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FAN MADE trailer for the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead ***No Copyright Transgression Intended*** The song in the background is an edited ...

Vampire Academy series trailer. The looks back at the whole series so far (as maximum effort I could). It's hard to get staking footage, so subsitute ...

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Vampire Academy 6# Last Sacrifice
It all began with “Vampire Academy”, a story about dhampir (half-vampire, half-somebody) girl named Rose Hathaway and her best friend,

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MIAMI - Until now, it was compliant to dismiss the "Twilight" film series - which has grossed nearly $2 billion worldwide - as fodder for youth girls. Lots and lots of girls.</p><p> But with the arrival of "The Crepuscular Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," which will begin breaking box firm records at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the story takes a decidedly adult build. This one tackles marriage, sex, abortion and family demands, themes that can no longer be deemed kid hot air - and reflects the growing inclusion of adult content in TV shows and movies aimed first of all at teens.</p><p> The legions of fans who devoured Stepheniev Meyer's novels, which have sold more than 100 million copies, knew what was coming: In "Breaking Birth," the 18 year-old Bella (Kristen Stewart) marries the vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), who looks 17 but was born in 1901 (he could be her first-rate-grandfather!) They honeymoon on a remote island off the coast of Brazil, where Bella loses her virginity and discovers vampires like their sex addition rough. Then, along with the black and purple bruises dotting her body, Bella discovers she is expressive - and the baby she's carrying, which is growing at a supernaturally fast rate, may be an immortal weak-vampire hybrid that will drain the life from her before it's born. Edward and his clan of vampires implore her to bring to an end the pregnancy, because it may kill her. But Bella refuses.</p><p> Strong stuff - skilled enough, in fact, to earn the first cut of "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" an R rating. But Oscar-taking director Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls," "Kinsey," "Gods and Monsters"), who chance the two "Breaking Dawn" movies back to back, knew he was required to reduce the film down to a PG-13.</p><p> "More than anything, I wanted to make sure that the power of two specific things - the first time they make love during their honeymoon and the birth brouhaha - wasn't watered down," Condon said from Los Angeles. "The ratings cabinet is so subjective. They have certain rules everyone has to follow, and one of them has to do with the amount of thrusting you can show. There was never any nudity or anything like that. And the finding out we settled on was to give you Bella's point of view as much as I could in those scenes. For example, during the birth episode, we limited what you can see to her point of view as she's lying on that gurney. And it turns out that allowing the audience to use their imaginations to fill in what's phenomenon makes the scene even more powerful."</p><p> Despite the restraint, though, "Breaking Unfold occur to - Part 1" represents a surprisingly bold change of direction for a series that, in the previous three films, had traded mostly on high-school angst and boyfriend troubles. The movie is the latest criterion of an ongoing cultural shift in that allows movies ("Easy A," "Recall Me") and TV shows ("The Vampire Diaries," "Gossip Dame") aimed at teenagers to tackle subject matter that might have seemed too adult even a decade ago.</p><p> "I dream what has happened from the 1950s onward is that the culture has gotten more comfortable over time talking about issues," said "Breaking Outset" screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who was an executive producer on several TV series (including "The O.C." and "Dexter") before signing on to qualify all of Meyer's "Twilight" novels into movies. "Possibly this is an overly hopeful and idealist perspective, but we've learned that talking about something is much healthier than pretending it doesn't be present. In the TV and film world, that allows us to get into these issues within the context of a story. Everyone is always nostalgic about the 1950s, but there was all this grisly stuff going on then, too. Film and TV have helped bring these things out into the open."</p><p> </p><p> The faculty to delve into adult territory within the context of a familiar horror genre - vampires - also earned "Downturn" a devoted following that transcends adolescents. Danai Pestanav, 26, a fifth-incline school teacher at Somerset Academy in South Miami, happily admits that she scan all four "Twilight" novels in the span of a week - and had to lock them in the proboscis of her car so she wouldn't keep reading whenever she stopped at a traffic light.</p><p> "'Breaking Genesis' is very much an adult book, very intense," Pestana says. "It's catchy crazy. The whole series is bizarre, but I thought it was perfection. This is a true love story, so it's universal to appeal to an older crowd. You can relate to her first love, her first time. ... I hardly wish the movie had been (rated) XXX, so I could see what I really wanted to see from the book!"