From Book to Film

Starring: Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black
Cam Gigandet as James

Isabella Swan: I'd never given much though to how I would die. But dying in place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. I can't bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me face to face with death. They also brought me to Edward.

Bella Swan is a teenage girl moving from her home town of Phoenix, a big city to the small town of Forks, Washington. A town where everyone knows your name and everyone knows your business. Bella just wants to finish school and live with her father Charlie who doesn’t meddle in her affairs and just lets her be. Bella goes to school and like most new teenagers at a new school she doesn’t know anybody, but she quickly meets some people. Bella doesn’t have a problem making friends, or attracting unwanted attention from guys. Bella also has a knack for getting herself into troublesome situations. She doesn’t think it, but she is extremely clumsy. One day before school she is almost run down by a dude in a van where she is saved, by pale faced, quiet Edward Cullen. Edward was lightning fast prompting Bella to want to ask him questions about how he saved her. He tells her that it is better if she drops it, but like most curious Seventeen year olds she doesn’t. She goes to her long time friend Jacob Black and he tells her that the Cullen’s have been around for a long time and that they are strange “Cold ones” Bella does more research only to find out that Edward Cullen, may infact be a vampire. She confronts him and he tells her that he can read minds, and that he sparkles in the sunlight, that his family hunts animals and not humans. It turns pale faced Edward Cullen really is a vampire. It also turns out the Cullen’s are hated by the natives for hunting off their land.As anyone can see coming, Edward and Bella fall in love, unexplainably they fall for each other. Edward tempted to rip her to shreds, and Bella tempted by Edwards pale faced expressions of pain and sorrow, of love and regret. Edward and Bella couldn’t just live happily, no that would be way to easy, way to fun, way to bland for a film. So one night when watching a game of baseball played by the Cullens during a thunderstorm, Bella, Edward, Alice. Jasper, Emmet, Rosalie, Carlisle and Esme are confronted by a different kind of vampire. They feed off of humans and have been killing people all over the region. James catches Bellas scent and immediately wants to tear her head off and kill her. Edward knows this, wants to protect his sweet love. Edward devises a plan to get them out of town, but it fails, like in most films Edward and Bella the two lovers are seperated for the better. When Bella is taken back to Phoenix and thinks her mother is in trouble she leaves the guard of Alice and Jasper only to find herself alone. What comes nect is rather predictable. Pale faced Edward Cullen who is faster then the rest comes to the aid of his love only to be a little to late.James has bitten Bella and she will turn if not for the one chance she has left. It rests on Edward. To be fair, I really shouldnt tell anymore, and leave to the imagination of anyone who hasnt yet read the books or seen the movie to come up with their own ending. I will say one thing, there are three more novels so take that into consideration when pondering the ending.

Edward Cullen: I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could outrun me. As if you could fight me off. I'm designed to kill.

As much as my summary may have come off as though I didn’t enjoy the film, I did happen to like most of it. I didn’t mind Robert Pattinson as Edward. He was rather pale faced as I mentioned before, but his performance was there. He has great facial expressions, he could be mean when he needed to be. Edward in the books was to perfect. Like every human, Rob Pattinson has his faults, therefore it was good to see Edward in the film played by a real human who will never be perfect. Sorry to everone who may have thought Robert Pattinson was not human. Edward was played by Pattinson rather well, with a great sense of emotion with a little bit of cheese on top. I must say though it is not the fault of Pattinson that some of the scenes featured a little to much cheese grated on it. I particularly liked the scene where the Cullens were grading cheese. Thought it added a nice little touch to some parts of the story. Sorry to be off topic.

Isabella Swan: I know what you are. You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is pale white, and ice cold. Your eyes change colour, and sometimes you speak like, like you're from a different time. You never eat or drink anything. You don't go out in the sunlight.

Kirsten Stewart was alright as well. She has the potential to get better and better each time she steps into the world of Bella Swan. She was taken over by Bella, it was good to see that she did all she could. Which sometimes isn’t all that much. Bella in the books was a rather intriguing character, she thought like most humans do. You could understand why she was feeling the way she she did. She was sad, left alone, her mother was always away. Forks was a rather dark town. Kristen did a good job of showing us Bella, but often times the cheese grading got in the way of her being able to be better then she was. The cheese in this film was a little to much at some times. Bella and Edwards love has no real explanation, no real background, no really potential. There will come a time when a vampire and a human cannot be together.

As a film though with lighting, acting, visuals it was rather impressive. The baseball scene was by far the best, with the clash of lightning and the awesome song playing in the background.

As to account for what I did and didn’t like from this film

Liked:

The Visuals
Alice
Emmet
Jasper
Roaslie
James
The Baseball scene

Disliked:
Mike Newton
Jessica
The Cheesiness
how Edward and Bella could fall in love so easily
how little Jacob Black was in the film.

This film was rather well done for something I never thought I would like. It is great to see a young cast excited to be in films. Great job to everyone involved. New Moon should be one step better, because they now know what the faults were with this one