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A Full Twilight Trailer Emerges, Provides Useful Insight
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 17, 2008
A few days ago, I asked a few tough questions about the way Summit Entertainment is marketing their upcoming best seller adaptation Twilight. I was perplexed, because the marketing had not yet given me much in the way of how the film will play out tonally. Is it a vampire movie that happens to involve teenagers who fall in love, or is it a teenager love story that just happens to have some vampires? In my mind, there is a chasms difference between the two, at least when it comes to making a film.
This afternoon, Yahoo! Movies revealed the first full trailer for the film, which seems to show us a bit more. For those 25 people who haven’t read the book and become web-stalkers of author Stephenie Meyer, here is what I gather: Bella (Kristen Stewart) is in love with Edward (Robert Pattinson), but Edward is a vampire. Edward would rather just be a mortal so that he can love up Bella, but his fellow vampires aren’t down with that. A battle ensues. It’s pretty simple. And judging from this trailer, Twilight appears to deliver a decent balance between love story and vampire-on-vampire-on-human action. Have a look for yourself below:
As I said, I am still going to be abstaining from reading the books until the film comes out. This way I can provide the oblivious fan perspective, while our resident Twi-guy Cole Abaius compares the film with the book from the perspective of the 14-year old girl that he is. I am also not saying that the book isn’t worth reading — I just prefer the social experimentation of it all. In the interest of journalism, I will sacrifice my possible enjoyment of the book.
That said, I am very interested to hear what all of you think of this trailer. Twilighter or not, how do you feel about the first Twilight trailer?
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17 Comments
July 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
“In the interest of journalism” huh? So sly Neil, so sly.
The movie is not the book series… so I’m not criticizing the books here… but the trailer looks kind of one note. I’m sure there’s more to the film than just the vampire in leather chasing and trying to eat Kristen Stewart, but you wouldn’t know it from the trailer. My guess is that the studio will release multiple trailers themed differently… this is the “action” one, next will come the “love story” one, etc.
And why does Robert Pattinson constantly look like he has to vomit?
July 17th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I’m not blown away, it’s a decent trailer. But sometimes the best trailer is the one that doesn’t give too much away, so this could end up as a surprise
July 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
At the cost of sounding like a 12 year old girl:
GUSH GUSH GUSH
July 17th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
To Rob Hunter: Rob Pattinson constantly looks like he wants to vomit probably because his character (Edward) has to constantly keep from eating/killing Bella. He loves her, but he would also love to drink her blood…So. Good acting! (I hope. gulp.)
To Neil Miller: I appreciate your experiment; would love to hear a viewer-not-reader’s opinion on the movie. However, you did get a bit of the storyline wrong (and I’m not sure whether that is the fault of the trailer–or maybe this is a good thing, so you’re constantly surprised at the actual movie). Will not tell you what you got wrong, though.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I’m on board as much as the next 14 year old girl, but the argument that the movie (or the books) isn’t just for the teenage lovelorn female is not aided by the Tampon Commercial that preceded the trailer. Well done, niche marketers. Fair play to you.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Seriously i dont get why you guys are not happy with this trailer. Its true that the movie wont be true to the books i think but that trailer ROCKED! My first reaction to seeing it was falling of my chair and lying on the floor gasping for air.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I’m happier about this trailer than the other clips that have been released. This gives non-Twilighters more of an idea about the film… it’s not just about the mushy romance!
I agree with Rob Hunter, there might be a series of themed trailers.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
I totally agree with IAN, however, I might want to say what he got wrong.
1) This is not the first trailer.
2) I would say Edward is in love Bella instead of the other way around because, he pursues her bascially the whole book, and saves her life or rescues her on more than one occasion. Also, he is attracted to her “scent”. It is described as the sweetest blood he has ever smelled, EVER.
3) The fact that Edward is a vampire doesn’t bother Bella, at all. Its Edward who is ashamed of what he is.
3)His family of vampires (The Cullens) are down with anything that makes Edward happy, except there is NO WAY for him to become mortal(but yes he wants to), Bella is the one who will NEED to become a vampire. But this issue doesn’t really come up until New Moon(the second book). All agree that she should change except for his sister Rosalie.(which isn’t explained until book #3)
4)Yes, a fight takes place, but not between Edward and his family. Some “bad” vampires(James, Laurent, and Victoria) who feed on humans come to town, and thats all Im going to say about that to not spoil the whole thing here.
