'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Reveals Five Secrets About The Film...

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In “Twi­light,” RPattz and the rest of his veg­e­tar­ian vam­pire cohorts have gold-colored eyes as a result of abstain­ing from con­sum­ing human blood. For “New Moon,” the vamps’ eyes were clearly more golden. Why’d Weitz have his actors switch to brighter con­tact lenses?

“It’s a more notice­able gold,” Weitz said. “I thought that in the first film they hadn’t popped quite enough and I wanted to have that sense of oth­er­world­li­ness carry through more.”

Why So Torn Up, Edward?: At one point in the film, Pattinson’s Edward Cullen appears in a ripped T-shirt, but we never learn why. So … what the heck happened?

“What it’s sup­posed to be is that he’s essen­tially been wear­ing the same clothes for sev­eral months, and that even­tu­ally they’ve just worn out because, as you I’m sure know, his body is like stone. So he must’ve rubbed up against some­thing and it ripped,” Weitz said.

Our Lord?: In its Italian-set por­tions, “New Moon” fea­tures a sig­nif­i­cant amount of reli­gious iconog­ra­phy, and Edward cer­tainly suf­fers a great deal. Is he sup­posed to be a Christ figure?

“I think that he is in a sense he’s doomed to suf­fer eter­nally,” Weitz said. “He actu­ally thinks of him­self as a damned fig­ure, but he’s wrong about that. So in some senses, yeah, he is a mar­tyr figure.”


Black Eyes: In Stephe­nie Meyer’s book, Edward’s eyes go black in Italy. Why don’t his eyes turn in the film?

“It’s because I screwed up!” Weitz admitted.

Really? He just forgot?

“Well, yeah, I kinda did,” he said. “Well, there are two rea­sons. One is that I messed up. The other rea­son is that I actu­ally thought that onscreen it would be quite bizarre to see his eyes go com­pletely black, and that it would be more sat­is­fy­ing and less jar­ring to have that moment of reunion be a reunion with reviv­i­fied Edward. But prob­a­bly, the long and the short of it, there are many details that I did not drop the ball on, and there are some that I did.”

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source: MTV  via Thinking of Rob