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Despite the teeth on the werewolves, the seemingly powerless vampire mind tricks/ powers, and ocassionally using Kristen Stewart as a weapon, this scene is an unarmed fight, and ridiculous one at that.
1. However, we can appreciate that this scene is very expressionistic and dramatic, even though we view it as comedic :)
2. The objective of this scene is to convince the Volturi (head of all things being vampire) that Edward and Bella's child is indeed, half immortal versus just being a human baby, and then being turned into a vampire. Why the Volturi cares is because mortal children that are turned immortal are extremely dangerous...of course.
The obstacle is the Volturi and their unwillingness to accept the situation. They are known for diving into things head first without really thinking or hearing the other side first.
The tactics for getting around this obstacle of course is to send the half mortal child away on a werewolf's back in the middle of the woods, and to then abolish the Volturi and their controlling ways for good. Sounds like an excellent plan.
3. The fight scene takes place at the very end of the story. The characters resort to violence because it took them this wrong to realize that the Volturi is a vampiric dictatorship, but in reality of the actual storyline, they were trying to hold off this fight for a very long time because they knew it would end up this bad, and they didn't want to create conflict. Alice gave them the que to start a fight by kicking Aro in the head, which is a wonderful way to problem solve. In my opinion the characters aren't justified for this fight, and the fight ends with Edward being killed (but this clip doesn't show that), but finally Aro snaps back to real life in the end and we realize that the whole fight was a vision of what could happen if they decided to resort to violence and not actually see for themselves that half mortal child was in fact half mortal. So in the end, everyone is happy.
4. There were quite a few stunt doubles doing this fight. Obviously Robert Pattinson won't be going out of his way to act out his own. There is a huge list of stunt doubles that worked this particular movie, some stars even had multiple stunt doubles. For example, Kristen Stewart had Kiralee Hayashi, and Marny Eng as stunt doubles. Ashley Greene (Alice) had Atlin Mitchell and Bridgette Riley. For a full list of the stunt doubles on this movie, here is a link!
5. I chose this scene, not only because it is humorous to some of us, but because I feel like it displays the concept of expressionistic fighting. It does that to the extreme cases in my opinion, but it is an example :D I also feel that it incorporates some abstract dance like moves as well even. Now we can find the humor in this scene because of how ridiculous the whole situation is, but the point of the scene in the movie was to make things interesting. They didn't have to show this scene because in the book it says that Aro sees Alice's vision, but it doesn't say why the Volturi decides to leave. If this scene seems comedic when it isn't really supposed to be, then the fault is with the acting in general. It is all a matter of opinion!
I hope I have enlightened you today!
-Tatum R.
I really like the clip you picked for your fight scene, it is probably the only scene i enjoyed from this movie series. the choreography is amazing in this scene, as is the special effects used in this movie. I also enjoy the special take downs as they battle for their lives to save one girl, and in the end it was all just a vision by Alice, i always enjoyed that twist. its is very dramatic they are fighting a war and im glad you picked this unarmed fight scene.
ReplyDeleteI know right?? In the book it just says that the Volturi left after Aro saw Alice's vision, but it didn't say what he saw! lol
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