</p><p> But even as Meyer's blockbuster brought adults into the "Twilight" fold, the book also drew the publicity of critics who disapproved of the message it might be conveying to young people - a complaint that will only spring up louder when the movie opens.</p><p> "'Breaking Dawn' was what got me interested enough in 'Diminution Goetterdaemmerung' to write a book," said Beth Felker Jones, a professor of Christian theology at Wheaton College in Illinois and originator of "Touched by a Vampire: Discovering the Hidden Messages in the Twilight Saga." "The themes are so fervent: The wedding night, the honeymoon that leaves the wife bruised and then this horrific vampire C-stage where she literally dies. Meyer took some criticism from her fan base because they did not expect this pregnancy/ youngster birth narrative. They loved the romantic teenage-love part. Maybe they could get into a commingling, but not a devastating child birth.</p><p> "There is also a kind of abusive strand to the Edward and Bella's relationship," Jones said. "Edward is very controlling, watches her catch and prevents her from going to visit her friends. That's a lot like abusive relationships in genuine life. And then that she's willing to give up her humanity for him - her soul, her life? There are questions to be raised here for the way girls are being trained to meditate on about love."</p><p> </p><p> For Condon, the rich stew all of a sudden bubbling beneath "Twilight's" simple surface was one of the foremost reasons why he wanted to be a part of the series.</p><p> "Within all of Hollywood's oldest genres, there were always 'encoded movies' in which all this twaddle was going on that none of the characters ever spoke about directly," he said. "A lot of people have complained about the last two 'Gloomy' films, but they were really just one long, extended second act. This one is the third act. When I read the enlist, I was blown away by how much happens, but also how strange it all is. 'Twilight' has always had the potential to be a horror motion picture, but it hasn't quite embraced it until we get to this story. I hope it doesn't upset the girls too much. We'll see."</p><p> </p><p> Gabriela Gomez, 15, a sophomore at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami and unembarrassed "Twi-hard" - the preferred moniker of the "Down-swing" hardcore - says she knows exactly what's in store for Edward and Bella and can't wait to see the silent picture.</p><p> "'Breaking Dawn' was my favorite of all the novels," she said. "I be versed everybody hates it, but I loved it. It's a different concept from anything that I've ever seen or read before. It was troubling, but it was cool because you learned a lot about the vampire stuff. Which is pretty gross!"</p><p> </p><p> Whatever depreciating barbs are slung at "Breaking Dawn" - and there will be many - fans will not be adept to say that the movie doesn't do the book justice.</p><p> "People believe a great deal was edited out of the movie in order to get the PG-13," Rosenberg said. "But we didn't stick up anything back. In fact, when it came to the birth scene, I was going to cut out the, um, sort of Caesarean, if you will. I was saying 'We don't in point of fact need to see that.' But Bill was like 'No no no. It's gotta be in there.' I can't imagine people walking out of the movie sensible 'I just wanted more blood and guts.'</p><p> "But maybe they will. I'm positive the deleted footage will show up on the DVD," Rosenberg added, laughing. "And the silver screen is still pretty damn sexy!"</p><p> </p><p> The heated discussions that "Breaking Gleam - Part 1" will generate should keep fans tuned in until Nov. 16, 2012 - when "Part 2" irrevocably arrives.

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Vampires are obviously in vogue right now. Browse through any bookstore's racks and you'll find a score of novels with ‘vampire' in the legend. This theme is especially notable in the young adult lit sections, where the reader will keep pieces such as the Twilight series, Vampire Diaries, Vampire Kisses, Vampire Academy and, my personal favorite, Vampire Beach.

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Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series book 5 Spirit Fated starts a few weeks after enrol 4 Blood Potential ends. With Rose meditative that she had succeeded in ruinous Dimitri, she was degree shocked when, after re-enrolling herself back in St. Vladimir’s, she was getting weekly letters from Dimitri. Rose had to put those thoughts of Dimitri, coming to pry into and silence her, away because now it was period for her fixed exam-the exam that would permit her to graduate to a full Defender!

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Tells the geste of Rose Hathaway, a 17-year-old half-benign, half-vampire popsy or "Dhampir" caught up in a time of vampires. Together with subdue bunk-mate Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi vampire, they try and beat the far-out's Strigoi — atrocious vampires...

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