Vampires and high school love, what could be better? For millions of people nothing could be better. The hit movie Twilight came out in 2008. The movie was based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight. The movie is about a seventeen year old girl named Bella who moved to live with her father. Not knowing anyone she ventures into her new high school expecting the worse. Despite knowing no one, one of her classmates catches her interest. His name was Edward Cullen. In the movie she is saved by his supernatural ways and demands and explanation. She later finds out that he and his family are vampires that only consumes animal blood and doesn’t harm humans. The two fall in love and that’s where the real story starts.
Actress Kristen Stewart plays the part of Bella who plays a terrible role. I thought she was one of the worse actresses ever. She didn’t remind me of the Bella in the book and it really through me off watching the movie. In the book she was a strong confident girl and in the movie she was a scared timid baby. Another main character was Edward played by Robert Pattinson. I thought he played a good vampire. He reminded me of the book so his part didn’t distract me from the movie. He was a confident strong actor.
Bella’s motive’s changed throughout the movie. At first she just wanted to fit in and blend. But after she met Edward her motive changed to discovering who he was. She was very nosey but she seemed shy and timid which wasn’t her in the book. After discovering who Edward was her motive was to be with him and stay alive. Edward’s motives also changed. The Cullen family never wanted to let anyone know that they were vampires so his motive was to not let Bella find out. After blowing his cover his motive was keeping Bella alive.
I think the theme of the movie was love conquers all. Nothing was going to come between Edward and Bella, he wasn’t going to let anything happen to her and she didn’t care that he was a blood thirst vampire.
The critics had mixed reviews of the movie. Most said that the movie was forgettable and as much as the producers tried to follow the book they failed. USA Today gave the film two out of four stars and Claudia Puig wrote, "Meyer is said to have been involved in the production of Twilight, but her novel was substantially more absorbing than the unintentionally funny and quickly forgettable film". Others said the only reason the movie had so much success was because of the book.
In my opinion this movie sucked. The bad acting and the changes between book and movie were too distracting. Instead of spending twenty dollars to watch the movie I suggest spending twenty dollars on the book and reading it.
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