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‘Twilight’ Tuesday: How Faithful Will The Movie Be To The Book? We Visit The Set To Find Out

‘Invariably, you’re going to lose bits and pieces that certain members of the audience are going to desperately want to see,’ producer Greg Mooradian says.

By Larry Carroll

PORTLAND, Oregon — Recently, MTV News marked a “Twilight Tuesday” by releasing an in-depth video from our visit to the upcoming film’s set, and more than a million viewers devoured details about the sacred scenes being re-created with care for director Catherine Hardwicke’s cameras.

As any Hollywood hotshot can tell you, every hit production deserves a sequel.

While Day One of our “Twilight” set visit was dominated with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson making googly eyes at each other in a meadow straight out of Stephenie Meyer’s written page, Day Two unveiled a cast and crew unafraid to experiment with new scenes, dialogue and even a super-cool Cullen family crest.

“We’re doing a scene where I’ve just seen [Edward] do a very inexplicable thing. … He stops a van from crushing me with his bare hands,” explained Stewart, the film’s Bella Swan.

Every good Twilighter remembers the moment early in the first novel when Edward Cullen is forced to reveal his superhuman powers in the school parking lot, instinctively saving the new student who has captured his heart. On the “Twilight” page, the moment leads to many paragraphs of anguished avoidance, as Bella tries to find an explanation (duh … he’s a vampire!) for the unexplainable.

In the film, those anguished early moments will be replaced by a field-trip scene that brings most of the major characters — including Jackson Rathbone’s Jasper and Kellan Lutz’s Emmett — together. On a school bus and in a greenhouse, the tension unfolds much more rapidly.

“There’s probably a few less biology scenes than there are in the book, and there are probably fewer at Charlie’s house, but mostly all the juicy stuff is there,” Hardwicke explained of some of the verbose “Twilight” scenes that have been condensed for the film. “We might not go to the biology classroom five times. Instead, we went three times.”

Discussing the field-trip scene, Stewart explained: “I come to him after he’s sort of blown me off and refused to tell me what’s going on. He again blows me off here. But it’s not just that I’m curious, like, ‘Oh, I want to know … what was that?’ Whatever that is, I need to be a part of it. He knows that. He sees it.

“It’s like Romeo and Juliet,” she explained of the Edward/Bella mutual attraction. “You can’t let anyone else know what’s going on, but you are compelled. And you have to see where it goes, period.”

During the afternoon of shooting, Portland’s insanely unpredictable weather dumped hail the size of golf balls all over the tin-roofed greenhouse that had Pattinson, Stewart, Gregory Tyree Boyce (as Tyler Crowley) and Anna Kendrick (as Jessica Stanley) acting out the scene alongside a dozen extras. As Hardwicke called “Action!” a new chapter of the “Twilight” saga unfurled:

“Hey Edward,” Bella says, walking up behind him as he continues to ignore her. “Really?”

“What was in Jacksonville?” Edward asks.

“How did you know about that?”

“You didn’t answer my question,” he replies.

“Well, you don’t answer any of mine,” Bella shoots back. “And you don’t even say ‘hi’ to me.”

Pausing for a moment, Edward replies: “Hi.”

After a sigh, Bella asks: “Are you gonna tell me how you stopped the van?”

“Yeah. I had an adrenaline rush,” he stumbles. “They’re very common. You can Google it.”

“Floridians — that’s what’s in Jacksonville,” she says, continuing to walk through the greenhouse and then stumbling, as the klutzy Bella often does.

“Watch where you walk. Sometimes it helps,” Edward teases. “Look, I’m sorry I’m being rude. I think it’s the best way.”

At this moment in the scene, Kendrick’s Jessica runs up and scares Edward away. “Bella!” she shrieks. “Guess who just asked me to the prom? I totally thought Mike was gonna ask you, actually. Um, it’s not gonna be weird though, right?”

“No, no. Zero weirdness,” Bella responds. “You guys are great together.”

“I know, right?”

Concluding the scene, Tyler Crowley sets off a sprinkler system, causing all the students to flee the greenhouse.

“Tyler!” Jessica screams. “What is wrong with you?”

