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Everyone is lying
Why did we get hooked on Harry Potter, Twilight and Dr. House? We explore modern folklore in the work of fans
Last week in London, the world premiere of the penultimate film about Harry Potter happened. The film is called Harry Potter and Gifts of Death (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Again on Lester Square, near the great cinema "Odeon", ...
Last week in London, the world premiere of the penultimate film about Harry Potter happened. The film is called Harry Potter and Gifts of Death (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Again, a thousandth crowd gathered at Lester-Square, near the great cinema "Odeon", torches burned and smoked; Many fans were dressed in Hogward mantles (Hogvardes is a school of magic in which he studied, studies and will study the GP all the future eternity, while at least one lover of this worthy epic is alive). "Yes, you have a masquerade here, the mood of the carnival!" Cried the television correspondent, getting to the fan, dressed by a magic student. It was raining, the wind blew, but how can the raging element prevent the real journalist from doing his job - namely, say the truism on duty? “We don’t have a masquerade here,” the mowing answered coldly, “and, on the contrary, the moment of revelation.” Masquerade is when they put on masks, and we finally removed them and show ourselves real. A mask for us is our office clothing. Our everyday life is a protracted masquerade. ” “Oh, yes, yes, yes, dear spectators,” the journalist cried, making his face “a-y-and-za”, “we have a holiday for those who live in parallel reality!”
It is interesting to look at the whole area of people living in parallel reality; But who would know how many such immigrants are in fact the parallel and perpendicular universes live? And if we throw from the hot yellow festive torches to Leicester Square into a sleeping dark Moscow, still just waiting for the film premiere, will we really not find “alternative” guys there? And who would calculate how many of our compensates prefers to conduct his leisure time in another reality? For example, for three years I have been a persistent fan of the Vampire Saga of Twilight, and if I lived in America, I would already have a sympathetic cultural definition with all my troubles - a “twilight mommy”.
Inverted life
“Three main cultural events of the decade that turned our lives,” the English -speaking press writes. Culturologists say more accurately: the three phenomena of mass culture, which had a great influence on the mentality of society and gave rise to a large -scale fan movement.
What are the three phenomena? This is Harry Potter, the Twilight Saga (four books by the American Mormonka Stefani Mayer and three films shot from these books, as if accumulating all the charm and all popularity of the Vampire theme) and the television series Dr. House. Some researchers instead of “dh” consider “sex and the city” - but no. This series made the impression a fairly, but the “large -scale fan movement” did not cause. The fans of “Sex ...”, instead of gathering together, quickly, one by one scattered shopping in search of shoes from Manolo Blanik.
Do fans of these three “phenomenal cultural events” differ among themselves? Well, in front of us, as it were, three ages of love.
“GP” is mainly loved by very young teenagers; “Twilight” - youths and ladies are a little older. Finally, fans of DH are in the pares of maturity.
But this alignment, the natural, seemingly, in the very structure of the audience (reader) audience, has only a rude approach to truth. Harry Potter fans grew with Harry Potter himself and grew up- now the backbone of fan domomes consists of twenty and thirty-year-old young people. In the fan movement of Twilight, groups of “Twilight Mom” play a significant role, namely, middle-aged women who have read books along with their daughters and instead of daughters who were heading into the saga and who disappeared for external life. House fans emphasize that the charm of this gloomy superman acts only on the “high -luminous”, and here it is more appropriate rather than an age -related division.
It is difficult to describe the scale of fan activity for a uninitiated person - a parallel universe and parallel, so as not to fall into everyday life. We will not talk about Party meetings, role-playing games, conferences and flows of fans, about the new “twilight” religion-callerism; About the girls who besiege the filming of "Twilight" (their persistent enthusiasm is compared only with the neurasthenia of the fans of the Beatles group). We are about our own, about our native. About Russian. Therefore, if you are interested in the scale and fervor of these fan movements, I will advise you to read fan fiction. Fan fiction is the literary work of fans of one or another literary and cinematographic “world”, or, as practical Americans write, “commercially successful universe”. Fans do not want to part with their heroes, do not want to leave their dusk - and they continue to clarify and finish their favorite history. Fanfiction written in Russian - thousands. Thousands - about Harry loss; Many hundreds are based on Twilight and only a little less - according to Dr. House.
