Twiliiiiiiiiiiiight!
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(In this Joker voice from when he walked towards Harvey Dent's bedside and took off his mask and cap and shook out his hair) Hi.
The movie begins with a VO from Bella (Kristen Stewart), and it is the prologue. Gradually, as the movie progresses, the VO subsides which I'm not exactly happy with, seeing as how this shows inconsistency, but maybe they decided to shorten it due to wanting us to focus more on the action.
You know the infamous deer hunting scene that is shown in the trailers too? Yeah, it happens here. The deer drinks water from a pond and suddenly senses danger. Then it runs relentlessly - excellent filming, by the way - and it jumps over roots of trees and then a vampire comes out and catches it.
Then a white screen.
HI BELLA!
Bella carries this little cute cactus with her. I luv the little cute cactus. It can be my new best friend any day. We first meet Renee (Sarah Clark) and Phil (IDK WHO PLAYS HIM OME) here. Renee's being all teary and stuff, and Phil has only one line to say.
And when the words "Summit Entertainment presents" flashed across the screen, I waited, and finally when "Twilight" (in its full movie logo-esque style) came on, I applauded like no one's business and the cinema followed suit. Yay for ultra fan girl-ism.
In the background, we see aerial shots of mountains, green, clouds, forests, mountains, green, more green, etc.
From the beginning, I'd already knew Charlie (Billy Burke) was gonna be awesome. Even now, reading through the book, I still don't picture Charlie with a moustache but I might, soon. Billy Burke was fantastic at doing that sideways glance thing to convey the awkwardness in the father-daughter relationship and I couldn't stop giggling at it.
I am surprised with Bella's bedroom. It's so much messier than in the book, and definitely possesses no sign of baby blue walls anywhere. "Purple's cool." Yeah, Charlie got Bella a purple blanket. I like that Bella VOs, saying the great thing about Charlie is that he doesn't hover.
They didn't show Bella being restless and all the first night in Forks. It doesn't bring out how much she sort of hates Forks in the beginning. They didn't need to waste so much time on that, but they should have sort of defined her stand against the cold and the wet more clearly in the beginning. Give her some character, you know.
And then Bella exits from the house and falls down! Nice one, Kristen. She then meets Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and Billy Black (Gil Birmingham)! I had mixed reactions to this part. To the blur background, where Charlie and Billy were fooling around, I was laughing non-stop at.
BELLA
(re: the dads)
Are they always like this?
JACOB
It’s getting worse with old age.
But I was also kind of caught by surprise that Bella's first friend became Jacob! Like, FREAKING LA PUSH WAS THE JACOB-BELLA MOMENT! I heard people on the rows behind me complain, saying something like, "She should have met Edward first!"
Welcome to the movie anyway.
So Bella loves the truck drives it away and to school. Ms Cope disappears from the movie, which I'm sad to hear about. I fucking like Ms Cope.
There's Eric (Justin Chon), this totally smooth and joker kid, just trying to impress Bella to an infinite extent. Oh, and he speaks too quickly. Where's the hormonal overload, pimply face, chess club idiot? Gone.
ERIC
You’re Isabella Swan, the new girl. Hi.
I’m Eric. The eyes and ears of this
place. Anything you need. Tour guide,
lunch date, shoulder to cry on.
Bella has Gym before Lunch, which totally sucks since I mean, the most basic thing they could have done was STICK TO HER FUCKING SCHEDULE but anyway, she first met Mike (Michael Welch) through Gym by hitting him on the head with the volleyball.
Kristen was so cool at being really sucking-at-sports-esque. She totally whacked the volleyball out of her way so well. Clumsy is the new cool. Funny how Bella can't hit back in the proper direction but can hit people's heads so correctly.
JESSICA = HILARIOUS. Jessica (Anna Kendrick) is all like:
- *sees Mike talking to Bella, the shiny new toy*
- *butts in*
- *introduces self*
- *satisfied*
Jessica isn't such a bitch as in the book, where she is this snotty wannabe who just hangs out with Bella because she's pretty and catches everyone's attention. In the movie, the impression she gives is a more sincere one. Although, all the same, I don't know if it's true. After all, only Edward knows. And Melissa Rosenberg.
JESSICA
She’s got a great spike, doesn’t
she?
(to Bella)
So, you’re from Arizona, right?
Aren’t people supposed to be tan
down there?
BELLA
That’s why they kicked me out.
Mike laughs, and because he does, Jessica does.
Yeah, the part where Mike laughs and Jessica follows suit was very awkward and hilarious to me.
Then, during Lunch, Bella carries her tray of food and just slides into the clique's table, and Angela (Christian Serratos) takes her trademark Lumix camera and snaps a candid shot of Bella. More mixed reactions to this. Firstly, in the book, Angela was but a quiet girl and somewhat nice, and in the movie they spiced up her character more dramatically. With white rimmed specs!
But Angela, you school paper photographer, how could you carry a flippin' Lumix!!!! I know you're in high school but high school students work outside all the time (well I'm unsure about the students in Forks) so you could have saved up for a while more and gotten a Canon, right??!?!?! A Nikon D40 is great for general photography too!!!!!!! Blah. But I still love Movie!Angela.
So, *drumroll*, this is where the Cullens enter the cafeteria. Now, what happens is that from the angle that this is shot, behind Bella we see large windows plastered up against the wall right at the back and they are covered by venetian blinds of sorts, but in a way that sunlight can still filter through.
Good set-up.
Wait, let me explain this further. From the angle we're watching, the door is on the far left (to Bella's far right), so the Cullens actually travel from the right side of the screen behind the windows, to the door, come in, and walk towards the right side of the screen again. And in the process, they pass Bella's table.
Bella asks, "Who are they?" and Jessica starts babbling off.
The first couple is Rosalie (Nikki Reed) and Emmett (Kellan Lutz), and to my surprise, Nikki looks prettier than I would have expected. Emmett is megawesome, with his white hoodie and bulkiness.
The second couple is Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Alice (Ashley Greene), obviously. I can never forget the way Jessica introduced Jasper. "The one who always looks like he's in pain..." ROFL. It's seriously true, you know! Jackson rocks at portraying a vampire in pain - cue big eyes and a small grimace playing at his lips. While walking to their table, Alice does this little cute twirl.
Although I think it's too dramatic. No one in their right mind would twirl in the middle of the cafeteria, vampire or not. That was completely the wrong way to show how "graceful" Alice is. Well, whatever.
So, at this point, I begin biting my fist and I ignore Jessica's mindless raving about the Cullens because it's all in the book anyway, since I can recognize the lines from my half-conscious ears, as I just keep scanning the back from a new silhouette to appear.
AND I SEE ROBERT PATTINSON/EDWARD CULLEN IN HIS FULL FUCKING GLORY! Well no, actually, not yet, just his silhouette and us Twilight Singapore people were screaming and cheering, even more so when he opened the door and entered the cafeteria.
HOT
NESS
OVER
LOAD
*chills* Okay, and then he walks over to his table of siblings and Jessica is giving that sourpuss face and saying that apparently no one is good enough for Edward Cullen. If only you knew. Hah.
And then Robert Pattinson has too much wrinkles for Edward Cullen's own good, but I managed to tolerate it throughout the movie. But anyway, Edward frowns and creases his brows, most probably attempting to listen to Bella's thoughts. That is part of the storyline.
But Bella making so much eye contact with Edward? No, not at all. I hate that they had so much eye contact. I know Bella isn't supposed to be that much of a normal teenage girl but even so, anyone would be intimidated by Edward's godlike looks. No one would dare look him in the eye so quickly.
For the rest of the movie from her first day of school to before they truly know each othe, Bella makes too much eye contact with Edward. :(
The Biology scene. They removed the blood typing chapter which I was initially unhappy about, but now I see it would be useless anyway, and we need to save time. Mike walks Bella to Biology and Bella steps in front of a fan. Immediately, Edward cups over his nose and mouth.
