The long awaited and highly anticipated part one of the final Twlight film, 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,' premiered Thursday, Nov. 17. Tickets had gone on sale prior to the show a week in advance, giving those diehard fans an opportunity to snag their tickets and ensure a spot in the theatre. Sunchase Cinema, in anticipation for the event, booked two theatres for the midnight showing, and both were full.
Fans will admit the final Twilight book is peculiar and twisted, with more graphic scenes and some that bordered on the incredulous. This seemed to be one of the more drawing factors, though, despite the weird array of things that fans knew would be appearing on screen. Some of these shocking factors include telling sex scenes, a pregnant Bella (Kristen Stewart) with a mutant vampire child, talking werewolves and the gruesome birth of the child. What fans didn't seem to be prepared for was the extremely literal view that the movie took on all of these events.
The beginning of the movie was probably the better part of it, because from there on out after the wedding and a beautiful honeymoon things just got weird. As far as setting the scene and putting details into things, the set designs were beautiful and the scenes they choose to shoot for the movie were parallel to those in the book, making fans happy.
Then animated wolves with one Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) jumped into the picture, an aspect of green screen and digital effects that has never been one hundred percent convincing. Add to that the act of them talking, and the scene turned downright ridiculous.
The acting in the movies has never been top-notch and this movie was no exception. Stewart still had her strange, strangled screams and awkward moments, though she has improved significantly since her first appearance as delicate, brown eyed Bella. Lautner semi-held his own in the movie, only falling short in scenes with his pack and the conflicts that occurred within it. Robert Pattinson carried most of his scenes well and his hair wasn't as ridiculous as it has been in the past. One of the weaker scenes was a combination of the animated wolves and the vampires in battle. It was more a mess of close-ups and loud noises than anything else.
The movie took a turn for the peculiar when Stewart began to look stick thin, her ribs showing and her shoulder blades protruding from her body at twisted angles. But the scene that turned terribly gory was during the birth of her child, in which no part of the process was blocked from view, and the audience watched as a bloody child was torn from her weak and deteriorated body, as well as the act of Edward biting her repeatedly to change her into a vampire. The whole scene was loud and bloody, far more visual then I had at first imagined in reading the book.
Those who wished the movie would be like the book, in short, had their wish come true. The movie wasn't too different from the novel, though there were scenes added and small changes to shorten it. The movie wasn't a fail in itself, just simply weak in places and strange in others, though the novels themselves were never too normal.
‘Breaking Dawn- Part 1' is still head of the charts in this week's box office, a positive and telling sign for what is to come in terms of part two. And what better way to grab an audience's attention than to end the first movie at the climax of the novel with a pair of blood red eyes staring out from the delicate face of Bella Swan?
