Just A Little Update..

Before I go on with my thoughts on Eclipse, there are announcements..

The official DVD release date is March 21st! Yay! I am so excited and can not wait to get it. It will become one of my few prize possessions. On the opening midnight show of Twilight I went with my friends Caitlin, Maddi, and Cathy. During complete random parts of the movie, like every time Edward would say something, people would clap or cheer or say "Awwww, so cute!". SOOO, because of this I am excited to watch the movie...alone...in silence! The special edition DVD comes with interviews and never before seen deleted scenes.

Another good news announcement is that Taylor Lautner will be coming back to play Jacob Black once again. It was rumored that he was not going to continue the role, but it is official that he will be showing his adorable face once again. The cast is on their way, working hard to finish another Twilight Series film and it will be exciting to see how it turns out in comparison to the first movie.

The Characters.

As I was writing my last blog I realized that maybe some of you don't know who I am talking about. So, for those of you who haven't read these books (which is a shame on you! If you haven't, I expect you to go out and get the books immediately) I will briefly let you in on it.

The main character is Bella Swan. She is the most interesting character I have ever come across in my reading career. Bella moves to Forks, Washington to live with her dad, which is a self sacrifice toward her self. She is the type of person that puts everyone else before actually thinking of herself. Her mom wants to travel with her husband, but doesn't so she can stay with Bella and so she leaves to spend quality time with her dad and lets her mom travel. The way Bella's mind thinks is so different that it is very refreshing.

Edward is the another important character. Without him, Bella would have been smashed by the van in Twilight and this story would never have taken place (read Twilight to understand). Edward is a very deep person and has been waiting for 100 years for his true love. His true love comes in the form of none other than, Bella! Edward goes through many mental struggles between right and wrong throughout the series. These struggles are very interesting to follow.

The Vamps. Edward's family, created by Carlisle Cullen, is a group of "vegetarian" vampires. Carlisle made them and taught they from the beginning of their new lives to live off of only animal blood. From newest to oldest (counting from when they entered the Cullen family) are Jasper and Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, Esme, Edward, and Carlisle. Periodically throughout the books you get to hear each of their background stories. I think it is amazing how Stephenie Meyer came up with each unique background story.

"It will be as if I never existed.."

New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, was definitely not my favorite book in the series. After reading Twilight, I was hooked on it and basically spent all my time fantasizing about it. When I first started reading these books the first three books were already out. I was on vacation in Arizona visiting all of my family and was way too bored for my own good, so I went to the book store to pick out a book to get me through the weeks. Little did I know that I would be picking out the book that would become a part of my life! When I finished the first book (only two days later), I rushed back to the book store to get the second. I had to wait a whole day just to dig into it, because it was Thanksgiving and we do a lot of family games and cooking on that day. It felt like a million years! During the time that I was just dying to get started, I simply couldn't wait to find out what happened next. I wanted to find out where Edward and Bella's relationship was going and what they would do next...together. Well, unfortunately for me, this didn't happen.

The beginning of the book is great and picked right back up where it was left off. It is getting close to Bella's birthday, which is not an intriguing idea for Bella who doesn't want to get older than her 17 year old, immortal boyfriend. She doesn't let anyone give her any attention on her birthday, although Alice does intend on throwing a little get together that night. A little get together as in, the Cullens and Bella. Before the "party", Bella and Edward watch Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favorite parts considering I have an unhealthy addiction for Romeo & Juliet. I watch the movies a lot and read it when I'm not reading anything else. I love when Edward whispers Romeo's lines into Bella's ears. At the party Bella accidentally gives herself a paper cut and that sets Jasper, Edward's brother, off in a vampire frenzy. Thinking that he is constantly putting Bella into life-threatening danger by being with her, he LEAVES HER! My mouth literally dropped at this pointed and I almost started crying. 

Because of Edward's absence, Bella grows a very close bond to Jacob. Jacob becomes Bella's best friend and pulls her out of her zombie presence. Jacob and Bella's relationship grows quite strong, but is looked at differently between the two of them. To Bella, Jacob is her best friend and she loves him like a brother. To Jacob, Bella is his best friend and the love of his life. Their friendship is tested when Jacob begins to ignore her, but it is later revived when Bella finally understands that Jacob is a werewolf. What a strange world! Bella is definitely not in Kansas anymore!

In the end, Bella saves Edward from a horrible ending and they are back together at last. But this isn't quite a fairytale ending yet.. When Edward left, he left Bella broken and Jacob was the one to fix her up again. Bella's needs for both Edward and Jacob are strong but she finds that she can not have the cake and eat it too seeing that Edward and Jacob are natural enemies. Bella is left to choose between her best friend, that she most desperately needs, and her boyfriend who she realizes she can't live without. This is all left for us to figure out in the third book, Eclipse..

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..."

