The 2009 Twilight Film Directed By Catherine Hardwicke

4. Twilight (2009) The 2009 Twilight film directed by Catherine Hardwicke is a box-office smash, it tells a high school love story happens between a human teenage girl and a dashing ‘young’ vampire. Like the Dracula film I analysed earlier, this one is an adaptation from a book with the same title, which is written by the American author Stephenie Meyer. Differing from other vampire films, Twilight (2009) provides â€Å"different picture of a vampire† (Là ©talovà ¡, 2014, p. 1). Unlike their vampire â€Å"ancestors†, the vampire characters in Twilight (2009) are not afraid of daylight. They will glow and show their â€Å"true form† under the impact of direct sunlight. However, the belief that vampires will be burnt into ashes while exposing to the direct sunlight is just an old superstition (origins from the Gothic fictions in Victoria era), and the changes which have been made in the Twilight (2009) are nothing more than add some new superstitions about vampires. To be more specific, in terms of giving definitions to vampires, there are not fundamental differences between this film and the other earlier vampire films. They are still the â€Å"corpse supposed to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth†, according to the Oxford Advanced Learner s Dictionary. However, the rise of the mainstreaming vampire characters like Edward marks a distinct shift in the representation of otherness in contemporary vampire films. The concept of otherness lines in theShow MoreRelatedThe Invisible Woman: Female Directors in Hollywood2710 Words   |  11 PagesFilm scholar Louis Gianetti says, â€Å"In the field of cinema, the achievement of the Women’s Movement [of the 1960’s] has been considerable, though most present-day feminists would insist that there is still much to be accomplished in the battle against patriarchal values† (428). Gianetti’s words are an understatement. Women in Hollywood are underrated, underrepresented, and generally shoved into the background of the film industry. However, with film becoming one of the most pervasive and influentialRead MoreAnalysis Of Stephenie Meyer s The Twilight Saga 2012 Words   |  9 Pages Stephenie Meyer is a well known author of the most popular fiction vampire romance novels. She is a young writer and wrote her first series of four books called the Twilight Saga, which has become one of the most popular books and movies in the world. Stephenie was born on December 24, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut (Newsmakers). Her parents were Stephen and Candy Morgan, an executive at a contracting firm and house-wife. They had a total of six children: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, Heidi, and Stephenie