A Moleskine Goes to ‘Twilight’
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Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. (Photograph: Kimberley French)
Varsity’s Charlotte Runcie takes her moleskine to see Twilight: New Moon, and ends up paraphrasing as she “couldn’t take detailed notes in the screening, as a Moleskine at a festival of fantasy lust is terribly gauche.”
I confess: I went to see Twilight: New Moon on the day it came out, and I loved it. It’s one long, drawn out moment of sexual tension, helped along by plenty of rock-hard abs. (Team Jacob!) What’s not to love? But it doesn’t stop at eye candy. There’s a scene in this latest instalment of Stephanie Meyer’s sparkly vampiric restraint-epic where everything goes a bit meta. It’s about a third of the way through when lip-biting necrophiliac Bella Swan goes to see a zombie movie with her friend Jessica (who looks and acts like a refugee from High School Musical). As they leave the cinema we’re treated to Jessica’s opinions on the film, which mainly consist of her bemoaning its lack of ‘hot guys’ and showing derision for its supposed status as a metaphor for capitalism. Twilight, of course, is nothing but hot guys. Zombies… Vampires… D’you get it?
Read the rest of A Tweenage Twilight here.
Moleskiners…
something about moleskiners…