Posts Tagged ‘Twilight Lexicon’
E! Asks Twilight vs. Harry Potter – Which is Better?
E! is once again pitting Twilight vs. Harry Potter!!
This questions seems to come up a lot, and what a lot of media/people might not get that most of the time Twilight fans are also Harry Potter fans.
Look at the creators of TwilightLexicon.com Aphie and Pel, they met in a chat room/fan site for Harry Potter’s ‘Remus Lupin’.
While I understand the media’s need to “stir the pot” in a sense, there really is no need. Us Twilight fans don’t need to or want to choose.
I for one am both a Harry Potter AND Twilight fan. I’ve attended many a midnight showing for both films, own severals copies of both series, and geek out when I see the trailers.
So, I counter ask E! – Why must we choose? They are two very different stories/worlds and we can easily love them both!!
Fansite Fridays: Chaske Spencer & Gil Birmingham Interviews
Originally Posted on TwilightFanSource.com
Week 3 of “Fansite Fridays” continues with interviews from Chaske Spencer (Sam Uley) and Gil Birmingham (Billy Black).
Gil Birminham
Q: What’s this movie like compared to the first movie. What’s the production been like overall?
Gil: It’s much larger (laughs) I’ll tell you that. I don’t know. That’s a good question. How was it different? Being in Vancouver is slightly different. You know the cast members are still like a family. You take a little break, and you’re back together again. So, it picks up where we left off.You know they found such a great location to-look at that house-(indicates the newly created Bella’s house set) it looks like the other one exactly.
You know I’m not here that much. I just got in this weekend. So this is my first day on-I was here a couple of weeks ago when we did the shoot (speaking of scenes shot at the Black House location). Now I’m here for today and I’m gone tomorrow. So, I don’t know whether I’m in a position to tell you if there is a whole lot of difference.
Chaske Spencer
Q: What’s your favorite scene so far?
Chaske: The scene where Bella confronts the wolfpack. “It was pretty epic”.Q: How did the wolf pack bond together?
Chaske: We were all rooming in the same hotel, so we always saw each other. We trained together and hung out together playing basketball. We knew we “needed to be a band of brothers” on screen, so we tried to bond on and off screen. We made sure that we would go to meals together and sit as a family.Q: What do you do when you’re not shooting?
Chaske: I train a lot and explore Vancouver.
Both interviews are up on Twilight Lexicon and His Golden Eyes!!!
Fansite Fridays: Set Visit Overviews
Originally Post on TwilightFanSource.com
Fansite Friday kicked off today with each of 6 sites doing an overview of their visits to the set of ‘New Moon’ last spring.
I read all of them, and I found both Twilight Lexicon’s and His Golden Eye’s to have the best writeup’s.
So they are linked below!!
Get Ready…Fansite Fridays Launchs Tomorrow!!
Originally Posted on TwilightFanSource.com
Per the Twilight Lexicon, tomorrow kicks off a 5 week long event called “Fansite Fridays”.
What is Fansite Fridays you ask, TheSix following sites were all invited up to the set of ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ last spring, and were able to conduct interviews with the Cast and Director Chris Weitz!!
Participating Sites:
So be sure to hit up those sites starting tomorrow, I’m sure they’ll have lots of goodies for us!!
Which interviews/posts I find super interesting, I’ll be sure to link to!!
What to Make of the 'Breaking Dawn' Plagiarism Claim
Originally posted on TwilightFanSource.com
By now I’m sure you’ve heard that Stephenie Meyer has been accused of plagiarizing her novel ‘Breaking Dawn’ by some author named Jordan Scott.
Scott has served Ms.Meyer with a “cease and desist order regarding the novel. Claiming that the idea of weddings, slightly rough honeymoon consummation, and other worldly pregnancies were stolen from her 2006 novel ‘The Nocturne’.
According to MTV.com Scott’s novel is about “a magical tale of doomed love between a young sorcerer and a teenage girl in 15th-century France”.
The following statement was released from Little,Brown publisher of ‘The Twilight Saga’.
“The claim that ‘Breaking Dawn’ by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim. Ms. Scott’s attorney has yet to furnish us with a copy of the book to support this claim as requested. The world of the ‘Twilight Saga’ and the stories within it are entirely the creation of Ms. Meyer. Her books have been a phenomenal sensation, and perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that other people may seek to ride the coattails of such success. This claim is frivolous and any lawsuit will be defended vigorously.”
According to Craig Williams the attorney representing Scott what that they are not seeking compensation, but are asking that circulation of the book stop, and they want to prevent Summit Entertainment from making Breaking Dawn into a movie.
Per Twilight Lexicon,
“Loose fantasy ideas are not copyrightable, otherwise all vampire fiction would have stopped at Bram Stoker. Neither are loose romance plots copyrightable, or Harlequin would not be a leader in romance.”
I have read the document posted on TMZ.com, and the Twilight Lexicon has it right. Ms. Scott is trying to claim copyright infringement on basic fantasy ideas and words. In one of the “instances” the only similarity I could see was both characters being told they were beautiful.
So, all in all, I have to agree with The Lex when they say “he type of word-for-word lifting and exact modeling of character and circumstance that need to be present for a copyright case to have merit is simply not there.”
