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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Thursday. 1st January 2009.Current Mood: Twilight & New Moon.
Happy New Year to all. Wishing you a great 2009 ahead(:
Happy New Year to all. Wishing you a great 2009 ahead(:
I have really turned into a complete Twilight fan. I am not sure what make me this crazy over the Twilight saga, is it the story line or just the influence of people around me and even all over the world. Is it because it was totally out-of-stock in Hong Kong and the United States of America that makes me like the books? But one thing I can be pretty sure of, I bought myself a New Moon paperback at Hong Kong International Airport after I have entered the gates and was waiting to board the plane. And so now, I am so deeply into reading the book that I rather read it than watch drama serials or even do anything other than that. It's really a no wonder teenage girls around the world love to read it so much.
This post will mainly be on Twilight and New Moon. To say the truth, the real first person I saw reading the Twilight saga was Jasmine Tan(from tuition) and she was so absorbed into the book. She was kind enough to recommend me the book, but it seems to have fell on deaf ears then. But soon enough, I noticed many people along the streets, on buses, in bookstores and libraries holding one of them and was so deeply reading it. Before even you knew it, Kinokuniya had replaced the all-time-favourite place of Harry potter series with the Twilight collection.
Before you could even keep up with that, Stephenie Meyer was the the USA version of J.K.Rowling, except even crazier this time round. People were so looking forward to the publishing of the last book in the series, Breaking Dawn. Everyone said that they wanted a boyfriend like Edward or even better a vampire boyfriend. The trend goes crazier and crazier till those books went totally out-of-stock.
And that was just the start. The movie Twilight was regarded as a low-costing production with no major production company(such as Disney or Warner Brothers)to buy it. It was at firt regarded as a C-class movie and that Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince was to release soon after Twilight was. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince was much regarded as a A-class production, so it was expected to hit Twilight to the lowest point, with hardly any people watching it at all. But who would expect Twilight to turn out so much better than expected that it had caused Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince to have to be shifted to somewhere in July 2009. Just on the first day of hitting to the theatres, Twilight grossed $35.7 million(US dollars)on it's opening day, so most of the people were so taken aback by how such a movie could possibly outshone Harry Potter.Who would have ever thought of Robert Pattinson which once apperaed in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Cedric Diggory to turn overnight into the guy every girl wants, Edward Cullen.
From Wikipedia, on Cedric Diggory.
Cedric Diggory is a Hufflepuff student two years above Harry. In addition to being a Hufflepuff prefect, he is the house Quidditch captain and Seeker. His father is Amos Diggory, who works at the Ministry of Magic. Cedric is first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when he is described by the female Gryffindor Chasers as "strong and silent" amid giggles prior to the Hufflepuff-Gryffindor match, and shows a notable streak of modesty and fairness; when he catches the Snitch and wins the match after Harry falls off his broomstick following an encounter with the Dementors, he wants the end result nullified and the match replayed.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Cedric is selected as the Hogwarts champion for the Triwizard Tournament. After Harry is also picked to compete, Malfoy makes "Support Cedric Diggory/Potter Stinks" badges, which Cedric tries to discourage his housemates from wearing. For the First Task, Cedric transfigures a rock into a dog in order to distract his dragon and successfully retrieves his golden egg, but he receives a burn on his cheek in the process. He is later Cho Chang's date for the Yule Ball. As compensation for Harry's warning about the dragons before the First Task, Cedric assists Harry in solving the clue of the Second Task by telling him to take a bath with the egg in the prefects' bathroom, and just "mull things over in the hot water." Cedric is the second of the four champions to reach the village of the merpeople and rescue his hostage, using a Bubble-Head Charm, but surfaced one minute over the one-hour time limit.
