Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke in Entertainment Weekly #1020 (14 November 2008):
Ours is a character film, a little more sophisticated teenage Romeo and Juliet.
- Assuming you’ve actually read (or maybe have seen a movie or theatrical production of) Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers were, what, senior citizens?
- Mormon author Stephanie Myer’s book is “a little more sophisticated” than Shakespeare? Really, Ms. Hardwicke?
Does anyone in Hollywood ever think before opening their mouth?
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Catherine Hardwicke is figuring shit out.
Seriously though–her movie made $70 million in one weekend during an economic crisis–in Hollywood terms, that means she’s right about *everything*.
“…think before opening their mouth?” Apparently not
Well, Romeo and Juliet IS pretty facile. Boy meets girl. Boy woos girl with poetry. Boys family feuds with girls family. Girl fakes suicide. Boy gets shot in street gang war. Girl distraught thinks of killing self, but sings instead. Boy carted off by rival gangs in sign of unity.
I know almost nothing about “Twilight” and from the little I have heard, I cherish my ignorance. Please, please stop trying to inform me about this dumbass phenomena.
The image of her seems to have captured the moment of “ass birth” of her next great quote. She shakes her moneymaker and cleans up with hundred dollar bills. Very so-phist-icat-ed.
In this context, I’m guessing ‘platitudinous’ is being hog-tied into sounding like ‘sophisticated.’
It’s hard to expect anything intelligent from a place that can produce such schlock…
Why can’t Edward reed Bella’s mind?
[: well i bet that Stephenie Meyer is about the richest person in Forks! :]