Hate twilight or love it(personally not a fan but watched it anyway, suffered for Charlie). We all know Charlie is the best character followed by Alice, Carlisle, Rosalie, Emmet and Seth… fuck the rest
So, the time has finally come. After all these years Smeyer has confirmed that Midnight Sun will be released in a few short months. All about our angsty Eddy boy. I’m hoping to finally get some more Cullen content from the first book about their perspective. But really I am shocked that for once Smeyer is actually giving the fans something they’ve been wanting for years, just so she doesn’t have to create new original content and she can continue to make money out of the Twilight franchise until it is dry as bone.
imma say it... bella and emmett arm-wrestling is one of the hottest scenes in the entire franchise i momentarily black out every single time i watch it i just cannot handle it i believe smeyer did this specifically in order to assassinate my bisexual ass allow me to elabora
Solid reasons why New Moon is a cinematic MASTERPIECE
Let me preface this post by saying when I read the books, Eclipse was actually my favorite of the books (i liked more wolf content in regards to quil and embry and imprinting stuff, the legends and backstory info, not the love triangle crud, for the record) followed by New Moon, Twilight and finally Breaking Dawn. Movies wise it goes New Moon first (obviously), Twilight, BD2, Eclipse, BD1. That being said... Buckle up! I’m about to tell you all the reasons I adore New Moon cinematically and why I think it’s the best movie of the franchise even though nobody asked me to!!
I want to start off with the visual stuff first. Keep in mind I’m no film major or anything, these are all just visual shots and stuff i found to be cool in my own opinion with no knowledge of anything educationally. In no particular order:
Obviously, the ‘Possibility’ depression scene. Nothing is more iconic in that book and movie in general. However, the WAY it was done with spinning around bella in the chair and showing the various seasons outside the window along with intertwining the music and her screaming from the nightmares and emailing alice... just the entire scene is absolute BRILLIANCE. I completely adored it. A+ scene adaptation.
This may be a teeny tiny scene, but while Bella and Jacob are fixing up the bikes and “Shooting the Moon” is playing, Bella throws Jacob a piece of pizza and mid-air it changes from pizza to a wrench or some other tool (idk tools don’t judge me) and that is just SO COOL, okay? Like that’s a cool visual trick of awesomeness. You kidding me? Teenager me thought that was wicked cool in the theater then and 26 year old me STILL think it’s bomb now.
The scene where Sam jumps off the cliff and the camera follows him is just really freakin’ cool and effective. Do i know why? No. Do i really appreciate it because it’s a unique and unexpected angle/shot? hell yeah.
During “Hearing Damage” when the wolves are running after Victoria there’s a shot of Victoria running from above and to display just how fast Victoria is running, they show her running at normal speed to US, but the bird above her appears to be flapping it’s wings at like half the speed and i thought and STILL think that is a really creative and fun way to show how fast she is moving without going the boring/typical route of the super speed blurry thing every other movie did to accomplish that effect.
Bella in the woods as she lay on the ground and the camera instead of just coming up straight, the camera like spins in a circle as it comes up over her for a little bit. I thought that was cool, almost disorienting. (as a bonus, the music goes up the scale in this way i learned in choir that almost mimics the chromatic scale and i thought that added to the effect which made it real cool to me and i dug it)
(finally) When bella was in the water after cliff diving, i really liked how when jacob pulled her out and her hand brushed by edward’s vision self, it like, erased him. I know that isn’t necessarily a visual thing as it kind of happened throughout the whole film, but i thought it was more especially a thing compared to the other times it happened as it connected to bella more so than the other times his vision dissipated
Okay, .Now for some miscellaneous things I enjoyed that, to me, put this film over the top in comparison to the other films in the franchise.
To me, the soundtrack is my favorite. Most people are probably going to disagree with me on this point and that’s fine, i get it. Twilight’s soundtrack is REALLY a tough competitor and I’ll admit, it is at a VERY close second in my eyes but when the New Moon soundtrack came out i played that thing so hard on repeat on my itunes, on cd, on EVERY PLATFORM i just forgot the twilight one existed quite frankly. It wasn’t until recently i even returned to revisit it but I’ve been listening to the New Moon one this entire time still. My all time favorite song from all the franchises? I’m a basic bitch, of course, it’s Rosyln. I fell in love with that song the INSTANT i heard it. My other favorites include, Hearing Damage.Sattelite Heart. Possibility. Slow Life. All I Believe In. Shooting the Moon. Done All Wrong. Those are just the ones I have memorized off the top of my head.
Kind of a music thing still-- the SCORE. I am a score person i LOVE background music in movies and, particularily the scenes with Jacob, his theme in particular for me which is called “Dreamcatcher” which was composed by the ever wonderful Alexandre Desplat it just tugs at my heartstrings. It’s great. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I also own the score album. I’m a nerd.)
I dig the blue light in twilight. It fits the movie aesthetic great and the book aesthetic perfectly in my opinion HOWEVER, so does the warmth that that yellow/brown light does for New Moon and i LOOOOOOOVE it. It makes me feel safe and warm and happy and it brings a lot to film. To me, it shows that Chris Weitz really knew his source material and knew how to transpose it to the big screen properly.
I really like the costumes all around in New Moon. From Bella’s party dress to the clothes she wears (the browns, again, I just love them all) the earthy tones... everything makes me incredibly happy. Honestly I’d probably wear everything.
Honestly, there’s probably even more things that I’m not thinking of at the moment, but this is all off the top of my head right now and I’m not in the mood to put the movie on lol
