Twilight Case
Essay by kimberly56 • December 16, 2012 • Case Study • 1,363 Words (6 Pages) • 1,207 Views
In the movie "Twilight" actress and actor Kirsten Stewart and Robert Patterson is a love story about young mortal girl fallen in love with a vampire. This is your typical love story about a young girl falling in love for the first. The down side to the falling in love part is that she does not fall in love with a human like we all would most expect but instead she falls for an immortal vampire. The movie starts off with a teenage Bella Swan she has to move from Arizona to go stay with her dad Charlie in Fort Washington. She starts school in the town and there is where she meets the strangely but hand young boy Edward Cullen. Their first meeting she sees him in the lunch room in there school and there first actual encounter is in the class where Edward comes off as a rude uncaring person. The two comes to like one another's company by actually having a conversation with one another. Bella comes to find out later that the reason Edward did not want to be around her because he is a vampire. Bella was very curious about Edwards's life that causes her to go through great lengths to find out about all his secrets that was going on in his life. The two fall in love with one another with all the drama that goes on in their life. The actors that were cast were "Kristen Stewart was on the set of Adventure land when Hardwicke visited her for an informal screen test captivated the director". (Anne Thompson ) "Hardwicke did not initially choose Robert Patterson for the role Edward Cullen but after the audition at her home with Stewart he was selected." (Anne Thompson) "Hardwicke did not initially choose Robert Pattinson for the role of Edward Cullen, but after an audition after an audition at her home with Stewart , he was selected". (Anne Thompson) "Peter Facinelli was not originally cast as Carlisle Cullen but he got the part". (Anne Thompson) Ashley Greene portrayed Alice Cullen and Kellan Lutz was cast as Emmett Cullen. Elizabeth Reaser was cast as Esme Cullen Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale Billy Burke as Charlie Swan and last of all Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black. "Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's popular novel of the same name". (Nicole Sperling) "It was directed by Catherine Hardwicke the film's stars were Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson". (Nicole Sperling) "The film focuses on the development of the relationship between a teenage girl and Edward Cullen a vampire and the subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family to keep Swan safe from a coven of evil vampires" (Nicole Sperling) "The project was development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures during which times a screen adaptation that significantly from the novel was written". (Nicole Sperling) " Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel after three years of the project's stagnant development"( Nicole Sperling) " Melissa Rosenberg wrote a new adaptation of the novel shortly before the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novel's storyline". (Michelle Graham) "Principal photography took 44 days and completed on May 2, 2008 the film shot in Oregon". (Michelle Graham) "Twilight was theatrically released on November21, 2008 grossing over US 392million worldwide". (Michelle Graham) "It was released on DVD March 21,2009 and became the most purchased DVD of the year" (Michelle Graham) The sound track was released on November 4,2008 following the film's success New Moon and Eclipse the next two novels". (Michelle Graham) "Stephenie Meyer's paranormal romance novel Twilight was originally optioned by Paramount Pitures MTV Films in April 2004 but the screenplay that was subsequently developed was substantially different from its source material". (Larry Carroll)"In adapting the novel she had to condense a great deal some chracters from the novel were not featured in the screenplay whereas some characters were combined into others". (Larry Carroll ) Hardwicke suggested the use of voice over to convey Bella internal dialogue since the novel is told in her point of view and she sketched some of the storyboards during pre-production". (Larry Carroll) "The filmmakers behind Twilight worked to create a film that was as faithful to the novel as they thought possible when converting the story to another medium with producer Greg Mooradian saying it very important that we remain faithful to the book but at the same time have a separate responsibility to make the best movie you can".( Christina Radish) Twilight has great special effect and it really hold the audience
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