OH SPUNK RANSOM, HOW I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT YOUR ACTING IS LOUSY. Edward didn't feel repulsed from Bella's smell, neither did he feel like vomiting. He felt like taking her life there and then! He felt angry, his hands were fisted together, his knuckles turned white etc. HE DID NOT FEEL LIE BARFING UPON GETTING A WHIFF OF BELLA.
*peeved*
Never mind, I can always pretend.
Or maybe, just maybe, he was pretending he smelt something bad and thus covered up half of his face. Hmm, I'm not too sure.
So then Edward gets out of his seat and off the screen even before anyone is out. I think that's a good representation. What happens is that in the book, Bella always says that Edward is out of the door before anyone else is when the bell rings, and I thought it's that he travelled quicker than a human, but that's kind of like impossible seeing that he wouldn't blow his cover. Definitely.
So in the movie, maybe due to Edward's supernatural abilities, he stands up even before the bell rings and walks so quickly he will have exited the classroom in about 4 seconds flat.
Here, we finally get a faceless Ms Cope/clerk, but I hate how:
- Edward didn't stiffen when he smelled Bella's presence
- Edward didn't ~werk his charm~ on the clerk and just left after being really rude
- Bella left subsequently after him just like that - what was she there for in the first place then?
- BELLA DIDN'T CRY. Bella's tear ducts are supposedly wired to her anger and she didn't cry! No character, once again.
School's out and everyone's pretty all right, compared to... the security guard at a mill. He's running, ducking, hiding, jumping, going at full speed, quadruple the rate I could go and then we all know what's happening.
Nomads, you're finally here.
Bella's out dining with her dad. The black waitress tells Bella she's "gorgeous", and Bella just looks purely uncomfortable. The waitress' friend, Waylon Forge, comes up behind and asks if Bella remembers him, and Charlie jumps in defensively saying Bella hasn't had a Christmas there since four.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA WHAT THE HELL. PAEDOPHILE.
Charlie's this really protective and caring dad, but he just can't express himself in words. Awkward, cute, awesome all-in-one. At first, I didn't understand this part you know, I thought Bella would cook in later scenes but subsequently I just discovered that Bella never actually really cooked.
Which kind of made me upset. That's one of her best abilities, and they took it away. Maybe they could bring it back in New Moon, like saying she wants to start learning how to cook so Charlie and her won't always have to eat out and stuff.
I hope so.
Then Bella is sitting on her bed, talking to Renee on her cellphone.
RENE
Ok, I didn’t lose my power cord. It
ran away. Screaming. I literally
repel technology now.
Easily the best line from Renee through the whole movie.
The next day, Bella's VO returns and says she wants to confront Edward, but he doesn't turn up. I think it's this scene or what, but anyway, on one of the school days that Edward doesn't come, the remaining Cullens arrive in this Jeep with Emmett standing on top, and they slide in effortlessly beside Rosalie's red BMW M3.
Two of the hottest cars, parked beside each other.
Bella gets out of the house. Now, I'm suddenly confused. I don't remember if it's now or that time when she met Jacob that she slips outside the house, but either way, she slips only once so yeah.
Charlie drives Bella's truck in and parks in, and then gets out, telling her about the new tyres he got her so that she could drive more carefully. This relationship between the father and daughter is getting so adorable.
She gets to school again and then Eric and Mike just keep chatting her up and Mike begins caling her 'Arizona'. I keep laughing at it, even though it's just plain mean.
Finally, Bella sees Edward in Biology. Mr. Molina's being really enthusiastic and all, asking them to label the onion root tip cell slides according to their phases of mitosis and the partners that win gets the golden onion! :D TEH GOLDEN ONION IS SO KYOOT, LMAO.
BELLA
Prophase.
EDWARD
May I look?
EDWARD
Prophase.
BELLA
(muttering)
Like I said.
--
EDWARD
Enjoying the rain?
BELLA
Seriously? You’re asking me about the
weather?
--
EDWARD
Anaphase.
BELLA
May I?
Anaphase.
EDWARD
Like I said.
Bella and Edward engage in conversation, while Edward just keeps staring at her, and they do the exercise so slowly as compared to in the book, but in the end, in the next scene, we see Bella brandishing TEH GOLDEN ONION, HAHAHAHA. I CAN'T TYPE IT OUT WITHOUT LAUGHING.
Edward, bookless and all, just follows Bella to her lockers and he tells her he can't read her, and she just blurts out the Did-you-get-contacts line and Edward can't explain it and walks off. I stare at his retreating form even though he goes out of focus. *dreamy*
Ah, here's the best part.
Bella dumps her bag onto her truck, sees Edward staring at her from across the lot from his Volvo. At the same time, I also note Alice carrying an umbrella and talking to Jasper but also observing Edward. The way Alice holds the umbrella is utterly irresistible.
SCREECHING WHEELS. WIDE-EYED BELLA. And then it all happens. Edward comes, lifts up Bella, holds out his hand to Tyler's van, makes a dent in the blue metal frame. The back of the van knocks into Bella's truck.
Edward and Bella make eye contact again. I see more fear in Edward's eyes, and Bella is just purely speechless and less shock, more surprise.
Edward gets up, jumps onto Bella's truck, jumps off and gets away.
The whole school population comes running towards Bella and asks, I mean, shouts at her if she's okay. I note Mike and Eric being the loudest and closest, while Jessica is somewhere squished behind. Bella's face says it all: I'M FUCKING FINE BUT EDWARD CULLEN DID THAT FUCKING DENT DID YOU SEE IT?
Tyler sticks his head out with a slice across his forehead and apologizes.
Bella is now in the hospital and Charlie bursts through, showing nothing but pure concern. I think Tyler say sorry once. Charlie warns Tyler to shut up. You know, the funny thing is that in the movie, Charlie is so caring for Bella, but in the book Charlie seems to know everyone and thinks everyone is nice.
The holy Dr. Carlisle Cullen enters the room in all his movie-star-handsome-ness. Charlie looks at him with respect. You know, as much as I'm not exactly very impressed with Peter Facinelli, he actually is really good in the movie and I gasped when he got through those doors.
Another one of my wrong predictions. I need to be proven wrong more often. So Tyler begins again, "I'm so sorry, Bella" and CHARLIE, HAHA, THAT AWESOME DAD simply yanks out the curtain separating the two beds in exasperation and annoyance.
I told you Charlie is just the funniest father ever.
Bella hints about Edward saving her and Carlisle isn't such a great actor as Edward, so he actually avoids Bella when she says that and Bella's really good with intuition, so she knows something's out of place.
Bella's about to call her mom on her cell, because Charlie told Renee (and in the movie, he's unrepentant about it, unlike in the book where he's embarrassed and Bella flares up, rofl), when she hears Carlisle, Rosalie and Edward around the corner.
They sense her, and Carlisle and Rosalie head off while Edward comes and pops his head around. Their dialogue is pretty much the same as in the book, less fierce though, and I liked that they added in the last line.
BELLA
You stopped that van. You pushed
it away.
EDWARD
No one will believe that.
BELLA
I wasn’t planning to tell anyone.
BELLA
I just want to know the truth.
EDWARD
Can't you just thank me and get
over it?
BELLA
Thank you.
EDWARD
You’re not going to let it go, are you?
BELLA
No.
EDWARD
(turns, walks away)
Then I hope you enjoy disappointment.
I loved that line in the book, and I like it even more in the movie.
Bella's VO makes another guest appearance, saying that's the first night she dreamt of Edward Cullen. She is sleeping at first, then she wakes up, sees him at her table across the bed. She switches on the lamp and he's gone.
