I’ve always been a reader. I remember the first books I always read when I had “free time” in grade school (my mom would probably argue that I was just slacking off). I think those were called “Trixie Belden Series” or something like that. Those were detective stories, much like Nancy Drew Mysteries which were more popular then (and still are and much more costly) but, I couldn’t afford those with my measly allowance. Anyway, I always preferred books to movies so, it’s not surprising that after reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and seeing the movie, of course, I pick the book.
A story about a vampire falling in love with a human and doesn’t want her to get hurt (nor wants to drink her blood) is a very interesting topic. I don’t really think the movie sucks but, I don’t feel that it rightly captured the feelings the book is conveying. There are instances where I don’t know what the scriptwriter is thinking. Edward Cullen is almost a century old vampire and I don’t know why he was jumping playfully on top of Bella Swan’s car from the tree, in full view of all their neighbors. He is always cool and collected in the book even though he always gets angry when he's with Bella, he doesn't show much emotion to other people. And the scene when he was fumbling with Bella’s seat belt while trying to get her away from James (a vampire who wants to kill Bella), ever heard of a clumsy vampire?. Also, there were scenes that were not in the movie that I think would give the movie goers more insight to the minds of the characters. Like the part where, in the book, Bella almost fainted at the sight of blood at a biology class and while Mike is taking her to the infirmary, Edward came and snatched her from him. It would show how concerned he already is for her, how deep his feelings are getting. I know most of the books’ readers would agree that there are many more scenes that should have been there, but aren’t or were changed. Maybe it would have been a better movie if they made it a little bit longer. I felt as though they, the film makers, were compressing something that shouldn’t be compressed and ended up disfiguring it.
Well, maybe the new movie would do better. New Moon. Maybe it’ll be more faithful to the book than the first one and maybe,.. Well, that,.. I think is already a lot of maybes so, I better stop here and just start reading again.
