Today Twilight was presented in Rome, at Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Catherine Hardwicke showed two long new scenes and talked about the sequels.
We were there, and saw the scenes: read the full description below.
- SCENE 1 – CULLEN'S HOUSE
Edward brings Bella to his house, where he lives with the other members of the Cullen Clan. Bella tries to open the car door, but Edward rushes (as only a vampire can) to the door and opens it for her: a real gentleman.
As soon as she enters the Cullens' home, Bella notices how tidy it is: bright, tastefully furnished and beautiful. They enter the kitchen and find the Cullens cooking lunch, but just for Bella – vampires don't eat normal food. Funnily, Bella says she already ate.
Rosalie, the most beautiful but also the most petulant in the whole family, is offended; she argues that by mixing with Bella the Cullens might find themselves in danger. This adds a lot of tension, and Rosalie breaks a dish she has in her hand.
Alice and Jasper are much kinder towards Bella, and Alice tells her that they'll be best friends. To defuse tension, Edward takes Bella upstairs to his room: the room is very beautiful and tidy, but there is no bed. Bella is taken aback, but Edward explains that he never sleeps. The two of them listen to Debussy's Clair de lune, they try to dance, but Bella doesn't know how to dance. Edward makes her climb on his shoulders and takes her out the window, climbing up a tree: she is amazed and incredulous, the camera moves all around the tree following them as they climb. The scene ends with Bella and Edward sitting at the piano: he plays her lullaby; the lighting in this scene is very soft, very romantic.
- SCENE 2 – BELLA IN DANGER
One of the final sequences, we've seen bits of it in the trailer and the Comic-Con clip. It's the assault: Bella arrives in the ballroom, following her mother's voice, only to find it's actually a videotape of herself as a child with Renéé. James explains he wants to tape what's going to happen now as well, just to make Edward jealous. Bella tries to dissuade him but James, scathing as ever, says he wants to break Edward's heart. Bella tries to flee, but James flies over her and catches her, breaking her ankle and telling her to shout as loud as she can. Suddenly Edward arrives, and he and Bella try to escape. James then bites Bella's wrist to transform her into a vampire; the scene ends with a close-up of the wound on Bella's wrist.
- BACKSTAGE SCENES
Then an interesting backstage was shown: the actors were interviewed during filming, and explained many of the scenes they were shooting. They showed the set where the kitchen scene was filmed, and then the one of the attack scene: it was the first scene filmed, and the most difficult – which, Hardwicke said, was quite ironic. In the book the scene was very simple and minimal, Hardwicke filmed it with much more action. The only problem was deciding how a Vampire can be killed!
In the scene where Bella tells Edward she knows he's a vampire, Robert Pattinson explained that his character is forced to admit it and then tries to frighten Bella because he wants her to stay away from him: he wants her to forget him and save herself from danger.
Stephenie Meyer said that her favorite scenes are the meadow ones, because they are the most exciting: it's in that meadow that all began. She explained that the idea of Twilight books was born during a dream: She dreamt of people standing in a meadow, and decided to write the books to discover what happened to those people. - ABOUT THE SEQUELS
Catherine Hardwicke said that there still has been no sequel discussion, and that Summit will wait for box-office figures, and decide only after that. Nevertheless, she's pretty sure they won't shoot New Moon and Eclipse together, they'll shoot New Moon first, and then Eclipse. - PRESS CONFERENCE
Q: What features or traits of your characters would you like to emphasize in the sequels?
Pattinson: Wishes this movie had been a bit darker, but is confident that sequels will be even darker, he would love to play the part of the "beautiful and damned", what with Edward's suicidal tendencies and all.Stewart hasn't read the other books in the series, says it's better that way because you don't get influenced too much.
Pattinson has read chapter 1 of Midnight Sun (Twilight written from Edward's POV) to prepare for the film, and reveals that many insights he had on the character before reading MS were proven true.Catherine has seen tons of vampire movies, but she didn't want to pay homage to this and that, wanted to make her own movie, make sure she had a different approach, because it's a very original story, set in a very normal environment, where vampires go out in the light of day.
The budget for special effects was limited, so they relied heavily on stuntwork and wirework, with the help of Andy Chan, second unit director.
Romeo and Juliet? somebody asks. Hardwicke replies: apart from the dangers coming from the outside, in Twilight the danger is also between the couple, as one of the lovers might kill the other.
In the States Twilight started out as a very female-oriented fandom, but many boys are starting to read and love the books now.
Stewart: Biggest problem was finding chemistry on set with Pattinson, as none of them could draw from personal experience.
Pattinson: Biggest difficulty was playing someone who is 17 on the outside but 108 on the inside.
- UPDATE: HERE YOU CAN SEE 8 MINUTES OF TWILIGHT (bootleg)
English translation: Thanks to Ilaria Katerinov.
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