For you Twilight Fans who might have missed the Entertainment Tonight behind the scenes featurette from last night’s episode, we intrepid bloggers have delivered it to you!
In two parts, commercial free. Take a look:
I got sucked into the series after John gave it a good review. I wasn’t originally interested at all, but I couldn’t help but be curious. Now we have the movie on Blu, and my wife has aggressively consumed all four books in the span of a week.
I am just now getting into reading the books, which is hard for me to get into the first one as I am running the movie over and over and comparing it in my head. I imagine reading the next three will be easier as the movie won’t be out yet.
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Just to start off with I would like to add a seperate comment to what i am mainly talking about.
Twilight, in my opinion, being one of the many typical females out there, happens to be an excellent movie and is very original.
Stephanie Meyer is only human, there is only so much that a human can do.She is not perfect, but you cannot judge someone unless you have sat down and wrote a book yourselves,and you would agree with me that it is very difficult to correct spelling mistakes when a book you have written is 754 long.
Seriously, there is more to life then just blogging negative things about a person you haven’t even worked with before.
Okay I must admit that you might not be attacking her personally, but critisizing her on what she does with absolute passion, just doesn’t upset me, but the millions of fans who thank her dearly for what she has written to be four very extrordinary books.
i love twilight and i really really really cant wait till new moon comes out :) its guna be awsome
i lllooooove twilight, i hope that new moon is as good as twilight but when i read the book i was very mad that edward left her!!!!! can’t wait:D
i am soo depressed now that i go along with bellas feelings soo now that edward left bella i proubley will b soo drpressed till the end on new moon if i can really feel her emotion in he end of new moon but i dont know because it is soo sad and intence and if i dont feel it then i proubley will b depressed till eclpse comes out and she sas… he put the ring once again where it would stay for etenearty! and that willl bg a wile dont u thinck
but y would she even thinck about going with jacob i mean really who wouldent wannt edward more but of course she picks edward i mean who wouldent!
i wouldent even give it a second thoiught!
I totally agree, who wouldn’t want Edward over jacob?! Edward is not only so much sexier, but hes a vampire and Vampires are so much sexier than werewolves! Jacob got on my nerves big time throughout all four books and I couldn’t beleive what happens in the 4th book! Oh well, I’m going to be super depressed during the 2nd movie, but the ending is well worth the wait! :)
this has nofing to do wif anything u ppls are tkling bout but umm huge twilight fan here and i cant wait 4 new moon to come out
Thanks for posting Rodney! Are you going to be posting the next installments?? Please… Pretty Please… with a cherry on top :)
Taylor looks great now! I’m so glad he’s back to reprise his role as Jacob.
If I notice them pop up online I will be. I don’t have cable (tv=expensive waste) so I catch this stuff online.
Make sure to let me know or message me if you see they are going to be on.
Rod, I’m with you on this. I knew about the book but had not read it. My wife and I saw the movie, hoping for a good vampire flick. It was OK but not really our taste.
When it came out on Blu-Ray we picked it up and my wife has since watched it 4 times, went and bought the books and read them in the course of a couple weeks. I’m not sure of the hook but it’s in there. She wants me to read the books now. I’m sure I’ll end up doing the same copmaring the book to the movie.
That said we do the same thing with the Harry Potter films but there we have the benefit of reading the novels before the movies were made. I love the Harry Potter films but the novels are sooo much better. Actually that is usally the case with translating a book to a movie, case in point from a post a couple days ago, The Da Vinci Code. Excellent book, so-so movie.
I’m shocked at how big Taylor Lautner got. Looks like he’s going to play as Jacob physically at least.
The fourth book, IMO was the worst one by far. It’s really ridiculous, has many spelling and grammatical mistakes and the ending is so over-blown.
The spelling and grammatical mistakes would be mainly the fault of the proof readers and editors I would think.
As far as the fourth book goes, the only thing that really bugged me was the name “Renesme”. The big complaint of people is the *maybe spoilers, but not really* anti-climatic ending; however, seeing as the books were written to be a “vampire love story” for teen it should have been obvious the series would not end in a huge gore/action fest.
I see it as I see the final BSG episode. A lot of people were disappointed with the ending even though everything that came before it pointing toward such an ending. After finishing both I looked back at where it all came from and thought to myself, “It could not have ended any other way.”
That’s just me though. I do understand where other people are coming from though. Who doesn’t want a big huge action finale without a happy ending?
Exactly Jeremy. People can like one interpretation of vampires over another, but frankly if this story just had the traditional vastly common accepted mythos of vampires, this would be nothing but Buffy and Angel fanfic.
She did something creative with a mythical legendary figure. And I applaud her for it.
I just prefer my love stories to come with at least some tragedy. But that’s just me, but she DID create a very original vampire story, I’ll give her that.
And I do not dislike the whole series, I actually really like the first three books but I can’t deal with the fourth one. For me, in my opinion, is that the ending was lazy and weak, doesn’t matter if she wanted to make all happy endings for everyone, at least make it powerful and engaging. The Volturi is supposed to be SO powerful and menacing yet they did NOTHING at the end, they just basically talked for a while, Alice came and saved the day, and the left.
