With all the speculation and hype over Twilight and New Moon’s Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart– are they / aren’t they together / in love — fans and Hollywood’s puppeteers are out in full force playing the game they love to play the most: Romance + Fauxmance = No-man’s land. (Yeah, I made that up.) But it’s legit because if the predicted box office gross is any indication — we have yet another instant-classic example of a feeding frenzy over a product that really hits the mark because it is the result of a true consumer and producer collaboration. We, the fans / consumers, demand that Hollywood / producers deliver certain goods packaged into their films that seem to transcend the barriers between reality and fantasy.
Every so often Hollywood finds a way to play into this primal human condition and creates a film that mirrors that condition so perfectly that it becomes an irresistible product for mass consumption.
Or maybe, as Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance seems to suggest, maybe it’s just that we crave this ambiguity to really feel alive– we want it all, but we don’t want to get it all, because it’s the wanting that keeps us living for something.