I'm pretty sure she wasn't hallucinating when she saw him. I bet he was really there and escaped when she wasn't seeing.
Finally, the field trip the following day. Mike asks Bella to prom, and I liked how they showed that Bella wasn't listening him by making him go out of focus and instead the person in focus was Edward, a few metres behind. They did that for about five seconds or so, before Bella finally snaps out of it and tells Mike she's heading to Jacksonville.
She suggests that Mike ask Jessica instead and the camera cuts to Jessica, who is talking to Mr. Molina while blatantly observing them. She gives off a smile as soon as she notices Mike looking at her.
Then they all go off to the greenhouse, and Eric pumps out a cup of compost tea while Tyler grabs the cup and runs off with it, and I think Mr. Molina was like, "Hey, don't drink it!" They just can't stop fooling around.
Edward and Bella moment. She confronts him.
BELLA
You haven’t answered any of mine.
You won’t even say hi.
EDWARD
Hi.
Bella asks how he'd stopped the van and he utters his infamous "Adrenaline rush. It's very common. You can Google it."
The irony in his statement is that, for the rest of the movie, Bella used Google for everything that she didn't know, but she didn't follow Edward's advice and Google 'adrenaline rush'. I know it's probably because she's smart enough to know what it is, but still!
Outside the green house, Eric was like taking this worm and shoving it into Bella's face and she's like somewhat disgusted but just avoids it. Edward catches up, telling her it's best if they aren't friends.
Bella said a different line from "I know you do." I think she went somewhat like, "I'm sure you do" or something within that context, because Edward didn't reply, "You don't know anything!" Sad. I loved those two exchanges too.
Subsequently,
ERIC
La Push, baby. You in?
BELLA
Should I know what that means?
MIKE
La Push beach, down on the Quileute
rez. We’re all going after school.
Big swell coming in.
ERIC
And I don’t just surf the Internet.
JESSICA
Eric, you stood up once. On a foam
board.
ANGELA
There’s whale watching, too. Come with.
ERIC
La Push, baby.
BELLA
I’ll go if you stop saying that.
The name Eric has a whole new meaning. I know after he said, "And I don’t just surf the Internet", he and Mike were like giving these stupid fake surfing poses. Damn amusing.
The scene I've been sort of anticipating - not as much as the kiss scene, but still - the one where Bella's taking her food and she accidentally drops the red apple. It bounces off Edward's leg, lands in his two hands and he presents it to her.
Now I like this part here because this is where the background becomes really important. I mean, I love it here. It's so synchronized. Firstly, Edward and Bella are in focus, and in the unfocused background, Mike is getting off the table he's sitting on. Secondly, the camera then turns to focus on Mike and the rest of the gang, and Mike, exactly from where he was, now sits down on a chair.
Perfect details. I like it when a director gets such details accurately. Till today, I have only found one major mistake with TDK, and that's when Bruce was stitching up his wounds and Alfred comes in and takes over the sewing. They start talking and Bruce's head angles differently whenever the frame switches angles too, meaning it's not in sync.
Later, that mistake actually happens in Twilight, but fret not, let's continue for now. So, after Mike sits down and Eric also stares jealously at Edward and Bella, the confrontation continues. Bella tells about her theories.
And then, earlier on, I was just being a joker myself. I was going like, what if Edward meant to say this instead of the actual lines:
"It's all xuperher0 stuff right? What if I'm not the xuperher0? What if I'm the bad guy?"
I'D BE ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. Then Bella actually replied, "You're not."
I'm drooling. Edward is a xuperher0.
...
Okay, let's stop. I'm spinning out of control.
In the next scene, we see Eric, Mike and Jessica zipping up surfing suits while Angela and Bella just stay in the van in their thermal clothes. Angela complains about not having Eric ask her to prom and Bella, probably out of frustration or maybe not, was like, "You're an independent woman, take control."
It's actually funny. Off screen, we hear Jacob call Bella and then we see him with Embry and Sam. Embry doesn't actually have a single line at all. Ugh. Embry's quite cute, by the way.
JESSICA
(teasing)
Keep her company. Her date bailed.
ERIC
What date?
35.
JESSICA
She invited Edward.
BELLA
(embarrassed)
To be polite.
ANGELA
I think it’s nice she invited him.
No one ever does.
MIKE
Because Cullen’s a freak.
SAM
You got that right.
BELLA
You know them?
SAM
(sharply)
The Cullens don't come here.
This part is really humiliating for Bella. I'd blush like mad if I were her. Although how come Jessica knew Bella invited Edward, I have no idea.
Kristen did so well for the flirting part. Like, srsly. If I were Jacob, I would have fallen in love with Bella too. She's good at all these fluttering eyelashes thing and the problem is she's pretty to begin with.
JACOB
(whispering)
If they promised to stay off Quileute
lands, we wouldn’t expose what they
really were to the pale-faces...
Jacob pauses dramatically -- Bella shivers.
GIRL (O.S)
AAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!
LOL. The whole cinema laughed when we saw Angela behind, being chased by Eric and his sea animal, whatever it is. It looks like a snake, really long, but it's definitely not one. Off screen, Angela just kept running around and screaming. Eric should just start a Zoo To Scare.
Finally, Waylon, Charlie's friend, is sitting on his boat. He hears a lot, a lot of noise around him and asks who's there but there's like no response. Then he starts the engine to his boat and it moves a bit before James appears jumps onto the boat at the back.
In front, Victoria arrives and pulls the boat back to the dock strongly. Then Laurent comes. The old guy is confused, and Laurent's like telling James, "Let's not play with our food." Tata.
That night, Bella Googles "Quileute legends" on her Apple computer. I can't tell if it's a Mac or what due to the darkness, but it's either dark grey, dark silver or black on its lighter shade, maybe even navy blue.
Apparently, after a lot of research and sifting through of pages, she finds this bookstore's address or whatnot, and writes it down on a brown piece of paper. Woot. I luv details.
And then, the next day, it's actually sunshine day. Bella still finds it cold, however, so you can see her still dressing in long sleeved stuff and in contrast, Jessica's wearing spaghetti strapped blouses (yeah I think she layered), sitting on the benches and absorbing all the sun's rays. Jessica told Bella about the Cullens going camping and stuff.
So Angela comes rushing over, saying she's going to prom with Eric because she asked, and then Jessica suggests going to Port Angeles to get nice dresses, and Bella asks to go along. I'm unsure whether I prefer this or not, I mean, in the book, Jessica asks her along obviously because she's popular and she wants to be friendly, you know, but in the movie, well, maybe this just proves that Jessica is really more sincere.
In the dress store, Angela picks a purple dress instead of a pale pink one. I think it gives her more personality than just the average quiet, feminine girl. Jessica, instead of her electric blue number, gets a hot pink halter neck that shows off her boobs, haha, and she was like so damn proud of it.
Until this group of guys passed by the store and whistled and waved to her. The last lingering guy knocked on the glass and scared Bella and waved to her too. Bella just sat there absentmindedly, not giving much opinion. Then after a while, she suggests she go to the bookstore instead and join them for dinner later.
She gets the book from the bookstore, finally. You know the bookstore is actually a constructed set, but it looks so real and so nice. The old man who was at the cashier is quite obviously a Quileute native and was observing her carefully, probably suspicious about her purchase or something.
Along the way back, she meets two of the idiots from the earlier gang. She makes a U-turn and turns right, and is cornered. Fucking guys get so close to her, she swings her bag at them and hits one guy. Things really get gritty, until the Volvo arrives. Its headlights were so bright.
And the driving is so reckless. I hope it was a stuntman doing that, and I hope it was a skilled stuntman. Hopefully he didn't get injured steering the car like that, srsly. So Edward just drove the car into the group, and he came out and was like, "Get in."
