Although no longer a teenager I have been fascinated by the first film in the Twilight saga without having read the book an because of that when New Moon came out last week I went straight to the cinema but ... maybe I had too many expectations.
The mystery, magic and the feeling present in Twilight and which I loved have been replaced in New Moon by a sense of romanticism sometimes maybe a little bit overload.
It was so fanny watching the film in a cinema full of kids, especially girls, which at every stage made particularly appreciative comments about Edward, the vampire, which unfortunately in this film we see little.
Lots of words were written in newspapers, social networks and Internet regarding the location of the scenes in Italy because the book talks about 'volturi' and 'Volterra', a small village of Etruscan origin in the country side of Pisa; a spot well-known in the world like San Gimignano, Chianti and Montalcino. It is a must for tourists who annually visit Tuscany.
In the film I found the medieval town of Montepulciano instead of Volterra!
I had no trouble on recognizing that because in the main scene there is the famous Renaissance Basilica of San Biagio in the background. One more thing: there are no fountains in Montepulciano and Volterra square while in New Moon they show one.
It is a shame. I do not like this kind of things. I know, it is not the first time that it happens. Do you remind the movie The English Patient and the famous frescoes of Piero della Francesca put in Pienza instead of the church of San Francesco in Arezzo?
Let me say you that when I remind the scenes filmed in Siena for the movie Quantum of Solace I am very pleased and proud of the work made by the Consortium for the Protection of the Palio that guaranteed the reality of Siena.
This is just my opinion and of course both, Volterra and Montepulciano, worth a visit regardless New Moon :-)
For completeness of information herewith I enclose what Wyck Godfrey (Producer) told about that in an interview:
Well you know it’s interesting because ultimately Stephanie didn’t visit Italy until after she had written the books, you know? It was kind of like her research was all kind of online and whatnot. And what we did as filmmakers…okay we know what we need for the movie. Great square, huge group of people kind of in the middle, clock tower that you can see. It has to feel like beautiful epic, all that stuff because we’ve been waiting the whole movie for her to get back to Edward and we want it to be great. So we took a trip, went around like 12 different towns in Tuscany and we just literally went from square…each of those small ancient towns has a great square with a church and a tower and everything and we basically found the one that we thought was the best in terms of just atmosphere, you know, what it’s going to feel like. And we went, 'That’s it. That’s great.' And sometimes it’s about just the symmetry of the square. There’s always that one thing in a town you’re like 'I love that. I love that. Ahh that doesn’t work' you know? So we got to Montepulciano it was like 'Great. It works.' It’s perfect, you know?
by Amina
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