TA TALKS BACK: VARIETY VFILM TWILIGHT REVIEW & COMMENTARY
TA Forum member Drives Like a Cullen dissects another Twilight review….
I found this review that Variety writer Justin Chang wrote after his initial screening of Twilight in November, 2008. As per usual, there are a few points that I’d like to address.“Bella finds herself utterly transfixed by Edward. (Judging by the screaming tweens in the audience at the screening caught, she’s not alone.) Yet devoid of the novel’s first-person narration, the chain of events laid out in Melissa Rosenberg’s screenplay — Edward’s initial and inexplicable hostility toward Bella, his habit of rescuing her from contrived endangerment scenarios, their playfully barbed flirtation, his revelation of his identity as a self-controlled but still-lethal bloodsucker and, finally, their mutual surrender to their feelings — proceeds with none of the inner logic necessary even for a tale of the fantastic.”
I do agree that someone who has never read the books would find the quick pace of the unique courting ritual between Edward and Bella to be a bit contrived, but I’d have to say that 90% of the audience probably knew what the story was about beforehand. I live in a condo, not under a rock.
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