Twilight (film 2008)

Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to her father (Charlie) in Forks, because her mother Rene lives with her new husband Phil, and they are forced to move all the time. In Forks, Bella meets a mysterious and very beautiful Cullen family. Rare features unite them: eyes of golden color and extraordinary pallor of skin. Edward Cullen reacts strangely to Bella (as it turns out later, he is a vampire and has never seen such a wonderful smell of blood as Bella has). However, he soon saves Bella from the minivan, and then from street hooligans, which makes him think about his real nature.

Edward and Bella fall in love. He introduces her to the family. Cullens call themselves vegetarians, because they drink only the blood of animals. They invite Bella to baseball, where she encounters three nomadic vampires. Bella's scent drives one of them - James - crazy. Edward defends his lover, but this only fosters James' appetite. He decides to kill her at all costs and begins the persecution of Bella.

Bella, thinking that she is saving her mother from James, comes to the ballet studio, where she previously took lessons. James bites Bella, but Edward sucks the poison and saves his lover, and his brothers and Alice kill the enemy. When Edward and Bella are dancing at the ball to mark the end of the school year, James's lover, Victoria, also at the ball, looks at them from the window.

During the writing of the novel, Stephanie Meyer saw only the actor Henry Cavill as Edward, but by the beginning of the film adaptation he had significantly outgrown his character, he was already 24 years old and could not look like a 17-year-old teenager, as a result the role went to Robert Pattinson ^{[7 ]} .

Filming began in February and continued until May 2 ^[8] . Most of them took place in the vicinity of Portland (Oregon) ^[9] , and the city of St. Helens was also involved. The school in which the main characters study in the film is the real Kalama High School (Washington state).

The budget of the film was $ 37 million. At the box office from November 21, 2008 to April 2, 2009, the largest number of screenings in 3649 cinemas at a time. During the rental, he raised $ 393,616,788 in the world, of which $ 192,769,854 in the United States and $ 200,846,934 in the rest of the world.

In the CIS countries , the film went from January 23 to April 26, 2009 and raised $ 3,577,854.

It is noteworthy that two songs Never Think and Let Me Sign were composed and performed by Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) ^[10] . In addition, in one scene of the film, Pattinson performs at the Bella's Lullaby at the piano.

• “ Full Moon ” ( The Black Ghosts ) - Bella moves to Forks.
• “ Tremble for My Beloved ” ( Collective Soul ) - Edward saves Bella for the first time.
• “ Eyes on Fire ” ( Blue Foundation ) - plays at the moment when Bella wants to catch Edward in the parking lot and demand an explanation.
• “ I Caught Myself ” ( Paramore ) - sounds in the store when Bella and her friends choose dresses.
• “ Never Think ” ( Robert Pattinson ) - Bella and Edward are talking in a restaurant.
• " Spotlight " (Twilight Mix) ( Mutemath ) - Bella and Edward go to school by the arm.
• “ Clair de Lune ” ( Claude Debussy ) - Bella includes this music in Edward's room.
• Supermassive Black Hole ( Muse ) - Vampires play baseball .
• “ Let Me Sign ” (Robert Pattinson) - Edward sucks poison from Bella’s wound after James’s bite.
• " Flightless Bird, American Mouth " ( Iron & Wine ) - Bella and Edward's slow dance at the ball.
• “ Go All the Way (Into the Twilight) ” ( Perry Farrell ) - sounds when Bella and Edward come to the ball.

Title Music

• “ 15 Step ” ( Radiohead ) - sounds during the final credits.
• “ Leave Out All The Rest ” ( Linkin Park ) is the third song in the credits.
• " Decode " (Paramore) - the main soundtrack, the second song in the credits. A video was shot for this song, where shots from the film were used.

• MTV Movie Award 2009 in the nominations: “Best Film”, “Best Actress” (Kristen Stewart), “Best Breakthrough of the Year” (Robert Pattinson), “Best Fight” (Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet (James)), “Best Kiss ”(Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart).

• 2009 - sequel to the movie “ Twilight. Saga. New Moon ”, directed by Chris Weitz .
• 2010 - The Twilight. Saga. Eclipse, ”directed by David Slade , film producer - Chris Weitz .
• 2010 - the beginning of filming of the last published book of the saga " Twilight ": "Dawn . " Director - Bill Condon , filming took place in Vancouver . The last book was divided into 2 films: “the first film is about Bella’s wedding, honeymoon and pregnancy, and the second is about turning the girl into a vampire and developing the relationship between Jacob and little Renesmee.”
  • November 17, 2011 - The first part of "Dawn"
  • November 15, 2012 - The second part of "Dawn"

• Many parodies appeared on the Twilight saga, including The Vampire Suck , The Vampires, and many others ^[11] .
• In the sketch show “ Give Youth!” »From 4 to 6 seasons there were plots parodying the Twilight series of films. A series of sketches came out under the title “Give Young! The Vampire Saga . ” The role of Edward (Edgar) is played by Mikhail Bashkatov , and Bella (Oli) is played by Angelica Kashirin.

• "Twilight" - the official website of the film (Russian)
• Twilight - The Official Movie Website
• Twilight - The Official YouTube Channel
• Twilight - about the movie on Stephanie Meyer's own website
• Twilight on the Afisha magazine website
• Twilight on the Internet Movie Database
• Twilight on Box Office Mojo
• Twilight on the Metacritic website