A decade and a half ago, a phenomenon was born. The new novel hits the familiar beats — falling in love at school, glittering in a sunny meadow, introducing her to the family, rescuing her from an evil vampire, tricking her into going to the prom — and is billed not as a sequel but a Twilight companion novel. Like so many things beloved by teenage girls, Twilight has always had its haters, so just to be clear: I started reading Midnight Sun genuinely hoping to enjoy it, at the very least as a pleasant throwback to a world I once knew.
I did not dive into this book having already made up my mind that it would feel like an endless waking nightmare of a novel. I had no wish to besmirch fond memories of my teenage years, nor to fall asleep sitting up at least three times. Midnight Sun , however, left me with no choice.
When the first of the Twiligh t saga movies were released in many teenagers rushed out to buy the Stephanie Meyer books. Whether you were an avid fan or not, everyone seemed to be caught up in the Twilight phenomenon. But why was it so popular among this generation? I think the main the reason that the books were so enticing to young people was the damsel in distress aspect.
In the first book, Edward pushes a van away to stop her being crushed, he saves her from some leering men in a dark alley and in the climatic ending, he rescues her from another vampire trying to kill her. All of these things were idealistic to young girls. I think we all had that naivety of thinking real love was dependant on the knight in shining armour trope. A secondary element of what made the novels so enticing to young women was how Stephanie Meyer portrayed Bella Swan.
He was a big haired, pale skinned other worldly bad boy who wanted to keep teenage Sarah with him forever despite being vastly older than her. I was 9. So I get Twilight. Based on the series written by Mormon Stephenie Meyer, who at the time proudly confessed to never having seen a horror film, the first of the films came out in to wild commercial success, almost instantly generating a rabid fanbase of largely but definitely not only teenage girls.
It was intense. It was a lot. Four subsequent and lesser films followed and while the fans got louder, so did the sneers. Now the series has landed on Netflix and is potentially reaching a whole new generation of viewers, as well as scratching a delicious nostalgic itch for original Twihards more than a decade on. The main reason for that was director Catherine Hardwicke.
Hardwicke gets teenage girls. If you have any doubt about that, watch her feature directorial debut from Thirteen. Twilight was undeserving of all the hate it got, even if it lacked a proper plot and its protagonists were painfully underdeveloped, but those who mocked it for years missed the point of the stories, which was, simply, to entertain a specific audience. Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant.
She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films.
Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.
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