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Are You A Writer or Not? -Wait, Don't Answer That.
Okay, I kinda might be seeing the Twilight movie just for Pattinson, who I have the feeling is deeply regretting what he decided to do for his paycheck and has damn fine cheekbones:
"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."
Oh, Pattinson, let me save you from the fangirls. Apparently he once described the sound of the pre-teens and teens screaming outside the filming site as sounding like the gates of hell.
Also, is it canon that while everyone else was screwing around, Edward was taking up knitting or whatever?
And can I just add that Meyer's reaction to the leak of her next novel pissed me off beyond belief? Okay, I'm not even going to get into how stupid it is that she's writing Twilight from Edward's pov - that book didn't need to be written once, much less twice, you get me?
But the fact that she is now not NOT going to write that book because a large number of her fans are so desperate to read her writing that they stole it? Pisses me off.
Oh, boo-hoo, you're making a huge amount of money and have a loyal fanbase.
In her place, I would be PISSED that someone put my work out before it was ready, and I might go back and change things to keep the work fresh, but I CERTAINLY won't STOP WRITING IT.
God, what a whiny brat.
"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."
Oh, Pattinson, let me save you from the fangirls. Apparently he once described the sound of the pre-teens and teens screaming outside the filming site as sounding like the gates of hell.
Also, is it canon that while everyone else was screwing around, Edward was taking up knitting or whatever?
And can I just add that Meyer's reaction to the leak of her next novel pissed me off beyond belief? Okay, I'm not even going to get into how stupid it is that she's writing Twilight from Edward's pov - that book didn't need to be written once, much less twice, you get me?
But the fact that she is now not NOT going to write that book because a large number of her fans are so desperate to read her writing that they stole it? Pisses me off.
Oh, boo-hoo, you're making a huge amount of money and have a loyal fanbase.
In her place, I would be PISSED that someone put my work out before it was ready, and I might go back and change things to keep the work fresh, but I CERTAINLY won't STOP WRITING IT.
God, what a whiny brat.
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Whereas Meyer is getting the benefit of HP's box -office numbers. Because of HP, publishers are more likely to publish anything involving magical creatures like vampires, werewolf or witches because 'OMG THEY'LL MAKE MONEY'. (although the content of these recently published Fantasy Themed teen/children' books are questionable for the most part) So really, Meyer is the victim of publisher's desire to publish things that has money. Put it to you this way, JK worked hard to earn her mullah while Meyer just won a lottery. Who do you think will be more wise with their chances?
Anyway sorry to TL: DR but I like chattin' up with you for the most part.
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And the way she essentially put the blame on the fans - the people that leaked it didn't mean anything bad, they are trusted friends! But fans have read it so now I am sad! - really raised my hackles.
The woman seriously makes me angry, on so many levels.
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Robert Pattinson just got ten billion Internets for that.
He actually won all the respect that I lost for Meyer, and that's saying something.
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Also, the comment about fangirls sounding like the gates of hell made me laugh for real.
Is she for serious? That kind of thing happens all the time. Didn't it happen, like, three times with Harry Potter? J.K. Rowling didn't give up on the Harry Potter series because someone stole a crate of copies of Order of the Phoenix.
God, what a whiny brat.
Kind of like Bella. Who is totally not a Mary Sue. At all. Nope, no sir.
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And yeah, you can tell Rowling was a real author because she clearly had a story she wanted to tell, just because.
And Pattinson is a true professional - he clearly took something where he could have just phoned it in, and gave it his all.
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"I CAN FEEL IF I WANT TO!"
Re: "I CAN FEEL IF I WANT TO!"
Re: "I CAN FEEL IF I WANT TO!"
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And . . . she's not a writer. An author, but not a writer. Never really had a creative impulse before she got the idea of glitter vampires. And if you've really got a story in your head -- one that feels like it's about to burst in anticipation of being told -- you can't just stop because someone gets a peek at it.
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Smeyer is a crazy bitch and she amuses me greatly.
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Also, I really love that icon. Is it gackable?
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CHEEKBONESGOOD SENSE IN THE HUMAN GENE POOL~Meyer is a whiny brat about this whole thing. I just--I'm disgusted.
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So much.
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She needs a reality check.
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I completely agree with her. If I was Meyer's editor, I'd have told her to cut the first couple hundred pages down to ninety or less and remove all references to Edward being beautiful and Bella being totally boring. (There are few things that irritate me more than girls who whine about how UTTERLY DRAB they are when the entire male student body is slavering after them. A little self-confidence is a sexy thing.)
That said, I will admit, I enjoyed the scene in the meadow. It was just about the only scene where she bothered to describe anything about Edward other than how BEAUTIFUL and GODLIKE and PERFECT he was, and I liked the tension of two teenagers from completely different species attempting to get physical without one of them tearing the other's head off. She established some good tension there, despite the incredibly dumb sparklevamp twist, and Edward's almost bad!puppyish behavior was a nice change from the TALL DARK SILENT EMO thing he had going for the rest of the book. And I was intrigued by his vampire dad's backstory.
Sadly, everything pretty much went downhill again from there. Vampire baseball, wtf. And wow, Bella, a video recording? Are we feeling a little dead in the brainbox today or what?
Basically, when a book's pacing is 50% eyeroll-worthy teenaged dithering omgdoitellhimilikehimornot?, 2% interesting danger-laced sexiness, 15% Meet The (Vampire) Parents, and then 23% random Flee For Your Life intrigue that isn't really that cleverly done and involves a villain not even introduced until that final 23%? You're doing it wrong. -_-
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That said - Meyer is doing SO MUCH wrong. SO MUCH.
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Bella in the second half of the book, actually, is almost (almost!) endearing in her total lack of a sense of self-preservation. Half of their conversations involve him going, "And then my dad ripped the throats out of a bunch of deer," and her being like, "Tell me more." *fascinated*
(One of the rare moments when I liked what Meyer was doing was the point when Edward admitted he kept sharing creepy details because he kept expecting the next one to scare her away and couldn't believe his luck, and that he was awed and grateful that she stayed despite knowing what she did. Sadly, I don't think I'll ever really forgive her for the disaster that was the first half of the book, or Bella's treatment of everybody who isn't Edward or her parents.)
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Yeah, because that kind of phobic reaction just *goes away*. *snort*
And I think that I would like Bela a lot more if Meyer had done that and realized that hey - maybe Bela's a little whacked.
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It at least makes Edward's repeated attempts to leave, repeated pathetic complaint of how dangerous this is to her but how he can't bear to walk away from her, and games of cheat-the-devil with how long he can kiss her before he has to back off and hyperventilate for a while, interesting in a sinister way...and it makes her constant babbling about how magnificent and godlike and lovely and arresting and magnetic he is, go from irritating preteen hormones to something pretty fricking creepy.
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