Film Frenzy

Winter is a good season for movies.

I've been to the cinema twice for a week -- Body of Lies is finally here and I've seen one film (well, better than none) from the film fest, This is England.

And ... Twilight the movie was released on 21 November ... in the US (Hurray! nevertheless).

So I'm waiting ... and chewing over Body of Lies in the meantime:)

Feeling Flowery ...

Colourful regards:)))

New

I've been aiming to add more links forever. Here is a very interesting one on myth:

http://journeytothesea.com/

It drew my attention in connection with the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings so I'm sure I'd be discussing bits of it now and then.

On Films

It's not that I forgot I wanted to blog on films as well. It's just that I haven't seen anything new recently. Because there's not much to see. OK, there's plenty going on, but not much to my taste. Speaking of the cinema scene, (excluding the ongoing film fest for the time being) I've noticed that for the past year or maybe a little more, the cineplexes are premiering more and more Bulgarian and European films (nothing wrong with that, though I'm not a huge fan) accompanied by, bizzarely, low-quality (according to my standards) Hollywood. I say low quality, because I do think that there is high quality Hollywood and I count most of my favourite films among them (e.g. The Departed). I don't think big budgets, A-list stars and directors are detrimental to the quality of a film. On the contrary, they offer huge opportunies because they can better develop plots, chracters, sets, etc. Entertainment can be art. (OK, more seldom the case now, but still).
My point is that we're missing on good Holliwood stuff (I wonder where are Body of Lies, A Mighty Heart, The Edge of Love ...).

P.S. I wonder when Twilight will be reased here. The US premiere is in four days. I hope it's before Christmas at least. Any cinema would be mad to miss on the holliday season.

Phase in Jacob Black

http://twilightsource.com/tsgallery/?level=album&id=5&plog_page=3

SPOILER WARNING!

When Jacob Black first appeared in Twilight (maybe I'm repeating myself, but anyway), I didn't think he'll pay such a major role in the series. He turns out to be a werewolf, an Alpha, a born leader, though he didn't want that birthright.

From the very begining, he's likable and easy-going and Bella often says that it's so easy to be with him. Thinking about him, I was struck by how much he changes since Twilight. Initially he is carefree and entertaining company, then after he learns that all the werewolf legends are true, he goes through a period of denial and fear of rejection. He becomes a bit more comfortable when Bella doesn't abandon him because he can now transform into a giant wolf, but his struggles have only just began. He's one of the characters (if not the one) that I empathise most with. He knows that he loves Bella and that she loves him back, but that she loves a vampire and is prepared to become one herself in order to always live with Edward. One of the problems is that vampires are mortal enemies to the werewolves and Jacob feels a real aversion for the person (ok, vampire) Bella cannot live without. In the course of the series, he manages to overcome that aversion so as not to lose Bella. He is devasted by the knowledge that she wants to become a vampire, but eventually, when her life is in danger, he would accept even that, so that she can continue to exist. Her personality does not change much after the transformation, so that is a comfort, but still, Jacob is ina pretty bad situation: his love is doomed: even though Bella loves him, she can never choose him over Edward. Jacob is more of a friend or family to her. He saved her from the desperation and depression following Edward's departure. Edward started tolerating him initially because of that.

But what can the future hold for Jacob after Bella's transformation? And then he imprints on Bella's half-human, half-vampire daughter and that drives her crazy.

I'll see how this one will turn out, but I think this is a pretty good outcome for Jacob, at least now he has any chance of being happy with a person closer to Bella than anyone. What's more, this imprinting bridges so many gaps: among the human, the vampire and the werewolf worlds. Bella thought the feud between werewolves and vampires unnecessary and Jacob's falling for a half-vampire girl emphasizes that idea. Maybe there will be a happily ever after for Jacob as well.

Breaking Dawn

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilightseries.html

SPOILER WARNING!

Did it again. OK, didn't make it quite to dawn, though it was pretty much morning when I put down Breaking Dawn, half-way through. This blog suspiciously look like a Twilight fan blog, but it's not. It just takes time to go through the thousands of pages that make up the series.

This last book is the size of a brick and it's pretty dramatic, I must say. Bella's wedding and pregnancy, and transformation, Jacob's imprinting ... I can't say I'm so surpirised with that: he's a too good character to be left to howling in the distance ...

Eclipse in the night

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/eclipse.html

SPOILER WARNING!

I've got quite a few favourite books, but it is not often the case that they keep me up till 3.a.m.
That was Eclipse's job. Part of it had to do with the fact that I know I'd have very little time for reading today (I was right). The bigger part was that I couldn't just put it down. OK, I pronounce it my favourite from the Twilight series so far (having not read Breaking Dawn yet, though I leafed through it). That has not so much to do with what happens next and how it ends. I know that this isn't the end since there's one more book. It's more to do with why it happens. How it turns out for Bella, for Jacob, for the Cullens.
Thinking about it, I'd have to admit, I'd pick The Half-blood Prince as my favourite from the Harry Potter series and it's the penultimate book, just like Eclipse. Both are not so much action driven, but more like emotion-driven, will-driven. It's more or less clear what will happen towards the end in both: Harry learns he has to find all the Horcruxes, while Bella knows that sooner or later Victoria will lcome for her. In Eclipse it is very interesting to see how the dynamic between Bella, Edward and Jacob turns out, between the Cullens and the werewolves, etc. Bella has to make some really definng decision, she can't be split in two or three, even: between the human, the vampire and the werewolf worlds.

To be continued ...

P.S. I wonder what's with the cover? This one and the New Moon's are the two that I find the most curious ...

Eclipse

Already sank my teeth into Eclipse.

It's good to see Bella somehow reconciling the Jacob part of her life with the vampireful rest of it ...