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TA TALKS BACK: HOW IMPORTANT ARE THE DETAILS?

Posted September 24th, 2009 By: 11 Comments »

For today’s TATB, I take a look at how important the details from the books are to the production of the Twilight movies.

 

How Important are the Details? By: Becky

Pictures have surfaced from the set of Eclipse, specifically from the reconstructed police station. One of those pictures showed the name plate on Charlie’s desk which read Sheriff Swan. Wait. Sheriff Swan? When did Charlie become the sheriff of Forks? The reaction from at least one Twilighter I spoke with was an upset one. Others apparently don’t think it really matters, that it’s only the nameplate on a desk that likely won’t even really been seen, especially up close, in the movie.

This had me wondering. What about the other little or not so little details that have been changed from the book to the movies. Have they hurt the story? How important in the grand scheme of things are they to the telling of the Saga on screen versus being important to the fans?

We all know that the story was changed in a number of ways from the first book to the first movie. Some of that was necessary. It’s not always possible to convey on screen the same things you read in a book. Scenes were added, scenes were taken away. Details were changed to better fit the telling of the story onscreen. Some of them were relatively minor, like the look of the Cullen’s house. That really doesn’t affect the story line, and it made for a better scene of Bella and Edward’s first run through the woods to the meadow. But minor things like the color of Edward’s car are important to fans. Was it really impossible to leave it silver for Eclipse? Did that have to change? Some of the changes were major – anyone else realize at first that Jasper is now in the same grade as Edward, Bella, and Alice? That never even occurred to me until recently, when it was pointed out after we saw pictures of Jackson Rathbone on set in costume as Jasper when they were filming graduation. What does that mean for the rest of the story? Why was this change made?

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  • http://www.twilightquilterscoven.blogspot.com shannon17

    I guess what bugs me the most about the details is changing them when it seems like it would be so easy to stick to the book, like keeping the car silver.

  • Sandi

    Yeah… there’s no need to change things like that at all. :(

  • Laura

    Bella calls her father sheriff in Eclipse. When he gives her the envelope from Alaska University, she realizes that he had opened it and she says: “I’m shocked, Sheriff. That’s a federal crime.”

  • CB

    It is difficult to deal with all the small changes as you are so close to them from reading the books I do believe they should of stayed true to them but in reality it is not going to stop us from seeing the movie and or buying the dvd when available so I’m sure they feel it doesn’t matter!

  • Stephanie

    I’m getting really upset about all these “minor” changes. On one hand they are minor and it’s not that big of a deal. on the other hand would it be so hard to keep these minor details the way they’re supposed to be? What happened…did volvo tell summet that they couldn’t have another silver volvo in the movie? And Cheif is shorter then Sheriff…they could have saved money on the letters. Anyway…this is one of the things i was worried about when i heard that the movies were going to be out so fast…i knew that they would start messing up on the little things because they’re in so much of a hurry to get it in the theatres, so that they can start making new merchandise and make more money. It they would have taken their time with these movies and asked more people’s opinions I think they would have realized that these books and movies are important to a lot of pleople and maybe they would have tried to keep the details they way they should be.

  • Macyn Cullen

    I agree with shannon17. Like Alice’s hair; is it too hard to have it black? Do they have to make it light or dark brown?

  • Kirina

    Honestly, we should just be happy that they’ve stuck to the book as well as they have so far. I’ve watched plenty of movies that were made from books where pretty much the only thing they kept the same was the characters names and the basic plot line. So lets be happy for what it is, and leave the rest alone, lets not complain when we as fans of twilight are lucky the movie isn’t so different. Look at the TV show the Vampire Diaries… pretty much nothing like the books so far, right?

  • Lizzie

    I could’nt agree more, Kirina! We should stop nitpicking and be grateful twilight has Stehpanie meyer to watch over it and keep it SO similar to the books. The car color? really? get over it people. focus all that energy on something more productive. The movie is still going to be great!

  • stephanie

    so i don’t know how it works in the police force…but i’m reading eclipse for the third time and I came across a line about the whole cheif/sherrif thing….on page 15 of eclipse where charlie opens the acceptance letter for bella..she says “I’m shocked, Sheriff. That’s a fedeaal crime.” I’m not too sure if cheif and sherrif would be kinda the same thing but if bella calls charlie sherrif in the book then i’m willing to let that one slide….but a black volvo…no.

  • brittiany

    I just like consistancy throughout any movie sequal.

  • Summer

    Twilight was okay, and I understand some of the storyline changes to help the movie progress. I don’t care that Edward has a black Volvo now. That doesn’t bother me one bit. The only thing that has bothered me so far is that Jasper seems to be the same age now as Bella, Edward, and Alice. I honestly don’t think it matters much in the grand scheme of things, but I just always thought of Rosalie and Jasper as “twins,” as Jessica said in Twilight. The other thing that some people think is minor, but I think is potentially major, is the style of the Cullen’s home. In BD, Bella comes down a grand staircase during the wedding. If BD gets made, that’s something that will upset me. I picture their wedding every time I read BD, and it’s always with Bella coming down that grand semi-twisty staircase with her father.

 

 

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