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Hello!
So, remember in my "Autumn Inspo 2021" post that I said I wanted to watch the Twilight saga movies this fall?
Well you're in luck, cause I just saw the first film last month and boy, am I confused, intrigued, but most importantly....
π✨Inspired fashion wise...✨π
Before I give a run down of the film, I just want to say that overall I didn't hate it. I really liked the soundtrack and the overall aesthetic...but I laughed way too much at scenes that weren't supposed to be funny. Twilight is really the best comedy of the 2010's!
So, let's get started! (Keep in mind, this post is really, really, really long because I'm basically telling the whole entire movie soooooooooo bare with me!)
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!
We start the story with the main character, Bella.
...A shy and awkward 17 year old girl who moves to Folks Washington with her dad after her mom's remarriage.
Bella is extremely introverted and reserved but makes friends in like 10 seconds at school... (how though???) Bella's friends are super nice and are helping her navigate the school and life in Forks and everything is going fine.....until one day in the cafeteria, she see's the Cullens...
A group of 5 pale, model-esque foster siblings. (Although two of the "sisters" are dating their "brothers." Don't ask...)
Edward, Rosalie, Alice, Emmet and Jasper are the adopted kids of Dr. Carlise Cullen, the school doctor. The Cullens all sit together away from the other students and are a big mystery to the school.
Bella becomes extremely intrigued by the group of the sunscreen desperate teens and wants to know more about them..
(Alice is my favorite Cullen btw..)
Since Edward Cullen is the only "single" Cullen, Bella starts to wonder about him specifically....and also why he seems to stare at her wayyyyyyyy too much!
Later on, Bella keeps seeing him around the school and there's a famous scene in the movie when Bella first really interacts with Edward in her Biology class. She walks into class and her teacher tells her to partner up with him for their lab. Bella starts to walk towards Edward's table and walks passed a fan, causing Edward to "smell" her and he immediately covers his mouth and nose in COMPLETE disgust, looking like he's about to puke and fart at the same time.
Once class is over Edward eventually storms out like a jerk. Obviously, Bella is extremely offended by him acting like she smells like wet beef and follows him to the principle's office. She overhears him trying to change classes so he wouldn't have to be around Bella in class and once he hears it can't be done, he leaves almost angrily???
I'm sorry y'all, but after I saw that scene I couldn't understand who so many people were obsessed with Edward. I know he's hot and I know he's not always rude.....but he is creepy as heck.ππ
Here's the scene if you want proper context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXMUkgWoMlQ
WHY WAS HE STARING LIKE THAT???
HOW WAS BELLA NOT EXTREMELY AFRAID????!! I WOULD'VE EITHER LEFT THE CLASS OR PULLED OUT A DEFENSE ALARM.
I literally laughed so hard at this scene. I showed my mom and she laughed as much as I did..πππ
Because I felt that the scene was very wasn't realistic (to me at least). I made my own version!
Anyway, after the whole smelling incident, Edward literally stops coming to school all together.
- When she would see the Cullen's in the cafeteria: BOOM, no Edward...
- In the hallways: BOOM, no Edward...
He literally just ghosted the whole school. Then one day Edward just randomly comes to school, all happy-go-lucky, acting like he didn't just pull a My Chemical Romance on all his classes. Bella decides to confront him about how him acting like she smelled like hot garbage was offensive and he just acts like ~nothing ever happened at all~....(This happens quite a bit..)
Bella and Edward start to become classmates more and more, eventually becoming familiar friends. One day Edward is talking to Bella, asking her about her life and stuff. Suddenly Bella looks up at him, and his eye color has completely changed????
She asks him if he's wearing contacts and he says "no". To which she replies: "Your eyes were..black the last time I saw you, and now *insert Kristen Stewart lip bite* they're like...golden brown?" Edward literally just responds by saying: "No....it's....the fluorescence..um"AND JUST WALKS AWAYππππ
Poor boy...
A few days later while, Edward is doing his daily stalking of Bella in the parking lot. All of a sudden, one of Bella's friends goes out of control while he's driving and his truck is basically on it's way to hit Bella, BUT BEFORE IT DOES...
EDWARD RUNS OVER AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT AND STOPS THE TRUCK FROM KILLING HER, WITH ππΎ HISππΎ BAREππΎ HANDππΎ.
.......
WHAT????!!!!
DOES BELLA KNOW THAT HE'S A SUPERNATURAL BEING YET?????
