Twilight - Berawal Dari Sebuah Mimpi

Sekarang aku paham dan maklum... kenapa serial Twilight sangat memikat dan menarik perhatianku. Film-film ini bukan saja membuatku memutarnya berkali-kali tetapi juga membuatku hampir hapal semua dialognya. Masya Allah ! Ini hal yang luar biasa yang terjadi padaku. :)

Mimpi yang menginspirasi Stephenie.

Selama ini aku memang suka juga nonton film-film, tetapi jarang sekali ada film yang membuatku benar-benar terkesan hingga menontonnya berkali-kali. Bahkan mencari tahu segala sesuatu yang melatarbelakangi pembuatan film itu. Bahkan Harry Potter yang seluruh dunia memujanya... aku justeru tak terkecoh dan tak pernah penasaran untuk menontonnya. Menurutku... film yang diangkat dari novel karya JK Rowling itu tak lebih sebuah permainan fantasi anak yang mengangankan dunia diluarnya. Cenderung sangat tidak lojik dan berlari jauh dari realita.


Berbeda sekali dengan film serial Twilight. Sisi romantik yang kuat yang digulirkan bukan saja sangat masuk akal tetapi juga membingkai sebuah cinta yang luhur yang sejatinya memang demikianlah CINTA. Dan ini menjadi tidak picisan karena didalamnya ada perkelahian antara 'nafsu' dan keinginan untuk menaklukkannya. Inilah yang di mataku sangat terlihat luhur dan bernilai.


Penilaian ini juga yang membuatku penasaran ingin tahu siapa Stephenie Meyer, penulis yang suskses menghidupkan 'twilight'nya itu? Maka, akupun mencari dan menggoogled-nya dengan beberapa kata kunci pencarian. :)


Ternyata... dia memang tidak menciptakan sendiri sosok Edward itu. Justeru sosok Edward itulah yang datang dan mengunjunginya di alam mimpi ! Wow ! Hebat 'kan? Maka... bla bla bla...  Edward seolah ingin agar Stephenie menceritakan itu pada dunia, betapa seorang vampir juga punya keinginan yang lebih mulia daripada tabiatnya sebagai monster pembunuh. Wow ! Benar-benar membuatku jatuh cinta dengan sumber inspirasi yang mengisnprasi ibu tiga anak itu. Masya Allah... :)


Memang, selalu bukan hal yang biasa yang membuatku berulah tak biasa. :D)

 Finally I Get Know 

Why the Twilight Series Attracted Me So Bad ! ;)))

I have to conceded that this is first time I am in love so badly with the movies based on a novel series. None of the fiction books can attract me like this before. And so far I keep wonder and can't stop thinking of why are these movies and stories so interesting, impressing and also so fascinating me... or at least influenced me so? One thing that I am sure about this is...  there must be one of these things; the books, the author or might be the source of the inspiration that inspired Stephenie to wrote them had something unusual. Thinking this way lead me to searched and googled every things about the Twilight whether of the Twilights their selves and the Stephenie Meyer as its author. :)))

And I could see  it finally... nothing is wrong with my curiousity. As I have ever guessed before... this stories had indeed an extraordinary background eventhough it's still just a fiction stuff  but seemed... according to what Stephenie told to Oprah... the inspiration came directly to Stephenie in her dream which after all the mother of three sons couldn't continue her sleep at all. ! Wow ! Truly incredible ! Makes me love it more. :)
There's something unbelievable that a bizzare vampire wanted Stephenie to tell it to the world ! Hihihihi...

Stephenie Meyer; an author with an icredible idea.

 When the first book of the Twilight series was released in October 2005, no one could have guessed the phenomenon it would become. Four years later, 70 million copies have been sold worldwide. The books have spent 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and the first movie in The Twilight Saga grossed $380 million at the box office. The story, a love triangle between a vampire, a human and a werewolf, has ignited an international frenzy, and the woman behind it all is 35-year-old author Stephenie Meyer. Once a stay-at-home mom, Stephenie says the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream. 

"It was two people in kind of a little circular meadow with really bright sunlight, and one of them was a beautiful, sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal, and they were having this conversation. The boy was a vampire, which is so bizarre that I'd be dreaming about vampires, and he was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and yet at the same time how much he wanted to kill her," Stephenie says. "It really captured my imagination." That dream became Chapter 13 of Twilight.

With Oprah.

Before the night of the dream, Stephenie says she had lost herself a little in the work of motherhood. "I was really burned out. I really had gotten into that zombie mom way of doing things where I wasn't Stephenie anymore," she says. "[Writing Twilight] was a release. That was the dam bursting. I'd been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression." 

Though she'd been married for 15 years, Stephenie says she didn't tell her husband at first about her new passion. "My husband though I'd gone crazy. I'd barely spoken to him because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn't telling him about this weird vampire obsession because I knew he'd freak out and think I'd lost my mind," she says. 

