“but dying in a place of someone I loved, seemed like a good way to go….”

Are these words of a courageous young woman or what? It can happen. Even words like courageous, passionate, inquisitive and daring can describe a girl. I read the books and now I’ve seen the film. On paper, Edward is more raw, more vamp like, whereas Pattinson portrays a knight in shiny darkness; he is elegant, classy and oh, so sexiiii! Yes, that is him playing the piano. A lot of the Edward I like (and many will agree) comes from Pattinson, who is obviously an excellent actor.

In an interview Pattinson confides:

“There’s something about his character that has a very, he has this kind of quiet confidence about him, well, the way I was doing it, anyway and that really translates into my real life.”

I don’t think the Twilight frenzy is going to break him; I think he’ll be around for quite a while and I can’t wait to see him in Little Ashes, where Pattinson plays Salvador Dali.

The deep and pensive facial expressions, playful smirks and the sweet, only for your eyes Bella, way the hundred and eighty year old killer smiles in the film are not all too foreign to the messy haired, twenty-two year old actor/musician Robert Pattinson, who seems like an intelligent guy, taking things all in stride. Count Dracula would be proud. I didn’t see his fangs very clearly, but I wonder if they’re bigger than mine…Meow!

For the three people who have been sleeping under a rock these past few months, Twilight is a story of Bella, a young, deeply passionate, teen aged human girl and a not so young, if not even more passionate, (am) seventeen year old vampire boy, Edward. The two meet, greet and fall in love. They fight the odds to stay together. There are both good and bad vampires in the mix, all gorgeous (because ugly vamps :P don’t sell movie tickets) and there’s a number of decent human souls as well. To my surprise, however young or old the cast may have been, they all delivered fine performances.

I must, however, give mucho kudos to what I liked best about Twilight – direction. The cold, dark, vet, yet pristine nature of Oregon makes for a perfect Forks, Washington. Catherine Hardwicke rules! I want to hug her, kiss her, make her dinner and have her scratch me behind the ears to make me purr! Yes, Stephenie Meyer’s books are great, and Melissa Rosenberg does a great transplant from book to film, but Hardwicke is what made the film for me. It’s as if she slowed down the speed, it’s as if she dared to bathe the film in sepia and there were moments when the actors almost looked like they could hang with Bella Lugosi. Clearly, make up agrees with all the vampy cast. The action is great, the inaction if even greater and combined with a fabulous soundtrack, Twilight is absolutely kickerz! From Debussy to Muse, Paramore, Linkin Park and more, with even Monsieur Vampire himself, Rob Pattinson’s, contributing a blues. Hardwick put a lot of thought into blocking. Bella and Edward’s bodies, eyes and even breath seem to be waltzing throughout the film. The two are magnetic together.

Some say Twilight is the poster child film for teen abstinence. Some go as far as labeling the genre abstinence porn. I say: get a dark side, folks! This is a vampire. He doesn’t want to get into her pants, he wants to get into her veins! Out of respect for Bella, her courage and her acceptance of who he is, Edward fights his urges to do what comes naturally to him, yet, when Edward must suck Bella’s blood to save her life, he is not practicing abstinence, he is indulging in pure passion! He plunges in, piercing her flesh with his wanting fangs, looking into her eyes, sucks away with all his might, like he never sucked before, almost unable to stop. For Edward the moment is great sex. He was longing for a little red and got it. Everything that happened before that was only foreplay.

Kristen Stewart … Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson … Edward Cullen
Billy Burke … Charlie Swan
Ashley Greene … Alice Cullen
Nikki Reed … Rosalie Hale
Jackson Rathbone … Jasper Hale
Kellan Lutz … Emmet Cullen
Peter Facinelli … Dr. Carlisle Cullen
Cam Gigandet … James
Taylor Lautner … Jacob Black
Anna Kendrick … Jessica Stanley
Michael Welch … Mike Newton
Christian Serratos … Angela Weber
Gil Birmingham … Billy Black
Elizabeth Reaser … Esme Cullen

Twilight is a beautiful, passionate, very well written, well cast and wonderfully directed story. Part deux is already in production. I’m not happy that Hardwick is out for the sequel. Bad timing is rumored to the reason. Perhaps a bigger incentive would help deal her back in? Cachink!

Needless to say, I love it! I give it my highest rating: QUATRO CHINNY BINI PAWS!