Lets just say after watching the film my respect for it has grown... unfortunately the naked eye could not pick the difference in level and so i can safely say that i dislike this film just as much as i did before, and heres why....
Twilight follows your typical Romanticism Storyline, Two lovers, separated from the world around them unable to fit into society must make the ultimate sacrifice to be eternal with each other... the same storyline can be found in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and even David Bowie's Heroes... its a tried and true plot and most of the time it works.... unless you happen to pile on top of that bad acting, awful dialogue, unrealistic settings and a shitload of teen Angst... this is where we find Twilight.
Romanticism practically invented the Vampire, Dracula was your typical charachter of that era, alone against the world, misunderstood and mistreated, forced to live in solitude and become the monster within and so it would only be fitting to do a film of this sort....in theory.
Lets start with the script because i feel this was the worst part of the film, you know when someone tries to write poetry for the first time, they will think up long descriptive words, massive flowing sentances about nothing at all, trying to sound emotive but really just sounding like a thesaurus? This was the script to twilight, there weren't long drawn out sentances and overy descriptive words but it was like they were trying too hard to describe their feelings that they forgot to emote them. Everyone has heard the key lines..."your'e like a drug to me" "i'd Die for you" hearing these just leave you sick to the stomach. Nobody talks like this, not in history and probably not in the future...especially a 17 year old. Its like they had taken the dialogue from a soap opera, or something from the Romance section of Borders. The film is the script and it is on this level that the film fails no matter what images it puts over it... but even these were a let down. And don't even get me started on how this raped the vampire mythology!
First of all the make up.... would have worked on stage, but in a film we are meant to buy it as being real, putting a shitload of white stuff on your face a vampire it does make you not. It almost made them look like mimes and totally distracted from the film. The fact that Bella too looked just as pale confused the imagary even more, if anything she should have been more colourful to show the difference between them, hence the conflict.
Secondly the camera work and effects were well below par, it looked like it had been shot for TV, hand held shots randomly placed to express something that wasn't there, a camera should be strategically placed with reason, making it handheld randomly does nothing but confuse. And the Effects... now this was where i thought i would have something to like in this film, oh i was wrong... i will admit the car scene where Edward jumps in looked pretty cool... but the rest, the fast running etc. Looked like something i could do in After effects.
Finally the Acting, which goes along with the angst... There was only one actor i liked in this film and he wasn't even a lead role. It was Billy Burke who played Bella's Father. The scene where she has to lie to him to stop danger from coming onto him actually made me feel bad for him, as he turns to her and tells her he can change was heart wrenching and for that one minute scene i actually felt something... then the movie carried on and i was back to nothing. The worst acting award definatley goes to Edward himself... i know he didnt have much of a script to go with but really he could have shown some emotion...any emotion... waving your head does not express suffering! oh... and there was lots of unwarrented Angst... enough said about that.
In the end though i Digress.... this was not the worst film ever made.... the soundtrack was pretty cool and i can see how this would appeal to 16 yr old girls who don't give a rats arse about story and just want to see angsty expressions...however to the older people who love the series although i can't make judgement about your taste i ask you one question.... "Why???"
I could go read the book to really get a grasp of this series but really it would do nothing to make me hate this any less. This a film i am glad i finally watched because now i can put it behind me and forget all about it... i have seen worse but bad is bad... and this is just that.
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