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Fearnet interviews Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg on New Moon
November 3rd, 2009 | Author: Georgina "Geo" Tena
and Eclipse movies, Melissa Rosenberg!
You’ve added a few scenes to New Moon that weren’t in the book, like the one where Jacob gives Bella a gift of a dream catcher. Can you tell us about that?
Actually, I got the idea from a writer friend of mine. I was searching around for that moment… You had to establish the relationship between Bella and Jacob; he can give her gifts and Edward can’t. The sort of easy friendship with the two of them, and yet also, show that Jacob actually has feelings for her. He sort of casually presents the dream catcher, but really he’s shopped around for it for quite a while. I wanted it to be something that was special to him and his culture, and it was so thematic to Bella; the movie is laden with her dreams. Her dream life is a very rich part of the film. So thematically, it really blended well. I thank my friend for coming up with that.
Fans want to know: Did the proposal scene make it into New Moon?
The proposal comes into the end of New Moon, and that is the first proposal. Absolutely in Eclipse, the proposal when they’re on the bed, yes — to me, that was a quintessential scene from the book. When Edward gets on his knees, with his mother’s ring, and she says yes — that was one of the most romantic scenes that Stephenie wrote in all four books.
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It will be interesting to see how much was changed in this movie. Hope it’s not too far off. :-/
I’m so glad that they still put the proposal in! Part of me didn’t think that they would. But I’m very happy that they did!
Just because she writes it doesn’t mean the director shoots it, or even uses it in the film. He may even change what she wrote…like Catherine Hardwicke did with the “Hold on tight spider money” tree jumping scene.