Media Breach

The Twilight movies are easily my favorite films of the past decade. I honestly can’t think of anything more engrossing or original than the adventures of Edward Cullen, Bella Swan and Jacob Black. I haven’t actually read the books yet, but I plan to once the movies have all been made. I find that it’s easier to read the book after the movie because I’m less likely to be disappointed. So, being a huge fan I was absolutely floored when I was invited to a secret, very tiny press screening of the new Twilight film Eclipse.

The venue in which I saw Twilight 3 (I’m sticking with that for the rest of the review) was rather small, but featured absolute state of the art projection and sound systems. Edward’s white face popped off the screen like I’d never seen before, but more on that later. The entire night was predictably Twilight themed, and it was fantastic. Each of us (there were 30 journalists) was assigned a sort of Bella look-alike to accompany us for the evening, like a Bella escort. Their job was to basically follow us around, be moody, whine incessantly and get us drinks if we demanded them. It was actually pretty cute, and insanely elaborate. I mean imagine for a second how loud this was with 30 Bella stunt doubles wandering around and getting drinks for their journalist companions. Yeah, exactly, it was rather chaotic. I appreciated how out of their way they went to be different, but it was a little off-putting to be called Edward all night even though I am a big fan.