Victoria Harkless
Assistant Editor-In-Chief
This instalment of Film Forecast will be about a well-known and well-criticized film. With that being said the 2008 classic Twilight has it charms much like the books.
I am not going to go too far into detail for the plot as I am pretty sure everyone knows the plot. The main plot points are Bella moving to Forks Washington with her father Charlie. This is where she eventually meets and falls for Edward Cullen, who is a vampire along with the rest of his family. Edward develops a weird clinginess to Bella and when he takes her to meet his family they encounter another group of vampires. This group of vampires begin to target Bella, to protect Bella they ship her off to Phoenix, Arizona where she lived previously. That does not work as one of the “bad” vampires is already in Arizona, who then gets her alone and attacks her. This attack is countered by the Cullen family who rescue her and take her to a hospital, then eventually back to Forks. The movie ends with the young couple, who are now closer than ever, going to prom.
I would rate the movie a seven out of ten. It is not great, but it does have certain charms that make it worth watching. The Cullen clan is one of those charms. The family that surrounds Edward has a personality of its own. Each of the cullens have personality despite being a background character. Alice is bubbly and friendly, Emmett is playful and sarcastic, Carlisle loves the family he created, Esme is a mother to the family, and then Rosalie despite not being friendly has a personality.
On that note, one complaint is that main character Isabella, a.k.a. Bella has no personality. To quote the Editor-In-Chief, and book fanatic Bianca Harkless, “Literally a cardboard box has more personality than her,” that does not even to mention the casting of her was not good. Kirsten Stewart makes the same face for everything, and that is not an over exaggeration.
The rest of the cast was actually kind of dragged down from the main character, which made it mildly cringy and parts uncomfortable to watch. For instance the scene where Bella tells Edward she knows he is a vampire is just uncomfortable to watch because it is so cringy and Bella's face remains similar to a stunted look the whole time. It is hard to watch because it should be a high point and it is somewhat of a low point at least in my eyes.
This is countered by arguably one of the most iconic scenes from any 2000-2010’s movie. This scene is the baseball scene, between Jasper’s amazing bat flip, Alice’s delicate pitching, and Emmett climbing a tree to catch a ball. It is truly an amazing piece of film. The scene also creates a high point of tension and it is the first time the whole family jumps to defend Bella. It also sets up for key building points for Bella and Alice’s relationship, which is one of the best parts of the series.
The friendship Alice and Bella builds starts in this movie and it grows but it is seriously one of the best parts of the film. Despite all my complaints I suggest watching the movie, it is truly a classic and the story line improves between each of the films.
I will hopefully be covering the rest of the franchise in coming weeks and a recent instalment of the column Book Buzz by Bianca Harkless covers Midnight Sun, which is Twilight told from Edward's point of view so I suggest checking that out. We hope to be doing corresponding stories for this series so be on the lookout for that in the coming weeks.
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