![]() Breaking Dawn-Part 2 manages to have its cake and eat it at the same time by deviating from the book in order to include a big, CGI battle scene but managing to do it in such a way so that the battle is neither the climax nor the violation of the books' core that fans watching the trailer might have feared it would be. ![]() Playing to the base also means remembering, a bit late but not quite too late, that Twilight is supposed to be, first and foremost, a love story. She is in many ways as powerful as Edward, she has powers that are indispensable in a final battle with the Volturi (a coven of vampires out to destroy the Cullens), and she is acting as mother to protect her newborn child. Where Part I of Breaking Dawn's 2-part finale relegated Bella to sitting on a couch and being pregnant, Part II opens with Bella unleashed. Kristen Stewart may or may not be the most accomplished of the three lead actors-I certainly think she is-but Bella is unquestionably the most interesting of the principle characters simply by virtue of being the only one who is not static. ![]() Giving the base what it wants means, among other things, a more active and participatory Bella. ![]()
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