Submitted by smkjohnson86 on 02/01/2010 03:12 PM Flag This Paper
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I like most people loved the book before I even seen the movie. The book of course is five hundred plus words. The movie is just around 2 hours so the movie had to leave out some scenes and shorten roles in order to fit the time limit. So after hours of reading and watching the movie a thousand times I feel safe to compare and contrast the differences I found. First lets start with the book and then finish with the movie.
In the book the biggest difference is the three vampires who only show up when Bella is playing baseball with the Cullens. In the book, Bella and Edward met, and were both immediately intrigued by the other just from the first sight. After the van incident, they were hostile but still couldn't keep themselves from wanting to be close to the other. And then, over a while, tensions give. There are days and days and details upon details describing how these two find themselves unexplainably and helplessly in love with each other, no matter what. -In the book, vampires glow in the daylight so much that they can't even go out in public without the most oblivious person seeing this phenomenon. But in the book, Tyler asks Angela. In Midnight Sun, there is a whole chapter where Edward purposely convinces Tyler to do this as Edward's gift for Angela. In the book (and in Midnight Sun), it was a big deal that Bella was so ridiculously perceptive of Edward. She guessed he was a vampire, she was the only one to notice his eye change, she guessed he could read minds, she guessed he couldn't read hers. The book focuses drastically on the fact that Edward must take such a long time to ever be able to safely touch Bella, and he is always extremely hesitant of Bella's constant advances, much to her dismay. Mr. Banner (biology teacher) from the book has been re-named to Mr. Molina in the movie. In the book, Victoria has fire red hair, while James and Laurent have short, cropped hair. Also, Laurent is described as having olive toned skin.
In the movie the three...