Bella got in, the guys tried to be rebellious towards Edward, but Robert was emitting his ~chilling glare~ and they fucking backed off! Woot! Then he got back in, and omg, you should have seen the way he turned the car around and out.
In the car, Edward asked Bella to say anything, and she was like, "Put on your seat belt!" He just chuckled. It's cute to see the both of them like that. Then the scene changed to Angela and Jessica getting out of a restaurant, and Bella just showed up.
They looked genuinely worried for her and guilty for having eaten dinner without her, because they were starving. Man, I really luv the humans. And it's more real when Edwards approaches and you see *both* Jessica and Angela get charmed by him.
I mean, yeah, Angela may be a quiet and slightly more timid girl, but she is normal. Any normal girl would be seduced by attracted to Edward Cullen. Edward asks for permission to take Bella to dinner and she doesn't resist.
The waitress comes with this smile I assume is supposed to be sweet. She says, "Mushroom ravioli", places it upon Bella's side, and then asks Edward if there was anything she could do for him. No, seriously, in the book, the waitress was supposedly pretty and all that, you know, but in the movie, the waitress is some cute goth girl that would never appeal to Edward Cullen. It was so funny.
BELLA
You gotta gimme some answers.
EDWARD
Yes, no. To get to the other side,
and 1 point 772453851.
EPIC!EDWARD FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN.
And then Bella was frustrated, and she wanted to get up and leave (*applauds*) and Edward was just like, "Don't go." So heartbreaking, yet so heartwarming. Edward and his internal struggles with himself.
She grills him, and he admits to having the ability to read minds. To demonstrate, he's like, "Money, sex, money, sex, money..."
"...cat."
SO AWESOME. It's like so unexpected, you know. You'd think it's be like money or sex again or something else more, I don't know, realistic. Bella's thinking she's a freak, and Edward brushes her off. Pity he didn't have the AM/FM frequency line. I like that one.
While driving, Bella and Edward actually make contact. His skin is ice cold. Then, they are about the pass the Forks Police Station, and Bella spots her dad's cruiser still outside, so she asks Edward to turn in. Funnily enough, Edward also sees Carlisle's car there. They get out of the car and Carlisle exits from the police station.
They are let on about Waylon's death and they discuss it slightly before Carlisle asks Bella to go inside to check on Charlie. He's right, because Charlie really looks so distressed but after a while, he looks so determined to nab the "animal" that killed Waylon.
Back home, Bella goes through the book and Googles "Cold One" and eventually gets a useful result. She tallies the observations of hers with those stated on the websites and realizes they match. She's obviously shocked, but let's not bother. n_n
The nexxxxxxxxxt day, Bella walks past Edward. He looks after her with this troubled look on his gorgeous face, and follows her into the woods. She walks quite a distance herself, takes off her bag and drops it onto the floor. He catches up and then the important revelation happens.
BELLA
How old are you?
EDWARD
Seventeen.
BELLA
How long have you been seventeen?
EDWARD
... A while.
Finally it happens. Edward tells her, "Say it. Out loud. Say it." Bella's frightened, but she does it: "Vampire." The camera actually goes around them in circles, showing their respective giddy and spinning worlds.
I don't know why, but I actually don't feel like discussing this part. It's very confusing and rushing and sudden, but basically, all that happens is that Edward starts discovering Bella's true side - that she's not afraid and she's taken in by him - and Bella starts discovering Edward's true self.
What happens is just that Edward snatches her and brings her to a place deep in. Oh you know, at this point I was like, "Eh, what about her school bag?" Kristen (as in the Twilighter, not Stewart) chuckled and was like, "Aiya, forget about that first."
Edward steps in a spot where there is actually sunlight streaming in thinly and he really literally sparkles. The special effects step in here. Here, it isn't so bad. Really. Later it's even worse.
The part where Edward was saying, "This is the skin of a killer" just showed all his self-disgust. He demonstrates his superspeed and superstrength to her so quickly. To be honest, the effects here to show that he's fast are better than in subsequent scenes.
Their conflicting conversation is kind of... sad. Edward keeps wanting to chase her away by telling her that he's "designed to kill" and stuff, but she just says she trusts him. Somewhere around here, she actually leans into him and she turns and finds him on a tree branch above him.
This part is inconsistent. When the angle is zoomed out, their heads are further apart, but when the angle is close-up, their heads are merely inches away. It's terribly obvious, especially since it is repeated a lot of times, and it disturbed me, but I'll just let it pass.
Edward shares his frustration with her while Bella just keeps telling him what he wants to know. It's so lovely to see Bella try hard to convey her love for him, and to let him know she isn't afraid, and Edward is both touched yet afraid to hurt her.
They move around the meadow a bit more - Edward's kind of hyperactive, um - and finally they are horizontally across from each other and they are so close to each other. Edward asks if she's afraid, and Bella says, "I'm only afraid of losing you." Edward simply replies, "You don't know how long I've waited for you."
After a while more, they utter the most revered lines in the book.
EDWARD
And so the lion fell for the lamb.
BELLA
What a stupid lamb.
EDWARD
What a sick masochistic lion.
I know Robert pronounce it as meh-so-kis-tic or something like that, basically, I pronounce the "chistic" and shees-tic, and he messed up the "chistic" part to sound like kee-tic or something around there. It's okay, I'm catching the movie again on the 12th, I'll be updated by then.
At that point, my heart just melted. Number one moment that I've been waiting for is off the list. Number two moment is the kiss. I'm still waiting.
The NEXT FUCKING DAY (they share too many 'next day's, srsly), Bella wakes up in her bed and her VO returns once more, this time to say the three things she was absolutely positive about. She moves to her window and sees Edward Cullen leaning against his car and looking up at her. She actually smiles!
Guess what? Edward drives her to school that morning. He, wearing his awesome shades, and she's just dressed up like she normally would. He puts his arm around her shouler and walks her through the lot to school, the stupid smirk on his face. Everyone is literally staring.
Following that, for a long period, Bella finds out so much more about the history of Edward through many different dates. I think it's just a way of showing that they "dated" of sorts. One of them includes a day that's raining and Robert's hair looks so sexy being so wet and all, but, I don't know, vampires' hair really can get wet? I thought being hair, they turned into granite-like stuff too. Meh.
Oh, and srsly, you have to watch this part for yourself. Throughout all these Q&A sessions with Edward, he brings her to so many breathtaking places and the scenery is really, really fabulous. I'm actually kind of jealous Bella needs no airplane to witness such amazing things. If she falls, she always has an indestructible vampire to save her.
Another day, Bella is washing her truck and listening to her iPod when Edward jumps from the top to land on the cab of her truck and then he jumps off. She was like, "Can you act human? I mean I've got neighbours."
Robert/Edward looks disturbingly hotter than usual in that scene. I guess it's because he finally has a change of clothes. That blue raincoat is sooooo killing me. Plus the hair! THE HAIR! Sex hair, that's what.
So Edward is all, "I'm bringing you to my family." Bella freaks out because she's afraid they won't approve of her and things like that, you know, and Edward is just amused. Also, he casually reaches out and pulls out the dent that Tyler's van made earlier on.
Just then, Billy and Jacob arrive to visit and Edward frowns, so he assures a date and hops into his car. I luv the slow motion where Edward and Billy exchange angry expressions. Robert looks so fierce like that.
Charlie gets back just in time. I think this is different from the book (apart from Edward jumping onto Bella's truck and telling her she's meeting his family) in that it isn't in the evening and it isn't raining. It doesn't give off such a dark atmosphere.
BILLY
Any luck with the Waylon case?
CHARLIE
(darkening)
Found a footprint out at the crime
scene today. A bare, human footprint.
BELLA
A person did that?
JACOB
A crazy person, walking around
barefoot this time of year.
