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Twilight megathread
Twilight is a 2008 United States romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The protagonists of the film are Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, who are respectively played by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, respectively. The premise focuses on a teenage girl and a vampire who fall in love.
The project was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures before it was put into pre-production by Summit Entertainment. The novel was adapted for the screen by Melissa Rosenberg in late 2007, shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The film was primarily shot in Washington and Oregon in early 2008. Twilight was released in theaters on November 21, 2008,[4] and grossed US$35.7 million on its opening day.[5] As of May 30, 2009, the film has grossed US$382,133,300 in worldwide box office[3] and $148,771,132 in North American DVD sales.[6] The soundtrack was released on November 4, 2008.[7]
Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near Washington state's rugged coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from some feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and warns her against befriending him.
After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive. James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James' murder.
Filming and post-production
Principal photography took 44 days,[36] after more than a week of rehearsals,[37] and completed on May 2, 2008.[38] Similar to her directorial debut thirteen, Hardwicke opted for an extensive use of hand-held cinematography to make the film "feel real".[10][39] Meyer visited the production set three times, and was consulted on different aspects of the story;[40] she also has a brief cameo in the film.[41] Cast members who portrayed vampires avoided sunlight to make their skin pale, though makeup was also applied for that effect, and wore contact lenses: "We did the golden color because the Cullens have those golden eyes. And then, when we're hungry, we have to pop the black ones in," Facinelli explained.[10] They also participated in rehearsals with a dance choreographer and observed the physicality of different panthera to make their bodily movements more graceful.[10][30][42]
Scenes were filmed primarily in Portland, Oregon.[12] Stunt work was done mainly by the cast.[43] The fight sequence between Gigandet and Pattinson's characters in a ballet studio, which was filmed during the first week of production, involved a substantial amount of wire work due to the fact that the vampires in the story have superhuman strength and speed.[42] Gigandet incorporated some mixed martial arts fighting moves in this sequence, which also involved chicken and honey as substitutes for flesh.[44] Bella, the protagonist, is unconscious during these events, and since the novel is told from her point of view, such action sequences are illustrative and unique to the film.[27] Pattinson noted that maintaining one's center of gravity is difficult when doing wire work "because you have to really fight against it as well as letting it do what it needs to do."[27] Lefèvre found the experience disorienting since forward motion is out of one's control in such work.[27]
Instead of shooting at Forks High School itself, scenes taking place at the school were filmed at Kalama High School[45] and Madison High School.[46] Other scenes were also filmed in St. Helens, Oregon,[47] and Hardwicke conducted some reshooting in Pasadena, California, in August.[36][48] The studio intended to create a series of at least three films based on Meyer's books,[8] and Summit had optioned New Moon by October 2008.[49] Twilight was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 2008, but its release date was changed to November 21 after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was rescheduled for an opening in July 2009.[4] Two teaser trailers, as well as some additional scenes, were released for the film, as well as a final trailer which was released on October 9.[50][51] A 15-minute excerpt of Twilight was presented during the International Rome Film Festival in Italy.[52] The film received a rating of PG-13 from the Motion Picture Association of America for "some violence and a scene of sensuality".[53] It is rated 12A in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Comparison with the book
The filmmakers behind Twilight worked to create a film that was as faithful to the book as they thought possible when converting the story to another medium, with producer Greg Mooradian saying, "It's very important to distinguish that we're making a separate piece of art that obviously is going to remain very, very faithful to the book.... But at the same time, we have a separate responsibility to make the best movie you can make."[60] In order to ensure a faithful adaptation, author Stephenie Meyer was kept very involved in the production process, having been invited to visit the set during filming and even asked to give notes on the script and on a rough cut of the film.[61] Of this process, Meyer said, "It was a really pleasant exchange [between me and the filmmakers] from the beginning, which I think is not very typical. They were really interested in my ideas,"[62] and, "...they kept me in the loop and with the script, they let me see it and said, 'What are your thoughts?'... They let me have input on it and I think they took 90 percent of what I said and just incorporated it right in to the script."[61] Meyer fought for one line in particular, one of the most well-known from the book about "the lion and the lamb", to be kept verbatim in the movie: "I actually think the way Melissa [Rosenberg] wrote it sounded better for the movie...but the problem is that line is actually tattooed on peoples' bodies... But I said, 'You know, if you take that one and change it, that's a potential backlash situation.'"[61] Meyer was even invited to create a written list of things that could not be changed for the film, such as giving the vampires fangs or killing characters who don't die in the book, that the studio agreed to follow.[61][62] The consensus among critics is that the filmmakers succeeded in making a film that is very faithful to its source material,[63][64] with one reviewer stating that, with a few exceptions, "Twilight the movie is unerringly faithful to the source without being hamstrung by it."[65]
They could have filmed [the script developed when the project was at Paramount] and not called it Twilight because it had nothing to do with the book... When Summit [Entertainment] came into the picture, they were so open to letting us make rules for them, like "Okay, Bella cannot be a track star. Bella cannot have a gun or night vision goggles. And, no jet skis...."
