Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Twilight Teen Delight

And so TWILIGHT, as expected, led the box office this weekend as reports say. It has grossed an estimated 69.6 Million Dollars slightly lower than the predicted 70.5 million for its debut (Oh, okay..). The book’s appeal is the same as Harry Potter’s only that it involves vampire teenage-reality romance. The movie's gross trailed so far away from Quantum of Solace and Bolt that movie analysts knew that this movie hoarded the much bigger slices of the pie.

There’s also one important fact in this recent movie phenomenon. Movie analysts, producers and filmmakers will never again underestimate the power of teenage girls on a hormonal rage. According to statistics noted in random news channels, teenage girls are the drivers and self proclaimed effective promoters of the movie. No longer would the movie industry downgrade the role of teenage girls especially when a positive book adaptation would hit, it only takes filmmakers good delivery for the movie to sustain its skyrocketing growth.

Apparently most liked how the Twilight the movie turned out that some girls were reported to watch it a couple of times, again contributing to the massive ticket sales. Although compared to Harry Potter, there is less imagination and interpretation involved in Twilight since the setting is pretty much realistic and it only delves on the character make-up, development and minimal effects, oh and a fairly dashing clan of vampires to note.

So here in the Philippines at least the premiere is tonight and the official showing is tomorrow and I can just imagine how many people, adult and teens alike, are edging to queue and see the movie first. To hold the bragging rights is definitely essential to a hormonal fanatic, even though most are already aware of the story.

My cousin, whom I’ve encouraged to read Twilight (just because it’s easier to market to non-readers), is requesting I save seats for tomorrow. I bet some of my friends, whom I’ve encouraged to read it also, are at least intrigued on how the movie would turn out. Yesterday while having Lunch at Mexicali, I even heard a yuppie group planning to reserve tickets for tomorrow as they were about to contact who and who for ticketing connections.

The fuss of it all can be very amusing for an observer. I have to say, been there done that. I was once that delusional movie fan once. I didn't particularly liked Ninth Gate and I had my whole HIGH SCHOOL barkada suffer from it! The shame! I still experience moments of euphoria from time to time, movie rupture is more like it and I’d like to think I’ve contributed big in selected movie sales. You know what I'm excited about? Really really excited about??? I can’t wait for the Mad Hatter to come alive in the big screen, but let’s not take the hype out of Twilight forging on full blast. You guys take Edward, personally I'm a Carlisle Fan.

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