Easter Eggs/Facts

COMPLETELY forgot to post this when it first came out - sorry everyone! Anyway; here's a list of some Easter Eggs/cool facts from the New Moon movie from the director:
On Bella's copy of Romeo & Juliet, a picture from Volterra covered the book.
The camera drop during Paul and Jacob's in-transformation tussle was intentional to recreate the look of an actual animal knocking over the camera.
In front of Emily's house, there was a drum actually given to the production crew by a member of the Quileute Nation.
The opening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon with the moon phasing backwards was also intentional to reflect accuracy in phasing.
Aro says "Fore ... ne il vostro l'uno o altro" to Bella in the Volturi lair, meaning "Perhaps ... nor yours either" (regarding whether he understands Edward's soul).
There were three new placements of wolves in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. There was one in Twilight in Bella's room, and the three are in Carlisle's bowl, on Jacob's tee-shirt when he talks to Bella in the parking lot, and on the dream-catcher.
The song being played in the Italy elevator scene is Die Fledermaus by Strauss. This translates to "The Bat."
Bella carries a golden compass on her backpack into the meadow . . . baggage?
To make Edward move quickly before the birthday kiss at Bella's house, a double was used as Edward in the driver's seat, but Robert Pattinson waited alongside the camera.
"Kwop kilawtley" is what Jacob said to Bella in the kitchen.
Was absolutely furious with myself when I found out Aro's Italian lines are COMPLETELY different from the translations I'd tried to do XP. Guess Italian isn't my thing. Haha XD
Still trying to find out what "Kwop kilawtley" means - rumours are going around that it means "Stay with me forever", which would be kind of sweet - but this has not yet been confirmed.
Merina xxx

Deleted scene pictures!

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the long update - news has been verrrry slow lately, hope you all had a great Christmas!

Check out these pictures of the deleted scenes we can expect to get on the New Moon DVD - Victoria driving in her (snack-laden..?) car, and Alice and Edward (on their return from Italy?). Maybe this will be the scene where Charlie tells Edward to never set foot through his door again. Haha!

Hoep you all have a good new year! Merina x

Happy Birthday Stephanie!

Happy (one day late) Birthday Stephanie Meyer!

Happy Birthday Jasper!

It's Jackson Rathbone's (Jasper) birthday! Ooohhhhh so gorgeous...Team Jalice forever...but I think I still prefer him with plugged-into-car-electrics blond curls. Hehe :D

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Some questions from Stephanie

As you probably all know, different Twilight fan websites have QandA sections for Twilight related questions for Stephanie Meyer. I wanted to post a few of my favourites off Twilexicon (I have millions of favourites, these are just a few!):

Q from twilight-fan Electra: Who was Embry’s dad?

A: That question was in there like 17 times. Now I know that a lot of people are mad when I say that I’m not going to say, because you know what? I’m not even sure that I know. I know that sounds crazy, but really there are secrets that my characters keep from even me. And I had that experience with Rosalie actually when I first started working on Twilight. I had no idea she didn’t like Bella and her character was really flat and sort of half way through I figured out ‘Oh, she hates Bella!’ and then she was easier to write. So sometimes my characters don’t tell me everything. I have my suspicions.

Q: What happened to Billy Black that he can’t walk anymore?

A: He has diabetes, which caused nerve damage in his feet and legs. He hasn’t had to have anything amputated yet, but he’ll never walk again.

Q: Has Gianna been turned into a vampire and did she join the Volturi?
A: I’m sorry to say, but Gianna did not make the cut. Gianna’s not with us anymore, um, that’s one of the problems with working for the Volturi. It’s a hazardous job.

[laughter and cheering]

You guys are applauding for a woman’s death; you do realize this, right?

LOL!!! Stephanie has everything thought out so well - it's so fantastic. Wish I'd been at that event, I have sooo many questions...thoughts, anyone? I love comments...for more questions and a million more answers, go to Twilight Lexicon.com! Merina xxx

Eclipse tweets!

David Slade (director of Eclipse) is keeping us up to date with news from the editing room, and I thought I'd post some of his more interesting tweets here, but something's up with blogger and I keep getting a flashing ERROR notice whenever I post the tweets XP so here is the link to his twitter for you to read yourself: http://twitter.com/David_a_Slade
Wonder who the compose will be...?
Merina xxx

DVD info for New Moon

DVD info for New Moon that emerged weeks ago and I have finally got round ot posting! Sorry everyone! Anyway, here's what Chris Weitz has revealed:
"There will be a commentary track - it’ll just be us riffing off each other in our intimate way. We kind of like each other, so that should be fun. There will be probably about 20 minutes of deleted material. It really is good stuff and a bonus for the fans.”
From MTV infomation gathered, some of this footage should include:
A scene with the human characters eating Burger King. Another scene with the humans, this time with Justin Chon and Michael Welch expressing jealousy over Edward’s car. More scenes with the Volturi in Italy. An extended cut of the scene where Mike Newton quotes Shakespeare to Bella in the Forks High parking lot; in it, he does a Marlon Brando impersonation. Scenes alluding to the ongoing breakup between Newton and Anna Kendrick’s Jessica.
Sounds AMAZING! Rumours are going round at the moment that the DVD will hit stores in Feburary - can't waaiiiitttt! Hopefully the scenes will leak online...I'll post the links here if I find any.
One topic I want to bring up (for comments, maybe...?), is the score of New Moon. Unfortunatly, found that I have an awful lot to say on this topic!!! Anyway, here goes:

I thought this was FANTASTIC LY composed music and much better than the Twilight score, which I did like, but not as much as New Moon. It had recurring themes for both Jacob and Bella and Edward and Bella (gorgeous piano!!), and an overall "New Moon theme" which was beautiful (more gorgeous piano and violins), and kept returning at key points the movie, as did the reletionship themes. Even the Volturi had a theme (a very creepy walz) which would hop in and out throughout the long Italy scene at the end, when Aro or one of the others would say a particually evil/mysterious/creepy line - BRILLIANT! There was none of this music-fitting-with-characters-and-what-was-going-on-on-screen in Twilight, which is fine I suppose, but I love the way they did this more in New Moon.

My only complaint for the score (though I don't blame this completely on the music) was that there were just a few moments when it seemed a little bit overdramatic for the context. Like, Kristen Stuart would breath loudly and shout out a really dodgy, badly written line, trying to be sad and dramatic but failing because of the terrible script peice, whilst the music was wailing heartbreakingly in the background. It came across as a tiny bit cheesy sometimes. But I don't blame this all on the composer, because if, say, it had been a genius screenplay with oscar-winning actors doing the scene, the music would have fitted fine and sounded great. So...yeah, I suppose I blame that mostly, though of course not completely, on Melissa Rosenberg's occasionally very poor screenplay, which caused the actors to mumble their more embarrassingly bad lines.

Woah I like to waffle. Ah well. Maybe I'll get some nice comments in reply to my waffle...? That would make my day :D anyway, will post soon, thanks for reading!

Epic. Waste. Of. Trees.

Sorry. Couldn't resist :D Merina xxx