New Twilight Film Stirs Up Controversy

As die-hard Twilight fans gather for the epic first part of the final Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, questions over the craziness that arises every time one of these films come up, as well as the controversy that surrounds the content in the book/movie for younger ages, becomes a very interesting topic.
The Twilight series is based off of novels written by Stephenie Meyer. Appealing to teenagers mostly, the book describes the ardent emotions of a young love triangle. The main character, Bella, is torn between choosing who to love: the hot-headed and humorous werewolf Jacob, or the sweet and deep vampire Edward.
Ever since the release of the first movie, crazy “Twihard” fans have gotten online early to go to the midnight release. Theaters sell out worldwide, and fans dress up as their favorite characters. Shirts, lunchboxes, posters, and toys imitating the Twilight characters and showing off “Team Edward” or “Team Jacob” pride.
How do students feel about the insanity that Twilight fans show? Junior Bailie Roy says: “I think Twilight is highly overrated, I read the books and didn’t think they were that amazing, so I’m not going to see it.”
Junior Michael Thompson appears to agree: “In my opinion, the excited girls are a little over the top.”
However, there are other topics that interest a different age group other than pre-teens and teenagers when discussing the latest Twilight movie.
The movie includes a controversial scene, because throughout this scene there is partial nudity and scenes of intense sensuality. Bella soon after gets pregnant, and refuses to give the baby up.
These highly sensual scenes may be seen as wrong because the rating of the movie is PG-13, therefore younger kids will be able to enter the theater and see the movie. It may anger some parents to think that the first movie in this series appealed to the younger tween ages, but now, in its final movie, the directors introduce a very adult scene and the adult themes of marriage, sex, and pregnancy.
Says Urbana High School teacher Mark Foley,” I think it’s up to parents to decide whether or not younger children can watch movies with controversial scenes.”
However parents may feel about these controversial scenes, it is up to them to allow their children to go see Breaking Dawn. The entire Twilight series has definitely become a huge universal connecting point for many die-hard fans, who will be sorry to see the final movie go.
“I think movies can be a very unifying force in society. Like Star Wars. When I was a kid, man, there were big movies that everyone went to see, and it was a very positive experience,” said Foley.