Fanfiction, in my opinion, is the typical modern folklore.
Folk aspirations and blogers truth
Here's what it is: there is a mass culture made as if by a “popular order” that coincides with “folk aspirations”, but there is a real, homemade folk culture. This is not to say that the hidden. The Soviet written folklore is well -known - the school "Vangeous Diary" and "Dembelsky Album". There is nothing secret left with the everyday introduction of the Internet in our life - right? However, the Internet, in my opinion, is oral folklore. Internet Russian is a typical recording of oral speech. The main thing in oral folklore is a rumor, gossip, an anecdote, and last. Exactly what is now called blogging truth. Exactly what serves as the basis of “living magazines”.
Fanfict, of course, is written folklore. This is a literary event with intent and intention; These are the epic about the new Russian heroes-about the vegetarian vampire Edward Kallene and the doctor-robber Gregory House.
Failing, gentlemen: the number of fan fictions that I read, well, is very large - and if I had not been constrained by the great format with what pleasure I would discuss a number of lovely features of written folklore. For example, exceptional scastiness is at least seventy percent of fan texts. But genuine folk art is “obscene” by definition. Here is another obscenity, exploring the nature of the characters and events “over the edge”, true, pure, pure, from experience, from eternal dreams. Another fanfire girl who writes a magical phrase in naivety: “I am from Washington,” Bela croaked, “a bed on his rebellious flesh,” and does not understand what he does, in fact, a real work, works for a dream. And this is a dream not about the big “rebellious flesh” and not even about great pure love, but about another life.
This is that the topic of fan fiction is great and seductive, but they are only examples for the main thing - namely, for reflection on the phenomenon of another life.
About craving for bloodsuckers
A fair amount of Western culturalists is occupied by questions: why is Harry Potter so popular? And why: vampires? Why: Dr. House?
Moreover, vampires are the most relevant topic. Well, let's start with her.
The Twilight franchise presents us with special vampires. These are Vegan vampires. They do not eat people, but eat animals - deer there, Lviv, Panther. Their conscience is inflamed. The main character is Edward Callen, a centenary schoolboy. The kid was made by a vampire at the age of seventeen, and since then he will die, but does not grow up. The funny idea of the author of the book, Stefani Mayer, is (and what else could have occurred to an average American confused by psychoanalysts) that mind and feelings really live separately. That is, the old man - Cullen understands everything, and with feelings - a teenager, and nothing can do anything here. There is still such fun that the poor thing is a vampire, and clearly feels the animal of the beginning. Like our beast, Edward will conquer, will immediately cry like a child. And suddenly - a love for an ordinary girl, for the schoolgirl Bele Swan, such an ambush.
And at the same time - beautiful, dark, dangerous. Pure female joy. But is it the only thing? Western culturalists lead the following reasons for the public craving for bloodsuckers: vampire teeth - a phallic symbol of penetration, which is directly related to the floor; Vampires live forever, and the eternal life is not only the prerogative of religion, but also the everyday dream of an average American; Vampires cannot withstand their thirst for violence - it tickles the public consciousness, used to hiding their hidden desires. Yes, the still nervously sweet combination of “low” and “tall”, the white top and dark bottom are vampires by definition of supershipworms, polyglotes, hundred-year-old sages, and these magical botanists should run to the forest along Olenin (if we are talking about vegans of Caliences) or to the evil quarter according to human.
Everything is so, everything is so. But it seems to me that the main truth is different.
Why are "green" are afraid of nature?
