Today is a new release out on the official blog for Twilight, La Gazzetta di Forks, a new interview with Catherine Hardwicke and Stephenie Meyer:
Catherine, what has been important for you to remain faithful to world created by Stephenie?
CH: The first script was a foolish thing. In the first scene Bella was a champion of athletics. I have read and I thought: "This is not the protagonist of the book that I love." So we have tried to remain as faithful as possible to the book. The book is long, so we can not play every scene, but we made a version condensed milk with sugar. "
Stephenie, the actors chosen for the film to match your vision of Edward and Bella?
SM: Of course I have my mental picture, and unfortunately people can not get into my head and take that image to use it. But I'm surprised, especially for Rob, because the casting Edward was the hardest thing. I did not know if there was someone to interpret it. When I saw Rob for the first time I thought, "Yes, it can play a version of Edward. He really looks as a vampire. " And then on the set I saw him turn into Edward, and at that point all'Edward really looked like that in my head: it was a very strange, surreal and somewhat 'scary.
CH: As you can imagine, when one reads the description of Edward in the book, comes to mind: "Which actor could ever hold the comparison? "
SM: But look at the poster: that's Edward!
His pallor was accentuated by makeup?
CH: All the actors themselves up. Rob has not been exposed to the sun. And 'English: the sun is not there. It has a pale and beautiful skin naturally. And then of course it is difficult to Portland in the winter sun.
SM: Unless you're shooting a scene and do not want is sunny.
The best thing is that this story is told from a female perspective. A director, a screenwriter, an all-female point of view. It 'is important for you to bring out those voices?
SM: For me it was a natural thing to write from the perspective of the human female, why not think about what I was doing. I did not think "I want to encourage girl power." I wrote only for myself. And I am glad that the film has been entrusted to a woman because I think women see things differently. I'm glad that there are also many young men among the fans, because the girls have grown up reading books written by men. We give them to read at school, and so we learn male perspective, but the kids are not forced to read books written by girls, or watch films made by women. I think this is a good exchange of ideas.
CH: But I think Stephenie is also good to identify with the male point of view. Reading a part of Midnight Sun is well perceived the psychology of Edward. So there is a balance.
SM: If I had known the further development of the story, I probably would have started writing from Edward's point of view, because it is much more exciting when the vampires in the story. But a human female was easier to write for me.
Do you think this trend indicates a strong female perspective of our culture?
SM: It would be nice if it were so, no? It 's nice to ComicCon there were so many girls.
Bella is absolutely not the typical teenager. As defined by comparison with other teens?
SM: I think Bella is a teenager more normal than many think. It 's a bit reserved and taciturn, but many girls do not know anything about kung-fu, and if the aggredisse an attacker in an alley would not be able to kick him. When I was in high school I read a lot, was my main entertainment. And there are many people from the character a bit 'closed, which does not have a way of life "Prada," not attending an exclusive school in New York, where everyone is rich and famous. In normal people around there, and it is also why Bella likes to readers.
CH: I identified with much in his insecurities and the fact that it is so clumsy.
How did you communicate among yourselves? Catherine, how far you wanted to be independent? And Stephenie, how far you wanted to keep separate your book from the movie?
CH: I never thought "I want be independent: I wanted to work with what Stephenie had created, and do it to please everyone, and bring to life those characters. We tried to talk to Stephenie, but she was busy writing two other books.
SM: Every time Catherine was calling me, asking: "Where are you?" And I said, 'Oh, now I'm in London, "or" I'm in Detroit "and so on. It was a period full of commitments. But it was very kind to involve me in everything. She said, "you are thinking of doing so, what do you think?". I did not expect, because I had heard that it does not work like that, usually, in the film adaptations. My experience was probably the best I could expect. I'm pessimistic by nature, so I guess it would be all bad, and instead it was great. They were all very nice, they always asked for my opinion and they told me what was going on, I have always kept up to date.
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