#TwilightForever: She's Not One Of Us

This is a brief deleted scene from Twilight:



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#TwilightForever: The Vampires of Twilight

Another behind the scenes look:



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#TwilightForever: Stephenie Meyer's Dream

Here's a little behind the scenes look:





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#TwilightForever Definition of Twilight

According to Dictionary.com, the definition of the word twilight is as follows:

twi·light

[twahy-lahyt]

noun

1. the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.

2. the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light prevails.

3. a terminal period, especially after full development, success, etc.: the twilight of his life.

4. a state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.

adjective

5. of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim; obscure: in the twilight hours.

6. appearing or flying at twilight; crepuscular.

 

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#TwilightForever: My Name Is Edward Cullen

"'Hello,' said a quiet, musical voice.

I looked up, stunned that he was speaking to me. He was sitting as far away from me as the desk allowed, but his chair was angled toward me. His hair was dripping wet, disheveled -- even so, he looked like he'd just finished shooting a commercial for hair gel. His dazzling face was friendly, open, a slight smile on his flawless lips. But his eyes were careful.

 'My name is Edward Cullen,' he continued. 'I didn't have a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan.'"
-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 43.

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#TwilightForever: Meet The Cullens

"I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful."
--Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 19.

"I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted. Relief that I wasn’t the only newcomer here, and certainly not the most interesting by any standard."

-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 22.

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#TwilightForever: Meet Jacob Black

Why did they feel the need to introduce Jacob so early? In the book, Bella remembered Billy, Jacob's father, from her childhood, but she didn't meet Jacob until the group outing to La Push. In the movie, however, the two are set up as old friends.

The answer, of course, is to give Jacob more screen time for the Team Jacob fans. Sigh. It makes sense from a filmmaker's point of view, especially since he is an important character for subsequent films, and it draws in more of the fans. It's just one of those details they changed that bothers me.

But then again, I'm biased because I am very Team Edward.

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#TwilightForever: Forks's Greenery

"It was beautiful, of course; I couldn't deny that. Everything was green: the trees. their trunks covered with moss, their branches hanging with a canopy of it, the ground covered with ferns. Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves.

It was too green -- an alien planet."
-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 8.

I've heard complaints from people about the green color palette used in the movie, but I feel it really fits well with Bella's own description of Forks. It's one of those details that helps immerse the reader into the book, and I feel it translated over well into the film.

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#TwilightForever: Full Moon

The first song in the film from the Twilight soundtrack is Full Moon by the Black Ghosts. It has a lovely haunting sense to it, and its lyrics speak of going home after a journey. Traveling to Forks is Bella's journey, and it takes a lot of courage and maturity for her to take it.



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#TwilightForever Twilight: How I Would Die

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die -- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months -- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.

I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.

I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me."
-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 1.

This opening is so symbolic. The soft, fragile, feminine doe is running away from a bloodthirsty predator. The doe, of course, is Bella and her innocence, and the unseen predator is representative both of Edward and of James, after her blood.  Bella's monologue taken from the preface of the book, however, which is a preview  of how she will stand by the decisions she's made and is perfectly willing to protect the people she cares about with her life. In other, when push comes to shove, she will not run away like the deer. She stands firm to face the hunter. This conviction is one of the many things I admire about Bella, and it's something she shows repeatedly throughout the series.

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#TwilightForever Twilight Epigraph

The epigraph to Twilight:

"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:17."

This quote mirrors the apple on the cover of the book. According to author Stephenie Meyer on her website, the apple "represents "forbidden fruit." I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice." 

And Bella's choice in the first book/film, of course, is to be with Edward and risk all the danger that he himself poses and that he brings with him or to stay away from him and stay safe.

We'll see how her choice plays out through the course of this #TwilightForever marathon, won't we?

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Twilight Forever Blogging Marathon This Saturday!

So. 

I realize it's been awhile since I've posted. I can give all the excuses I've said so many times before. Life never gets easier, and when sleep's sweet siren call seems more persuasive than motivation for writing, sometimes things get pushed aside. I get so many thousands of ideas in the morning as I start work, but twelve hours later when I get home, I'm too exhausted to remember any of them. Or many other excuses get in the way. 

So I've come up with an idea. I'm going to have a huge burst of blogging done in one day. I've been thinking about this for a while, but it was the misery I faced on Easter that made me realize how much I need this. 

This Saturday, April 26, starting at 10 am Eastern Standard Time, I am going to marathon all five of the Twilight Saga films, and I will be live-tweeting and live-blogging the entire time. There will be posts here, on my Facebook, on my lesser used Tumblr, and particularly on Twitter. Please feel free to join in with the hashtag #TwilightForever. An interactive approach to this will make it even better, and I'd love to have some comments and feedback. 

Spread the word: this Saturday is the #TwilightForever marathon! Watch any or all of the movies with me while is blog and tweet with a singular focus. 

I feel like this is the jump start I need. The first Twilight book back in 2005 inspired me to write in genres besides high fantasy -- particularly urban fantasy, which is now the category under which most of my writing falls. Hopefully watching all five of the movies together (although they are far inferior to the books, I'll emphasize) will have a similar impact of inspiration to this writing. 

Plus if a whole day of blogging and tweeting doesn't make up for this last hiatus, what will?

Talk to you Saturday!

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