If the final, official, end-all Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer is an accurate sample of the film itself, Eclipse will be quite different from its predecessors.
While the teaser trailer released several weeks ago focused on the Edward-Bella-Jacob (Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner) romance, the final trailer’s raison d’être is the war pitting Victoria and her army of new-born vampires against the Cullen clan and the werewolves. The complex romantic triangle gets short shrift here.
Clearly, that’s Summit’s marketing ploy to attract more male moviegoers; those who aren’t man enough to admit they enjoy love and romance as much as the giddiest of teen girls. And that’s most guys out there. (And, really, what sane human being doesn’t appreciate love and romance?)
Whether or not that marketing maneuver will work I don’t know. Twilight has gotten a reputation of being a "woman’s picture" (or even worse, a "girl’s picture"). Could that change by way of "sneak previews" and a trailer?
Perhaps David Slade’s name will make a difference, making the project sound more gender neutral.
One good thing about the trailer is that it does make Eclipse seem darker than previous installments. If more suspense and thrills can be added to the film, I’m all for it. On the other hand, I only hope that such an approach won’t push the drama aside. After all, the Edward-Bella-Jacob triangle is the very core of the tale. Else, Eclipse would merely be turned into an action flick like myriad others out there.
Whenever in the past I’ve expressed my hope that Eclipse would be a darker, more intense movie, I wasn’t thinking only in terms of atmosphere or a sense of dread. I particularly meant that the film should delve deeper into the darkness the permeates Bella and Edward’s love.
Hopefully, Slade, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, and editor Nancy Richardson (who worked on the first Twilight) have managed to strike a good balance to create a profound love story that also thrills.
P.S. Someone should make a short movie about that: two closeted male romantics who accidentally meet one another at an Eclipse screening. They try to hide, horrified they will be discovered and become the laughingstock of all their beer-drinking, football-watching buddies. Before the final credits, however, they come to the realization that it’s perfectly okay to be both a guy and a romantic, whether or not they drink beer or watch football.
“Whenever in the past I’ve expressed my hope that Eclipse would be a darker, more intense movie.”
It will, if the screenwriter will make a good and creative editing in the original story. It is a really good story most especially the edward-bella-jacob triangle with an intense action.
I hope the film delves into the darker side of Bella and Edward’s love too. I am tired of Summit trying to pimp out the movie as an action thriller. Yes, their is action, but there is never any doubt who will win the battle. Summit injects moments of Edward’s weakness as a fighter (New Moon anyone?) Victoria never lays a finger on Edward in the book so why do they release stills with Riley and Victoria capturing Edward?????????? Guys are never gonna like this series. They go because their girlfriends or wives make them!!!