A "New Moon" Romance
Movie watchers everywhere have been gravitating to the latest vampire romance movie, based on the second novel in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series entitled New Moon . MSNBC reports the film “took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single-day domestic box office record set by ‘The Dark Knight,’ which had a $67.2 million opening last year.” [1] Yet, New Moon has its alluring features, which takes audiences into the otherworld of vampires and werewolves filled with a hefty lace of romance and unresolved sexual tension bound together in a Romeo and Juliet type of storyline, albeit without the tragic ending. The passion laden romance between Belle Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire lover Edward Cullan (Robert Pattinson) is tested in New Moon when the two are separated and she must come to grips with her emotions for another potential suitor—a werewolf the Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Complicating matters is Belle’s struggle over the fact that both suitors must reject her f...