Hogan's Blog #12

The Twilight Saga comes to a close..........or does it?

On November 17, my wife and I hired a babysitter and went to the final installment of the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2. To make a long story short, Bella (Kristen Stewart) beats up Jacob (Taylor Lautner) at the beginning, which Edward (Robert Pattinson) enjoys, and the good guys win in the end, but this is not a review of the movie.

The opening scenes show Bella's new vampire abilities. The cameras use of zoom and quick panning and transitions give the viewer the feel of things Bella is going through by taking in so much information all at once. The level of detail shows the audience the depth of perception this storyline's vampires have.

Renesmee, Bella and Edward's daughter, is computer graphic enhanced for about the first 20 minutes or so. Supposedly this, to me, is so the baby could look like Bella. After the first 20 minutes, give or take, the CG baby is ditched for a real life little girl.

This film is full of computerized imagery that helps to provide the audience with the sense of being in the scene on the screen. As if you were whisked away into the Amazon jungle by name.

 

So lots of recruiting other vampires and werewolves from around the globe to witnesses the Volturi's attempt to crush the Collins clan.

The last battle is actually a pretty good use of computer technology to pull of amazing scenes for the audience to view. Zooms, pans, quick shots, close ups, wide angle, and low angle shots really make the viewer feel as though they are right there in the battle. I could see this segment becoming a 3D rendition that would make this even more believable.

In the end, the audience is surprised that all the fighting.....no, no, no....you have to see it to find out this stunning and feel good moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYH2t8fCqo

The movie was pretty well done and surpasses any of its predecessors in action scenes. (made it worth going to see)