Melissa Rosenberg comments on Breaking Dawn Rating

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by in News

Melissa Rosenberg posted this comment on her Facebook page concerning Breaking Dawn being rated PG-13:
Thanks for all your thoughts! My feeling is – more or less blood, or more or less graphic violence, sex or childbirthing gore doesn’t define Breaking Dawn. It’s the characters, their journey, their relationships. The other stuff won’t change that. So regardless of the rating, the story, essentially, is the story. I won’t be able to satisfy ALL fans, but hopefully more fans than less. Keep commenting! xoxo, Mel

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4 Responses to “Melissa Rosenberg comments on Breaking Dawn Rating”

  1. Cayla

    12. Apr, 2010

    yes, you are correct about Breaking Dawn being about the characters, but also remember most fans are usually not the majority of fans who live and breath twilight. When we read the book, our heart and soul skips beats and thats what the movie should do also.

  2. KittyC

    16. Apr, 2010

    I am very disappointed in Ms. Rosenberg’s screenplay adaptations. Edward in the books is kind, generous, loving, caring, funny, sensitive not only to Bella, but to everyone, including and in some instances, especially Jacob. In the movies he is portrayed primarily as brooding and cautious and cold (pun not intended). When RobPatz is given some decent dialogue, he nails it everytime. I blame Ms. Rosenberg and also the idiotic editing that takes place. For instance, in Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke leaves in the stupid and completely irrelevant scene with Waylon, butt-crack Santa, but deleted the scene where Edward & Bella are in the forest and he tells her that “her number was up the day he met her”. You tell me which was more relevant and which would we have rather seen???? Also, there was a scene where Emmett tells Edward that “Bella is not one of us us”. Now that’s just scenes we know about. There are so many wonderful and poignant scenes in the books that never made into the movies at all. In New Moon, Weitz cut a scene where Edward is explaining to Bella why she would be better of with someone like Mike cuz if she got a paper cut the worst thing that might happen is they wouldn’t be able to find a bandage and that if she stumbled into some china and got a bad cut the worst that would happen is she’d get blood on the seats of the car on the way to the emergency room and that her boyfriend wouldn’t have thrown her into the plates to keep his brother from killing her. All cut out. Now, obviously, in that case, Ms. Rosenberg did give Edward some lines from the book that made it more understandable why he felt he had to leave Bella. But, altogether I have to say, that the movies leave out too much. Having said all that now, I have seen both movies more times than I can count (and this is from someone who almost never reads a book or watches a movie more than once!) and I know I’ll watch them both back-to-back at least once more this weekend. I’m so hoping that Eclipse is much much better, these adaptations could be GREAT, not just OK.

  3. KittyC

    16. Apr, 2010

    Also, I read somewhere that the reason they try to keep movies to 2 hours or less is so they can be shown more often each day in the theaters. I am really concerned that they still feel the need to do this, I can see the reasoning with Twilight because they perhaps did not know what a phenomonen they had and maybe even with New Moon, but there is no excuse to do this now, not with Eclipse and certainly Breaking Dawn needs to be 2 movies of at least 2-1/2 or more hours. I think, we as fans, deserve it. I think we have proved that not only will we go to see the movies in the theater, but we will go several times and take people with us as well as show up for midnight DVD release parties in the millions all around the world.

  4. Julie

    28. Apr, 2010

    The only thing I have to say to Melissa is STICK TO THE BOOK. We fans want the story told by the book not by what you think should be. Twilight was so off book you ruined it and thank God you wised up and stuck with the book in New Moon, and it looks like you did the same with Eclipse. Learn from your mistakes STICK TO THE BOOK!