FILM · 2010 · USA
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
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24 Interesting Facts About The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Interesting Facts (21)
- #001
Kristen Stewart received her high school diploma by correspondence one week before filming Bella's graduation scene. She had a fake graduation photo and an extra photo taken so that she would have a picture of herself graduating from high school.
- #002
Originally, in the scene where Jacob carries Bella to mask her scent, Taylor Lautner was going to put Kristen Stewart into a car. However, it did not look realistic enough. So Taylor agreed to carry Kristen himself. But after many takes, his arms hurt excessively from filming the scene all day.
- #003
(About 1 hour and 2 minutes in) Jasper introduces himself to a council of vampires as Jasper Whitlock, but in his modern life he is often referred to as Jasper Hale; this is because he adopted Rosalie's surname to present himself as her twin brother.
- #004
In the stories Billy Black tells at the bonfire, the third wife was actually going to be played by Kristen Stewart. She did play the scene, but director David Slade and author Stephenie Meyer felt it created an unintentionally comedic effect.
- #005
After cutting her hair short for The Runaways (2010), Kristen Stewart wore a wig in this film.
- #006
(About 7 minutes in) The note Bella takes from her drawer, which belongs to Jacob, is actually the same note used in the prologue of the novel 'Eclipse'. Just as in the novel, the lines of text are marked rather than erased.
- #007
In this film it is revealed that Jasper is originally from Texas. Actor Jackson Rathbone is also a native Texan and later "fought" for Jasper to wear cowboy boots in the films.
- #008
(About 42 minutes in) When Bella punches Jacob in the face after kissing him, you can see for a moment that Taylor is laughing. This shot was difficult because in every take they did, Taylor had trouble keeping a serious facial expression.
- #009
David Slade stated that most of Nikki Reed's fight scenes at the summit were left out because the dailies from the lab were underexposed and the shooting schedule did not allow him and the crew to reshoot her parts.
- #010
In some scenes the Cullens' irises are completely black rather than their usual golden topaz color. Although this is never directly commented on in the film, the novels explain that a vampire's irises turn black when they have gone without blood for too long and need to feed.
- #011
The film was released in theaters worldwide on June 30, 2010, and became the first Twilight film to be shown in IMAX.
- #012
In the DVD commentary for this film, Robert Pattinson compares Edward to Batman, mocking his tendency to appear suddenly. He would later go on to play Batman.
- #013
Director David Slade initially spoke out against the Twilight series and stated he would not go near it. Shortly after he was announced as the director of Eclipse, he immediately retracted his earlier words, claiming it had been a joke he made to promote some short comedy films.
- #014
The film's original editor, Art Jones, was to receive only a credit. However, three months before the film's release, Jones was suddenly removed by the studio. Regarding this, David Slade later said that although Jones's cut was good, Summit felt it did not have the intended intensity. Summit immediately brought back Nancy Richardson (who edited the first film) to recut and fine-tune the edit. Jones's name nevertheless still made the final credits.
- #015
(At about 1 hour 13 minutes) Edward proposes to Bella with his human mother's ring. Early in that scene, he gives her a crystal heart to wear as a bracelet. In the books the heart also belonged to his mother, but the film does not state this fact.
- #016
(At about 49 minutes) The parking lot scene in which Jane tortures Felix to subdue him at a moment of disobedience does not appear anywhere in the original novel.
- #017
Actor Jackson Rathbone plays a vampire who was once a human soldier who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. In real life, actor Jackson Rathbone is a distant relative of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
- #018
Sia's "My Love" also appears in the following Twilight film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011). It is played at the wedding reception as an instrumental version by Vitamin String Quartet.
- #019
In The Twilight Saga, Bella (Kristen Stewart) had to wear brown lenses. Her eyes are originally greenish.
- #020
It is the only Twilight film that did not release in November, in order to avoid competition with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). In fact, the postponement of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) from November 2008 to July 2009 caused Twilight (2008) to be released in November 2008. Moreover, the shortest release gap in the series is between this film and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), released in 2009, while the longest release gap is between this film and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011).
- #021
(At about the 37th minute) While Charlie sits at the kitchen table looking at Riley's brochure, it states there that Riley was born on April 10, 1990. This is the day after Kristen Stewart's birthday. She was born on April 9, 1990.
Production Story (1)
- #022
The scenes in which Victoria builds her "army" were based on the novella 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner', written by Stephenie Meyer and distributed to the actors in first-draft form. A particular line Edward gives to Jane shows that he knows about the alliance mentioned in the novella but can do nothing about it because there is no proof.
Easter Eggs & References (2)
- #023
Unlike the first two films (Twilight (2008) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)), this film contains no reference to the image on the corresponding book cover. In Twilight, Edward catches Bella's apple in the cafeteria, and in New Moon, when Carlisle burns the blood and glass from the cut on Bella's arm, they form the shape and color of the ruffled tulip in the book cover image.
- #024
As in the other films in the series, there are scenes that shift the audience's point of view, because unlike the books the film sometimes moves away from Bella's perspective. In this film this leads to Riley being a more developed character.
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