ROFL JACOB.
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(In this Joker voice from when he walked towards Harvey Dent's bedside and took off his mask and cap and shook out his hair) Hi.
The movie begins with a VO from Bella (Kristen Stewart), and it is the prologue. Gradually, as the movie progresses, the VO subsides which I'm not exactly happy with, seeing as how this shows inconsistency, but maybe they decided to shorten it due to wanting us to focus more on the action.
You know the infamous deer hunting scene that is shown in the trailers too? Yeah, it happens here. The deer drinks water from a pond and suddenly senses danger. Then it runs relentlessly - excellent filming, by the way - and it jumps over roots of trees and then a vampire comes out and catches it.
Then a white screen.
HI BELLA!
Bella carries this little cute cactus with her. I luv the little cute cactus. It can be my new best friend any day. We first meet Renee (Sarah Clark) and Phil (IDK WHO PLAYS HIM OME) here. Renee's being all teary and stuff, and Phil has only one line to say.
And when the words "Summit Entertainment presents" flashed across the screen, I waited, and finally when "Twilight" (in its full movie logo-esque style) came on, I applauded like no one's business and the cinema followed suit. Yay for ultra fan girl-ism.
In the background, we see aerial shots of mountains, green, clouds, forests, mountains, green, more green, etc.
From the beginning, I'd already knew Charlie (Billy Burke) was gonna be awesome. Even now, reading through the book, I still don't picture Charlie with a moustache but I might, soon. Billy Burke was fantastic at doing that sideways glance thing to convey the awkwardness in the father-daughter relationship and I couldn't stop giggling at it.
I am surprised with Bella's bedroom. It's so much messier than in the book, and definitely possesses no sign of baby blue walls anywhere. "Purple's cool." Yeah, Charlie got Bella a purple blanket. I like that Bella VOs, saying the great thing about Charlie is that he doesn't hover.
They didn't show Bella being restless and all the first night in Forks. It doesn't bring out how much she sort of hates Forks in the beginning. They didn't need to waste so much time on that, but they should have sort of defined her stand against the cold and the wet more clearly in the beginning. Give her some character, you know.
And then Bella exits from the house and falls down! Nice one, Kristen. She then meets Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and Billy Black (Gil Birmingham)! I had mixed reactions to this part. To the blur background, where Charlie and Billy were fooling around, I was laughing non-stop at.
BELLA
(re: the dads)
Are they always like this?
JACOB
It’s getting worse with old age.
But I was also kind of caught by surprise that Bella's first friend became Jacob! Like, FREAKING LA PUSH WAS THE JACOB-BELLA MOMENT! I heard people on the rows behind me complain, saying something like, "She should have met Edward first!"
Welcome to the movie anyway.
So Bella loves the truck drives it away and to school. Ms Cope disappears from the movie, which I'm sad to hear about. I fucking like Ms Cope.
There's Eric (Justin Chon), this totally smooth and joker kid, just trying to impress Bella to an infinite extent. Oh, and he speaks too quickly. Where's the hormonal overload, pimply face, chess club idiot? Gone.
ERIC
You’re Isabella Swan, the new girl. Hi.
I’m Eric. The eyes and ears of this
place. Anything you need. Tour guide,
lunch date, shoulder to cry on.
Bella has Gym before Lunch, which totally sucks since I mean, the most basic thing they could have done was STICK TO HER FUCKING SCHEDULE but anyway, she first met Mike (Michael Welch) through Gym by hitting him on the head with the volleyball.
Kristen was so cool at being really sucking-at-sports-esque. She totally whacked the volleyball out of her way so well. Clumsy is the new cool. Funny how Bella can't hit back in the proper direction but can hit people's heads so correctly.
JESSICA = HILARIOUS. Jessica (Anna Kendrick) is all like:
- *sees Mike talking to Bella, the shiny new toy*
- *butts in*
- *introduces self*
- *satisfied*
Jessica isn't such a bitch as in the book, where she is this snotty wannabe who just hangs out with Bella because she's pretty and catches everyone's attention. In the movie, the impression she gives is a more sincere one. Although, all the same, I don't know if it's true. After all, only Edward knows. And Melissa Rosenberg.
JESSICA
She’s got a great spike, doesn’t
she?
(to Bella)
So, you’re from Arizona, right?
Aren’t people supposed to be tan
down there?
BELLA
That’s why they kicked me out.
Mike laughs, and because he does, Jessica does.
Yeah, the part where Mike laughs and Jessica follows suit was very awkward and hilarious to me.
Then, during Lunch, Bella carries her tray of food and just slides into the clique's table, and Angela (Christian Serratos) takes her trademark Lumix camera and snaps a candid shot of Bella. More mixed reactions to this. Firstly, in the book, Angela was but a quiet girl and somewhat nice, and in the movie they spiced up her character more dramatically. With white rimmed specs!
But Angela, you school paper photographer, how could you carry a flippin' Lumix!!!! I know you're in high school but high school students work outside all the time (well I'm unsure about the students in Forks) so you could have saved up for a while more and gotten a Canon, right??!?!?! A Nikon D40 is great for general photography too!!!!!!! Blah. But I still love Movie!Angela.
So, *drumroll*, this is where the Cullens enter the cafeteria. Now, what happens is that from the angle that this is shot, behind Bella we see large windows plastered up against the wall right at the back and they are covered by venetian blinds of sorts, but in a way that sunlight can still filter through.
Good set-up.
Wait, let me explain this further. From the angle we're watching, the door is on the far left (to Bella's far right), so the Cullens actually travel from the right side of the screen behind the windows, to the door, come in, and walk towards the right side of the screen again. And in the process, they pass Bella's table.
Bella asks, "Who are they?" and Jessica starts babbling off.
The first couple is Rosalie (Nikki Reed) and Emmett (Kellan Lutz), and to my surprise, Nikki looks prettier than I would have expected. Emmett is megawesome, with his white hoodie and bulkiness.
The second couple is Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Alice (Ashley Greene), obviously. I can never forget the way Jessica introduced Jasper. "The one who always looks like he's in pain..." ROFL. It's seriously true, you know! Jackson rocks at portraying a vampire in pain - cue big eyes and a small grimace playing at his lips. While walking to their table, Alice does this little cute twirl.
Although I think it's too dramatic. No one in their right mind would twirl in the middle of the cafeteria, vampire or not. That was completely the wrong way to show how "graceful" Alice is. Well, whatever.
So, at this point, I begin biting my fist and I ignore Jessica's mindless raving about the Cullens because it's all in the book anyway, since I can recognize the lines from my half-conscious ears, as I just keep scanning the back from a new silhouette to appear.
AND I SEE ROBERT PATTINSON/EDWARD CULLEN IN HIS FULL FUCKING GLORY! Well no, actually, not yet, just his silhouette and us Twilight Singapore people were screaming and cheering, even more so when he opened the door and entered the cafeteria.
HOT
NESS
OVER
LOAD
*chills* Okay, and then he walks over to his table of siblings and Jessica is giving that sourpuss face and saying that apparently no one is good enough for Edward Cullen. If only you knew. Hah.
And then Robert Pattinson has too much wrinkles for Edward Cullen's own good, but I managed to tolerate it throughout the movie. But anyway, Edward frowns and creases his brows, most probably attempting to listen to Bella's thoughts. That is part of the storyline.
But Bella making so much eye contact with Edward? No, not at all. I hate that they had so much eye contact. I know Bella isn't supposed to be that much of a normal teenage girl but even so, anyone would be intimidated by Edward's godlike looks. No one would dare look him in the eye so quickly.
For the rest of the movie from her first day of school to before they truly know each othe, Bella makes too much eye contact with Edward. :(
The Biology scene. They removed the blood typing chapter which I was initially unhappy about, but now I see it would be useless anyway, and we need to save time. Mike walks Bella to Biology and Bella steps in front of a fan. Immediately, Edward cups over his nose and mouth.
