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quantumrealitySo let's follow the Bella/Edward Saga now.
Bella's in biology class, and she catches Edward's eye. Oddly, Edward seems to be made physically ill or upset by seeing her, and we get a little slow-mo scene of her stepping towards the only empty seat, which happens to be next to Edward.
Now, it's March, and that means it's already been 6 or 7 months into the school year. THE FACT THAT EDWARD HAS NO LAB PARTNER SHOULD BE RINGING HUGE WARNING BELLS.
If he's that unlikable that nobody's partnered up with him already in any fashion, that would suggest that he's Creepy McCreeperson, not Bella's destined-forever boyfriend.
Now granted, Edward could have been partnering up on a rotating basis if he was the odd person out in a class, but in general, people who get left out like that in school are serious social outcasts.
Mr. Molina gets Bella set up with her textbooks and then announces to the class they'll study planaria which are small flatworms. Rather garden-variety creatures, but they're useful in studying the effects of toxicity. I think I managed to accidentally kill mine by putting too much vinegar on top of it. Poor bugger twitched several times then basically sat still and didn't move.
The subtitles indicate Molina is going on about how to dissect one properly, while Edward and Bella are hesitantly looking at each other, etc. Then BOOM, Edward seems to have had enough of whatever it is, and he up and leaves the class as soon as the bell rings.
I have no idea how or why Bella needs to go to the principal's (or school counsellor's) office, but she does, and she sees Edward trying to transfer into any class so he doesn't have to be near Bella. Unsuccessful, he spits out, "Fine. Just... I'll just have to endure it."
Of course, Bella's not three feet away when he says that with a disgusted face.
Nice work, you asshole. Can you die in a fire, Edward?
Short dinner afterwards with her dad, reminding us that Bella has been to this small town before, and like all small towns it seems, the people there who've lived there all their lives have long memories. The waitress remembers Bella's favorite, berry cobbler. Waylon, the slightly creepy Santa-guy, also remembers Bella from way back.
Switch to Bella in her room, talking to her mom long-distance. The movie has Bella mentioning that her mom's a bit of a flake, and it shows here as she mentions she could end up in Florida, then says her cell phone power cord "ran away".
Bella can't stop thinking about Edward. But at least she wants to do something about it instead of being basically passive as I remember her from the books:
BELLA: I planned to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.
But he doesn't come to school.
Interestingly the movie uses a good visual theme of Bella's psychological sense of isolation, with her leaning alone against her truck while all the people she's met (besides Edward) are crowded around the van next to her.
Her obsession with Edward grows as she narrates trying to get hold of him and seeing no sign of him at school. At least she's still eating lunch in the cafeteria with the same group she met earlier, and not trying to eat with the weird quasi-incestuous stepsiblings.
Then WHAT THE HELL a guy at a place called the Grisham Mill is trying to escape from two people who chase him down and beat him up. WTF????
The thing I like about this movie instead of the book is that its necessarily third-person quasi-omnipresent POV (we can't see what the camera isn't pointed at, but it CAN point anywhere desired) allows us to see events Bella doesn't directly witness, such as these mysterious scenes intercut with what I vaguely recall from the book.
We then switch back to Bella, who slips and falls as she walks out to meet Charlie at the truck. He tells her he had new tires put on it, then mentions the Grisham Mill incident, but attributes it to a "some kind of animal".
What I like is that Charlie and Bella still don't seem to interact smoothly as father and daughter, but the movie (as opposed to the book) seems to show them trying to get to that point.
There's a cute scene where Eric's blabbering about the prom and needing Bella's playlist, and then he's trying to ask her out to it, when Mike comes along and spoils it. If I had a dollar for every teenager that had his or her Momentous Prom Question interrupted by some well-meaning friend I'd be a millionaire. :P
EDWARD'S BAAAAAAAAAACK.
And he's being oddly really nice. He actually tries to smile, and tells Bella he didn't introduce himself last week.
Robert Pattinson actually has kind of a sexy voice. (*is now feeling traitorous and is hitting self with a copy of Mistborn*)
Mr. Molina then mentions the Golden Onion (which honestly made me kind of LOL. Being a teacher in a small town like that probably gets pretty freakin' monotonous).
OH GOD THEY ARE SO AWKWARD AROUND EACH OTHER IT IS PAINFUL.
(But I've got to say, contrariwise, that it's pretty good acting - showing two people who really don't understand why they seem to like each other having to work together on a class project and not really knowing what to do about it)
Also, I seem to recall the book has Edward being a complete shit to Bella even after he gets back from whereever, so I suspect this was a concession made to a viewing audience which isn't going to be too enamored of a guy acting like a jerk for the next two hours of a movie.
Bella and Edward begin to talk more as they look at the slides of different phases of cellular division, and Edward's surprisingly nice and actually kind of endearing as he draws Bella out on why she moved to Forks, WA. The two of them get more comfortable talking as time goes on.
(Robert Pattinson in a T-shirt shows off his chest. *feels traitorous again for liking some of the eye candy in this film*)
Bella and Edward win the Golden Onion, by the way. Nice non-cliche aspect to the movie by having her holding it in the next scene instead of the stereotypical "... and the winner IS..." scene. Though it could be argued that this is more of Bella Sue in the movie, too.
Edward starts saying weird things, like telling Bella she's "hard to read", and making dumb excuses about his changing eye color. Then he abruptly leaves.
Next up, we'll follow Bella as she witnesses Edward's superpowers.
