Twilight

Directors for the Harry Potter films, take note: Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books have thus far made it into movie form with few significant changes–and they work.

New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz of American Pie fame and scripted by Melissa Rosenberg, follows the plot of Meyer’s best-selling novel with few divergences. The action is, of course, ramped up a little bit, with Felix and Demetri getting to do a bit more than the knuckle-cracking the novel restricts them to. Bella’s “hallucinations” are visual instead of primarily auditory. Small changes were made to the order and reason for certain events, such as Bella’s discovery of Jacob’s secret identity and Harry Clearwater’s heart attack, and the zombie theme was largely passed over. The most frustrating change for me to watch came when Carlisle merely thanked Bella for her affirmation, instead of explaining what he really believes about the eternal damnation of vampires.

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