And as for the spelling and grammatical mistakes, doesn’t matter who’s fault was it, it’s just unacceptable for such a high profile book. Maybe one or two that slipped by, but they were MANY. It’s just something that bothers the hell out of me. The series had made a lot of money by then, they sure as hell could have hired a capable editor.
I’m not going to say anything that spoils the ending of the fourth book for those that are planning to read it, but there was much more to the ending than what you said. It wasn’t even lazy and weak. The ending was pretty well foreshadowed from events that occurred earlier on in the book. That means it was a fairly well thought out and planned ending.
I do apologize, I did assume your grammatical/spelling errors was just you jumping on the OMG!-Meyers-is-the-worse-author-in-the-world-and-all-time band wagon. You are right, they should have gotten some better people to proof read and edit the book.
spelling and grammatical errors that get into print are the authors fault entirely–it is the proof readers (if there is one) job to catch them, but the authors job to know what they are doing, it all be taut n egnlis comp and grama.
As for the last book, I haven’t read it and have no intentions on reading any of the books, but I will watch the movies; I have herd nothing but bad things from everyone who has read it. So without reading it and only going by what I have heard and have been told, I will go on the record and state that the author had no real idea of how to finish the book and took the easy way out.
I hate Mark Twain, he did the same thing in a Medievial Romance..why?? WHY??? I actually liked the first movie and expect the same of the rest–purely entertainment.
Love watching people make spelling and grammar mistakes in a comment that criticizes someone’s spelling and grammar.
Have you ever written a book? How about an essay? You have never made a spelling mistake and not noticed?
Even the most accomplished writers make spelling mistakes on a regular basis. As for grammar, ALL authors break the traditions of grammar for the sake of style.
Its ENTIRELY the editor’s part to proofread and catch these faults. They already know the writer WILL make mistakes like this, that is why they have editors and proofreaders.
I have to chime in on the spelling grammatical errors, in my opinion, those are the fault of the publisher because while authors should have a good to excellent grasp of the technicalties it is the job of the proof-readers and editors to clean it up during the process. The night I bought Breaking Dawn (yep, midnight release party with the kid) I found mistakes in the first chapter and it bothered me. In fact, there are mistakes in the other three books as well, but BD was the worse. Even a small publishing house should have a higher standard.
As for the book itself, I too, found it anti-climatic and disappointing, but Stephanie did end her book the way she always intended. I think it should be viewed as a modern day fairy tale with a “And they lived happily ever after…” ending.
I would have liked to have seen a few different things happen within the last book, but it is not my story it is hers. There are parts I feel the story started to shift and she flirted with going down a different path, but was so attached to her original ending that she couldn’t make those changes. On a whole I enjoyed the book, read it twice, but it is my least favorite of the four. I love Eclipse and am excited to see what David Slade does with that story.
Rodney and Meli, you beat me to the punch. I agree with both of you.
i always use the old excuse that it is supposed to be like that, that’s my writing style; works every time. personnaly i like using semicolons where they don’t belong; it’s just funny that way.
I wonder if any of the directors will take any liberties with the story, or does she have it in a contract that no one changes what she wrote when adapting it to the screen?
The directors don’t write the movie. They get handed a screen play and are told “make this happen” For the most part thats exactly what they do.
They can affect the feel, delivery and tone of the film, that’s for sure. Their interpretation of the written word of the script is totally at their disposal, but its not like they are going to say “I think Bella wouldn’t choose that, lets go in a different direction. The screenplay writers are the ones who do that.
That all being said, Meyers is overseeing all of the scripts and screenplays so I would imagine that for the overall plot it will stay the same. Small changes are made to fit the movie better, but its still pretty much the book.
Are you guys joking? While it is an editor’s job to catch mistakes and polish a book, I would think that an author would get a chance to read their own work before it goes to print. There is NO excuse for having so many errors in a professional manuscript. The author would most definetely share if not receive the most blame for that.
@The Dude, you think that after writing, re-writing, reading and re-reading the book, that the original author wants to go over it AGAIN after the editor gets it?
Thats what the editor is for. You are so desperate to attach blame on Meyers, that you ignore the fact that publishers HAVE editors to do exactly that.
Do you go ot a full serve gas station then after the job is done you get out of your car and pump just a little more to make sure its done?
Of course not. Thats why you went there to begin with. Its their job and you have to have faith that they did it or else you would have just done it yourself.
does it destroy the image of vampires like I think it does?
It is hard to destroy the image of something that changes with almost every entry in to the genre by a new mind. Dracula is a lot different than Lost Boys which is a lot different than Interview With A Vampire which is a lot different than From Dusk Til Dawn which is a lot different than Let the Right One In which is a lot different than the actual history/mythology of how the idea of vampires came to be. How do you destroy the image of something that is only as consistent as the story teller wants it to be?
true dat.
If your talking about Twilight in general, yes, Twilight destroys the image of vampires completely. You guys can start yelling at me now if you disagree with my words.
Destroy? I won’t yell at you but I might laugh.
Are you to suggest that Twilight’s variation of the vampire myth has rendered all other versions of vampires useless and invalid?
I guess every single interpretation of the myth “destroys” it then and the next vamprie flick that comes out will “destroy” twilight.
Ignorant.