Have you ever seen the movie The Notebook? Don’t you just love how every character is thoroughly developed and well thought out. The way the story magnificently transitions from two different times again and again is stunning. Don’t you love the way the movie plays with your emotions, bending them this way and that until your emotions are as that of the character? If you love this type of movie, Twilight is not for you.
Have you ever seen the movie Indiana Jones? Don’t you just love the way you sometimes catch yourself jumping to escape a river of lava or dodging a humongous rolling stone? Did you not leave the theatre thinking about how the stunts could have possibly been filmed in a studio? Do you not agree that the action was so intense that you stopped eating your popcorn because you were too engulfed by the scene before you? If you enjoy this type of movie, Twilight is not for you.
Twilight is about a 17 year old girl named Bella Swan(Kristen Stewart). She moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father Chief Swan (Billy Burke). Upon arriving in Forks, Bella meets an amazing guy named Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). He eventually saves her life (twice) and she finds out he is a vampire. Don’t worry though, he is a good vampire, he only drinks animal blood. The vampire and Bella fall madly in love after only meeting maybe 5 times at the most. Oh but of course there are a few twists! Bella’s blood smells better than anyone else’s blood so she is even harder to resist. Despite the smell of Bella's blood they still successfully manage to have a short make out session thus proving Edward is even more perfect because he doesn’t crush her. The whole time that Edward and Bella are falling into a deep passionate love, a gang of three bad vampires are hunting humans around Forks. Edward accidently exposes Bella to the gang of evil vampires and then two of the vampires track Bella until a rather dull battle to save Bella’s life goes down in Bella’s hometown.
The whole movie happens over no more than 3 months. The only reason this movie was so popular is because of the top selling Twilight Series by Stephanie Myers, that the movie is based on, captured so many girl’s hearts. Edward is every girls dream; he is charming, loving, strong, rich, and drop dead gorgeous. Bella represents all girls; she just wants to be loved and will do anything for her love.
If you have ever seen Kristen Stewart in an interview you will see no change in her in Twilight: monotone voice, few facial expressions, and lack of a presence. To be a lead star in a movie based on a widely popular book, you need to be exciting, interesting to watch, and you need to make us feel that we are supposed to be watching you not the trees in the background. Robert Pattinson seemed to not understand the emotion behind the script at times and changed the meaning of the scene as Stephanie Myers had intended the emotion to be. On a good note there were a few good actors that played Alice, Jasper, Rosaline, and Emit. They seemed to know the emotion that needed to be portrayed and the timing was very good on their part.
Twilight the book is very different from Twilight the movie. I have read the book series 2 times and I have seen the movie three times, if you want to know what makes Twilight is so popular I strongly suggest reading the books and not wasting money on seeing the movie.*If you take away the vampire element you have a cheesy high school love story with under-developed characters and little underlying plot. There is a huge lack of emotion in key scenes. The film sort of randomly flashed between the good and the bad vampires before they met. In the scene that was said to be a heart stopping suspenseful fall out between good and bad vampires, there was a dreadfully boring, almost action lacking fight. But if you like that kind of movie Twilight is definitely for you.
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