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Virgin birth, crucifixion, Lazarus rising from the dead: nothing extreme about any of that.
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i guess she thought it was New Moon with Blue Moon.
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butterbeer will fuck your shit up. especially when its actually tequilia.
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Such as: that particular kind of low-self esteem that looks like humility or lack of ego so some male character can say, all broody, "you just don't know how beautiful you are". It masquerades as an appealing/non-threatening trait. It's like nearly every story I've read by a certain type of 15 year old girl. Or romance novel. It's a trope that plays out again and again. Much like her physical weakness, dependency, etc. But all I can guess is that more girls and women maybe -feel- that way or relate to it somehow.
Of course, there's also the fact that, whatever else, it's a story from Bella's perspective, and the female perspective has been fairly rare in mainstream film for awhile.
I just...I wish it was a -better- perspective. One that wasn't so reliant on helplessness and victimization, or creepy tropes about "true love". Or was more self-aware of that. That's one of the reasons I love Buffy. The self-awareness. It knew when it was being overwrought, it knew how to self-critique, and it was far more complex.
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Then again, I did the same thing for the last movie and still ended up sitting behind crazed pre-pubescent girls that squealed every time Robert Pattinson came on screen. I almost rolled my eyes out of my head and kept saying to the Mr. - "this movie is truly terrible, but the experience of watching it like this may have made it worse."
I mean, I get it... but ugh.
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Hate Bella as a heroine. Always have. I write YA, and ever since I read Twilight I strive to make my female protagonists the opposite of Bella. That is to say articulate and active.
Won't be seeing the movie, but probably will be buying the soundtrack. So many good artists on there--Twilight franchise, why must you force me to support you?
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Vom!
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I am Team Jacob. I was after reading the books, and I still am after viewing the clips. (I will never watch the movies though) Too bad we all know how it ends!
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