It has been awhile since the last portrait. The last one was David Cook’s sometime December 2008. My art materials were lost to the flood, including artworks as well. The only thing that survived was Prang and a couple of brushes.
I tried a different medium for a change. Faber-Castell color pencils somehow managed to create vibrant colors, although it was a bit taxing for my part. But the good thing about it was it gave me some sort of control I don’t usually achieve in watercolors.
Now my victims: Edward and Bella. Not bad for starts although they do look like someone who have been taking Fastin. My photo material for this was quite bad. I will look for nice sources on the web.
I’ll try (hard) to be honest on what I think about New Moon. Nothing about this 2-hour melodrama sank in my consciousness. Bringing in Martin Sheen and Dakota Fanning to play bit roles didn’t change the fact that this over-hyped movie was boring and flat.
The entire movie was so full of suicidal Bella (Kristen Stewart) screaming in bed like some demon-possessed woman and moping around after vampire-boyfriend ditched her with all-time favorite it’s-not-you-it’s-me cliche. It made me cringe in my seat, felt embarrased for the actors’ lousy dialogues. (“This is going to be the last time you’ll ever see me.” Now let me slit your throat. Hehe.) Bella was someone you would want to crucify upside down to drive enough blood flow to her brains. A masochist who relished in pain. She had no identity of her own and her only known passion was obsessing over some vampire, but not so much on the werewolf.
Vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) spent his limited exposure in this new Twilight film making flat speeches and blank facial expressions that conveyed nothing of undying love. Much effort was obviously put into the act wrinkling Edward’s brows for most time, but to no avail. He remained a boring character whose pretensions you could smell from 300 seats apart. It was like talking to a (sparkling) wall.
What obviously redeemed the movie from a complete emo breakdown were the stolen yellow Porsche speeding through those hills in Tuscany, those auto accessories of Edward’s Volvo and, yes,
Jacob’s (Taylor Lautner) abs, er, torso. His body parts received more airtime than Edward’s white skin and lips that made him look gay. I believe millions of us agree on this, including Bella who couldn’t take her eyes off his bod in most of their scenes: Taylor Lautner totally prepared for the role of his lifetime. His transition from human to wolf was fantastic. That’s all there was to it.
I think Stephenie Meyer really went over the top with her imagination about love – reckless, stupid and clingy. I wonder where she got all these inspirations from. Meyer’s version of love contradicts our known reality. The scary part about it was millions of mindless teenage girls have sworn in as part of the Twilight cult. Imagine thousands of girls wanting to behave like Bella and swoon over some poker-faced vamp. If this craze persists, then you’d know the end has come.
I did thought this was another Susan Boyle prank taken under those yellow bathroom lights – dark-haired sleek and fashionable chic graced the pages of Harpers Bazaar. The photos were so unlike the grey-haired middle-aged woman who had been subjected to public scrutiny after her winning stint in British Got Talent. A platoon of stylists and make-up artists worked on her transformation that took everyone’s breath away. There is no doubt that Susan Boyle has more to her than meets the eye. She’s got style!