Speaking about such scenes that go beyond the “Twilight” book, producer Greg Mooradian explained: “I think we did a really judicious job of distilling it. Our greatest critic, Stephenie Meyer, loves the screenplay, and that tells me that we made all the right choices in terms of what to keep and what to lose. Invariably, you’re going to lose bits and pieces that certain members of the audience are going to desperately want to see, but there’s just a reality that we’re not making ‘Twilight: The Book’ the movie.”

The presence of such scenes raises an interesting question that Hollywood has faced more and more in recent years: Do you stick to the source material verbatim and risk a poor cinematic fit like “Speed Racer,” or do you change things around so much that people wonder why “Miami Vice” even bothered to use its title? How do you walk the fine line between respect and reinvention?

“It’s very important to distinguish that we’re making a separate piece of art that obviously is going to remain very, very faithful to the book,” Mooradian added. “But at the same time, we have a separate responsibility to make the best movie you can make.”

Such innovation also includes the Cullen crest, another movie-only idea that gives the good guys a symbol, much like Superman’s “S” or Zorro’s “Z.” Boasting shamrocks and a lion, the symbol is sure to eventually appear on the T-shirts of Twilighters all over the world. When we were on set, however, it was limited to the jewelry adorning the stars.

“It’s not in the book,” explained Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen), showing us the crest on his ring. “It’s just something Catherine came up with, and we all thought it was pretty cool. We all decided what our character would wear, and I decided that mine would wear a ring and it would double as a wedding ring. Some characters thought, ‘Well, I’ll have a choker.’ And some thought, ‘Well, I’ll wear a wristband.’ So they had them all made. It’s pretty cool.”

Head over to the MTV Movies Blog for your first look at the Cullen crest, and then let us know: As the “Twilight” filmmakers continue to walk that fine line between creativity and compassion for what the fans want to see, how are they doing?

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First Family Of ‘Twilight’ Unveils The Cullen Crest To MTV

Published by Larry Carroll

When the bat-signal flies high in the sky, you know that Bruce Wayne is about to come around the corner and save the day. The Transformers use theirs to distinguish the Autobots from the Decepticons. Bands (The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag), people (Prince, Ron Paul) and ideals (Peace, Smiley-ness) use symbols every day.

Now, the bloodsucking beauties from “Twilight” are ready to join the ranks of the symbolic - and MTV has your first look at The Cullen Crest.

“This is something that’s not in the book; it’s a little detail in the movie that you are going to glimpse at,” explained Peter Facinelli, showing us Carlisle’s finger jewelry. “It’s a family crest - the Cullen family crest - and each one of us carry it. Mine is in the form of a ring, some of the kids have it on as a bracelet, some have a pendant. Each one of us carries the family Cullen crest.”

Designed by director Catherine Hardwicke and her team, the shamrocks-and-lions-powered crest was presented to stars like Facinelli and Nikki Reed, who were then allowed to choose the jewelry their character would wear.

“What we’ve got up here is we’ve got this arrow, three shamrocks, a lion, and a hand above the lion,” explained Jackson Rathbone, proudly showing off his leather wristband. “What all this means, I don’t know. I could make up a lot of stuff, but I don’t know.”

“We all have one,” explained Ashley Greene. “To be honest, it looks real cool.”

Over the last few months, Twilighters have been obsessively watching footage of the sizzle reel, the trailer, and the first scene from the movie. Many have never noticed the Cullen Crest, most likely because it doesn’t appear in the book and some fans haven’t known to look for it. Now, like a first-timer at the end of “The Sixth Sense,” they’ll be scrambling to go back and look for all the clues they missed.

“In all the school scenes you’ll see it,” added Greene, who wears it on a necklace much like Nikki Reed.

“I was running so fast in the baseball scene, and [my crest necklace] kept flying all over the place, and then I slid in and it flew up and hit my face,” Reed remembered of one scene she had to take it off during. “That didn’t work…But we’re always wearing it. And Rosalie has the most intense [piece of jewelry]; subtle would not be the right word for it.”

Day 2 of our set visit just went live, and you can head over there to see more footage and read additional details about the crest.

Get a good look, Twilighters, because something tells me that in the months to come, the Cullen Crest will be popping up all over t-shirts, jackets, and everywhere else you can imagine. In fact, it may have already gone too far.

“We’ve actually all got them tattooed on our right butts,” Rathbone added with a laugh.

Okay everybody, here’s your Twilight Tuesday question of the week: What do you think of the Cullen Crest?