June 02, 2009
New Moon trailer
Comment: This trailer shows what could be the first 15 minutes of the movie. And...then what? What is New Moon about other than a single vampire/werewolf clash? Most people who aren't Twihards will want to know the movie's payoff, not its setup.
Interesting that they're having the Quileutes change into full wolves, not wolfmen. Does that have something to do with the Native actors? The state of the CGI special effects? Or did someone think Indians as subhuman beast-men might not be such a good idea?
For more on the subject, see Quileute Werewolves in Twilight.
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"Interesting that they're having the Quileutes change into full wolves, not wolfmen"
This is true to the original source books. In the context of the Twilight universe, the Quileute wolf characters are men who shift into wolves. There is no in-between, as per Lon Chaney and the classic "Wolfman" movies.
As such, the books distinguish the Quiluete wolf shapeshifters from "Werewolves", which are found in Europe, have almost been wiped out by the vampires, and have the expected full-moon situation.
In Twilight, everything's different. Their vampires sparkle in the sun. Real vampires burst into flames, leaving nothing but ash.
At least Meyer didn't make the Quileutes a lost tribe of werewolves or something equally lame. Actually, come ot think of it, every LDS SF author I've ever read has made parallels to the Book of Mormon.
Anon: As if there are such things as real vampires. But there are more "traditional" ideas. As in that the sun causes damage. The classic Universal movie Dracula just turns to a skeleton. Lestat got a neat sunburn. The vampires in the recent movie "Let the Right One In" go up in Bruckheimer fashion, like someone doused them with gasoline and lit it a match.
As for the Quileute werewolves, they are not even a never-lost tribe of them. The wolf ability is just a genetic trait found in some Quileutes.
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