During the Third Task, Harry saves Cedric's life twice while in the maze, and when they reach the Triwizard Cup, Cedric refuses to take it without Harry, so they grab hold of it together. The cup turns out to be a Portkey which transports them to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew await Harry's arrival; Pettigrew murders Cedric on the spot upon Voldemort's order to "kill the spare." In the midst of the Priori Incantatem effect during Harry's duel with Voldemort, Cedric's spirit appears and asks Harry to take his body back to his parents. Despite an attempted cover-up of the incident by the Ministry, Dumbledore candidly reveals the true nature of Cedric's demise to the students at the end-of-term feast, stating that to attribute it to an accident would be "an insult to his memory."
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Cedric is selected as the Hogwarts champion for the Triwizard Tournament. After Harry is also picked to compete, Malfoy makes "Support Cedric Diggory/Potter Stinks" badges, which Cedric tries to discourage his housemates from wearing. For the First Task, Cedric transfigures a rock into a dog in order to distract his dragon and successfully retrieves his golden egg, but he receives a burn on his cheek in the process. He is later Cho Chang's date for the Yule Ball. As compensation for Harry's warning about the dragons before the First Task, Cedric assists Harry in solving the clue of the Second Task by telling him to take a bath with the egg in the prefects' bathroom, and just "mull things over in the hot water." Cedric is the second of the four champions to reach the village of the merpeople and rescue his hostage, using a Bubble-Head Charm, but surfaced one minute over the one-hour time limit.
During the Third Task, Harry saves Cedric's life twice while in the maze, and when they reach the Triwizard Cup, Cedric refuses to take it without Harry, so they grab hold of it together. The cup turns out to be a Portkey which transports them to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew await Harry's arrival; Pettigrew murders Cedric on the spot upon Voldemort's order to "kill the spare." In the midst of the Priori Incantatem effect during Harry's duel with Voldemort, Cedric's spirit appears and asks Harry to take his body back to his parents. Despite an attempted cover-up of the incident by the Ministry, Dumbledore candidly reveals the true nature of Cedric's demise to the students at the end-of-term feast, stating that to attribute it to an accident would be "an insult to his memory."
Things really seemed so magical in this case of Twilight, even more magical and unpredictable than Harry Potter series. I mean to say, Robert Pattinson was someone who nobody paid much attention to in the film of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. Some people even said that they hated him and would much prefer Daniel Radcliffe way more than Robert. But little did they know that the Edward Cullen in the film of Twilight happens to be the same person who appeared in Harry Potter once as Cedric?! Yes, the Edward Cullen they get head over heels for. I just thought a few years ago they dislike him very much, and now they set him as a model for their dream boyfriend! Nothing much changed since he was the same person except that he was very white in the film of Twilight and not wearing the Hufflepuff uniform of Hogwarts anymore.
Upon doing some more deep research, it happend that Edward Cullen was not starred by Robert at first, but Tom Sturridge. But as it seems, for some reason or another, Edward Cullen turned out to be starred by Robert in the end. I was unable to find the exact reason for the change though.
Once this Twilight wave is on, you might be surprise as how many girls started referring their boyfriend to their 'ideal Edward' or even call themselves 'perfect Bella for Edward'. So what really does this Twilight novel has that attracted so much readers all over the world within such a short time. Bearing in mind that J.K.Rowling had published the first book in the Harry Potter series and it took her quite a long time before it became what it is today. But for the case of Stephenie Meyer, it was just a year or two in total and she became as famous as any young-adult fiction writer.
I really would like to know what is it that made Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga so successful when back in the USA, there might be thousands or even millions of books that have somewhat the same story line as Twilight after all. So what is it that stood out in the case of Twilight? What is it that changed the mind and view of how people view and see Robert from ugly to Edward Cullen handsome and cute looking overnight? What makes girls all over the world so crazy over the Twilight saga and Edward Cullen? What is it about the film that had such an unexpected outcome?
Maybe I really have to read every single word in the Twilight saga over and over a hunderd times before I could have the final conclusion and answers to my questions. Maybe I would never find the truth to my questions. Who knows what things would turn out to be in the end when things like Twilight was so unexpected and unpredictable after all. But one thing I am very sure of, I must buy home Twilight, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. posted by vanessa loves you # 2:50 PM 
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