Jasper Attacks
This image reflects Edward’s moment of panic in New Moon. The alarmed look on Edward’s face is the key image. The moment when Bella pricks her finger on a paper cut, the young uncontrolled vampire Jasper instinctively leaps across the room to suck on her. Edward barely saves her.
The combination of the scene the audience is leaving and the scene the film is threading to creates a mirror effect. The characters seem to be looking at each other, yet straight at the audience in a rare display of theater in the round (from a film). This “through the looking glass” effect has another layer of meaning.
This frame capture is from a preview of the upcoming Twilight series film “New Moon.” The story traces how Edward (the man on the left) leaves Bella (the girl) when he realizes how dangerous interfacing with the vampires will be. This picture perfectly illustrates this concept.
The two male characters are vampires, and in the split second the blond in the middle (Jasper) starts to run and attack Bella (the girl) we see Edward (the young man at the left) apprehend his his intention in the vampire world of super senses and amazingly quick hypersensitivity to others. The image above is a stunning reveal of super-slow motion of what this moment actually is and how the gazes intersect between characters.
But if you are familiar with the Stephanie Meyer Twilight story, you can see yet another layer of meaning. Jasper is the vampire in the clan closest to having been human. He is in effect still in training to be a vampire, and is running toward that life.
In the story, Edward gives himself away as a vampire the first time he saves Bella from a runaway truck. in this picture we see Bella does not see the danger she is on, but Edward does. This underlying motif forms the principal drama of the film.
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