At first, Stephenie was documenting her dream only to make sure she would remember it, she says. "The dream was just something I was so interested in, and it was so different from what my everyday was at the time," she says. "I just wanted to remember it so badly. That's why I started writing it down—not because I thought this would be a great story for a novel." 

Though Stephenie had been an avid reader all her life, she says she was never a writer beforeTwilight. "It seems kind of presumptuous to me [to think] anyone else would want to read the things that are in my head," she says. "I didn't think of it [as a book]. I did the dream. And then I wanted to see what would happen with them. It was just me spending time with this fantasy world, and then when it was finished it was like, 'This is long enough to be a book!'"

Before Twilight, Stephenie says she read every type of book except for horror. "That was the genre I just knew I was too chicken for," she says. "I read a little bit of everything. ... When I was 8, I was reading Gone with the Wind and Pride and Prejudice and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level." 

Now that Twilight is a huge success, it's hard to imagine any literary agent rejecting it. But Stephenie says she'd submitted it to plenty of people before she was signed. "I got nine rejections, five no answers and then one 'I'd like to read more,'" she says.

Stephenie says it was her sister who really pushed her to keep submitting it to more agents. "She was the only one in the world who knew what I was doing," she says. 

Robert Pattinson; a perfect fit !

These days, the Twilight series is more than just a literary hit. The first two movies have also created a stir and catapulted three young stars into the limelight. British actor Robert Pattinson, who plays the lead vampire Edward Cullen, is now an international heartthrob. "I knew that the problem was going to be Edward, because he's the perfect vampire," Stephenie says. "How do you cast that from your pool of human actors?"

Then producers found Robert, Stephenie says it was a perfect fit. "He's got something about him. He doesn't look like everybody else. There's something unusual," she says. "There are moments where he looks exactly like he did in my head."

Stephenie says casting Bella, the book's protagonist, was a bit easier. "There's plenty of people who look like the girl next door," she says. "We were really lucky [to cast] Kristen Stewart, who is a phenomenal actress. I didn't know if we were going to get that caliber." 

Though Twi-hards, as fans are called, know most everything about the series, Stephenie says there is one secret she's never revealed before. "There was a different ending to New Moonoriginally," she says. "It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head." 

Stephenie says fans have her mother to thank for New Moon's current dramatic ending. "My mom's like: 'You know, Stephenie, maybe a little more action at the end would be a good idea. Maybe you need that,'" Stephenie says. "And she was right, as usual." 

Her mother's suggestion prompted Stephenie to introduce the Volturi, an all-powerful coven of vampires living in Italy, sooner than she'd planned. "That's kind of my favorite part now, and it's there because my mom told me it would be better that way." (*)

From www.oprah.com 

Twilight ;

Jiwa Yang Tercerahkan

Cinta adalah satu-satunya penyebab
yang membuat rasional hal yang irrasional. :)

HERAN !
Akhir-akhir ini aku lagi sukaaa bamet film trilogi Twilight. Mulai dari Twilight itu sendiri, New Moon dan Eclipse. Mungkin 'excited'ku agak terlambat yaa... mengingat Twilight sendiri hebohnya sudah bertahun-tahun lalu.


Tapi, who cares? :)
Aku sendiri sangat enjoy dengan kesukaanku terhadap film ini. Dalam sehari, aku bisa memutarnya dua hingga tiga kali. Ini namanya revolusi. Karena seumur-umur aku tak pernah bisa tahan nonton film lebih dari satu kali. Tapi khusus serial karya Stephenie Meyer ini... wallahi... aku menontonnya berkali-kali hingga hampir hapal semua dialognya. :D)

Edward Cullen; berusaha melawan kodratnya
sebagai monster dengan upaya 'to find will to stop'.

Yang membuatku sangat terkesan dengan trilogi ini, bukanlah tampang para pemainnya yang memang keren-keren tetapi semata-mata cerita dan plotnya. Walaupun film ini mengisahkan keluarga vampir tetapi karakternya justeru dibuat lebih mulia daripada manusia umumnya. Dan lagi, karakter 'baik' itu bukan sekedar diciptakan dengan 'kemuliaan' yang seketika dan instant tetapi di sana ada upaya dan 'kerja keras' demi meraih sifat dan tabiat yang 'too good' itu. Dalam ilmu tasawuf, upaya pembersihan diri dan jiwa ini dikenal sebagai 'riadah' dan 'tazkiyatun nafs' alias pembersihan diri dari nafsu rendah. Walaupun, sebagai vampir, mereka tentu saja tak berjiwa. Tetapi setidaknya, pesan pencerahan ini seharusnya mengendap bagi para penontonnya.

Inilah yang sangat menarik. Jujur saja, aku sangat kagum dan salut terhadap kemampuan Stephenie Meyer menciptakan tokoh-tokoh ini. Seolah Stephenie sedikit paham tentang ilmu tasawuf. ;)))