By THR staff. Stephenie Meyer just released a surprising new novel, Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined , that swaps all of the genders in Twilight. Throughout the beginning of the new storyline she adjusts a few scenes that stray from the original book. However, in the final chapters, everything changes.
Warning: spoilers below. The biggest shift occurs when Beau is bit by the vampire Joss. In the original novel, Bella is bitten by James but Edward sucks the venom out of her and she survives, continuing on as a human until the final book in the Twilight series, where she must turn into a vampire to save her own life after giving birth to a half vampire-half human baby.
Edythe tells Beau he can choose whether he wants to transform into a vampire or just die a normal human death. The strength in this last installment, which received better reviews than any of the previous movies, is its artistic choices in changing the novel into screenplay. The choice of shots conveys her thoughts without lingering too long on her. The dialogue of this final film is surprisingly scattered with funny moments. Wanting to protect her and avoid being executed by the Volturi , the Cullens gather their vampire friends from all over the world to and stand in battle against the Volturi.
Dozens of new international characters with varying, interesting gifts are added to the story. Though their powers seem to be that of superheroes rather than of vampires control of electricity, the natural elements, mind control, etc. The context was crucial, because you have to understand Twilight has already taken some truly wild swings before you reach the end of Breaking Dawn - Part 1, but you're on board.
You've made it through the awkward Bryce Dallas Howard switcheroo, that one guy casually admitting he was in the Confederate army, and the most overtly problematic aspects of Jacob's emotional manipulation, and are still like, " hell yeah let's finish the saga. The film keeps its PG rating by only letting you hear awful tearing sounds and screaming, which is inarguably worse. It's a lot. You are already drained, thinking that in a grand act of irony this franchise has flown too close to the sun, when Jacob walks into a room and locks eyes with baby Renesmee—rendered in CGI with what appears to be the same technology used for 's TRON —and "imprints" upon the newborn.
There's really no other way to describe the concept of imprinting other than to say he marked his territory. Imprinting is the involuntary bodily reaction the werewolves of Twilight experience upon discovering their soulmate, something that sounded classically romantic, like something off a paperback cover, for four straight movies until you watch it happen between an extremely buff adult and a baby; until you hear Taylor Lautner make a pained " buhwhaa " sound and fall to the ground because of the sheer amorous connection between he and this tiny CG tater tot.
The Twilight saga never recovers from this. It shatters your connection to the material. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 tries to casually leap back onto the rails, to ensure the audience "it's not like that," but it's so very clearly like that. It's the only franchise finale in history that introduces a dozen new characters, just to have them stand around for 45 full minutes yelling "the stuff that happened with the baby isn't that weird!
This man really said, "I'm a werewolf who runs through the woods, I know a little something about grooming. But it's also just This isn't new discourse; I'm not claiming to have discovered something weird and problematic about the Twilight franchise ten years after it ended.
It just speaks to the way some stories become monolithic, how it's easy to believe you understand a franchise because of EW covers and secondhand Letterboxd reviews. But you gotta' experience these things. I absolutely thought I knew Twilight.
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