Me again! Two posts in two days.... aren't you lucky! I apologise in advance for how epic-ly long this post is, BTW. (and, if you haven't read the first one, click here.)
So, today I watched the six part Eclipse behind the scenes documentary - eighty-three minutes of awesomeness. I had to watch it twice, just to be able to bring you this post. I'm sure you'll appreciate the sacrifice I made for you. I wasn't gonna write a whole post about this but as I tweeted all the new fun things I learned, I realised I best consolidate yesterday's offering.
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| This post should be subtitiled "David Slade is a fucking genious." |
Naturally, there are spoilers ahead...
1. Introducing David Slade
This man is a fucking adorkable inspirational piece of awesomeness. For real. It's evident through all six parts of the doco that he kept the fans' interest and expectations at heart, and I personally think he delivered. Let's just leave the wig *issue* out of this, for now.
2. Pre-production: Setting the stage
Actors' fight training FTMFW! Loved watching them with their aerobics classes, choreographed right hooks and karate kicks, etc. JRath and PFach look the cutest, I reckon - and of course there's hobo Rob (natch) who wears a beanie when working out. Sweaty much, Rob? Especially when he's running on the giant 'hamster wheel' in a full body harness. And boy, can these guys move! Kellan explains how hard it is to run as fast as you can without appearing to be breathless, given that vamps don't need to breathe. Tricky!
Then, we fast forward past some house building, mountain top setting etc... to the next interesting bit. The ring. The fugly bloody ring. SMeyer is interviewed, saying how it needed to be 'just so' and they show the two previous prototypes, which I thought were SO much nicer than the end product! Which, BTW, is 14ct gold with cubic zirconias.
3. The heart of Eclipse
So this is all about Bella and Edward and how they got this far. First we get a bit of a recap of Twilight and New Moon. Then SMeyer & MRose go on and on about Bella's choice, yadda yadda... to cut to the chase, this is the bit where Kristen and Rob are interviewed! Squee! Fairly similar to stuff we've seen them do in press junkets, nothing earth shattering. A couple of minutes in, Rob's velvety voice just melted me, FTR. Who even knows what he was talking about. Emotions for Bella and shit... While he's being inteviewed he has the shirt and tie from graduation on.... hawt. Oh yeah, sorry, about the doco... There's also some interesting stuff about Jasper and Rosalie's backstories.
4. The dark side of Eclipse
All about Victoria, Riley and the newborns. I learnt a fair bit about David Slade in this bit too, and how much his ideas influenced the outcome of the film and how closely he worked with SMeyer. Most interesting bit is BDH's idea to put on a 'little-girl voice' for Victoria. Nice. I love getting a chance to hear the actors with their real accents and (apart from Rob, of course) the greatest example is Xavier, with his Aussie accent, I have so much respect for how they put on different accents for characters.
5. Lights, camera, action
David Slade starts this section by talking about how epic Eclipse is and how it was a massive challenge. He describes lots of the themes, technicalities of colours, etc. We then progress through the film in chronological order with a few tidbits here and there. Highlights: the newborns all wore wetsuits under their clothes to try and keep warm when they were wet. But it failed, they were freezing. Kristen says that she and Rob laugh more in the serious scenes that when they're supposed to be 'light and funny'. Wyck reckons R&K are so comfortable in their characters now that they just 'zip on their Bella & Edward suits'. Ahh, yeah, that could be it. But I have a better idea about why they have such good 'rapport'...
Duing this whole section of the doco it keeps flicking on to 'Taylor time' a segment during which we see Taytay doing various random shit such as throwing a football, and randomly having David's assistant throw grapes into his mouth from a distance. On more than one occasion. Ohhkay. Cos that was neccesary. These guys must get REAL bored onset.
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| I didn't say he wasn't talented. |
Then we move to the wolfpack at the scene at Emily's. Bronson was eating a piece of chicken, and for consistency, had to keep that piece of chicken for 25 takes. He knew it was his fault for choosing to eat chicken in the shot, but ended up being sick from too much. Ewww. Then there's some shit about the Volturi blah, blah, blah. Oh, and the next interesting thing. Taylor carried Kristen, for real, in that whole scene in the woods. ALL DAY. That deserves some credit. There was supposed to be some fancy seat thingy for her but it 'didn't look natural enough'. Poor guy!
Fast forward to the mountain top scene and we see some stuff about the winches and hoists for the fight. It's really well done and quite interesting. Quote of the whole doco, BDH: "Just had my neck bitten off by Edward Cullen. Sad day for Victoria, wonderful moment for Bryce Dallas Howard, with Robert Pattinson's lips on my neck... umm, I'm married." Brilliant. Lucky bitch.
6. Post-production: leaps in technology
This section goes over all the CGI, and fancy imagery shit. Interesting, but the bit I liked the most was how they did the 'magic carpet' running in the ravine scene, and also the fights. The highlight of the whole documentary, however, is 75 minutes in to the doco (if you 'play all') here we have.... Dancing Rob! He's off camera while the Cullens are fight training and he's goofing off with Kellan. Hawt. Had to watch that a couple of times...
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Not too long to go now before you all get your grubby little hands on your copy of the DVD... enjoy!
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