OH SPUNK RANSOM, HOW I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT YOUR ACTING IS LOUSY. Edward didn't feel repulsed from Bella's smell, neither did he feel like vomiting. He felt like taking her life there and then! He felt angry, his hands were fisted together, his knuckles turned white etc. HE DID NOT FEEL LIE BARFING UPON GETTING A WHIFF OF BELLA.
*peeved*
Never mind, I can always pretend.
Or maybe, just maybe, he was pretending he smelt something bad and thus covered up half of his face. Hmm, I'm not too sure.
So then Edward gets out of his seat and off the screen even before anyone is out. I think that's a good representation. What happens is that in the book, Bella always says that Edward is out of the door before anyone else is when the bell rings, and I thought it's that he travelled quicker than a human, but that's kind of like impossible seeing that he wouldn't blow his cover. Definitely.
So in the movie, maybe due to Edward's supernatural abilities, he stands up even before the bell rings and walks so quickly he will have exited the classroom in about 4 seconds flat.
Here, we finally get a faceless Ms Cope/clerk, but I hate how:
- Edward didn't stiffen when he smelled Bella's presence
- Edward didn't ~werk his charm~ on the clerk and just left after being really rude
- Bella left subsequently after him just like that - what was she there for in the first place then?
- BELLA DIDN'T CRY. Bella's tear ducts are supposedly wired to her anger and she didn't cry! No character, once again.
School's out and everyone's pretty all right, compared to... the security guard at a mill. He's running, ducking, hiding, jumping, going at full speed, quadruple the rate I could go and then we all know what's happening.
Nomads, you're finally here.
Bella's out dining with her dad. The black waitress tells Bella she's "gorgeous", and Bella just looks purely uncomfortable. The waitress' friend, Waylon Forge, comes up behind and asks if Bella remembers him, and Charlie jumps in defensively saying Bella hasn't had a Christmas there since four.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA WHAT THE HELL. PAEDOPHILE.
Charlie's this really protective and caring dad, but he just can't express himself in words. Awkward, cute, awesome all-in-one. At first, I didn't understand this part you know, I thought Bella would cook in later scenes but subsequently I just discovered that Bella never actually really cooked.
Which kind of made me upset. That's one of her best abilities, and they took it away. Maybe they could bring it back in New Moon, like saying she wants to start learning how to cook so Charlie and her won't always have to eat out and stuff.
I hope so.
Then Bella is sitting on her bed, talking to Renee on her cellphone.
RENE
Ok, I didn’t lose my power cord. It
ran away. Screaming. I literally
repel technology now.
Easily the best line from Renee through the whole movie.
The next day, Bella's VO returns and says she wants to confront Edward, but he doesn't turn up. I think it's this scene or what, but anyway, on one of the school days that Edward doesn't come, the remaining Cullens arrive in this Jeep with Emmett standing on top, and they slide in effortlessly beside Rosalie's red BMW M3.
Two of the hottest cars, parked beside each other.
Bella gets out of the house. Now, I'm suddenly confused. I don't remember if it's now or that time when she met Jacob that she slips outside the house, but either way, she slips only once so yeah.
Charlie drives Bella's truck in and parks in, and then gets out, telling her about the new tyres he got her so that she could drive more carefully. This relationship between the father and daughter is getting so adorable.
She gets to school again and then Eric and Mike just keep chatting her up and Mike begins caling her 'Arizona'. I keep laughing at it, even though it's just plain mean.
Finally, Bella sees Edward in Biology. Mr. Molina's being really enthusiastic and all, asking them to label the onion root tip cell slides according to their phases of mitosis and the partners that win gets the golden onion! :D TEH GOLDEN ONION IS SO KYOOT, LMAO.
BELLA
Prophase.
EDWARD
May I look?
EDWARD
Prophase.
BELLA
(muttering)
Like I said.
--
EDWARD
Enjoying the rain?
BELLA
Seriously? You’re asking me about the
weather?
--
EDWARD
Anaphase.
BELLA
May I?
Anaphase.
EDWARD
Like I said.
Bella and Edward engage in conversation, while Edward just keeps staring at her, and they do the exercise so slowly as compared to in the book, but in the end, in the next scene, we see Bella brandishing TEH GOLDEN ONION, HAHAHAHA. I CAN'T TYPE IT OUT WITHOUT LAUGHING.
Edward, bookless and all, just follows Bella to her lockers and he tells her he can't read her, and she just blurts out the Did-you-get-contacts line and Edward can't explain it and walks off. I stare at his retreating form even though he goes out of focus. *dreamy*
Ah, here's the best part.
Bella dumps her bag onto her truck, sees Edward staring at her from across the lot from his Volvo. At the same time, I also note Alice carrying an umbrella and talking to Jasper but also observing Edward. The way Alice holds the umbrella is utterly irresistible.
SCREECHING WHEELS. WIDE-EYED BELLA. And then it all happens. Edward comes, lifts up Bella, holds out his hand to Tyler's van, makes a dent in the blue metal frame. The back of the van knocks into Bella's truck.
Edward and Bella make eye contact again. I see more fear in Edward's eyes, and Bella is just purely speechless and less shock, more surprise.
Edward gets up, jumps onto Bella's truck, jumps off and gets away.
The whole school population comes running towards Bella and asks, I mean, shouts at her if she's okay. I note Mike and Eric being the loudest and closest, while Jessica is somewhere squished behind. Bella's face says it all: I'M FUCKING FINE BUT EDWARD CULLEN DID THAT FUCKING DENT DID YOU SEE IT?
Tyler sticks his head out with a slice across his forehead and apologizes.
Bella is now in the hospital and Charlie bursts through, showing nothing but pure concern. I think Tyler say sorry once. Charlie warns Tyler to shut up. You know, the funny thing is that in the movie, Charlie is so caring for Bella, but in the book Charlie seems to know everyone and thinks everyone is nice.
The holy Dr. Carlisle Cullen enters the room in all his movie-star-handsome-ness. Charlie looks at him with respect. You know, as much as I'm not exactly very impressed with Peter Facinelli, he actually is really good in the movie and I gasped when he got through those doors.
Another one of my wrong predictions. I need to be proven wrong more often. So Tyler begins again, "I'm so sorry, Bella" and CHARLIE, HAHA, THAT AWESOME DAD simply yanks out the curtain separating the two beds in exasperation and annoyance.
I told you Charlie is just the funniest father ever.
Bella hints about Edward saving her and Carlisle isn't such a great actor as Edward, so he actually avoids Bella when she says that and Bella's really good with intuition, so she knows something's out of place.
Bella's about to call her mom on her cell, because Charlie told Renee (and in the movie, he's unrepentant about it, unlike in the book where he's embarrassed and Bella flares up, rofl), when she hears Carlisle, Rosalie and Edward around the corner.
They sense her, and Carlisle and Rosalie head off while Edward comes and pops his head around. Their dialogue is pretty much the same as in the book, less fierce though, and I liked that they added in the last line.
BELLA
You stopped that van. You pushed
it away.
EDWARD
No one will believe that.
BELLA
I wasn’t planning to tell anyone.
BELLA
I just want to know the truth.
EDWARD
Can't you just thank me and get
over it?
BELLA
Thank you.
EDWARD
You’re not going to let it go, are you?
BELLA
No.
EDWARD
(turns, walks away)
Then I hope you enjoy disappointment.
I loved that line in the book, and I like it even more in the movie.
Bella's VO makes another guest appearance, saying that's the first night she dreamt of Edward Cullen. She is sleeping at first, then she wakes up, sees him at her table across the bed. She switches on the lamp and he's gone.
