PopSugar: Melissa Rosenberg’s Vision for Breaking Dawn
Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by AmyO in News
PopSugar talked to Melissa Rosenberg about Breaking Dawn being two films, how gory it will be, responsibility to the fans, Stephenie Meyer and more.
PS: We’ve heard there are some scenes you want to avoid showing on screen in Breaking Dawn. For example, Bella giving birth. Can you tell us why?
MR: That was a misquote. The childbirth — all the scenes, I feel — should be on screen. I think perhaps what I was referring to was, would we actually see Edward’s teeth through the placenta? I don’t think so. I don’t think we need to see that, and if someone needs to see that, I think they should take a look at that. [Laughs.] I believe it will be implied, but I don’t think we’ll see teeth in the placenta.
PS: What responsibility do you feel toward the fans? Are they on your mind during the writing process?
MR: The responsibility I feel to the fans? Well, there’s one: making them happy, of course. I want people to enjoy the movie and not feel that I killed their favorite novel! But what I’ve realized is, you can’t satisfy all the people. But the real weight that I feel is a very heavy responsibility, knowing that a lot of women and young girls are seeing this, and watching to make sure that what’s portrayed in the film is that Bella’s a strong female role model. That the messages they’re getting are positive ones.
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4 Responses to “PopSugar: Melissa Rosenberg’s Vision for Breaking Dawn”
Stephanie
13. Jul, 2010
I wish MR would write Bella the way she actually is in the books!!!!!!!! If she botches Bella in BD the way she has in Eclipse it would be such a let down! Get a clue, MR. Cast your agendas aside and write the true Bella this time, please! We read and wanted more of Stephenie’s Bella, not yours I’m afraid.
wolfgirl40
13. Jul, 2010
Bella is a fictional charecter and as such is subject to interpretation. There is only so much of a charecter you can show when you are working with books that are over 500 pages and only 2 hrs of movie. I consider the books and the movies as Twilight in two different universes. Some of the changes from the book that come into the movie make it better in my opinion and some of them worse but whichever, I would not presume to know the charecter of Bella better than her author SM. If she is satisfied, then I am satisfied
EdenC
14. Jul, 2010
I am not as excited as I might be about Breaking Dawn because of the disappointment with Eclipse. I completely understand that when you’re writing a screenplay for a 2 hour movie from a 600+ page book, things must be changed and condensed. I understand that concept. I do not understand making unnecessary and clumsy changes. The proposal as written in the book was elegant and perfect. Edward says “Isabella Swan, I promise to love you forever-every day of forever. Will you marry me?” Perfect. Changing it to “…will you do the extradinary honor of marrying me?” Clumsy. The last scene was so awful I almost walked out. Before MR has Bella start her little (take that Edward) speech, Bella gets to her feet and backs away from Edward (rises above and away from Edward!) and proceeds to humiliate him (once again) by telling him “Oh by the way it’s not about you and never has been, it’s always been about ME (paraphrased of course). HELLO, MELISSA ROSENBERG – IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ALL ABOUT EDWARD!!!!!!!!!! MR has said that she is glad that Breaking Dawn will be 2 movies because that gives her more opportunity to include her own interpretation of the book. I am much more excited to see Bel Ami and Water For Elephants which will be released next year, because those scripts do not feel it necessary to make some sort of feminist statement and won’t be emasculating the male lead’s character. For me, it’s all about Rob Pattinson now anyway. I think Summit needs to read what some of us fans are saying.
Stephanie
18. Jul, 2010
EdenC, you NAILED it!!!!!! Thank you!!!!