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- "I 'd never given much thought to how I would die”. “But dying in the place of someone I love seemed like a good way to go." - Bella 's thought on the first lines of Twilight Saga, written by Stephenie Meyer. The narration had also appeared in the first scene of the movie based on this phenomenally-popular novel with the same name, and released November 21, 2008 in North America and December 11, 2008 in Australia. The director Catherine Hardwicke nails emotions of teenagers and stays faithful to the novel to make a romantic-fictional film. The story revolves the love between a gorgeous vampire Edward Cullen (acted Robert Pattinson) and a teen-aged girl Isabella Swan called Bella (Kristen Steward)-“ About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him-and I didn 't know how potent that part might be- that thirsted for my blood. and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” Bella is a smart pretty introverted girl moves to small rainny town Fork, Washington from Phoenix to live with her father Charlie Swan. On the first day at Forks High school, she is impressed by five gorgeous, aloof, alabaster-skinned teenage-adult kids of the Cullens: Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and Eward. They are adopted by Carlisle, a young doctor who married to Esme. More especially, Bella sits next to one of them, Edward, in Biology and realized lots of unusual features from him. After he disappears for a week, he begins to talk to Bella and they become closer. However, Edward 's strange actions, like saving Bella from van crushing by intense speed and strength, which cannot hide suspicion of Bella. As a result, she finds out who Edward and his family are vampires. Eventually, Edward confess the truth about him and tell her avoid him. Although he is a vegetarian vampire, it is very difficult to control himself from her special smell, like heroin: ”I 'm the world 's best predator, aren 't I? Everything


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