I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