5)@Rachael: LOL! My reaction was the same! Im guessing you are a Twilighter also? We have to stick together on these hateful comment spots.
6)And sorry to disappoint the serious critics,but this movie was NOT made to please you. No one really cares what you think. It will be gushed about forever by the TWILIGHT fans. :) 12-12-08!!!!
7) Lastly, the trailer is an AMAZING representation of Twilight, but they got a lot of things wrong that i’m not to happy about. Its still great though.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Wow this is great i wish it was longer but i love how bellas hair blows in the wind and thats when james smells her just like what happens in the book i was scared about the whole running in the treetops but now i totally understand i looks great i will sleep outside of the movie theaters till this comes out or hopefully be there for midnight release!!!!! PERFECT WONDERFUL LOVE IT AND EDWARD go SPUNK!!!
July 18th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I was impressed by this trailer.Finally doing justice for the book itself, this shows much more of whats involved. It might actually be a pretty good movie.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I loved the new trailer! I think it is really awesome!! I have heard rumors that it will be
showing at the dark knight, but I’m not sure if that is true or not. I hope it is!! I love
twilight!!
July 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I’m intrigued by the fact that most of the girls here are gushing and the boys are actually giving criticism (in a good way).
I blame that loosely based statistic on Robert Pattison and his effortless ability to “woo”. (Cedric anyone? Can’t say I wasn’t wooed there… but only a little)
Anyway…
This trailer is good and bad. Good because… well I did gush and stop breathing a little in excitement BUT I don’t know how I’m feeling about these very evident plotline changes (small or not). I don’t want to be a stickler on novel movies because obviously it can’t be word for word from the book, but I just hope it’s not another Eragon (Ugh that movie with forever be remembered as the worst mistake in fiction novel movie history… He had an “e” on his hand. REALLY? An e?! And that little blonde bastard ruined everything.) Woah. Sorry. I still have pent up agression about that one…
But I do hope, as someone said above, that this trailer is the “action” trailer and there will be more later. I can’t help but like that they aren’t giving out too much of the plot. I can’t wait for Alice Cullen =)
Ps. The Robert Pattison picture at the top of this article is… slightly frightening. I’m not a fan of any of their promotion pics. The vampires all look sick.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Even though Robert Pattison wasn’t my first choice I feel he is doing an excelent job at trying to be everybodys’ idea of Edward.He is a very talented actor who has alot going for him and I am happy he accepted the part.
Kristen Stewart was a surprise to me as well.But in watching The Messengers,In the Land of Women,and Zathura I think she has the romantic,funny,annoing,cute,shy,odd girl out thing going good for her.She is smart and very talented as well.
I think that the cast that they have set up,even though yet again not my first choice,is a spectacular cast that will make this production over the top amazingly awesome.I am very excited and very happy for this movie and hopefully a sequal to come out.
I think that the producers and writers and everyone else working on this movie are the most amazing people EVER!
GO CAST!
GO CREW!
GO STEPHANIE!
Love Raven.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
In comparsison to other vampire movies, I’m not too impressed.
Maybe I’ll read the book someday, but as far as the movie, I’ll probably only watch it if it comes to TV.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:05 am
i love twilight and all, but the more i watch the trailers, the more ridiculous it looks.
it looks as though they’ve completely messed the film up. if i wasn’t a reader i probably wouldn’t be keen to see it at all.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
When I read the book I was picturing Edward as MUCH better looking than the guy they cast, that is a major let down! I can’t see this guy getting Bella’s heart beathing fast and making her faint when he kisses her. I don’t know if I want to even see the movie because he is so different from what I think Edward should look like. Bella looks just right though so that’s a plus…I guess.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 am
Well, I’m putting all my pre-conceived opinions of how I wanted the movie to turn out aside and just enjoy the movie for what it is. It will be easier to enjoy it and perhaps see where the film does really good if you walk into the theatre with an open mind. If you’re in the mood to be critical then you will only pick up on the bad points that might be there and overshadow the good.
I say just sit back, grab some popcorn, enjoy it and criticise it later.
Come on, a movie is a movie and a book is a book.
They can’t always be the same.
The Lord Of The Rings had tiny differences but nobody cared because it was and will always be one of the best novel adaptations around (in my opinion). Plus, it went for circa three hours per film. Who couldn’t grow attached to it in that time? xD
Yeah, I went to Eragon expecting ‘Eragon The Film’, not ‘Eragon The Novel Turned Into Moving Pictures’ and let’s just say, it’s not the best one out there.
*gags*