing computer graphics makes it incredibly hard to dislike. The supernatural is able to transform in many ways with the technology society had today, if the public does not like what they see they easily change it to the audiences liking. The ability technology has to transform the supernatural into what the audience wants is how they keep drawing in individuals to the supernatural.
The supernatural culture has been in our society for decades and as it looks it will be part of our society for a long time to come. The supernatural has greatly influenced our society by entertaining, creating an unrealistic ideal life for individuals and the supernatural theme is so popular businesses take advantage of it and are able to make profit out of it.

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