—Twilight author Stephenie Meyer[18]
However, as is most often the case with book-to-film adaptations, differences exist between the movie and original source material. Certain scenes from the book were cut from the film, such as a biology room scene where Bella's class does blood typing. Hardwicke explains, "Well [the book is] almost 500 pages — you do have to do the sweetened condensed milk version of that.... We already have two scenes in biology: the first time they're in there and then the second time when they connect. For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over. So that's not in there."[66] The settings of certain conversations in the book were also changed to make the scenes more "visually dynamic" on-screen, such as Bella revealing that she knows Edward is a vampire in a meadow in the film, as opposed to in Edward's car in the novel.[66] A biology field trip scene is added to the movie, in order to condense the moments of Bella's frustration at trying to explain how Edward saved her from being crushed by a van.[60] One of the largest changes was the introduction of the villainous vampires much earlier in the film than they appear in the book, with Rosenberg explaining that, "you don't really see James and the other villains until to the last quarter of the book, which really won't work for a movie. You need that ominous tension right off the bat. We needed to see them and that impending danger from the start. And so I had to create back story for them, what they were up to, to flesh them out a bit as characters."[23] Rosenberg also combined some of the human high school students, with Lauren Mallory and Jessica Stanley becoming the character of Jessica in the movie, and a "compilation of a couple of different human characters" becoming Eric Yorkie.[24] About these variances from the book, Mooradian stated, "I think we did a really judicious job of distilling [the book]. Our greatest critic, Stephenie Meyer, loves the screenplay, and that tells me that we made all the right choices in terms of what to keep and what to lose. Invariably, you're going to lose bits and pieces that certain members of the audience are going to desperately want to see, but there's just a reality that we're not making 'Twilight: The Book' the movie."[60]
As of April 23, 2009, the film has made $191,465,414 in the United States and Canada, and a further $188,447,533 in international territories for a total of $379,912,947 worldwide.[3]
Critical reception
Based on 187 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes as of February 14, 2009, the film has received an overall "Rotten" rating of 49%, with a weighted average score of 5.5/10.[70] In describing the critical consensus, it stated: "Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated."[70] By comparison, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 56 from the 37 reviews it collected, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[71] New York Press critic Armond White called the film "a genuine pop classic",[72] and praised Hardwicke for turning "Meyer's book series into a Brontë-esque vision."[73] Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "I saw it at a sneak preview. Last time I saw a movie in that same theater, the audience welcomed it as an opportunity to catch up on gossip, texting, and laughing at private jokes. This time the audience was rapt with attention".[74] In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, "Twilight is unabashedly a romance. All the story's inherent silliness aside, it is intent on conveying the magic of meeting that one special person you've been waiting for. Maybe it is possible to be 13 and female for a few hours after all".[75] USA Today gave the film two out of four stars and Claudia Puig wrote, "Meyer is said to have been involved in the production of Twilight, but her novel was substantially more absorbing than the unintentionally funny and quickly forgettable film".[76] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman praised Hardwicke's direction: "She has reconjured Meyer's novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects".[77]
I thought thart Twilight wasnt too bad and that everyone should stop bitching about how its no good
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Don't forget Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anyone who disagrees with me on this point can
[img]http://www.noncombatant.org/trove/arnold-shut-fuck-up.jpg[/img]
Bob Motherfucking Dylan.
fuckin' Erwin Rommel was a pretty badass dude
[img]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rommel3.jpg[/img]
[i]"In the absence of orders...find something and kill it."[/i]
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16140408]
[u]Cab Driver Cuts Off Own Head[/u]
[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090711/tuk-cab-driver-cuts-his-own-head-off-in-45dbed5.html]The Story[/url]
This traumatically happened in a suicide obviously [highlight](may he rest in piece)[/highlight], but this man is badass!
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More like, rest in pieces :cool:
*da-dum-TISHHHHHH*
John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
[img]http://www.voicingouropinions.com/wp-content/uploads/pershing.jpg[/img]
he made sure every muslim he killed went straight to hell
[url=http://h.imagehost.org/view/0048/Edgein][img]http://h.imagehost.org/0048/Edgein.jpg[/img][/url]
If you can make clothing out of human skin you're pretty badass
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein[/url]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on his story
[QUOTE=Drcake;16143858][url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2445513/Royal-Marine-who-jumped-on-grenade-awarded-George-Cross.html[/url]
jumped on a grenade and walked away[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck that is lucky.
[QUOTE=pointyface;16144474]John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
[img]http://www.voicingouropinions.com/wp-content/uploads/pershing.jpg[/img]
he made sure every muslim he killed went straight to hell[/QUOTE]
Too bad this would never be accepted in today's society :frown:
[QUOTE=pointyface;16144474]John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
[img]http://www.voicingouropinions.com/wp-content/uploads/pershing.jpg[/img]
he made sure every muslim he killed went straight to hell[/QUOTE]
Wow, I sure hope someone will step up and do something like that these days.
