Sunday, December 6, 2009

I watched New Moon today...again!

I can't say there is a Twilight vs. New Moon matter at all...i just want to compare the two movies. In my opinion, the first significant difference comes from the fact that the directors of the movies are two different people. Both the directors put their own style of movie-making into the movies and i think it definitely shows. I feel that Catherine Hardwicke (the director of Twilight) has better ability to capture and recreate the story just the way Stephenie Meyer wrote it because she is a woman too. Not that i underestimate man directors, it's just that here the story was written by a woman and a woman director seems like the natural choice. Catherine also picked an amazing cast for her movie which, of course, gave a great head-start to the second one and the upcoming parts. I also felt, now that i've seen New moon, that in Twilight the scenes were smoothly transitioning into one another...which is not something i could say for New moon the first time i saw it. Now that i've seen it twice, i could say it gets better. As for the choice of soundtracks...well, Twilight wins the price!
Chris Weitz(the director of New moon):
In my opinion he put his effort mostly in the action scenes and the effects which is great because the story's practically begging for it :) I really liked the way the werewolves were made...simply perfect! Maybe, i liked Jacob's acting the most. He is a natural at it. However, i feel there was a downgrade in Bella and Edward's acting. In some part they were amazing, but in others they were over-doing it. In my opinion it is the director's job to point those mistakes to the actors and correct them when necessary. I know this is how Catherine would've done it if she was still the director of the movie, because i've read the "Twilight director's notebook" and i've seen how she has a clear vision of exactly how she wants the actors to play a certain part, and she doesn't quit until it happens her way :) By the way i recommend this book. It's really nice to sneak behind the scenes.
Vamp kisses

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