I chanced upon the Twilight dvd while at the esplanade library last week. Isn't it amazing that we have a library that one can borrow videos, cds and movie screenplays etc. Personally, I am a cd and dvd collector even though one can easily download all these itunes and videos online. Perhaps its the ownership thingy. I prefer to have my favourite movies in my hands, read and reread whatever inserts there are and then there is the all time bonus stuff like subtitles (a must esp for french movies), and the making of the movie, interviews with casts etc etc.
I watched Twilight twice and the accompanying bonus dvd once. I loved it!! It brought back fond memories when I was young (pre-teens to late teens) and deeply obsessed with The Dark Forces, Twilight Zone, and later chilling vampire tales by Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire was to me a classic, I had the Laser Disc(LD) then costing $50 and nothing haunted me like the jealous vampire girl Claudia.
In my girlish and womanish fantasies, yes, who would resist a eternally handsome, young, charming seducer with superhero capabilities. He can protect you yet there was this mysteriously dark sensuous pull towards death versus the quest for true love???????? Maybe this explains my penchant for handsome musical beings. And Edward Cullen (actually more Robert Pattinson) is yet another handsome talented UK actor, only 24 who sings well and composes on the piano and the guitar. The scene and the ending bonus of him playing the Kawai baby grand was totally mesmerising to me. (And I actually dreamt of a man in white tuxedo playing a white grand in a bright room when i was in my youth and did end up marrying Yan, a pianist.)
"I think Edward plays the piano better than daddy." I casually commented but Yan's number one supporter protested," Nonsense, Daddy is better than him and also Lang Lang!!!!!!!!" Oh...Lang Lang is definitely way up there, thanks to his strict but sacrificial parents, his driving desire to be No 1 and pretty much God watching over his every step, blessing him with plentiful favours and opportunities. We will be going to see him perform at the esplanade concert hall next year, hopefully without paying sky-high concert prices for the entire family. The Berliner Phiharmonic is coming here with Sir Simon Rattle late this year and the most expensive ticket will cost $680, while the most affordable at $80 will be snapped up in no time since it is very limited in quantity.
I believe that my fondness of such books ultimately influenced my being drawn to melancholic, musically inclined handsome guys who seemed impossible, unavailable, aloof and mysterious. Looking back, this could be why I allowed myself to fall for Wilson. He seemed so cold-blooded and inaccessible most of the time. Yet I was totally drawn to him when he sang alongside me in the church worship team for 2 years and tried to play Ballade Pour Adeline for me. Unfortunately, complications arose when the leadership tried to "make things happen" etc. Nevertheless, I thank God, that horrible, all too painful episode of my life was ten year past and I am blest with someone better, a male buddy. (My Jacob???? friendly, trustworthy, always available.)
Wait a minute!!! I am no Bella. I am certainly not shy nor am I clumsy though I know I am courageous when it comes to relationships yet squeamish with all things blood, shit and vomit. Yet like her, I am willing to follow my instincts and plunge myself into the deep sea of eternal love when I know the right person.
It's funny, as a kid I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula with my mother and now I am watching Twilight with my daughter.OH!!! i thought the daddy vampire is quite cute, that Dr Carlisle, it can only mean one thing, I am more matured now!!!!!. Afterall, Robert Pattinson is more than a decade younger than moi. Still, he makes the movie very compelling and I can't wait to watch New Moon, Eclipse and whatever they are filming now- Breaking Dawn.
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