Twilight fans crazy for ‘New Moon’

Watch TV on PC - 12,000 TV Channels and Movies For “Twilight” fans, the release of the movie “New Moon” will only whet their thirst for more vampire drama.

In “Twilight Saga: New Moon,” the love triangle deepens between Bella, a clumsy but deliciously scented human, and Jacob, a gentle boy by day who turns into a prowling werewolf by night. But then there’s Edward, a brooding vampire who glistens like diamonds in the sun and is haunting Bella.

“New Moon” is the second installment in a four-book series penned by Stephenie Meyer.

Some people said they fell in love with the series because of their fascination with vampires — and others simply fell in love with love.

Kate-lyn Dauphinas, 16, of Plainfield, said vampires are her favorite part.

She said she is most looking forward to the new animation and graphics created for the movie’s new werewolf characters, but is a little nervous to see the changes made to bring the novel to the silver screen.

“The first movie was really different from the book,” Dauphinas said. “I definitely like the books a lot better.”

Writing criticized

The writing in the books has been criticized by such people as horror-giant Stephen King, but fan Gabby Gromko, 18, of Sprague, still finds the series appealing.

“In all honesty, she’s not the best writer, but at the same time if she can engage so many people she has to have something,” Gromko said. “It’s not great literature, but it’s a great story and book.”

Sharlene Cini, 31, of North Stonington, said seeing the movie inspired her to read the books.

“It was the most descriptive, sensory book I’ve ever read,” Cini said.

Vampires were not the draw for Gromko. She said she enjoyed the fraught romance between Edward, the 104-year-old vampire who poses as a high school student, and Bella, whom he lures with his good looks and dangerous gravitas.

“When you read it, you feel like Bella,” Gromko said. “When she falls in love with Edward, you fall in love with Edward, and when she starts to like Jacob, you start to like Jacob. It’s a nice love story.”

In “New Moon,” Edward leaves Bella, who is pleading that he immortalize her with his venom so they can traverse the barriers of age and time — the stumbling block to their romance. But Edward is trying to ward off the temptation, so he flees to Italy with his vampire family.

“I’m not looking forward to it, because Edward leaves, and that’s the worst part,” Paras Pircada, 17, of Plainfield, said. “But I still think it should be good.”

Edward is played by the handsome heartthrob Robert Pattinson. Pircada and her friend, Nicole Tarranto, 17, of Plainfield, both said he was their favorite character.

Captured imagination

Vampires have captured the human imagination since Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, “Dracula” was published, Connecticut State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellatoni said.

He lectures frequently on vampires, because of his 1990 involvement in restoring a 1750 grave site in Griswold where 29 people were unearthed accidentally. One of the bodies was in a disrupted state — his femurs broken and crossed over his chest and his head was decapitated.

Upon research, Bellatoni discovered a Colonial belief in vampires thought to be the culprits of little-understood diseases such as tuberculosis.

“It’s not a new wave of interest,” said Bellatoni, who is busy lecturing during Halloween time. “It just has never ended. Of all the Halloween goblins, nothing attracts and continues to be a part of public imagination than the concept of vampires.”

But the fascination doesn’t need much history to explain the romantic allure.

“No one can love you forever but a vampire,” Gromko said.

Staff writer Emily Groves contributed to this story.

Source: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/entertainment/movies/x1158542209/-Twilight-fans-crazy-for-New-Moon

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