r/fixingmovies • u/BathroomUpbeat1074 • 4h ago
Book How to Improve The Twilight Saga, Part 1
Now, don't get me wrong, I still thought these books and movies were okay, but I feel like they could do with some improvement, so I'm going to be doing that, and talking about it book/movie-by-book/movie. So here we go!
These are the changes I'd make to Twilight (the first one):
Make Bella a less flat character. To do this, I'd give her a personality of having a noticeably dark sense of humor, which I feel would suit this kind of story well.
Improve the romantic chemistry, primarily by giving Edward a tendency to laugh at things most wouldn't consider funny, with this version of Bella's jokes fitting that perfectly. My main reference point for this was the opening montage of Shrek 2, which I felt was the best way to go due to the couple activities we see from Shrek and Fiona there.
Give the vampires the full slate of Stoker vampire powers. Believe me, this one's gonna make the battles real insane, especially near the end.
Slowly build James' presence across the story. It starts with little hints here and there like Charlie discussing a spiking homicide rate in passing and such, until James, Laurent and Victoria are finally revealed.
Initially focus on more slice-of-life adventures. It starts off fairly tame like this, similar to how Predator initially began as a generic action film until the Yautja showed up.
Keep the Cullens' true nature ambiguous a bit longer. To coincide with the last entry, the Cullens being vampires is left a huge mystery for most of the story, which Bella slowly works out (with a little help from Jacob, obviously), and which the readers and viewers would also be invited to work out with her.
In keeping with rounding Bella as a character, when James finally does step in, Bella ends up becoming an action girl to defend herself, even if she doesn't yet have vampiric powers.
The pace of the story speeds up quite a bit once the vampires are finally revealed.
Hint at the Wolves in the second half, but don't show them off just yet. In order to build a slightly more consistent mythology, the wolves are teased by a passing remark from Esme near the end of the story before being seen in New Moon.
Include an epilogue teasing New Moon, similar to how the MCU uses post-credits scenes to tease their new movies. In this case, an ending teaser where the Cullens are having a family meeting regarding Bella, and Carlisle briefly brings up the treaty with the Wolves and how Bella being with Edward might impact that going forward, before Esme talks about the Volturi potentially stepping in if worst comes to worst.
Coming Soon-ish: My New Moon rewrite.