Twilight
My friend and I were due a trip to the cinema before Christmas and we decided on Twilight. Partly because she likes Harry Potter and mentioned that the guy who played Cedric Diggory was playing one of the lead characters and also because another friend told me it was about vampires and I do quite like the fantasy genre. At this point I had no idea just how huge Twilight was in the USA (the film or the books) so went along with no real expectations. For me the first thing that really got my attention was the music, I went home and downloaded the score and the soundtrack, both of which are excellent. The film was really good with the added bonus that the cast are easy on the eye, which is a plus.
As these things happen, once you have heard of something, you seem to hear more about it. Turned out that the books are a cult over in the USA for teen girls. With a trip home to my parents for Christmas (a very quiet village with nothing to do) I thought I would try the books for size. Stephenie Meyer, writer of the Twilight saga has one creative mind!
In the sleeve of the final book Breaking Dawn is her website address and I was curious enough to take a look. Here I discovered that the Twilight saga came from a dream she had. I have to say that I found this to be quite fascinating. Four books were created after she had a dream! If you are curious, she dreamed about the meadow scene and it all grew from there.
The story is about Bella Swan, a very ordinary girl who falls in love with a vampire. Then there is Edward Cullen. The ‘vegetarian’ vampire who falls in love with Bella. He makes for quite the torn hero, the whole I love her but want to eat her thing cannot have been easy to get across on the big screen. I had heard somewhere (I cannot remember where) that Robert Pattinson had received a lot of negative mail from fans of the books saying he would not make a good Edward Cullen.
Now I would just like to finish off with this; in my humble opinion Robert Pattinson brought Edward Cullen to the big screen perfectly. He nailed it actually, I cannot fault him and I do hope that his sucess continues, he is talented, gorgeous and it’s really great that we have a brit doing so well in Hollywood.