After he literally saves her life, he kinda just parkours behind the bushes somewhere while everybody comes to check on Bella and eventually send her to the Dr. Carlisle.
After the accident, Bella finds Edward and goes up to him and asks him what the heck he did back there with his hand, and he kinda just says "Well, no one's gonna believe you so....." This man's mood swings are like a pendulum at this point... And then after Bella thanks him, he just walks away mad again!
As the weeks pass, Bella and her friends make plans to go to "La Push" Beach one day together and Bella decides to invite Edward to go with them. Edward gets very freaked out and kinda just says "no thanks.." and walks away.
Bella and her friends go to the beach without him and while she's there, Bella also sees her old childhood friend, Jacob Black (aka: precious wolf boy.) Jacob belongs to the native Quileute tribe and she decides to ask him why the Cullens don't go to La Push Beach.
Jacob basically tells Bella of an old legend that states the Cullens are actually vampires and that the Quileute people are a dependent of wolves. The Quileute tribe didn't like the Cullens and made some kind of deal on La Push beach a long time ago. Bella starts to believe the story even though Jacob says he doesn't at all.
Bella becomes obsessed with this story and wants to learn more about it. One weekend she goes to a mall plaza with her friends to help them buy prom dresses. While she's there, she ends up sneaking away to a Native American bookstore for more research, saying she'll meet them back for dinner. She finds the book she wants and leaves but at her way back to her friends, she gets harassed by a group of drunk men. While she tries to fight them off, all of a sudden a crazy driving car comes out of NOWHERE and guess who it is?
YOU GUESSED IT! IT'S HOT DRACULA.
Edward basically tells Bella to get in the car, snarls at the group of guys and drives off like he's in a school lane. (aka: faster than a Nascar driver.) Angry and driving like he has nothing to loose, Edward says "I should go back there and rip those guys' heads off..." to where Bella smartly replies, "Uh no....you shouldn't.." I think this is probably my favorite quote...π
Edward tells Bella that she doesn't know the repulsive and vile things they were thinking about her....only problem is....HOW DOES HE KNOW? Bella asks him and Edward just kinda stutters and keeps on driving. Edward drives Bella back to her friends, but by the time they get there her friends already ate and were going home. Edward ends up deciding to treat just Bella to dinner. Bella gets some ravioli and Edward just sits there not ordering anything, so Bella gets even more suspicious. She asks him again how he knew what those guys back there were thinking and he then reveals that he basically has telepathy! He then says that he can read everyone's mind in the restaurant....apart from Bella's.
I don't know what that means but...okay. Good for Bella!
And then Edward says his famous quote that is on every Twilight related Tumblr and Hot Topic shirt ever:
"I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore...."
I am TERRIBLY sorry but, I can't be the only one who thinks that sounds like a threat...right? Maybe I've seen too many Lifetime movies but this sounds like the beginning of a stalker movie...
The quote sounds a lot more romantic when you read it (which Is why I'm ordering the book soon. Maybe it'll help.) But to hear someone say this verbally is.. *shivers*
Like, PLEASE......GAIN THE STRENGTH.
After he says that, he and Bella kind of just stare at each other longingly for a few seconds before they cut to the both of them back in Edward's car. Edward turns the heater on for Bella, but after a while the car gets warm enough for Bella and he tries to turn the heat off. Edward ends up turning the heater off for her, making their hands touch.
It's suddenly then that Bella realizes...❄️his hands are as cold as a doctor's office.❄️ Now, I know a lot of people who get cold easily, but they're definitely not vampires. Maybe Edward just has Anemia, idk. A lot more action packed stuff happens after that, but I'm gonna skip forward and get to the ✨juicy details✨. (if you want a real summary go to sparknotes.com)
That night Bella goes on Google and spends the whole night googling the history and facts about vampires, until ALL of the descriptions literally match Edward perfectly! The next day Bella goes to school terrified and slightly concerned and walks away into the woods. Edward (because he's always watching) sees her walking away and follows her.
Bella stops knowing that he's behind her and names all of the vampire descriptions that fit him and his weird behavior. She then asks him how old he is and he says 17. "How long have you been 17?" Bella asks scared and he just says "a while...." (why is that so funny so me???)
Edward comes up even closer behind her and keeps telling her to say what he is, over and over again out-loud so she can let is ~sink in~. She finally says "a vampire..." and Edward asks her if she's afraid.....AND SHE SAYS NO....
