Latest scary Twilight trend—Bella now top baby name
The singles scene a decade or so from now is going to end up like something ripped from the pages of one of Stephenie Meyer's novels, according to information released today by the Social Security Administration. It turns out that Twilight -related names are at the top of the lists for most popular boy and girl baby names.
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Who do you think is the most interesting character in the Twilight Saga? Like Alice because of her visions, Edward because of his ability to read minds, Carlisle cause of his leadership, or anyone else.
Twilight the movie became one of the year 2008’s most anticipated movies. Since the Harry Potter franchise, never before has a book to movie adaptation made a killing in the box office. The 2008 movie is an adaptation of a novel released in 2005 by Stephenie Meyer. The movie, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, as in the book, follows the life of Isabella “Bella” Swan (played by Kristen Stewart), an ordinary teenager girl, and the eventual love story between her and a vampire, Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson)
Twilight the movie took 44 days to film. By May 2, 2008, the film was done. Hardwicke, who debuted in filmmaking via the art house teenage drama thirteen, worked with hand-held cameras to maintain a “real” feel of the film. During filming, the cast members who played vampire roles were asked to refrain from exposing themselves to sunlight so that they would look pale and appear credible as vampires. Golden and black contact lenses were also furnished for the vampire cast to maintain the “look” as described by the book. Lastly, aside from the usual line and script-reading rehearsals, sessions with a dance choreographer were also done to make sure the actors who played vampires moved in a feline manner as what was described in the book.
Now, a personal note to all you Twilighters out there - send each other an e-card for whatever reason you want - there're free to send!
A Little more info about one of our favorite author's Stephenie Meyer books.
All you Twilight fans know that Stephenie Meyer is best known for the vampire romance novel Twilight and has since then wrote sequels to it. Altogether, over 42 million Twilight series novels have been sold all over the world and the books have been translated to 37 languages. The first two books of the Twilight series, Twilight and New Moon have been adapted into film, with the first movie’s success rivaling the novels. Meyer has received numerous accolades, including USA Today's "Author of the Year" in 2008 and an inclusion to the Forbes Magazine’s 100 most powerful celebrities, among others. Her earnings for 2008 alone have been calculated to exceed $50 million.
Aside from Twilight, Stephenie Meyer books include the other books in the series, New Moon (published in 2006), Eclipse (published in 2007), and Breaking Dawn (published in 2008). She also authored a story in the collection Prom Nights from Hell. In May 2008, a sci-fi novel The Host, was released, written by Meyer. The Host lasted for 26 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and debuting at number 1.
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At the start of Twilight we see that 17 year old Bella Swan has moved to dreary, rainy Forks from bright, sunny Arizona. Mainly because she wanted her mother to have some time to move around with her new husband, Phil who travels a lot due to his profession as a baseball player. Bella's parents divorced when she was only six months old, her mother took her to live in Phoenix, Arizona. Bella does mention not fitting in well at her school in Phoenix and had few friends and no boyfriends.
At Forks High School, she is more sought after by some of the guys, however she sees pale skinned gorgeous Edward Cullen and an attraction develops. Although Bella feels her looks are average and nondescript Edward is also attracted to her. However, she is a 'singer' which means that the scent of her blood is particularly tantalizing to him, so although Edward does not drink human blood, he has an extremely difficult battle with himself to resist her and thus warns her throughout Twilight to keep away from him as he is a danger to her.
Bella is very perceptive and notices the many weird things about Edward that might escape someone less perceptive, Edward sometimes finds this a bit annoying. Even the colour of his eyes which change according to how 'hungry' he is, is noticed by Bella thus she mentions that she thinks he has contact lenses. Another thing that Edward finds strange is that his 'mind reading abilities' don't work on Bella so he never knows what she is thinking and finds this intriguing.
Despite the many difficulties of the human & vampire relationship they manage to fall in love and care very deeply for each other. Even when the sadistic tracker vampire James tricks Bella into being alone with him and then attacks her, indeed managing to bite and infect her with vampire venom, Edward makes the decision to save her and thus manages to exercise extreme control and suck the venom out of her bloodstream without killing her!
I invite more comments on what you think about Bella Swan and what characteristics you like or dislike about her, please leave your comments below.