Bella's in biology class, and she catches Edward's eye. Oddly, Edward seems to be made physically ill or upset by seeing her, and we get a little slow-mo scene of her stepping towards the only empty seat, which happens to be next to Edward.
Now, it's March, and that means it's already been 6 or 7 months into the school year. THE FACT THAT EDWARD HAS NO LAB PARTNER SHOULD BE RINGING HUGE WARNING BELLS.
If he's that unlikable that nobody's partnered up with him already in any fashion, that would suggest that he's Creepy McCreeperson, not Bella's destined-forever boyfriend.
Now granted, Edward could have been partnering up on a rotating basis if he was the odd person out in a class, but in general, people who get left out like that in school are serious social outcasts.
Mr. Molina gets Bella set up with her textbooks and then announces to the class they'll study planaria which are small flatworms. Rather garden-variety creatures, but they're useful in studying the effects of toxicity. I think I managed to accidentally kill mine by putting too much vinegar on top of it. Poor bugger twitched several times then basically sat still and didn't move.
The subtitles indicate Molina is going on about how to dissect one properly, while Edward and Bella are hesitantly looking at each other, etc. Then BOOM, Edward seems to have had enough of whatever it is, and he up and leaves the class as soon as the bell rings.
I have no idea how or why Bella needs to go to the principal's (or school counsellor's) office, but she does, and she sees Edward trying to transfer into any class so he doesn't have to be near Bella. Unsuccessful, he spits out, "Fine. Just... I'll just have to endure it."
Of course, Bella's not three feet away when he says that with a disgusted face.
Nice work, you asshole. Can you die in a fire, Edward?
Short dinner afterwards with her dad, reminding us that Bella has been to this small town before, and like all small towns it seems, the people there who've lived there all their lives have long memories. The waitress remembers Bella's favorite, berry cobbler. Waylon, the slightly creepy Santa-guy, also remembers Bella from way back.
Switch to Bella in her room, talking to her mom long-distance. The movie has Bella mentioning that her mom's a bit of a flake, and it shows here as she mentions she could end up in Florida, then says her cell phone power cord "ran away".
Bella can't stop thinking about Edward. But at least she wants to do something about it instead of being basically passive as I remember her from the books:
BELLA: I planned to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.
But he doesn't come to school.
Interestingly the movie uses a good visual theme of Bella's psychological sense of isolation, with her leaning alone against her truck while all the people she's met (besides Edward) are crowded around the van next to her.
Her obsession with Edward grows as she narrates trying to get hold of him and seeing no sign of him at school. At least she's still eating lunch in the cafeteria with the same group she met earlier, and not trying to eat with the weird quasi-incestuous stepsiblings.
Then WHAT THE HELL a guy at a place called the Grisham Mill is trying to escape from two people who chase him down and beat him up. WTF????
The thing I like about this movie instead of the book is that its necessarily third-person quasi-omnipresent POV (we can't see what the camera isn't pointed at, but it CAN point anywhere desired) allows us to see events Bella doesn't directly witness, such as these mysterious scenes intercut with what I vaguely recall from the book.
We then switch back to Bella, who slips and falls as she walks out to meet Charlie at the truck. He tells her he had new tires put on it, then mentions the Grisham Mill incident, but attributes it to a "some kind of animal".
What I like is that Charlie and Bella still don't seem to interact smoothly as father and daughter, but the movie (as opposed to the book) seems to show them trying to get to that point.
There's a cute scene where Eric's blabbering about the prom and needing Bella's playlist, and then he's trying to ask her out to it, when Mike comes along and spoils it. If I had a dollar for every teenager that had his or her Momentous Prom Question interrupted by some well-meaning friend I'd be a millionaire. :P
EDWARD'S BAAAAAAAAAACK.
And he's being oddly really nice. He actually tries to smile, and tells Bella he didn't introduce himself last week.
Robert Pattinson actually has kind of a sexy voice. (*is now feeling traitorous and is hitting self with a copy of Mistborn*)
Mr. Molina then mentions the Golden Onion (which honestly made me kind of LOL. Being a teacher in a small town like that probably gets pretty freakin' monotonous).
OH GOD THEY ARE SO AWKWARD AROUND EACH OTHER IT IS PAINFUL.
(But I've got to say, contrariwise, that it's pretty good acting - showing two people who really don't understand why they seem to like each other having to work together on a class project and not really knowing what to do about it)
Also, I seem to recall the book has Edward being a complete shit to Bella even after he gets back from whereever, so I suspect this was a concession made to a viewing audience which isn't going to be too enamored of a guy acting like a jerk for the next two hours of a movie.
Bella and Edward begin to talk more as they look at the slides of different phases of cellular division, and Edward's surprisingly nice and actually kind of endearing as he draws Bella out on why she moved to Forks, WA. The two of them get more comfortable talking as time goes on.
(Robert Pattinson in a T-shirt shows off his chest. *feels traitorous again for liking some of the eye candy in this film*)
Bella and Edward win the Golden Onion, by the way. Nice non-cliche aspect to the movie by having her holding it in the next scene instead of the stereotypical "... and the winner IS..." scene. Though it could be argued that this is more of Bella Sue in the movie, too.
Edward starts saying weird things, like telling Bella she's "hard to read", and making dumb excuses about his changing eye color. Then he abruptly leaves.
Next up, we'll follow Bella as she witnesses Edward's superpowers.