If i only had the manpower to do it..
[QUOTE=kevlar jens;16144732]Too bad this would never be accepted in today's society :frown:[/QUOTE]
is sending your enemy directly to hell covered by the geneva convention?
Marshal Michel Ney. A french marshal during napoleons time.
When he was fighting in Waterloo 1815, he was fighting so much that he needed 5 horses to continue the fight because everytime during fight his horses got shot underneath them. But he refused to stop the fighting.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney[/url]
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Oh and on his execution he refused to wear a blindfold and gave the shooting command himself. Now that's badass.
[QUOTE=Urog;16144328]fuckin' Erwin Rommel was a pretty badass dude
[img]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rommel3.jpg[/img]
[i]"In the absence of orders...find something and kill it."[/i][/QUOTE]
Holy shit that quote is by far now in my top five best quotes of all time.
I'll put it next to "These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks. "
[url]http://www.bestgore.com/electrocution/high-voltage-electrocution-instant-death-video/[/url] this guy is a hero
[QUOTE=Prismatex;16140425]You missed one.
[B]Audie Murphy[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Audie_Murphy_uniform_medals.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Motherfucking badass of the century.
[QUOTE=Case-Sensitive;16145451][url]http://www.bestgore.com/electrocution/high-voltage-electrocution-instant-death-video/[/url] this guy is a hero[/QUOTE]
haha, what a idiot. what was he trying to pull off really?
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16140408]
[u]Mata Hari Killed 50,000 Men With Her Vagina[/u]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari#Double_agent]The Story[/url]
She slept with many high ranking allied officers and caused the death of 50,000 men, badass!
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How is a Nazi loving slut badass?
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;16145975]How is a Nazi loving slut badass?[/QUOTE]
Could you kill 50,000 men with your vagina?
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16146001]Could you kill 50,000 men with your vagina?[/QUOTE]
I guess if indirectly killing people counts as badass, that makes Hitler 120 times more badass than her.
Can someone please explain to me the significance of Rad Heroman.
I say that out loud and it doesn't even sound that special.
Am I missing something?
General Pershing.
[quote]General Pershing was born September 13th, 1860 near Laclede, MS. he died July 15th, 1948 in Washington, DC.
Highlights of his life include:
1891 Professor of Military Science and Tactics University of Nebraska
1898 Serves in the Spanish-American War
1901 Awarded rank of Captain
1906 Promoted to rank of Brig. General
1909 Military Governor of Moro Province, Philippines
1916 Made Major General
1919 Promoted to General of the Armies
1921 Appointed Chief of Staff
1924 Retires from active duty Education West Point.
Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines by Muslim extremists. So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists, and had them tied to posts for execution. He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the, now horrified, terrorists.
Muslims detest pork, because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from Paradise (and those virgins), and doomed to hell.
The soldiers then soaked their bullets in the pigs' blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist's bodies, and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc. They let the 50th man go.
And for the next 42 years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack anywhere in the world. [/quote]
Dr. Leonid Rogozov
Self surgury in antarctica after he contracted appendicitus. He is a true Soviet hero! :ussr:
[img]http://www.doctorross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rogozovappendectomy2.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.doctorross.co.za/antarctica/self-operation-tracking-down-a-good-story[/url]
Please add this to the OP.
This website is a good resource for badasses: [url]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=SpasticPinoy;16140652]The Badass medal should be like a mushroom cloud with boobs for clouds and fucking held together with bacon.[/QUOTE]
You have a bad taste when it comes to badass sir. Bacon, as tasty as it is is Not badass, its just goood. it should be two boobs held together with barbwire, a grenade with a smileyface under that.
It should be a bear with flaming chainsaw arms riding a raptor with a chaingun in it's mouth on the backdrop of a line of tanks silhouetted against a mushroom cloud.
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;16146571]It should be a bear with flaming chainsaw arms riding a raptor with a chaingun in it's mouth on the backdrop of a line of tanks silhouetted against a mushroom cloud.[/QUOTE]
You win, mearly for creativity and pure randomness added to badassery.
Carlos Hathcock
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Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942 – February 23, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills.
He has, in recent years, also had the honor of having a rifle named after him, a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather.
[img]http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:7KZasUIPdYOAmM:http://sheppardsports.com/whiteFeather.jpg[/img]
A sniper range is also named for Hathcock at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
In 1967 Hathcock set the record for the 20th century's longest combat kill with a Browning M2 .50 BMG machine gun mounting a telescopic sight. The distance was 2,286 meters (2,500 yd / 1.420 mi). Hathcock was one of several individuals to utilize the Browning M2 machine gun in the sniping role. This success led to the adoption of the .50 BMG cartridge as a viable anti-personnel and anti-equipment sniper round. Sniper rifles have since been designed around and chambered in this caliber.
[img]http://www.bobtuley.com/50bmg914.jpg[/img]
On March 9, 2007 the rifle and pistol complex at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar was officially renamed the Carlos Hathcock Range Complex.
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