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Twilight the book v. Twilight the movie
Last Tuesday, my sister and I went to go see Twilight just to use the tickets before the expired and wow I was hooked! The movie was in one word, intense. The panormaic views of such a lush environment only increased my desire to go visit the Pacific Northwest, which has been a great desire of mine over the past 4 years or so. After Watching the awesome movie I HAD to read the book. Tricia, luckily already has the first three of the 5 books.
*Spoiler alert*
The book is full of details, stories, and lovely monements of passion and bantering that simply could not make it into the movie. The movie is magical, saying so much with a look and keeping the story suspensful and yet there is a flow to the movie. While there are parts that I love about the book, the simple conversations and the time spent discribing moments that many of us have had upon falling in love (like sneaking a boy in or running off to be alone for a while into some random place), the movie's version is much more passionate. For those who have known an "Edward" the feeling that are in the story come alive again as he swears he is no good for you and you can't stop yourself from saying falling for him. I love how in the story Edward shly says, " I like to watch you sleep, you are so peaceful when you sleep" which remindied me of one of my favoirte movies, "Untamed Hearts". The fact that, in the movie, Jacob never break's his family's secret promise he just leads Bella in the right direction. Speaks much more than the book version of him spilling the beans as a scary story. Now in the same scene, I would have liked to have seen the various colors of the beach that was desricbed in the book. Oh and I also like the movie verision of Jacob being reintroduced at the very begining of the movie.
The book cover is misleading as it has an apple craddled in two hands, and yet in the book I didn't even notice the word "apple" I love how it alludes to the temptaion that Edward is craddling when he is craddling Bella, and the temptaion that she is playing with fate. I also love the bantering the book and the teasing about her being a magnant for trouble. The little inside jokes, much like *kimchee* and little bunny slippers. :) The book is also filled with a great vocabulary that I would have taken the time to clearly define, just for extra practice, but i was in too much of a rush to finish the book to stop.
The ending of the movie takes the cake over the book without qualms. The director and screenplay writer are phenominal for taking the work of Stephine Meyers and rearranging the dialoge with different scenes that make the story pull at heartstrings and hold your breath with anticipation. Also the music makes the movie amazing. The monment when Bella invites the change and Edward leans into bite her....she is scared and he face show how much he wants her to be with him forever, yet he knows that it will change what he loves about her, the fact that she is human. (Much like Tess from "Tess of d'urbervilles") in that moment of angst he kisses her neck firmly and breathes her in. That moment makes the book "pretty" and the movie "so much more than beatuful" ( quotes from the epilogue: an ocassion of Twilight when Jacob calles Bella "pretty") |
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