WE ARE STILL ON THIS

[cleolinda]

Stiiiiiilll worrrrrking on New Moooooon. To that end, does anyone have a still/screencap of that really ridiculous, blatant fanservice moment when Jacob takes off his shirt to, like, dab at Bella's head? I mean the exact moment when he takes it off, you know the shot. It's an illustrated Fifteen Minutes, and the more on-the-nose the picture is, the

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[sherrilina]

Oh come ON, it's not fanservice if it's in the book--and Jacob DID take his shirt off in the book to dab her head! hell, as you noted in the recap of the book, he is constantly going around shirtless, and you wondered if that'd be in the movie....

The real fanservice was inserting visual manifestations of RPattz into the movie....though I suppose it upped the sparkly lulz!

[cleolinda]

See, to me it was fanservice because he didn't just take off his shirt like a normal guy; he had to reach up and stretch out and do that sort of male stripper pose, you know? The same way the attempted sparklecide wasn't fanservice, but making sure Edward's robe/cloak was open for the next fifteen minutes was. There's a point where whichever guy is holding him by the throat and it's literally like, okay, pull him back as far as you can so we get the full abdominal panorama, this is what we pay him for.

[sherrilina]

Okay, I see what you mean....and probably Smeyer writing in so much gratuitous chest porn was fanservice anyway in the first place!

[cleolinda]

She really did--I can't count how many times Bella gets fixated on Edward's chest and whatever tightly-fitting shirt he's wearing at the time. This is not even to speak of the first time she goes hunting and he gives her his shirt and she can barely think straight for the next ten pages.

[sherrilina]

Lol, when does Bella ever think straight? :p

And well I suppose it's what happens when you write books that come from your dreams, unless you are Mary Shelley...

[mrsandreak]

And notice the chest porn was only about Edward. Even with all the dialogue about Jacob being all buff, it was strictly for informational purposes - he doesn't get a tenth of the adjectives about his rippling muscles, and it never messes with her concentration. Another clue that Jacob was always going to be second fiddle. tsk

[crumpeteer]

See, the shirt dabbing is where I started laughing and couldn't get stopped for a good while.

And frankly, the most dazzling thing in the movie to us was Jacob's teeth.

[aranel13]

"And frankly, the most dazzling thing in the movie to us was Jacob's teeth."

THIS

[snapdragon76]

IA. I mean, who is this boy's dentist?

And I seriously came close to bringing The Littlest Alice with me at my screening. Thank God my common sense took over...