“Eclipse” Exciting Novel

In light of the epic success of “New Moon,” fans are anxious to know if the new sequel next summer “Eclipse” will be as exciting as “Twilight” and “New Moon.” In order to know that, we’ll have to wait until next summer for the release of the motion picture. However, we can take a look at the novel that precedes the release and this week that’s what we attempt to do.

Little Brown Books says the following, “The third episode of Meyer’s vampire-romance series finds heroine Bella Swan anxious to become a vampire and live forever with handsome vampire Edward. Obstacles arise when Edward demands marriage and werewolf Jacob declares his love for Bella. Eventually, the Cullen vampires and the Quileute werewolves unite to face off against a pack of uncontrollable vampires seeking revenge on Bella. Kadushin portrays kindly Edward in soft, warm tones and voices teenager Jacob in more brash, edgy speech patterns. She captures Bella’s uncertainty as she wavers between her love for Edward and her intrigue with Jacob. Kadushin’s performance is particularly stellar in passages where Bella is cold and her words come out in a chattering fashion or when she is upset, causing her to sob and hiccup.”

However, when I sank my teeth into this vampire tale, I tried to put out of my mind what the publisher was telling me about the book. I also tried to put myself in a young person’s mind, the way they see the films and the love they have for this book. Again the author Stephenie Meyer reaches the height of excitement while also giving such broad and incredible background to each of her well fleshed out characters. No pun intended.

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Taylor Lautner — Action Star!

TAYLOR Lautner is set to be an action star — he’s been lined up to play the lead in upcoming movie Max Steel.

The flick, which will be produced by Joe Roth, is about a 19-year-old extreme sports junkie recruited by a secret agency after an accident infects his body, leaving him with superhuman powers, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily.

Taylor, 17, recently admitted he was unprepared for the level of fame afforded to him buy the Twilight film franchise.

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New TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Hi-Res One Sheet

(from Geektyrant.com) Check out the NEW Twilight Saga: Eclipse Hi-Res One Sheet! Rejoice little girls and glittering/sparkling vampire boys!

In Eclipse, which is slated for a June 30th, 2010 release, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

Big Vampire Love: What’s So Mormon about Twilight?

Chastity is hot. At least it is for many of the millions of Twilight fans, eagerly devouring the saga in book form and onscreen. The newest cinematic installment, based on the second book New Moon, opened just before Thanksgiving and is raking in millions.

In the capable hands of author, mother, and BYU alum Stephenie Meyer, chastity is charged with sexual excitement. In the first book the two main characters, Bella (the human) and Edward (the vampire), lurch back forth on her bed, in the forest, at school; they stare into each other’s pining eyes, wanting nothing more than to embrace one another in their eternal teen crush. And the temptations persist.

But herein lies the problem.

As a vampire, Edward’s desire to consume his human love verges on the literal: a brush too close or a kiss that lingers too long could override his better judgment and trigger his animal thirst for sex/blood! Bella, meanwhile, waffles between self-assured maturity and complete helplessness at the hands of one of most sentimental boy crushes of recent literature. Yet the stakes for her are much higher. As critics have pointed out, sex would mean death for the suffering heroine, but not for the stunning male lead, already locked into immortality. Even without the vampires, it’s surely enough to strike terror into the hearts of parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and feminists everywhere.

It has become commonplace to underscore Meyer’s Mormon background and thus, naturally, her promotion of chastity in Twilight—in The Atlantic, for example, Caitlin Flanagan tied Meyer’s Mormon faith to the “erotics of abstinence” portrayed in the novels. But is this new, sexy approach to chastity and moral purity the only Mormon manifestation to be found here?

Bella and Edward’s Eternal En-sealment

The Twilight saga reproduces elements of this theology through the language of eternity that echoes through Edward and Bella’s relationship. Early on in the third volume, Eclipse, for instance, Bella muses over how to describe Edward:

“The word boyfriend had me chewing on the inside of my cheek with a familiar tension,” she worried. “It wasn’t the right word at all, not at all,” she searched: “I needed something more expressive of eternal commitment.”

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Feminism, Twilight and the End of the World

“Today I did a persuasive speech in my speech class on why everyone should be on Team Jacob instead of Team Edward, complete with pictures making my case. MLIT.” –From MyLifeIsTwilight.com

So, my title might be a bit over the top. Maybe. But the point that I want to stress in this article (and I want to thank a certain Government professor for showing me a lot of what I am going to say) is that it’s close enough to being true that it’s terrifying. Normally, I’m not one to be worried about the “corrupting influence of media on our youth,” and that nonsense—but the problem with Twilight is that the cultural messages that it transmits are bad enough that even if a tiny percentage of them get through, we’re all in trouble. The cultural and social values that the films promote are so regressive that they would make people in Victorian London stand up and angrily defend the rights of women and minorities.

The films center on a protagonist, Bella, who is so incredibly devoid of personality that every tween girl can see themselves in her: as a friend of mine pointed out, for example, a girl would drop her pencil and say “I’m clumsy, just like Bella!” This is why websites like “MyLifeIsTwilight.com” exist, because Bella is nothing—and consequently, everyone is Bella.

Bella is depressed. That is her entire character. She has no redeeming feature, no personality characteristic that makes her in any way interesting: in fact, her identity is defined completely by the men who pursue her.

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Kristen Stewart: New Photos Movie, ‘Welcome To The Rileys,’ Emerge

While Robert Pattinson has moved on to Emile de Ravin in his newest film “Remember Me,” Kristen Stewart has found herself a new Edward Cullen in the rotund form of James Gandolfini. The Sundance submission “Welcome to the Rileys” stars KStew in her most un-Bella role yet. That’s right, the doe-eyed girl who falls in love with the supernatural has turned those eyes into the seductive, knowing ones of a stripper.

A whole slew of photos emerged yesterday as Sundance announced their 2010 line-up earlier in the week. Though four of the five photos center around Kristen’s character Mallory (probably because she’s the biggest draw to the project considering “New Moon’s” record-breaking success), though arguably Gandolfini’s character Doug Riley is the film’s main character.

Mallory is a 16-year-old stripper who agrees to Doug’s proposition of being paid $100 a day for him to stay at her apartment in Baton Rouge and get his head together (read: no sex, no strings, no problem). Doug is struggling to cope with the death of his daughter eight years before, and begins to try to turn Mallory into his surrogate daughter. When Doug’s wife Lois (Melissa Leo) follows her husband south and completes the picture, Mallory rebels against them as teenagers are wont to do.

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What do you think about today’s Twilight News? Are you excited for Taylor Lautner and his new action role? Do you like the new movie poster for Eclipse? Will you see Kirsten Stewart’s new movie “Welcome to the Riley’s”?