The first book in the series is Twilight. It is about a girl, Bella, who moves to Forks to live with her dad. On her first day at school she sees the Cullens, an impossibly gorgeous family. Edward, the youngest of the boys, is in her biology class and initially she thinks hates her. Eventually she finds out that Edward is a vampire and that her blood has the strongest pull than any other humans; to Edward, at least. But despite the difficulties, they fall in love and plan to live with each other forever. The Cullen family are "vegitarians" and don't drink human blood. They only feed on animal blood, which is like a human living only on tofu. Doesn't sound to appetizing, does it? Although they refrain themselves to sticking strictly to animal's blood, it is very challenging for them to refrain. The closer Edward gets to Bella, the harder it is for him not to kill her. Their love is tested when one day the Cullens and Bella come across a vampire coven. These vampire aren't like the Cullen, they feed on humans. All of a sudden, the hunt is on. The leader, James, is what they call a tracker. He begins to track Bella and the Cullens do everything they can to stop him. When Bella fears that James has her mother, she rushes off to meet James in hopes of saving her; which turns out to be a trick, because James never had her mother. Edward ends up saving Bella and their love becomes stronger. The book ends with Edward taking Bella to a torturous event, at least that's how Bella thinks of it, PROM! At prom Bella tells Edward, once again, how much she wants to be one of his family. Edward, not wanting to take away her soul and chance at heaven, does not give in to her...yet.

My favorite part of this book would have to be the Port Angeles scene. This is where Bella figures out everything about Edward, even though she kinda knew already. I love this part, because it shows the start of Edward and Bella beginning to trust one another and putting their fate in each others hands. Also, the diner scene is hilarious when Edward completely ignores the hostess and waitress flirting with him and directs all his attention towards Bella. My favorite lines are these..

"No. Nothing fit. Most of it was kind of silly. And then..." --Bella

"What?" --Edward

"I decided it didn't matter." --Bella

"It didn't matter?" --Edward

"No. It doesn't matter to me what you are." --Bella

"You don't care if I'm a monster? If I'm not human?" --Edward

"No" --Bella

I love when they have this conversation, because it shows that Bella is determined and isn't going to let anything stop her. The only problem that has the potential of stopping Bella and Edward is the fact that Edward is a vampire. That's what the whole story focuses on and in this particular scene the two show that they won't let that stop them. I think it shows their true love for each other. 

Another one of my favorite parts is the meadow scene, which is probably a lot of people's favorite! It's when Bella and Edward officially claim their feelings for one another. This is also where Edward shows how dangerous he can be and why it's dangerous for them to be with each. Like that could stop Bella. Probably the most important thing that went on during this part was at the end (ahem... something the movie got totally wrong!) they share their first kiss!! Yayyy! That was definitely a turning point in the book. Finally, after all the mixed signals, they are officially together and really plan to spend the rest of forever with each other. 

So there is a summary and some of my favorite moments in the first book, Twilight :) Stay tuned, because my next blog will be about the second book, New Moon. And trust me, you'll wanna read that one. I have A LOT to say about it, more like a lot of complains. Hahaha.. I'm such a whiner. 

Let's Talk New Moon!

Hello :)

So, about the second movie, New Moon, of the Twilight series.. They are officially gonna film it. Yay! There is one draw back though... Catherine Hardwick, the director of Twilight, isn't going to direct the second one. I feel like this is going to end horribly. This is exactly what happened to Harry Potter. Chris Columbus directed the first two Harry Potter's and then they got a new director and the movies went downhill from there. Basically, they were lucky that the first Harry Potters were so good, otherwise the fall would have been a little bit worse than it had been. But, back to the movie. Hopefully the new director, Chris Weitz, will stick to the traditions that Catherine Hardwick created. I do think, however, that they are going to run into some problems once they start filming. These problems with come from the important factor that they didn't include in the first movie.

In the first movie, something important that they missed was the fact that Edward never said "I love you."!!! How bad is that? That's kind of the most important phrase of the entire movie/book. It's the set up for what happens in New Moon! Neither Bella or Edward said it. At the end of the second book, when Edward is back, he says "How you could believe me? After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?" How is he suppose to say that now?! He can't. "I love you" was said many times throughout the book and the grand total of the phrase in the movie is a big, fat zero. With the absence of it from the movie, the people who just saw the movie and didn't read the books don't quite have the full knowledge of how in love Edward and Bella are. By the end of Twilight you are suppose to realize that Edward and Bella are planning to be together for as long as they live. You don't quite get this from the movie. Yea, sure, you see that they like each other and care for one another, but you don't see the true love that's there. At the end of the movie they are looked upon as "a couple", but at the end of the book you see that they are "soul mates", not just boyfriend and girlfriend. They definitely could have done a better job developing the relationship between Edward and Bella in the movie.

Well, time to go to bed. Goodnight :)

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This is a blog for the overly-obsessive twilight lovers. I could go on and on about Twilight, so in this blog that's exactly what I am going to do. I am going to talk about Edward Cullen (ahem.. my boyfriend), I'll share my thoughts on events that went on, and I'll talk about the movie and movies to come. The first movie, Twilight, recently came out in theaters and there are three more to come, hopefully. I will talk about what I thought of the movies and what I think they could have done differently. I'm one of those picky people when it come to people making a movie from a book. In my opinion, if you are going to make a movie from a book it better be darn close to the events that happen in the book. So I'll probably end up rambling on and on about the differences between the books and the movies.