Yesterday, finally , Twilight, the movie came out on thousands of theaters around the world. I was expecting the movie since I finished reading the book. A part of me was dying to see it, the other part wasn’t, because I didn’t want to see the book destroyed into a movie. Anyway I bought tickets for the premier at midnight.
What I liked about the movie was that it is faithful to the book. They keep the essence of it. They didn’t take out something that was vital on the book. Our favorite quotes are there, all the characters, the most important sequences and our favorite love scenes from the book. I felt that Bella wasn’t that important in the movie as She is in the book. I mean She is still the protagonist of the movie along with Edward, but I felt that something was missing about her. May be it was the fact the book was supposedly written by her, and so, there’s more detail about what’s going on in her mind and heart than in the movie… But for the movie, I think is great what they did. As one of my favorites quotes says: “Movies are a shop window of human emotions” There’s a lot of emotions captured in the film.
I think many girls will love the movie because of the fake idea the director tries to implant on the girls mind; which is the “Idea of the perfect new millennium prince”. Men like Edward are not likely to exists in this new real world (except for me, perhaps..hahaha) . I would go more for the existence of women like Bella, that even with flaws, it is the closet thing to perfection. The Love story between Edward and Bella is taken to different levels, depending upon the reader. In the movie, it just makes you dream to find this kind of love and makes you wish you do find it…. Well...The book is way better than the movie. It gives you the freedom to imagine the story as you please. The movie does a great job capturing Edwards and Bella’s love story, the book takes it beyond.
I can’t wait to see the following books taken to the big screen.
One of my friends gave me a book by James Joyce for my Birthday. I was reading the Twilight Series at that moment so I save this reading for when I was done with the vampire books. First, I have to admit it was hard for me to start reading non-fiction after having read tons of pages about fiction. In some way I missed reading about the vampire love and about Bellas life. So , when my friend gave me this book titled “ a Portrait of the Artist as a young man” , she told me she wanted me to keep writing as I used to do and She hoped this book inspired me and opened new horizons for me. The thing was, the thing is that I never stopped writing. What happens is that I don’t write as much as I used to due to lack of time… This book is really different to what I had read before. It is an “almost Autobiography” of the author.
There’s almost not dialogue in the book, it is just descriptions of a third person…it keeps changing in the same page. Once You are reading something, that suddenly changes to an imaginative situation and then it goes back to reality. There are points in the novel where You don’t know if what You are reading is actually happening or it is just another thought of the main character. There’s a game of words well managed by the author. The words are complex and so is the structure.
I can’t tell if I like it or not. I can just write it is different form what I read and that may be in the future I will use that style on my writings.
Stylistically, the novel is written as a third-person narrative with minimal dialogue, though towards the very end of the book dialogue-intensive scenes and finally journal entries by Stephen are introduced to mirror his alienation from society. Since the work covers Stephen's life from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandoning of Ireland as a young man, the style of the work progresses through each of its five chapters, with the complexity of language gradually increasing. However, throughout the work, language and prose are used to portray indirectly the state of mind of the protagonist, and the subjective impact of the events of his life. Hence the fungible length of some scenes and chapters, where Joyce's intent was to capture the subjective experience through language, rather than to present the actual experience through prose narrative.
What I like about the book is that it describes the process of a kid turning into an artist, the process of how the writer turned into the recognized writer He became. Also it touches the theme of religion; how strong it can be in people’s minds. How for fear of your soul going to hell, you keep yourself from doing certain things that in most cases are not even bad actions…. And now…I’m going to start reading a novel title “ Stone Heart” Fantasy, which I’m madly in love in.
I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn, the last installment in the vampire love series. It is the longest of the four books and I would even dare to say it is the best one.
We’ve been wondering since the ending of the first book if Bella is to turn into a vampire…Well…you’ll find the answer in this one. I remember that before this book came out in Mexico, they had a trailer on the website. There, you could see a woman dressed as a bride, while She was walking, You could hear a glass breaking into pieces and then a baby crying… When I saw It, a lot of ideas came to my mind…I was sure she was going to get married with Edward in this book. They had been talking of marriage since the beginning of the third book….but what about the baby cry? Vampires can not have babies. The thing is, that when they turn into a vampire, they body “freezes ” in that state and it is not able to change anymore…so A vampire can not grow a baby inside her because Her body can not change anymore…But what about a human having a vampires child?...
The book is really good from beginning to end. We’ve followed the love story of Edward and Bella since they first met and now reading the wedding and the honey moon just makes it better. Edward promised Bella that He would turn her into a vampire if she married him, and She did. Now He has to fulfill his promise, but things are about to get complicated when She gets pregnant with a baby that is growing faster than normal babies does…
The book, as the others is cleverly written. The book is divided in 3 parts. Two of them written by Bella and the other is written by Jacob…That makes it even more interesting, because You read two different points of view. Jacob starts writing his story beginning from the moment He sees Bella pregnant and weak, lying on a couch. I didn’t like Jacob that much, but when reading how much he suffered from not having Bella with him made me like him a little bit more. I like the fact that the book touches not only carnal love, but mother’s love and friends love…How different they are but at the same time how strong they all can be…
It makes me sad that this was the end of the Story. I’ve been reading this books since my last semester of college started and the story became a part of me. I felt like the story was real and when I read the ending: something like “ We were ready for our happy eternity”, made me thing that vampire story would be on my mind for eternity…It was different from what I had read about vampires before and made me wonder a lot of things related to the story. (Things I’ll write about in another post) when You live forever, What do you live for?
