Twilight (2008) | Catherine Hardwicke

You Don’t Know How Long
I’ve Waited For You

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg (Based on the novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer)

Score:  Carter Burwell

Release date: Nov. 21, 2008 (USA)

DVD release date: March 21, 2009

Rating: PG – 13 (USA)

Role:  Edward Cullen

Costars: Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke, Cam Gigandet, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, and Elizabeth Reaser.

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From official site: Twilight  is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school.  When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington she doesn’t expect much of anything to change.  Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met.  Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood.  Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella’s soul.  Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance.  To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate.  But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.  But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

Robert on playing Edward

I was so determined to make him like the most depressing character in the history of fiction. I think that’s the point. (in an interview with Blast)

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  • “Pattinson grows on us as he grows on Bella: His weird mannerisms and nervous delivery stop seeming like quirks and acquire an intensity that’s hard to resist by the end.” – Charlotte Observer
  • “A genuine love story might be difficult for a young audience to handle, but this fantasy is blissful madness–an abstinence fable sexier than sex.” – The New Yorker
  • “On the whole, Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals, Pattinson and Stewart.”- Washington Post
  • “So Twilight isn’t a masterpiece — no matter. It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss.” – Time

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