Page to Screen: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was a great ending to the Twilight series. The screenwriter did a great job of trimming down the last half of the book into a concise and action packed movie. Thankfully, there are no cheesy wolf talking scenes like in the first Breaking Dawn. However, I was not a fan of baby Renesmee. The director digitally imposed actress Mackenzie Foy’s face onto all the younger versions of Renesmee. The result was unrealistic and creepy, especially when Renesmee is still the size of an infant. I think just using a real baby’s face would have been fine.

This movie introduces several new vampires that come to help the Cullens confront the Volturi. The casting of these new vampires was superb. They all looked just like I would have expected from their descriptions in the book. Seeing how beautiful the female Denali vampires are just underscored in my mind how miscast Nikki Reed is as Rosalie. Since Rosalie is supposed to be one of the most beautiful vampires ever, she should look like these women. Something is especially wrong about Rosalie’s hair in this movie – I’m pretty sure it’s a wig and it’s really bad. I think a natural blonde should have been cast as Rosalie from the beginning.

You may have heard there is a twist in the movie that is not in the book. It’s true and it took my breath away. I’ve heard that purists who are not happy with the twist have been walking out before the movie ends. STAY! You must stay – that is all I will say about that.

I’ve heard rumors that there might be more Twilight movies even though there aren’t any more books. What do you think – would you want another movie?