We will always hold spite in our hearts towards Stephenie Meyer for turning cool vampires into “diamond studded” white zombies who seduce young girls into loving them. The earlier vampire mythologies had better characterization, a good example being Anne Rice or Bram Stoker. Robert Pattinson seemed to be the perfect choice to play lead of the brain dead clan of vampires shown in Twilight. The mass hysteria of millions of fan girls were a kind response compared to the collective negative reaction of critics.
Robert is now a teen phenomenon. But he seems to somehow actually trace his ancestry to Vlad III Dracula- the cruel 15th century ruler who inspired Bram Stoker’s literary Count Dracula in 1897. Ancestry.com was the site responsible for determining this link. “Tracing Pattinson’s family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to ‘The Twilight Saga’,” said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com. Pattinson is actually a distant cousin of Prince Harry and Prince William, on their father’s side. “Without any myth or magic, we find royalty and vampires lurking in Pattinson’s life — making his story just as supernatural as the one he is playing on screen,” Tyler was further quoted as saying. Now isn’t this turning out to be too creepy to be true? At least he doesn’t actually glow in the sunlight or worse, burn in it!
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