Now, I wouldn't be afraid either if Edward wasn't talking about ripping people's heads off and stuff!!! I don't know, he gives off too much of a Yandere vibe for me to trust him like that. He then asks her "Then ask me the most basic question. What do we eat?" Bella then suddenly realizes that Edward won't hurt her and that's why he's been so careful and around her.
He then suddenly grabs her arm to take her up to the hill in the meadow so she can see what happens to him in the sunlight (the answer may surprise you) and to quickly take her up there, he throws her on is back and RUNS UP THE HILL LIKE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG.
DONT BELIVE ME? LOOK:
I'M CRYING.
I CAN'T WITH THIS!!!!!
I'm so glad other people also find this scene funny.
Anyway, finally Edward brings Bella to the top hill so she can see what he looks like in the sunlight. Now, due to mythology, most people know what happens to vampires when they go into the sun, they burn up RIGHT?
WRONG, apparently.....
When Edward goes into the sun.....✨he sparkles✨....like a diamond..
WHY?
I have no clue...
Maybe it's because.....you know what....I don't wanna know.
Tbh, it's kind of beautiful...But still confusing and extremely funny.
He then does this whole speech while jumping through the trees like a leamer on how all the Cullen's only eat animal meat and have trained themselves to resist human blood, but for some reason Bella's "amazing scent" keeps making him want to completely go Rambo style on everybody??!!
Bella then says that she's not afraid of Edward anymore...but is afraid of losing him~ (even though it feels like they've only known each other for a few days...)
Edward then says his other famous quote: "You don't know how long I've waited for you..."
...Que????
Hasn't it been like...a month now of them knowing each other? I know Edwards is like 180 years old but how long has he known of her existence????...you know what, I'm trying to make too much sense of this. The movie is supposed to be Moody, romantic, cozy and (my favorite words)~Aesthetically Pleasing.~ It's not supposed to be logical.
He also says: "So, the lion fell in love with the lamb..." (personally my favorite quote.) and Bella replies: "What a stupid lamb..." π
For the rest of the day, Bella and Edward just spend time together siting in the woods, talking, laughing but most importantly, Laying in the glass and staring longingly into each others faces without saying a single word... Ya'll know, how you do in the middle of a school day? I can't understand how Bella can be so awkward but can maintain FULL eye contact with a vampire.
Well, that was my Twilight review! It was long as heck but so is this movie so please forgive me.
Edit: The last thing I want to say is that I'm obviously writing this after seeing the movie, but I’m also writing this review while I’m reading the book, and I will tell you right now…
go. read. the. book.
I’m not even joking, go read it!
I know that it’s kind of taboo for me to watch the movie first and then read the book but honestly it was a lot more worth it to see the movie, be slightly weirded out and disappointed and then to read the book and really see how good the story is. Also by seeing the movie first, I got to visualize everything a lot more to what the town of Forks looked like, the weather and what Bella’s school was like. The book is also filled with stuff that wasn’t in the movie that they probably couldn’t fit in because of timing.
I am now finding by reading it, that I relate to Bella WAYYYY too much. We even share the same enneagram!: "Bella Swan definitely has many of the elements of type fours." That explains why she's so moody all the time.
Obviously the characters would be slightly different in the book than they were portrayed in the movie.
For example:
Edward in the book is portrayed more like the popular, witty and slightly annoying crush that everyone has at least once in their life. You know, The type of guy who teases you and makes you want to slap them but at the same time you’re a head over heels for? Maybe just me… Also, He was A LOT less creepy and obsessive than he was in the film, THANK GOD. (No offense, Robert Pattinson.) He's really sweet in the book, please read it!
Jacob is portrayed a lot younger than he is in the film (about 14-15) and Bella shows more interest in him that she really does with Edward in the first couple of chapters. I’m still reading to know what happens with him but Bella definitely does like him. He’s literally so precious in
the book, I can’t! π
Overall, I give the movie an: 8/10 Very unique movie. Would watch again for some woodsy fall vibes, some laughs and outfit inspiration but it was very weird.
And the book, so far, a 10/10! Great imagery, page turner, beautiful wording, romance for days, best when read during a rainstorm.
π€After watching the film, I can definitely say that I will be dressing like Bella Swan for the whole month of October....and I might do a lookbook soon....π€
I really hope you enjoyed this post that literally took my like 2 weeks to write, edit and post! Whew!
WEAR A MASK,
Wash your hands,
Love, Black Bella Swan
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