Are You A Writer or Not? -Wait, Don't Answer That.

[redbrunja]

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.

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[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Curiously enough, her fear of blood is never touched on again. I'm sure it won't bother you to hear that, in the final act of the book, she gets nearly torn to shreds by a rival vampire...but her own broken bones and blood hardly provoke anything like the reaction to those finger-prickings. (Granted, she was very likely in shock by then, but still.) I'm guessing it was a random thought by the author that she subsequently forgot.

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.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes*

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.

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Actually, after skimming it over again, Twilight is weak as a romance novel, but does pretty well (albeit in a very twisted way) if you read it as a chronicle of a weak-willed girl artificially mesmerized by the vampire powers Edward keeps complaining about (charisma, pheromones, appealing appearance, psychic powers) and the vampire too lonely and depressed and screwed up to let her go or get out of her life, even though he knows how likely he is to kill her in the end, told from the unreliable POV of the hypnotized girl herself.

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.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Now, if only that was the story Meyer was writing/people were reading...

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, now that she's gone and had a nervy-B about her Edward's-Story version of Twilight getting leaked, maybe someone with a nice, sadistic sense of satire can step into the gap and fill it up with a fan-novel along those lines? After all, Eddie's the one who'd know what was really going on--Twilight is just the result of Bella's ramblings after his vamp powers poached her brain. XD