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Twilight (2008)
In director Catherine Hardwicke's erotic vampire blockbuster
(the adaptation of the first volume of Stephenie Meyer's vampire-romance
saga, a four-book series about burgeoning teenage sexuality):
- the strained, teenaged love relationship - one of
dangerous attraction - between pale, intrigued and mesmerized 17
year-old new-girl-in-school Isabella ("Bella") Swan (Kristen
Stewart) and handsome, icy-to-touch, mysterious immortal vampire
Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson)
- Bella's first view of Edward in the Forks, Washington
High School cafeteria
- Edward's rescue of Bella from being crushed by a runaway
van in the school parking lot
- their many smoldering, staring encounters and intense
conversations together without consummating their love (in school,
in the woods, in a restaurant, in her bedroom) highlighted by a few
quotes: Edward: "I can read every mind in this room. Apart from
yours," "Your scent, it's like a drug to me. You're like
my own personal brand of heroin," Bella: "I'm not afraid
of you, I'm only afraid of losing you"
- her holding onto his back when he whisked up the mountain
to view his sparkling diamond-like skin in the sunlight, and later
took her to the tree tops above his home: "You better hold on
tight, spider monkey"
- Bella's voice-over statement about him after Edward
had revealed himself as a vampire in the woods: "About three
things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second,
there was a part of him - and I didn't know how dominant that part
might be - that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally
and irrevocably in love with him" - after which she saw him
standing outside her bedroom window
- the scene at the home of the incestuous Cullen vampire
family: ("Here comes the human...")
- Edward's saving of Bella from dying and becoming
a vampire by sucking venom from a wrist bite caused by a bloodsucking
vampire thug (Cam Gigandet) - he was cautioned by his father Carlisle
to stop before killing her: ("Edward, stop. Her blood is clean.
You're killing her. Edward, stop. Find the will")
- the final scene of the couple dancing at the high
school prom under an outdoor gazebo, where Bella professed her dying
love for him, surrendered her neck to him, and they kissed: (Bella: "I
dream about being with you forever..." Edward: "Is it not
enough just to have a long and happy life with me?" Bella: "Yeah.
For now. (voice-over) No one will surrender tonight, but I won't
give in. I know what I want")
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