Twilight: New Moon
Starting last Sunday night at midnight, hundreds of fans flocked to cinemas nationwide to catch the eagerly anticipated New Moon, the latest instalment to the Twilight saga.
Countless adolescent and young women packed film theatres up and down the country desperate to discover the next chapter in Bella and Edwards epic love story. It was also a nice surprise to see a large turnout in male audience who had come to enjoy the action scenes and superb visual effects.
Six minutes longer, it’s hard to decide on a favourite scene, from the heartbreak of Bella and Edward to the visually stunning fight scenes or the countless shirtless moments of vampire and werewolf.
Twilight is a series of four-vampire based fantasy love novels written by American author Stephanie Meyer. It charts the ups and downs of lead character Isabella “Bella” Swan played by actress Kristen Stewart as she falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen played by the gorgeous Robert Pattinson. At a family meal to celebrate Bella’s birthday, a member of Edward’s family tries to attack Bella, unable to deal with the guilt Edward decides Bella would be safer if he left her forever.
Devastated by Edwards decision to leave, the film scenes become darker and slower, Bella is tormented by the absence of her lover experiencing nightmares, going through months of solitude and locking herself away from society. To pull her from her solace she turns to her best friend Jacob Black played by actor Jake Lautner.
However, instead of friendship a new relationship begins to blossom between the two of them. The film again picks up pace like it did before and the film keeps interest as Bella becomes an adrenaline junkie and Jacob too seems to be guarding a secret.
When Jacob tells Bella he would never leave her and then the following day completely disappears obviously Bella is left feeling confused and abandoned the story begins to speed up extremely quickly and almost feels as though the ending has been rushed to fit the two hour time frame.
Bella quickly learns of Jacobs werewolf secret after he defends her from the rest of the pack in a spectacular fight scene. But it’s not long before Edward returns to the story, Edwards’s sister returns to tell Bella they thought she was dead and to inform her that Edward was in trouble.
From here the film adapts the Romeo and Juliet love story, with Edward wanting to kill himself unable to deal with the loss of Bella, and Bella being 100% alive races to Italy to try to save Edwards life before it’s too late.
The film overall I feel lacked in pace and was often slow and difficult to follow the storyline, especially for those who had not read the previous novels.
The actors gave strong performances, and were convincing in the characters they were bringing to the big screen. If you are not careful it’s difficult not to get caught up in the fantasy of the film and to completely forget about the incredible visual effects combined with the dark and dramatic lighting used.
The first movie Twilight raked in $250million at the Box office and if Twilight fans have anything to do with it the sequel will smash that, with many diehard fans vowing to see it more than five times despite what any critique has to say.
vickilheath
