Whenever I think of Twilight, I usually picture a long line of rabid psuedo-goth girls waiting impatiently for a glimpse of Robert Pattinson as he exits a Starbucks. Not that a line of goth chicks is a horrible picture (actually I kinda like it…), but it does convey Twilight’s problem: how to appeal to dudes?
“There’s more fighting and that should appeal to the boys,” The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz told Empire magazine. “There is also a male character, Jacob [played by Taylor Lautner], who is inherently a more viable character for most boys because he’s like an ordinary guy.”
Weitz adds that glittery cookie loving (not a double entendre…or is it?) Edward only appeals to “perfect” men and metrosexuals. “[Jacob] works on cars, whereas Edward is a perfect man, and maybe he only appeals to perfect men. That makes the demographic rather small! So there’s more of a way into this one – we do hope to up the male demographic!
Word on the street is that New Moon will have lots of fighting. You know, crap us guys care a lot about.
“The effects are going to be great on that part of the movie,” said Weitz .
10/16/09 Update: The below piece of faux-dialogue has caused quite a stir in the Twilight community. The words attributed to director Chris Weitz are not his own. It is, of course, fake. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. Though I’m a bit surprised so many of you did, I, along with others, felt it was necessary to make a clarification to avoid any further misunderstandings.
“Oh, one last thing, I was so joking, New Moon is straight up for the ladies. Jacob is naked during the entire production. Yeah, it was awkward for a bit but we all got used to it. What we didn’t get used to was Javier, the food cart guy. Homie was pant-less…and underwear-less when he served us scrambled eggs. If Kristen Stewart wasn’t dating Robbie, she told me that she would ‘fix his ferris wheel like a drugged-out fairy’…I don’t know what that means either.”
New Moon enters U.S. theaters on November 20th.
Update: 10/18/09: You know…I’ve been thinking a lot about this article the past few days and the more I think about it, the more sad I become. When I wrote that stuff and attritbuted those words to Chris Weitz, my intent was for jovial merriment. A quick laugh. Something to brighten days in a world that’s increasingly filled with such seriousness and intensity. After seeing the comments here and on Twitter and in my email, I see that this was in poor taste. I missed the mark. Missed it by a mile.
Usually I laugh off remarks from readers who believe what I wrote in a satirical article. I even posted a quick remark in Twitter about it. That wasn’t my intent. I never set out to “trick” Twilight-lovers and the more I saw people actually BELIEVING what I attributed to Weitz, the more I realized that what I did wasn’t funny. Wasn’t funny for Twilight fans, Chris Weitz nor Pattinson or Stewart and especially not funny for internet journalism.
Please accept my apologies for the bullplop I put down and for the cavalier attitude I originally had. It’s not me as a person. It’s me as a troll and I don’t want that for the site.
Now back to movie news and reviews…
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Did Chris Weitz just admit that Kristen Stewart is dating Robbie? That's what it sounds like to me. Good Luck Guys…………
I think he did??!!!!
OMFG he just admit that rob and kristen is dating….!!!!
ohh gosh,i need proof that chriz said this..damn.
hmmmm would love for that statement to be true….. although that's a funky way of it coming out, LMAO
what the hell does this mean?
she would ‘fix his ferris wheel like a drugged-out fairy’
please help!
It's what all the hip kids are saying these days.
so If the hip kids are saying it what does it mean?
LMAO! If this is real then I'm the queen of England…
He did get hits from you losers clapping for joy and spreading the link to every pathetic shipper on earth though.
Hats off to you Erik Buckman…
F*** off yea maby he got us because they keep saying things that says they're dating thn they say there not so wht do u think everybody 2 excpect its not a gd thing 2 trick ppl cuz alot of ppl wld believe it thn wht do u think the magazines think abt putting this crap out and thn everybody going off there magazine cuz they gave them a load of shit so no its not a good thing.
Just go to the Empire link, he got the first part from Empire and the second part from his buttocks.
Agree with Delilah; this is the real Empire interview with out the lame commets here:
< And we got Chris Weitz and Taylor Lautner to explain why this one's harder-edged and more man-friendly. "You've got the werewolves coming in," said Weitz, "and the effects are going to be great on that part of the movie. Also, there's more fighting and that should appeal to the boys. There is also a male character, Jacob, who is inherently a more viable character for most boys because he's like an ordinary guy. He works on cars, whereas Edward is a perfect man, and maybe he only appeals to perfect men. That makes the demographic rather small! So there's more of a way into this one – we do hope to up the male demographic!"
Lautner, who's put on a huge amount of muscle to bulk up for the role, said of his role, "In Twlight, Jacob is this happy-go-lucky kid, but in New Moon when he shapeshifts into his wolf self, he becomes a totally different person. It was almost a split personality in the same movie and sometimes even in the same day.".>
We should mail him and ask. His addy is at the top
You really should.
What a load of crap. Here in the uk this is grounds for libel
\”Satire: Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.\”
Here in the U.S., your proclamation is could be grounds for slander. So there.
i need proof, video and pics and a certified statement from chris even then i won't believe it, so there, who the hell cares for real whooo careeesss
i doubt this is real i mean come on he called Rob, Robbie and i really dont think that chris weitz would talk like this.
Erik Buckman is a genious.
I don't know why some poster is congratulating Buckman for fooling 'the shippers,' (people who want to see/or believe that Rob & Kristen are together) — there's more than enough evidence (including actual real quotes from their previous director Catherine Hardewick) that they are.
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You'd have to be Ray Charles to not see that these two are a couple – so excuse me for laughing my asss off at the suggestion that this obscure blog writer holds the fcking key to the dead sea scrolls.
No, what hilarious about this, is the number of haterade drinking 'mean girls,' who seize up in rage at the notion that Rob & Kristen are together – THOSE types are the ones who went running and crying to Gossipcop.' They literally probably had strokes as soon as they say that 'Kristen dating Robbie,' bit – so off to Gossipcop they ran. Hahahaha!!
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So congrats on THAT Buckman, for making these fool bishes run to GC wetting their pants begging them to dispel rumors about a couple everyone who lives in the real world, has a brain and two working eyeballs, knows are together anyway.
Well said. It's unnerving that so many confuse obvious satire with honest-to-goodness celebrity gossip.
Obscure blog writer…OUT
The problem with your satire is, you put it in QUOTES, and attributed it to Weitz! Every journalist knows that's a no no. If you continue to pull this crap, you should probably get yourself a lawyer.
Right, right, thanks Pam.