I'm pretty sure she wasn't hallucinating when she saw him. I bet he was really there and escaped when she wasn't seeing.
Finally, the field trip the following day. Mike asks Bella to prom, and I liked how they showed that Bella wasn't listening him by making him go out of focus and instead the person in focus was Edward, a few metres behind. They did that for about five seconds or so, before Bella finally snaps out of it and tells Mike she's heading to Jacksonville.
She suggests that Mike ask Jessica instead and the camera cuts to Jessica, who is talking to Mr. Molina while blatantly observing them. She gives off a smile as soon as she notices Mike looking at her.
Then they all go off to the greenhouse, and Eric pumps out a cup of compost tea while Tyler grabs the cup and runs off with it, and I think Mr. Molina was like, "Hey, don't drink it!" They just can't stop fooling around.
Edward and Bella moment. She confronts him.
BELLA
You haven’t answered any of mine.
You won’t even say hi.
EDWARD
Hi.
Bella asks how he'd stopped the van and he utters his infamous "Adrenaline rush. It's very common. You can Google it."
The irony in his statement is that, for the rest of the movie, Bella used Google for everything that she didn't know, but she didn't follow Edward's advice and Google 'adrenaline rush'. I know it's probably because she's smart enough to know what it is, but still!
Outside the green house, Eric was like taking this worm and shoving it into Bella's face and she's like somewhat disgusted but just avoids it. Edward catches up, telling her it's best if they aren't friends.
Bella said a different line from "I know you do." I think she went somewhat like, "I'm sure you do" or something within that context, because Edward didn't reply, "You don't know anything!" Sad. I loved those two exchanges too.
Subsequently,
ERIC
La Push, baby. You in?
BELLA
Should I know what that means?
MIKE
La Push beach, down on the Quileute
rez. We’re all going after school.
Big swell coming in.
ERIC
And I don’t just surf the Internet.
JESSICA
Eric, you stood up once. On a foam
board.
ANGELA
There’s whale watching, too. Come with.
ERIC
La Push, baby.
BELLA
I’ll go if you stop saying that.
The name Eric has a whole new meaning. I know after he said, "And I don’t just surf the Internet", he and Mike were like giving these stupid fake surfing poses. Damn amusing.
The scene I've been sort of anticipating - not as much as the kiss scene, but still - the one where Bella's taking her food and she accidentally drops the red apple. It bounces off Edward's leg, lands in his two hands and he presents it to her.
Now I like this part here because this is where the background becomes really important. I mean, I love it here. It's so synchronized. Firstly, Edward and Bella are in focus, and in the unfocused background, Mike is getting off the table he's sitting on. Secondly, the camera then turns to focus on Mike and the rest of the gang, and Mike, exactly from where he was, now sits down on a chair.
Perfect details. I like it when a director gets such details accurately. Till today, I have only found one major mistake with TDK, and that's when Bruce was stitching up his wounds and Alfred comes in and takes over the sewing. They start talking and Bruce's head angles differently whenever the frame switches angles too, meaning it's not in sync.
Later, that mistake actually happens in Twilight, but fret not, let's continue for now. So, after Mike sits down and Eric also stares jealously at Edward and Bella, the confrontation continues. Bella tells about her theories.
And then, earlier on, I was just being a joker myself. I was going like, what if Edward meant to say this instead of the actual lines:
"It's all xuperher0 stuff right? What if I'm not the xuperher0? What if I'm the bad guy?"
I'D BE ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. Then Bella actually replied, "You're not."
I'm drooling. Edward is a xuperher0.
...
Okay, let's stop. I'm spinning out of control.
In the next scene, we see Eric, Mike and Jessica zipping up surfing suits while Angela and Bella just stay in the van in their thermal clothes. Angela complains about not having Eric ask her to prom and Bella, probably out of frustration or maybe not, was like, "You're an independent woman, take control."
It's actually funny. Off screen, we hear Jacob call Bella and then we see him with Embry and Sam. Embry doesn't actually have a single line at all. Ugh. Embry's quite cute, by the way.
JESSICA
(teasing)
Keep her company. Her date bailed.
ERIC
What date?
35.
JESSICA
She invited Edward.
BELLA
(embarrassed)
To be polite.
ANGELA
I think it’s nice she invited him.
No one ever does.
MIKE
Because Cullen’s a freak.
SAM
You got that right.
BELLA
You know them?
SAM
(sharply)
The Cullens don't come here.
This part is really humiliating for Bella. I'd blush like mad if I were her. Although how come Jessica knew Bella invited Edward, I have no idea.
Kristen did so well for the flirting part. Like, srsly. If I were Jacob, I would have fallen in love with Bella too. She's good at all these fluttering eyelashes thing and the problem is she's pretty to begin with.
JACOB
(whispering)
If they promised to stay off Quileute
lands, we wouldn’t expose what they
really were to the pale-faces...
Jacob pauses dramatically -- Bella shivers.
GIRL (O.S)
AAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!
LOL. The whole cinema laughed when we saw Angela behind, being chased by Eric and his sea animal, whatever it is. It looks like a snake, really long, but it's definitely not one. Off screen, Angela just kept running around and screaming. Eric should just start a Zoo To Scare.
Finally, Waylon, Charlie's friend, is sitting on his boat. He hears a lot, a lot of noise around him and asks who's there but there's like no response. Then he starts the engine to his boat and it moves a bit before James appears jumps onto the boat at the back.
In front, Victoria arrives and pulls the boat back to the dock strongly. Then Laurent comes. The old guy is confused, and Laurent's like telling James, "Let's not play with our food." Tata.
That night, Bella Googles "Quileute legends" on her Apple computer. I can't tell if it's a Mac or what due to the darkness, but it's either dark grey, dark silver or black on its lighter shade, maybe even navy blue.
Apparently, after a lot of research and sifting through of pages, she finds this bookstore's address or whatnot, and writes it down on a brown piece of paper. Woot. I luv details.
And then, the next day, it's actually sunshine day. Bella still finds it cold, however, so you can see her still dressing in long sleeved stuff and in contrast, Jessica's wearing spaghetti strapped blouses (yeah I think she layered), sitting on the benches and absorbing all the sun's rays. Jessica told Bella about the Cullens going camping and stuff.
So Angela comes rushing over, saying she's going to prom with Eric because she asked, and then Jessica suggests going to Port Angeles to get nice dresses, and Bella asks to go along. I'm unsure whether I prefer this or not, I mean, in the book, Jessica asks her along obviously because she's popular and she wants to be friendly, you know, but in the movie, well, maybe this just proves that Jessica is really more sincere.
In the dress store, Angela picks a purple dress instead of a pale pink one. I think it gives her more personality than just the average quiet, feminine girl. Jessica, instead of her electric blue number, gets a hot pink halter neck that shows off her boobs, haha, and she was like so damn proud of it.
Until this group of guys passed by the store and whistled and waved to her. The last lingering guy knocked on the glass and scared Bella and waved to her too. Bella just sat there absentmindedly, not giving much opinion. Then after a while, she suggests she go to the bookstore instead and join them for dinner later.
She gets the book from the bookstore, finally. You know the bookstore is actually a constructed set, but it looks so real and so nice. The old man who was at the cashier is quite obviously a Quileute native and was observing her carefully, probably suspicious about her purchase or something.
Along the way back, she meets two of the idiots from the earlier gang. She makes a U-turn and turns right, and is cornered. Fucking guys get so close to her, she swings her bag at them and hits one guy. Things really get gritty, until the Volvo arrives. Its headlights were so bright.
And the driving is so reckless. I hope it was a stuntman doing that, and I hope it was a skilled stuntman. Hopefully he didn't get injured steering the car like that, srsly. So Edward just drove the car into the group, and he came out and was like, "Get in."
