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 After
suffering through the loss of her true, true love, Bella was finally
able to make an attempt at a happy life once she started hanging out
with Jacob. For some strange reason he made it not hurt as much, and she
finally found a way to connect to Edward if only in her mind. As Bella
is, danger magnet, you just have to know that there is more to
everything. The feelings she has for Jacob are not and will never be
what she feels for Edward, but might it be enough to have a ‘happy'
life, even with the Cullen's natural enemy? I really enjoyed getting to
know Jacob and even though most of the story was sad because of Bella's
broken heart, the friendship and love that grew was a wonderful thing.
Edward is and always will be her love, I just hope that the friendship
with Jacob is not over. I really did not like the ending, the argument,
and Charlie purple with anger at Bella. After all she had been through,
a different way of wrapping up this part of the story would have been
nicer. I hated seeing the pain in her once more, and over a motorcycle.
New Moon, the sequel to last year’s box office sensation Twilight,
continues the story of Bella Swan, an ordinary high school student, and
Edward Cullen, the vampire she falls in love with. Based on Stephanie
Meyer’s bestselling book series, the movie is already getting huge buzz
months before its scheduled release. Twilight is the story of an awkward
teenage girl’s romance with the dreamiest guy in school, who also
happens to be a vampire— sort of a John Hughes movie with a supernatural
twist. (Think about it: if you swapped Molly Ringwald in for Kristen
Stewart, you’d have Pretty in Pink…with vampires.) New Moon, on the
other hand, shows us what happens when the honeymoon period is over and
the star-crossed lovers start to realize the implications of what
they’re doing. But the same things that make New Moon a meatier story
than its predecessor might also make it a harder sell—at least, to some
of the fans of the original.
The script picks up several months after the end of Twilight.
Bella and Edward are still together and going strong, although Bella is
increasingly frightened by the thought of becoming older than the
immortal Edward. After one of Edward’s brothers tries to attack Bella at
her birthday party, Edward decides he can no longer continue their
relationship and abruptly leaves town with his family. As the devastated
Bella recovers, she grows closer to Jacob Black, a Quileute Indian boy
whose feelings for Bella are not strictly platonic. The script is a
good— although not perfect— adaptation of the book.
 Although
some scenes have been eliminated entirely or condensed, it remains
faithful to both the tone and the story of Meyer’s original which is
filled with far more twists. As such, how much Meyer’s fans like the
movie will likely come down to how much they liked the book. And many of
Meyer's fans were put-off by how unromantic this book was. As for
everyone else, it will largely depend on what you’re looking for. If
teen romance is what draws you to the film, then New Moon probably isn’t
for you. On the other hand, if you— like me— were a fan of the darker
aspects of the first movie, then this has the potential to be a much
better, stronger film than the first. Robert Pattinson will have the
opportunity to play conflicted and self-loathing— which he did really
well in the first film— like never before, and Kristen Stewart’s
understated style of acting should serve well for Bella’s quiet
melancholy. However, fans should not get their hopes too high because
they’re not going to see in the clips any hints as regards New Moon
(assuming they haven’t read the book already) or the direction it will
take.
What they will get
though is a glimpse at what goes on on the set of such a popular film
before the cameras start rolling, including an insight into how stars
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart get into character before the
direction yells “action.” Speaking of Lautner, the video contains plenty
of footage with the young actor, including him shooting the scene fans
also got to see in the first official trailer, where Jacob jumps to
Bella’s defense and then transforms into a wolf to take down a vampire.
Now that this footage has been made available, fans finally get to
understand why both Taylor and other actors playing members of the wolf
pack were saying that shooting was extremely difficult since they rarely
wore a shirt and the weather was just dreadful and cold.
 We
got to speak with the latest teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson on the
ever-burning question of how fans will be seeing his Edward in the film.
As he said on previous occasions as well, initial speculation that
Edward will be getting very limited screen time is unfounded, since he’s
actually very present in the story— just not the way we would expect him
to, Pattinson tells the UPBEAT. Preparing for the part was not at all
too hard, the actor further explains. “I feel very familiar with the
character. I’m a ghost, a figment of Bella’s imagination. I’m not really
playing Edward. I’m playing a kind of disrupted memory, which is really
strange. I’m trying to play him as if Edward’s constantly thinking that
things are going to fall apart. It’s this idyllic relationship on the
top. I’m very, very close to the surface. He’s so insecure about
everything.” Pattinson says. A lot of New Moon is really going to depend
on director Chris Weitz. Under Catherine Hardwicke’s direction, Twilight
tended to overindulge in cheesiness— the scene where Bella’s scent is
blown toward Edward by way of a fan comes to mind— and music video-esque
cinematography. If Weitz can bring the same subtlety and sensitivity to
New Moon that he brought to About a Boy, then this could be a very good
movie, perhaps even exceeding its source material. If, on the other
hand, Weitz goes more American Pie (which he also directed), then the
film will be in big trouble. UB
 
 
 Fantasy, Drama
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
Taylor Lautner
Ashley Greene
Peter Facinelli
Elizabeth Reaser
Kellan Lutz
Nikki Reed
Jackson Rathbone
Bronson Pelletier
Alex Meraz
Kiowa Gordon
Billy Burke
Chaske Spencer
Edi Gathegi
Rachelle Lefevre
Michael Sheen
Christopher Heyerdahl
Charlie Bewley
Daniel Cudmore
Dakota Fanning
Graham Greene
Anna Kendrick
Michael Welch
Christian Serratos
Gil Birmingham
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