Vampires for American society are the most important metaphor for a clash of nature and culture. Look: the energetic "green" love nature. They protect her. But at the same time they are afraid of her like a feature. This is the love of an enthusiastic impotent - not to touch, not to harm, not eat, not to wear, not to mate. What is to become “closer to nature”, they do not understand - in their opinion, it is to freeze and not breathe. But in order to feel like her part, so that it splashes, and clutch, and cracking on the teeth, and run away, and breathe, bite, and be afraid, and to revel, this is not. BAD. I recently saw a very inadvertible video. Dancing evening in the midst of the middle hand of the hotel. Obviously, an evening for Americans of "autumn". In the center of the hall are ballroom couples. Along the perimeter are sympathetic spectators.
And on the floor there are elegance, blonde curls, pearls, waltz and wonderful dental smiles. Wasmed PA. And in the corner the old black woman twitched to the music. And each of her old flabby muscle knew her place, and her whole body knew the rhythm, and the call of knock and sound, and every parquet smile, and every turn was felled in front of this great powerful living memory and power of the body. Nature is against culture.
Good “green” are trying to pretend that the poor nature “outside” must be protected-as a wheelchair user, an Iraqi woman diluted by Matron. And nature is inside, and it will eat all of you, good "green". You are afraid of her because you secretly suspect: she is stronger. Any social shock - and you will learn the power of desire, fear, pain, feelings of self -preservation, the bitterness of betrayal. We already know about it. Because we are as close to nature as that dancing black woman. She is a biological memory, and we are moral. We with leather, muscles, sprout with the ass, remember moral wildness.
Here in this tickling gap between the nature of the invented and the real, in my opinion, is the reason for the English popularity of vampire themes. But why did she find so many admirers and admirers in Russia? Roughly speaking, why are you, Pishchikova, you read everything and read the fanfictions of “twilight” topics? Yes, it’s still not bad about Dr. House to explain at least something. Well, you can also add Harry Potter.
With a dream of a dream
Here I have the next theory - another life.
“A commercially successful universe” is an excellent definition; And “parallel reality” is no worse.
In principle, we are talking about a dream. Or about the image of the future. The ladies of my generation (what about our poor tired men) - we are used to the fact that the image of the future should be at least.
We loved Strugatsky; My Lord, their "noon. XXI century "I drowned half the world. Richard Barbrook, a well -known English sociologist, wrote that it was the charm of Russian communist utopia that made the Americans engage in the development of the concept of a post -industrial society: “The Americans acutely needed in the future - they had a good present, but the Russian future was better, that’s the matter!”
In this "half" we wanted to live. I did not want to leave. But our future banged. Well, it’s surprised that we are all looking for and looking for something like that?
But this endless longing in the image of the future is felt everywhere.
Humanity has been seated in the present. There is no intelligible social dream.
We should become better - isn't it? A person of the future should be better than a person from the present.
But how will it become better?
We painfully feel the viscosity of social honey - it is impossible to engage in ourselves “a person of the future”, because the struggle for achieving success in “real life” takes away all his strength.
And life in the name of “own improvement” automatically makes a person unsuccessful. Loser.
An ordinary person does not have enough moral forces to change, and it begins to seem that some genetic, biological breakthrough is needed-since social life is not going to change. And then the dream of parallel reality comes to the rescue.
She, as the ladies-novelists tell us, begins immediately around the corner.
There are nine and three quarters on the platform, in the corridor of the deposit school, in the Knyston-Playnsborough hospital a meeting with the future awaits us.
Before us are the characters perfect and imperfect at the same time.
They are biologically perfect, but socially inferior - just what is necessary.
It is endowed with superpowers, but not overdate.
Beautiful non -town.
Harry Potter with his complex of Ecumenical Orphan, evergreen Edward Callen and, of course, Gregory House, King Oxymoron.
Angry good-haired, hero-hero, bile romantic, sick doctor, ignorant intellectual, fading mother of Teresa with a Witches key.
They are great, but they can and should be pity and understand. And what else does the heart tired of everyday be needed?
And how can I not sank into parallel reality?