I got an idea for what I think is a very clever dramedy. Possibly print, possibly TV, possibly film. I don't know what kind of medium would fit it best.
I came upon the idea during a free day in my Gym class. I don't remember why exactly, but I was talking about vampires with one of my friends.
And I quickly realized that if anyone should have AIDS, a vampire should have AIDS. Their, supposed, diet consists predominatly of human blood. Think of all the bodily fluids that they come in contact with on a daily basis.
I haven't ironed out any of the kinks. But I think the premise is, ultimately, promising. There's truly no telling where I, or anyone, could go with something like this. I could have a ball.
Aside from a general plot, I've decided that I really like the title Suck It!
Anywho, I just wanted to share. But I also want to say...BACK OFF, THIS IDEA IS MINE. BOTTOMFEEDERS! I CALLED IT. NEENER NEENER NEENER. That is all.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You've already published it on the internet. Fair use and all that.
Posted by Morta (Member # 10100) on :
If a vampire had AIDS would it die?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: You've already published it on the internet. Fair use and all that.
Fortunately, I can always change the title. And I haven't detailed any of the...details, so it doesn't matter. If anyone else gives it a whirl, my version would probably be significantly different.
Morta: I've decided that I'm pretty sure a vampire wouldn't die from AIDS. The way I figure it, the vampire would suffer from numerous annoying colds. And possibly more serious diseases. But not death. Unless some doctor prefers wooden shot needles.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
Sure, that's all we need, give the teenagers an opportunity to say they got HIV from a vampire.
Posted by Morta (Member # 10100) on :
Well, that's one detail, detailed. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
AIDS affects humans, but vampires aren't quite human; they are otherkin, and as such, are not affected by the HIV virus.
Also, that canard about being bitten by a vampire converting the host to vampirism? Malarky! Vampires are born, not converted from human ranks.
Sheesh!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's not as original a story idea as you'd think. Believe me, the big vampire craze of the '90s started after AIDS broke; ergo, quite a lot of writers have already explored this territory. (Similar territory: do vampires care about blood types? What if there are drugs in someone's system? Can vampires gain sustenance from plasma alone?)
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
Well on Buffy/Angel, drugs were definitely at least a turn-off and in at least one case messed Angel up pretty badly... so yeah.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
But that is supposed to be more of a comedy sort of thing. I don't know, I may not even consider it. I've got a couple of cool ideas I'm developing.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
I adore vampire stories. I used to read every vampire-romance novel I could get my hand on. The good ol' days. ^_^
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I write vampire stories!
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
Vampires are undead. They can't die of AIDS.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
A character on Buffy/Angel had had Syphilis before she became a vampire, lived for hundreds of years, got a soul (I forget why) and was about to die from it again so was turned back into a vampire.
AIDS isn't that different.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Last I heard, the chance to contract HIV orally is very low. This is even without one partner being living dead.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Are we as a society ready to joke so brazenly about AIDS or HIV yet? I don't think we are.
Now maybe if he was a vampire with hemophilia, THAT might be funny.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I don't think we're quite ready for that. I know I'm not quite ready, anyway. The whole premise smacks of "See! You do evil things, you get AIDS!" Fred Phelps would probably Tivo it and watch it over and over, though, so you'd have one fan at least.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
quote:The whole premise smacks of "See! You do evil things, you get AIDS!
Mmmm...while I don't know about making it a comedy about dying (or undying) of AIDS, I think that the message you see in it, Karl, isn't necessarily a given. It depends on how it's presented, doesn't it?
In any case, this is a pretty old idea...I even saw this very scenario played out in a monologue in my Drama I class in High School. This was back in 1991. Which is not to say that Steve cannot be successful with it.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
This idea was used in an old episode of CSI I watched last week, where the parents of a girl who thought she was a vampire sent her to get an HIV test - only to have the nurse administering the test decide that since the girl was negative, it was okay to kill vampgirl and drink her blood instead.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I remember a TV show a few years back (but for some reason I'm drawing a complete blank for names of actors or name of the show) but it involved vampires and a war (WWII??), but I think the war stuff was all flashbacks. The story (I think) was set in the present. At any rate, that story eventually took a turn where vampires were dropping right and left from some mysterious blood-born disease. This was also at the time when AIDS was a more dominant topic in the news and I remember the parallels were hard not to see.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
And I agree, Scott, that my interpretation of the premise is not necessarily a given. It does totally depend on how it's presented. That's just what first came to mind from Steve's first post.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: A character on Buffy/Angel had had Syphilis before she became a vampire, lived for hundreds of years, got a soul (I forget why) and was about to die from it again so was turned back into a vampire.
That's Darla. Angel had staked her back in the first season of Buffy, and then Wolfram and Hart resurrected her, but she was human when she came back. It was kind of incestuous, because Darla sired Angel, who sired Drusilla. But when Darla came back, Dru sired her. Which... ick.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
For some reason I don't think of siring as incestuous. But yeah the only part there I wasn't sure of is how she became human.
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