Now, I tried to think what the titles of the books meant in relation to the stories and here’s my theory:
Twilight: 1. The subdued light just after sunset or, in less common usage, just before sunrise 2. the period from sunset to dark any growing darkness a condition or period of gradual decline following full development, achievement, glory, etc.
I think that in the first story she used twilight to refer to the change that there was going to be in Bella an Edwards life’s. They were about to change drastically for good , but at the same time, they would have to front a lot of trouble.
New moon: In this one, a new moon represents the end of the moon cycle. That part of the story represented a change in Bella’s life, and the beginning of a new cycle or new life?
Eclipse: the sun passes over the moon or vice versa. I think that in this case the day turned into darkness for Edward and Bella. Breaking dawn: this one is easy…after the night, there’s the light of a new sun.
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella’s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella’s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It’s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next.
REMEMBER THE TWILIGHT MOVIE COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY!
We finished elementary school. Depending on how fast you mature, you started realizing how complicated life can be, and at the same time, started experiencing the new pleasures it offers. Math get more complicated. Square roots? Square numbers? X, Y, Z? During our whole elementary school we thought they were letters, they never mentioned us the little detail that they can be numbers. Biology? During or early years we had thought babies were delivered by a big white bird from Paris, then they told us the story about mom’s and dad’s seed. ( In my case, They told me that when a woman wanted to get pregnant She told God and God would implant a seed in the woman’s stomach and that seed would grow a baby during 9 months….incredible, uh?)
With the new biology class at Junior High school We learned that babies are made in a really different way…Back then, We boys weren’t that interested in girls, and girls weren’t that interested in we, boys… and suddenly, if it weren’t enough with all the complicated things We had to learn at school (Damn sins and cos!), and that our bodies were changing growing hair where we didn’t know it could grow, We realized we nor only like the opposite sexy, but We started caring for them more than usual…We discovered the “heartaches” (And we started wishing we could be kids forever where there were no such things) Friendship no longer included inviting our friends to our houses to play, but to hang out, play video games, and girls started gossiping ( haha..no offense!) Some started having dates, having their kisses, getting heart-breaks…But well…In my opinion, one can not fall in love at that age…I guess it is just a love-illusions…You are crying one day because you broke up and then the next day you are dating another girl as if nothing had happened…
Some mature faster than others. In my case it took me a while. Almost all of my friends were feeling “grown-ups” while I was still playing with toys. My transition to puberty was Britney Spears. I turned on MTV one day and saw this fantastic school girl singing Baby one more time…it was love at first sight. Since then, I’ve been a number one fan.
I didn’t like Junior High School that much, but I have a couple of great memories from it. When I was on 3rd year I just couldn’t wait to start High School. I had been since kinder Garden in the same School and High school would be my change. My time to change and my time to meet many different new people and live one of the best times of my life…
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been very busy and not inspired at all. I’m about to finish college, so You can imagine how that keeps me busy by doing boring projects, useless essays and studying for my last exams. I won’t even have time to finish my fourth book this year. That’s why I postponed it until next spring. But The fact of me finishing college gave me the idea to start a series of essays about the “School life”. I’m going to keep with the ones about the international life, but I want to finish these before I graduate next December 8th. Here goes the first one, it is about Kinder Garden and Elementary School. I think the part of our “student” life that We less remember is the Kinder Garden. I have a few memories from it and all of them are really Happy. I wouldn’t even consider it part of the student life because we don’t’ really study. We basically learned everything in the classroom. But We can’t deny those early years of our life are really happy. We all were really happy. Nothing could worry us. We believed in fantastic things. Specially me, I would believe everything they told me. I believed in magic ( I believe in magic…oh …oh) If We think in those 3 years of kinder garden They seemed like they happened in a blink of an eye…I remember I didn't like my Kinder Garden because I wanted to be where my mom worked. She used to be a kinder Garden teacher and I would cried for her to be my teacher.
Then we move to Elementary school. Back Then We would think it was really difficult, and it was…multiplications, divisions...We were only kids. Why would we have to deal with all that? (Later on we would know why). During the elementary years we are still very innocent. I remember I would even like to go to school during those years. I loved school, I just didn’t like the homework and sometimes I kept wondering who had invented the school? To be honest my only worry was to not be kicked out of the school… Junior High school seemed like the next step but at the same time It seemed so far away… High school? Centuries away and College? I wouldn’t even think about it… It was the time of games and playing from which I have so many good memories… Parties would start at 4 pm and end at 8pm…Life was just staring and getting us ready for what was next; a series of changes, discoveries and life complications…Junior high School…
Due to lack of time to write I’ve been force to move “Joe and the Sleeping City” to a Spring 2009 release. You won’t be disappointed, the book is really good. I’m even proud of myself. I waited many years to write it and all the ideas that were in my mind for this one are finally being developed. I really can’t wait to see this one turned into a movie. It is going to rock.
“The city awakes Spring 2009” Followed by Joe and The Magic Mythology What once was is about to be again…” December 2010”
I'm just me...I love to write, to watch movies and to film movies. I've written 3 books and I have ideas for many films and novels.
"Films are a shop window of human emotions"
