Robert Pattinson’s “dark” scene in 'New Moon' a re-hash of a left-out 'Twilight' scene?
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight (see here and here), Robert Pattinson described his performance as Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga: New Moon to include a rather dark scene.
Said
Pattinson, “it’s kind of as close as possible to the book.” Yet, said he, “there are some really bizarre moments, I mean, ‘cause she’s having constant nightmares all the time. And the nightmares are all based on the person she loves, like, haunting her, so, uh, there’s a lot of kind of weird dreams about death, decay …”
“The
dream sequences are really eerie,” says
Kristen Stewart, “it’s like you have something that is your idea of like perfection but you’re afraid of it while afraid of losing it, it’s like very masochistic.”
“He gets the chance to be a little bit more scary in the dream sequences. He’s not so perfect,” she continues. “One dream sequence which I don’t think anyone will expect,” says
Pattinson, “
Edward is this kind of demon.” “So, hopefully people will be a little freaked out by it.”
Ever since this statement,
fans have been searching page by page through
New Moon trying to figure out just where that is coming from. We know that Bella has nightmares throughout the books, but, in them, they are usually her searching for something that is lost – something that is gone,
Edward.
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Yet, there is no demonic Edward to be seen, at least that I could tell. Looking back through
Twilight, though… alas, there is (at least) one possibility.
We already know that there were a lot of parts of
Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight that were left in the cold with the 2008 film by Catherine Hardwicke. Many of the omissions, we also know, disappointed
Twilight fans.
I opened my eyes to a familiar place. Aware in some corner of my consciousness that I was dreaming, I recognized the green light of the forest. I could hear the waves crashing against the rocks somewhere nearby. And I knew that if I found the ocean, I’d be able to see the sun. I was trying to follow the sound, but then Jacob Black was there, tugging on my hand, pulling me back toward the blackest part of the forest.
‘Jacob? What’s wrong?’ I asked. His face was frightened as he yanked with all his strength against my resistance; I didn’t want to go into the dark.
‘Run, Bella, you have to run!’ he whispered, terrified.
‘This way, Bella!’ I recognized Mike’s voice calling out of the gloomy part of the trees, but I couldn’t see him.
‘Why?’ I asked, still pulling against Jacob’s grasp, desperate now to find the sun.
…
And then Edward stepped out from the trees, his skin faintly glowing, his eyes black and dangerous. He held up one hand and beckoned me to come to him. The wolf growled at my feet.
I took a step forward, toward Edward. He smiled then, and his teeth were sharp, pointed.
‘Trust me,’ he purred.
I took another step.
This sequence, in
Twilight, is one of the most revealing and foreshadowing pieces of
Twilight. The dynamics of the three characters involved (these sequences happen on pages 130-131 if you are interested in looking it up) are clearly representative of the tug-of-war that we see play out between Jacob and Edward (and arguably, at least in some small way, Mike) in
New Moon.
Robert Pattinson’s description of the dream sequence at hand in
The Twilight Saga: New Moon seems to be on-point with this passage. Kristen Stewart’s statements about the scene also align quite nicely with this portion of the book.
So, is it possible that this is just a piece of the Twilight text that was left out of the film? After all, the relevancy of the scene is quite high to the story of New Moon. What do you think? Comment below and let us know!