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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Eclipse Shines Over Hollywood!

The fans of vampires in India had to wait a little more than their foreign counterparts for the release of the Twilight saga Eclipse. As the Indian Twilight fans are ready to swarm into the theatres, here is a glimpse of what they can expect in the silver screen.

Plot
It is only common that a movie adaptation of a novel won’t satisfy the expectations of a reader. However Melissa Rosenberg has done a good job in script writing as she had depicted Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse with utmost justice.

The movie begins with the young man named Riley from Forks attacked by mysterious forces on his way back to home. The movie then concentrates back to the never ending romance between the vampire hero Edward and Bella. However, this time the romance is interrupted by Jacob Black with whom Bella had shared a close bond during Edward’s absence.

As the movie progresses Bella dangles between her love towards Edward and Jacob’s forced attempts to win her back. During these confusions, Bella graduates and her graduation party is interrupted by Alice’s (Edward’s sister and a Vampire) vision on an oncoming attack from an army of newborn Vampires.

A war evolves round Bella, as Edward and his family of vampires and Jacob’s pack of werewolves prepares to protect her. In the meanwhile Rosalie and Jasper narrate their human lives to Bella and how painful it is to live as vampires. It becomes clear to Bella through a dream vision that Victoria is behind the attacks and she has turned Riley into a vampire.

Victoria lures Riley to lead an army of vampires to Forks in an attempt to eradicate Bella and the Cullens. The war turns out in favor of Cullens and werewolves. Victoria and Riley locate Bella and Edward at the hilltop only to get killed by Edward.

Jacob gets hurt during the war and he realizes that Bella will never accept him as her life mate. The movie ends with Bella and Edward in the romantic scenario.

Plus
• Xavier Samuel comes as promise through his role as Riley in the movie.

• The dialogues rendered between Edward and Jacob has already moved the readers. In the movie depiction, the viewers are drawn to abandon allies for each of them and convinced of their love toward Bella through that two-minute conversation.

• The choreography and soundtrack are excellent to give the full effect for the movie.

Drawbacks
• It is sad to watch that an actor like Robert Pattinson doesn’t have much to do in the movie due to his limited role.

• Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have done a comparatively good job, though viewers expect much more from them.

• I couldn’t help laughing when Bella urges Jacob to kiss her and later turn to face Edward. I just wondered how the character has twisted from the helpless lover into a modern girl who turns her love into a weapon to control a werewolf!

• Bryce Dallas Howard’s replacement of Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria fails at many times. Bryce somehow couldn’t bring the cold expression of a vampire onto her manners.

There is no doubt that the movie will entertain not only the Twilight fans but others who love adventurous romance. I would strongly suggest a bite from this movie....

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