Bella got in, the guys tried to be rebellious towards Edward, but Robert was emitting his ~chilling glare~ and they fucking backed off! Woot! Then he got back in, and omg, you should have seen the way he turned the car around and out.
In the car, Edward asked Bella to say anything, and she was like, "Put on your seat belt!" He just chuckled. It's cute to see the both of them like that. Then the scene changed to Angela and Jessica getting out of a restaurant, and Bella just showed up.
They looked genuinely worried for her and guilty for having eaten dinner without her, because they were starving. Man, I really luv the humans. And it's more real when Edwards approaches and you see *both* Jessica and Angela get charmed by him.
I mean, yeah, Angela may be a quiet and slightly more timid girl, but she is normal. Any normal girl would be seduced by attracted to Edward Cullen. Edward asks for permission to take Bella to dinner and she doesn't resist.
The waitress comes with this smile I assume is supposed to be sweet. She says, "Mushroom ravioli", places it upon Bella's side, and then asks Edward if there was anything she could do for him. No, seriously, in the book, the waitress was supposedly pretty and all that, you know, but in the movie, the waitress is some cute goth girl that would never appeal to Edward Cullen. It was so funny.
BELLA
You gotta gimme some answers.
EDWARD
Yes, no. To get to the other side,
and 1 point 772453851.
EPIC!EDWARD FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN.
And then Bella was frustrated, and she wanted to get up and leave (*applauds*) and Edward was just like, "Don't go." So heartbreaking, yet so heartwarming. Edward and his internal struggles with himself.
She grills him, and he admits to having the ability to read minds. To demonstrate, he's like, "Money, sex, money, sex, money..."
"...cat."
SO AWESOME. It's like so unexpected, you know. You'd think it's be like money or sex again or something else more, I don't know, realistic. Bella's thinking she's a freak, and Edward brushes her off. Pity he didn't have the AM/FM frequency line. I like that one.
While driving, Bella and Edward actually make contact. His skin is ice cold. Then, they are about the pass the Forks Police Station, and Bella spots her dad's cruiser still outside, so she asks Edward to turn in. Funnily enough, Edward also sees Carlisle's car there. They get out of the car and Carlisle exits from the police station.
They are let on about Waylon's death and they discuss it slightly before Carlisle asks Bella to go inside to check on Charlie. He's right, because Charlie really looks so distressed but after a while, he looks so determined to nab the "animal" that killed Waylon.
Back home, Bella goes through the book and Googles "Cold One" and eventually gets a useful result. She tallies the observations of hers with those stated on the websites and realizes they match. She's obviously shocked, but let's not bother. n_n
The nexxxxxxxxxt day, Bella walks past Edward. He looks after her with this troubled look on his gorgeous face, and follows her into the woods. She walks quite a distance herself, takes off her bag and drops it onto the floor. He catches up and then the important revelation happens.
BELLA
How old are you?
EDWARD
Seventeen.
BELLA
How long have you been seventeen?
EDWARD
... A while.
Finally it happens. Edward tells her, "Say it. Out loud. Say it." Bella's frightened, but she does it: "Vampire." The camera actually goes around them in circles, showing their respective giddy and spinning worlds.
I don't know why, but I actually don't feel like discussing this part. It's very confusing and rushing and sudden, but basically, all that happens is that Edward starts discovering Bella's true side - that she's not afraid and she's taken in by him - and Bella starts discovering Edward's true self.
What happens is just that Edward snatches her and brings her to a place deep in. Oh you know, at this point I was like, "Eh, what about her school bag?" Kristen (as in the Twilighter, not Stewart) chuckled and was like, "Aiya, forget about that first."
Edward steps in a spot where there is actually sunlight streaming in thinly and he really literally sparkles. The special effects step in here. Here, it isn't so bad. Really. Later it's even worse.
The part where Edward was saying, "This is the skin of a killer" just showed all his self-disgust. He demonstrates his superspeed and superstrength to her so quickly. To be honest, the effects here to show that he's fast are better than in subsequent scenes.
Their conflicting conversation is kind of... sad. Edward keeps wanting to chase her away by telling her that he's "designed to kill" and stuff, but she just says she trusts him. Somewhere around here, she actually leans into him and she turns and finds him on a tree branch above him.
This part is inconsistent. When the angle is zoomed out, their heads are further apart, but when the angle is close-up, their heads are merely inches away. It's terribly obvious, especially since it is repeated a lot of times, and it disturbed me, but I'll just let it pass.
Edward shares his frustration with her while Bella just keeps telling him what he wants to know. It's so lovely to see Bella try hard to convey her love for him, and to let him know she isn't afraid, and Edward is both touched yet afraid to hurt her.
They move around the meadow a bit more - Edward's kind of hyperactive, um - and finally they are horizontally across from each other and they are so close to each other. Edward asks if she's afraid, and Bella says, "I'm only afraid of losing you." Edward simply replies, "You don't know how long I've waited for you."
After a while more, they utter the most revered lines in the book.
EDWARD
And so the lion fell for the lamb.
BELLA
What a stupid lamb.
EDWARD
What a sick masochistic lion.
I know Robert pronounce it as meh-so-kis-tic or something like that, basically, I pronounce the "chistic" and shees-tic, and he messed up the "chistic" part to sound like kee-tic or something around there. It's okay, I'm catching the movie again on the 12th, I'll be updated by then.
At that point, my heart just melted. Number one moment that I've been waiting for is off the list. Number two moment is the kiss. I'm still waiting.
The NEXT FUCKING DAY (they share too many 'next day's, srsly), Bella wakes up in her bed and her VO returns once more, this time to say the three things she was absolutely positive about. She moves to her window and sees Edward Cullen leaning against his car and looking up at her. She actually smiles!
Guess what? Edward drives her to school that morning. He, wearing his awesome shades, and she's just dressed up like she normally would. He puts his arm around her shouler and walks her through the lot to school, the stupid smirk on his face. Everyone is literally staring.
Following that, for a long period, Bella finds out so much more about the history of Edward through many different dates. I think it's just a way of showing that they "dated" of sorts. One of them includes a day that's raining and Robert's hair looks so sexy being so wet and all, but, I don't know, vampires' hair really can get wet? I thought being hair, they turned into granite-like stuff too. Meh.
Oh, and srsly, you have to watch this part for yourself. Throughout all these Q&A sessions with Edward, he brings her to so many breathtaking places and the scenery is really, really fabulous. I'm actually kind of jealous Bella needs no airplane to witness such amazing things. If she falls, she always has an indestructible vampire to save her.
Another day, Bella is washing her truck and listening to her iPod when Edward jumps from the top to land on the cab of her truck and then he jumps off. She was like, "Can you act human? I mean I've got neighbours."
Click to viewRobert/Edward looks disturbingly hotter than usual in that scene. I guess it's because he finally has a change of clothes. That blue raincoat is sooooo killing me. Plus the hair! THE HAIR! Sex hair, that's what.
So Edward is all, "I'm bringing you to my family." Bella freaks out because she's afraid they won't approve of her and things like that, you know, and Edward is just amused. Also, he casually reaches out and pulls out the dent that Tyler's van made earlier on.
Just then, Billy and Jacob arrive to visit and Edward frowns, so he assures a date and hops into his car. I luv the slow motion where Edward and Billy exchange angry expressions. Robert looks so fierce like that.
Charlie gets back just in time. I think this is different from the book (apart from Edward jumping onto Bella's truck and telling her she's meeting his family) in that it isn't in the evening and it isn't raining. It doesn't give off such a dark atmosphere.
BILLY
Any luck with the Waylon case?
CHARLIE
(darkening)
Found a footprint out at the crime
scene today. A bare, human footprint.
BELLA
A person did that?
JACOB
A crazy person, walking around
barefoot this time of year.
ROFL JACOB.