Things you might have missed from New Moon

Now that you have seen New Moon, did you miss out on some things that were changed? Did you see Edward’s new Volvo? Or perhaps the extended scenes of Victoria? Nevertheless, MTV list down five things that you may have missed from the movie. Here is an excerpt:

Edward’s Chameleon-Esque Car
If his lousy parking job distracted you, perhaps you didn’t notice that when Edward pulled into Forks High, his famed Volvo was no longer gray, as it was in the novels and the first movie. Hey, Chris Weitz, what gives? “I’ve taken a real spanking for this, a lot of heat,” the director explained. “I’ll tell you exactly why: Volvo wanted to give us a new, different car so I didn’t want to paint it exactly the same silver color, because then [Twilighters] would be saying, ‘Why are they trying to say that it’s the same car; it’s obviously not.’ So, I thought, ‘Well, I’ll choose a new color!’ And I thought I would choose slate black, not a reflective black, because it actually absorbs light and it would reflect the mood and melancholy and depression [of his character]. I know I got it wrong, I apologize for that. But that is my reasoning.”

A Newly Visible Victoria
In Stephenie Meyer’s “New Moon” novel, the vengeful nomad Victoria is more of a long-distance threat than a regularly glimpsed monster. So, why is it that the movie has her lurking in the woods, swimming in the water and even killing a character? “Well, movies are such a visual medium,” explained screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who also created a scene with Victoria driving that was ultimately cut after being filmed. “To just be talking about Victoria, or to be hearing about her, isn’t visceral enough. You have to actually see her and see the threat that she is; I wanted to keep her alive throughout, so that you knew that the danger to Bella was alive. I also had so much fun writing for her — there are a couple of action moments in the middle of the movie that are really fun, and I really wanted to have her in there. It also keeps the pacing of the movie, to see her and to have those conflicts.”

Grandma Is a Bloodsucker
As die-hard Twi-hards know, Chris Weitz’s grandmother was an actress in one of the first “Dracula” films and is still going strong at age 99; his mother acted for two decades and was nominated for an Oscar in 1960. Since the movie opens with Bella seeing her own grandmother, why didn’t Weitz offer one of his own family members the chance to act again? “How kind,” he said at the thought. “But I think it would have been difficult for me to say, ‘Mom, we would like you to play a woman who is so old that she horrifies Bella when she recognizes herself in the mirror’ — I think [my Mom] has put movies behind her for good. And now, she just raises me and my brother.”

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