‘Twilight’ Vs. ‘Harry Potter’: Award Battle Continues for Potter Fans
It doesn’t matter how strongly fans feel for any product or service; in voting encounters, it all boils down to the number of votes received. That’s the hard lesson Harry Potter fans learned this year when the "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" mopped away most of the 2011 MTV Movie Awards with the Harry Potter fans left in the dry.
Although both movie sequels had huge headcounts filling their respective fan bases, the Twilight fans voted aggressively and their endeavors paid off when Harry Potter was able to bag only a single award; and that too for the “Best Villain” category.
Never the less, it still isn’t over as the Harry Potter franchise stands another (and final) chance the following year to get even with the Twilight franchise. This assertion is not merely on the basis of Harry Potter fans experiencing an upset this year, but also because the latest product in the Harry Potter series – “Deathly Hallows Part 2” – seems to be very promising.
It is already showing great prospects from the sole official teaser trailer to have hit the TV screens right now. Despite the promises, nobody can count out the Twilight franchise just yet because you never know what they are about to reveal next.
This waiting game is on for another 12 months!
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about 11 months ago
One should take into account the demographics that vote for the MTV movie awards. Of course on the surface, Twilight will always be more popular because it’s flat, uncomplicated and has “a very hot cast”.
But this doesn’t take away from the greatness of Potter, its plot and its characters. And frankly I don’t really care if Twilight takes home every single award next year, because the fever will pass, the sparkly vampires will fade into the background.
Whereas Potter is here to stay.
about 11 months ago
Lets start like this: I read Twilight before i ever so much as though about harry potter. To, me, there was no such thing as a better book. But when i first opened harry potter i was astounded. i had seen the movies but the books still swept me away. And though i already loved them from the start, i never would have expected what happened in the end. Twilight, it was just a book. Harry potter made me laugh and cry and even put the book down because of anger. The Harry Potter movies were never much to me until i read the books. Yeah, they’re good movies, but you just cant fully understand the premise or the ideas or even what they are talking about a lot of the time unless you read it. The reason Twilight won most of the awards is because most people don’t want to time out of their day to read what can change their entire way of thinking. Twilight is a great book, i will never deny that, but harry potter has totally blown that away. Harry Potter is about adventure and emotions and mystery and so many other things. While twilight is about a teenager who falls in love with a sparkling vampire and a stalker werewolf. I mean to say that Harry Potter is this generations Beatles. Parents will continue to pass down their books just as parents do the beatles music. But Twilight is just a fab. People will move on and forget and just not care anymore, i already have. And like this “ale” said. Twilight has “a very hot cast” Personally, i much prefer the appearances of the cast of harry potter, but i wouldn’t use the word HOT to describe them. Besides, i dont really like that word, i dont really like the people who can be described by that word because it mostly means people are looking at the persons chest or abs. Lets not forget how twilight is also practically copying a lot of j.k. rowling’s hard work, what with vampires and wizards and even using one of the same actors who is now ridiculed by almost all harry potter fans. But not only that but twilight is trying to stay ahead of the game by splitting up their final movie. Not because they think they should include as many details as possible, like harry potter is doing, but because they want to beat out harry potter, because they know, they will lose.
about 10 months ago
Please no haters, but I have seen about 3 HP films and not understood much of them. The books, well, I haven’t been bothered to read them. It’s sad, as I would like to. However, I love the idea of a wizard school and a chosen one. It just seems ‘weird’ that Harry just so happens to be the ‘boy who lived’. Then again, it is always that with the books. The normal one is always special. Still, Harry Potter interests me, and I hope that in the future, when I have more free time, I will be able to read the books.
As for Twilight, I fell in love with that book as soon as I read it. Bella is one of the few non-mary sue characters that most teens will be able to relate to, in the way of being unpopular as she is in the beginning, until she moves to Forks. The love story is beautiful, the characters unique and the plot exciting.
I don’t know about you, but I like both HP and Twilight. Still, it’s your opinion.