'Breaking Dawn ? Part 2': Why that twist ending is a good thing

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 2' apparently has a (slight) twist ending. Good for the creative team for feeling free to put their own stamp on the story.

By Molly Driscoll,?Staff writer / November 23, 2012

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 2' was directed by Bill Condon.

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(Warning: Spoilers for part of ?The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 2" ahead.)

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After stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner took part in various interviews as part of a "Breaking Dawn" media blitz, the Internet started buzzing about hints the actors had dropped about a twist in the last movie of the ?Twilight? series. A twist? There was no twist in the books. Would something be different? Would the ending be changed? Would protagonist Bella Swan (Stewart) end up with someone besides her vampire husband Edward (Pattinson)? What did it mean?

And now the movie, ?The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 2? (ask film critics how happy they are not to have to type that out anymore) has been released, and it was discovered that, while there was a twist, it didn?t affect the outcome of the story as a whole, though it did get the audience on the edge of their seats.

You see, to make a very long story short, the end of ?Dawn? has Bella, Edward, and their vampire family facing off against evil vampires. At one point, it looks like a fight begins and Edward?s foster father, one of his foster brothers, and the leader of the evil vampires, among others, bite the dust (no pun intended) in the attack. Then it turns out that this was all a vision, a hypothetical situation, if you will. One of the good vampires, who can see the future, has shown the vision to the leader of the evil vampires to show him what the cost of the two sides fighting would be. This helps convince the head evil vampire (Michael Sheen, who by all accounts goes gloriously crazy as bad vampire Aro in this movie) to call off the battle.

Of course, while this scene was not actually a change to the plotline (it?s referenced in the books that Aro is made to see the vision, though the reader only hears about it afterwards), some fans still didn?t like it.

My take? Good for them for changing SOMETHING (even if, comparing it to the text, it?s an incredibly small change).

I know that adapting a book into a film is an incredibly delicate balance, even more so when the book has a devoted fanbase attached. But the director and the creative team behind him or her needs to feel free to create the best product, the best movie, that they can without it being obvious that they tied themselves to every word on the page of that book.

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