TA TALKS BACK: WHAT ABOUT BREAKING DAWN?
TA TALKS BACK: WHAT ABOUT BREAKING DAWN?
TA fan Queen Bella has posed the question, with all the hype relating to New Moon and Eclipse, what about Breaking Dawn??
With New Moon set to be released this year and Eclipse on the horizon…the next question on viewers’ (and readers’) minds is…what about Breaking Dawn? I personally think that Summit is going to do a LOT of editing to keep their pre-teen fan base intact. Breaking Dawn as a novel was such a huge leap from the other three books in terms of adult concepts and ideas, and Stephenie Meyer admitted to having toned it down from what she had originally written as a final sequel (which at that time was to be the only sequel…instead of a saga.)The Twilight movie was geared towards a young audience, mainly girls in junior high. I felt so out of place in the movie theater with my boyfriend…here we were in our twenties, and there was a gaggle of pre-teen girls in Team Edward shirts shrieking about how hot Robert Pattenson was. What will be these girls’ reaction if the honey moon scene from Breaking Dawn is not only kept in the movie adaptation…but more so…visually created for them to see on the screen?
Summit is going to have a big issue on their hands seeing as how a large part of the book is based on the outcome of Bella and Edward’s honeymoon. Even if they censor it for younger audiences, the premise is going to be there…a seventeen year old and an eighteen year old about to have a baby. These are the heroes of these girls…they want to be like them. Are they going to want to have babies like them, too? This will no doubt be the question on their parents’ minds, yet this is too big of an issue to leave out of the movie. Unless they plan to completely deviate from the storyline, they will have to include the concept of teenage pregnancy, for better or for worse.
Once Summit is able to resolve this issue, they still have the issue of a very brutal and graphic pregnancy on their hands. Older viewers will be excited about the action, the suspense, and dare I say it…the gore. Even as written in the book, it is a bit overwhelming and sickening. Will Summit tone it down for their target audience, and risk losing the chance to make viewers really understand what Bella is going through? I think they will. To include the pregnancy as written in the book, would turn Breaking Dawn into a horror flick.
Regardless of the two major issues regarding the transition from book to movie, I think that Summit is going to have a great film on their hands. It’s told from two different points of view (which I think can be done successfully albeit may confuse viewers if not done properly), has suspense, strong emotion, and the coming together of different creatures from different parts of the globe. It is going to be visually stimulating and a great way to end the movies on a positive note. From the very beginning, there is page-turning action. This will probably end up being the lengthiest movie of the four, but with good reason…it’s filled with juicy plots. Juicy plots that Summit would have to be crazy to cut out, since in the end they all come together to resolve our hero and heroine’s story. Unfortunately for Summit, this could make for a movie budget and length that is rivaling the later Harry Potter movies. Will it be worth it? I’d more than willingly sit in the theater all night watching Breaking Dawn if it came down to it.”
Talk Back to us….what do you think?
