Comments on: New Moon Cast at Rome Film Festival

By: watch Twilight New Moon

watch Twilight New Moon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:50:57 +0000

I find they lose a lot of things in the movie which i read in the book. It’s a shame, but i guess that’s just how it’s gotta be.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:39:25 +0000

The greenhouse scene was added in as a way to let Bella express her frustrations with Edward. It was a condensed film version of several other scenes.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:37:58 +0000

What’s important to remember is that the author is certainly not entitled to free reign over an adaptation when the studio has the current rights. Melissa is an incredibly gracious woman, and I don’t think that she meant the comment negatively, since we don’t exactly get to see the full context of the remark in a report. In fact, she even clarified that the cooperation with Stephenie progressively became much more open.

It’s understandable, though. They want to adapt the books without feeling heavily scrutinized by the author. It has to be a respectful process.

By: sara

sara — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:25:47 +0000

“In the first movie she was very protective of her script, and felt Meyer was a strong external influence; but this time she realized Meyer was very cooperative, and a pleasure to work with.”

This annoys me because MR shouldn’t be protective of something that isn’t hers. The Twilight Saga belongs to Stephenie and she has every right to step in and make corrections if she feels the script veers off course. Melissa should be the one listening to Stephenie and sticking to the book. It’s repulsive that Melissa thinks that she’s superior just because she writes out the script. When that happens the director needs to put them in their place, as Chris did for NM.

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By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:56:02 +0000

I too am sure they will make Breaking Dawn, maybe MR isn’t saying anything because she has not been asked to be the screenwriter. That maybe good news. I think new eyes and pen may be in order.

I don’t mind leaving out(condensing) things from the book or even adding to a scene, but to leave out what is in the book and put in random stuff that makes no sense, adds nothing, or has anything to do with the story, that’s just plain foolish as far as I’m concerned. Example…the greenhouse scene in Twilight???? Or Edward’s affinity for trees?
I digress, I think because Chris W. was a writer himself he took care of MR’s script flaws himself, and has done a fantastic job of it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:24:43 +0000

BD will be made. They wouldn’t leave the movie saga unresolved after its successes so far.

By: mschicklet

mschicklet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:18:28 +0000

OK so what does that mean? Breaking Dawn has been “greenlit” 4 times, for goodness sake. And wasn’t it Boo Boo Stewart who said he was contracted for 3 films (Eclipse, BD 1 and BD 2?)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:12:59 +0000

Something else to add: the Lord of the Rings movies are quite different from the books. They even changed Gandalf’s encounter with Saruman, Gimli’s personality (he’s not really comic relief in the books), they also changed a bit of the Council in Rivendel, etc.

While the films were generally well received, some readers of the book have decried certain changes made in the movie adaptation. Various changes to characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Arwen, Denethor, Faramir, Gimli, and even the main protagonist Frodo, and changes made to events (such as the Elves participating at the Battle of Helm’s Deep and Faramir taking the hobbits to Osgiliath, which were both absent from the books), when considered together, are seen to alter the tone and themes from those found in the book.

Many have also decried the wholesale deletion of the penultimate chapter of the novel, “The Scouring of the Shire”, a part Tolkien felt thematically necessary.

ackson once said that to simply summarise the story on screen would be a mess, and in his own words, “Sure, it’s not really The Lord of the Rings … but it could still be a pretty damn cool movie.”

So, yes, the Lord of the Rings movies had many more changes than the Twilight adaptation, I’d say. Apples to oranges, though.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:08:22 +0000

I think that you don’t notice how much material the Lord of the Rings movies were missing because they were much larger projects. Twilight, by comparison, is smaller in scale. Still, they were faithful with the time that they had.