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7 Things You Should Know About The Twilight Saga


it’s romantic
it’s huge and after the long wait new
moon is coming to the big screen welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
revealing 7 things you may not know
about the Twilight franchise number one
the franchise the Twilight films are
based on the four award-winning and very
popular vampire romance novels written
by Stephenie Meyer the story revolves
around teenage girl Bella Swan and are
moved to Forks Washington to be with her
dad alright bring him in the very
mysterious vampire Edward Cullen is
unexplainably drawn to Bella for most of
the series the handsome werewolf Jacob
black competes for Bella’s affection and
thus the love triangle begins guess I’ll
see you around Bella
number two the vampires the vampires in
the Twilight series differ from those
and traditional vampire stories in
Twilight they are unharmed by garlic
holy items or wooden stakes they have
reflections and are able to venture out
in daylight however their skin sparkles
like diamonds when hit by the sunlight
which is why the Cullen family has
chosen Forks Washington it is rarely
sunny and Forks beautiful this is the
skin of a killer bone the Cullen clam
differs from most vampires as they are
vegetarians and have renounced the act
of drinking human blood
number 3 vampire government and loss in
Twilight vampires are ruled by the
Volturi they are elite vampires who
oversee and regulate the vampire
population if their rules are broken
they take action and destroy those who
do not obey you already know what you’re
going to do she knows too much they have
forbidden the birth of newborn vampires
this is to avoid the creation of armies
and because new vampires can’t control
their thirst and go on a killing spree
which draws attention to the vampire
population it is also a law that humans
cannot know about the vampire world
Bala’s knowledge puts her and the Cullen
clan in constant danger that way she is
part of this family now number 4 the
werewolves the werewolves in Twilight
are the descendants of a shapeshifter
as such they can take any form though
they choose that of a wolf the
werewolves are faster than the vampires
extremely strong and heal quickly
number five authors inspiration the
author Stephenie Meyer has acknowledged
that her series takes much of their
structure and themes from classic novels
such as Pride and Prejudice a Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet Meyer
said that the idea for the series first
came to her in a dream she admits that
her faith as a Mormon has influenced the
underlying principles of her stories as
demonstrated by the book’s cover which
portrays the forbidden fruit from the
Genisys however myers does not admit to
promoting values of sexual abstinence or
spiritual purity according to her the
series is about life not death and love
not lust number six the phenomenon
Twilight has attracted a huge fan base
comprised primarily by teenage girls we
however the series also has developed
the wider appeal as its author has been
compared with the likes of JK Rowling of
the Harry Potter franchise economically
Twilight has bolstered the town of forks
Washington with over 8,000 fans making
the pilgrimage to visit the book setting
each month number 7 the future of the
series Meyer and a dozen chapters of a
companion book to Twilight which retells
the events of the first novel from the
perspective of vampire Edward Cullen
these chapters have been available on
our web site for fans to read Maier
plans to produce similar pieces that
reveal the perspectives of the other
main characters after new moon hits
theaters fans can expect the movie
series to continue with adaptations of
the last two novels Eclipse and Breaking
Dawn I don’t want to be the monster
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