Twilight: Bella and Edward meet, flirt, and look hot

I don't really like this film. There's several creepy antifeminist subtexts: stalker boyfriend is romantic; boyfriend who expresses a desire to commit violence against you is romantic; girl is important when she is helpless and dependent on others; and so on. Although, in the film's defence, at least this time the girl is the desiring subject and the boy is the desired object. Gender dynamics aside, "Twilight" the film gets three things really right: (1) rainy small-town Pacific northwest as a setting for vampire spookiness (even if that doesn't amount to much in the end, it's well done in the first half of the film); (2) high school, especially Bella's constant "WTF? who are these people and how is this my life?" state of mind, which was mine also throughout high school and for some time after; and (3) INARTICULATE SEXUAL TENSION, on display in this clip.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Twilight
• Bella Swan
• Edward Cullen
• chemistry
• Robert Pattinson
• Kristen Stewart
• sexual tension

[ariascan2]

Love I meant.I think Bella is very strong and courageous for daring to live a very difficult and complicated love story and willing to risk everything for it.

[narutolove12]

@ariascan2 however she completely derails this by not fight for her man , who she really only wants sex from but i guess thats all us teenagers, but instead tries to harm an later kill herself because he left instead of tracking him down or trying move own or something like that..on top of depending on him like a drug addict does drugs

[daedalus71]

@narutolove12 Yeah, I think you're right. Bella's desire for Edward is like that of an addict or a depressive, someone who cannot feel good about themselves and so has to turn to something or someone else to validate themselves.

[daedalus71]

@ariascan2 Yes, you have a good point. Bella is strong and courageous. That's probably part of why so many young women identify with her story. You have given me some insight into the appeal of Twilight. ... However, I still question the ends towards which she directs her strength and courage. And I wonder, what is the real-world analogue for Bella's struggles? What would it mean for a teenage girl to become "like Bella" in her own life?

[HeroicZombie120]

The hell is so goddamn funny?!

[humansince1995]

Twilight: the inciteful novel about vampire love affairs, which was designed to intice analytical debate among the very best of over obsessive readers. ;)

[iancabi21]

damn now i want to watch twilight :(

[iancabi21]

OMGGG JUSTIN CHON is at the begining of the video lol :D

[lenthokchom]

guys plz tell me wat's the name of the backgroud music at the end of this vidio???

[daedalus71]

@ariascan2: Sorry for the lengthy reply to your question. Your points are also valid, and they sit side by side with the issues I am pointing out. It is interesting to consider this from different angles.

[daedalus71]

@ariascan2: If Edward were a real person, he would be the type of person a girl should stay far away from. He stalks Bella. He breaks into her home at night when she is sleeping. He feels a strong compulsion to commit violence to her. He can restrain this compulsion only by an ongoing effort of will. Her involvement with him makes her a target of gang violence. And so on...