Mellisa Rosenberg (scenarista)

Melissa Rosenberg,scenarista filmului "New Moon" a vorbit cu cei de laMtv despre cateva schimbari aduse filmului.
Cadoul Bellei : Melissa este foarte mandra de scena in care Jacob ii face cadou Bellei un prinzator de vise urate:"Imi place mult cand Jacob ii ofera Bellei acel prinzator de vise.Este prima lu iaparitie si vroiam sa atrag atentia asupra relatiei lor,cadoul semnifica atat iubirea lui pentru Bella,cat si gelozia lui Edward pentru Jacob.Acel cadou mi s-a parut potrivit mai ales ca este ceva specific nativilor americani,dar si pentru ca exista foarte multe vise in film."
Bataia Cullenilor : desi in carte,intalnirea cu membri Volturi decurge fara multa actiune,Melissa a vrut sa schimbe acest aspect in film :"In carte,la final,Bella,Edward si Alice ajung la Volturi si exista posibilitatea ca ei sa nu se mai intoarca.Exista multa tensiune,dar este exprima prin dialoguri,iar eu vroiam sa fac acel conflict extern.Chris,cascadorii si Daniel Cudmore(Felix) au facut o treaba minunata cu asta !"
Cauza mortii necunoscuta : moartea lui Harry Clearwater joaca un rol important in carte,unde se spune ca moare din cauza unui .atac de cord.In film,aparitia Victoriei il ucide.De ce schimbarea asta?"Pai in cartea,moarte lui nu e prezentata direct desi rolul ei este foarte important,aceasta fiind motivul pentru care Edward hotaraste sa se duca la Volturi,dupa conversatia cu Jacob la telefon ,cand acesta ii spune ca Charlie este la o inmormantare.Asta lanseaza cel de-al treilea act al filmului.Stephenie nu mentioneaza cauza infarctului si m-am gandit ca ar putea fi ceva ce il sperie.Asa am putut sa o integram si pe Victoria in poveste si avem si cateva scene chiar frumoase cu ea,care se potrivesc foarte bine atat cu cartea,cat si cu filmul."
Laurent : din pacate pentru fanii lui Edi Gathegi,el nu a primit foarte mult timp in film,murind rapid.Melissa a spus ca regreta faptul ca nu a putut insista asupra lui Laurent:"Trebuia sa renuntam la o parte din povestea lui,la drumetia lui in Alaska,intentia lui de a vegetarian,si relatia cu clanul Denali,pentru ca incetineau actiunea.Mi-ar fi placut sa fi adaugat mai multe in film despre asta."

Melissa Rosenberg, scenarista "Twilight", "New Moon" si "Eclipse" a fost prezenta la Producers Guild Awards.

Wow,imi place stilul tipei.
Rochia e tare.E rosieeee!:x
Si imi place cum a asortat rochia cu accesoriile.
A facut o treaba buna in filme!

Pe 20 martie a avut loc lansarea Dvd-ului New Moon. O parte din vedetele filmului au fost în diferite oraşe la petrecerile organizate cu această ocazie.

Seatle Times a postat un nou interviu cu Melissa Rosenberg.

Cât de diferiţi au fost regizorii celor 3 filme din Saga Twilight?
Cu Catherine Hardwicke am avut foarte puţin timp de lucru la dispoziţie, eu o hrăneam cu foi. A fost o colaborare intensă. Când Chris s-a apucat de "New Moon" deja terminasem partea a doua a scenariului, am făcut câteva verificări şi i l-am dat, iar el a avut câteva schimbări... David Slade este un regizor foarte vizual, iar pentru "Eclipse" am reuşit să scriu câteva secvenţe chiar pe gustul lui.

Cât de apropiat ai lucrat alături de Stephenie Meyer?
Ne-am apropiat cu fiecare film. La primul film, mi-am păstrat privat lucrul. Dar, odată ce am cunoscut-o am realizat că nu e nevoie să fac asta, pentru că ea este o persoana foarte colaborativă, fluidă şi preţuieste munca. Pentru "New Moon" citise toate schiţele, dar la "Eclipse" am rugat-o să citească rezumatul, ceea ce a fost puţin ciudat. Era foarte riscant pentru că era încă devreme. Atunci îmi place mie să lucrez, pentru că atunci hotărăsc ce o să apară şi ce nu, ce e real şi ce e inventat.

Ce părere ai de criticile care spun că filmele s-au distanţat de cărţi?
Oamenii trebuie să înţeleagă... adaptarea unei cărţi nu constă în simplul fapt de a pune pe ecran ce e în carte... aşa ar rezulta cel mai plictisitor şi lung film din lume. Un roman este complet diferit. E pictura versus sculptura... obiectivul meu este să duc publicul în aceeaşi călătorie emoţională ca şi cartea. Asta a reuşit unora, şi unora nu.

Va fi "Breaking Dawn" împărţit în 2 filme?
Eu personal cred că este prea multă poveste pentru un singur film. Speranţa este să fie 2 filme, dar nimic nu e hotărât încă.

Scenarista filmelor din Saga Twilight a postat pe pagina ei de Facebook o poză de la filmările "New Moon" din Italia.

Iată un interviu recent al Melissei Rosenberg, scenarista filmelor din Saga Twilight.

Melissa Rosenberg is a busy woman. In the past few years she's adapted three parts of The Twilight Saga for the screen, all the while writing and producing for the hit Showtime series Dexter. How does she balance her life and work? What can we expect from Breaking Dawn? And what's the difference between the three directors she's worked with on Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse? All those answers and more in our exclusive interview.

Laremy Legel: When I talked to you for Twilight you were just dipping your toes into the fandom, and what it was all about. Do you check fan sites these days?

Melissa Rosenberg: I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of "Fabulous job!" and one "She's horrible!" and it completely throws me. When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

I do, however, maintain a fan site, where people are mostly kind. It's interesting reading their comments, because they talk about what's important to them, what things really register, what things I need to capture. So I do rely on that.

LL: I think your writing has amazing range; from Dexter to Twilight is a pretty big distance. But do you worry about being locked into a particular genre? Do screenwriters get typecast? Or does that not happen?

MR: Oh, it happens all the time. You become the "teen voice" writer. Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, and the things I prefer not to do, but like most writers I can do, and like to do, a variety of things.

I'm sure I'll be offered all sorts of romantic teen dramas as I move forward, because I've now written plenty of them, and I won't be doing that again. It's not of interest me. I do lean more towards doing different kinds of things.

LL: Do you approach each project, as a writer, with the core audience in mind? In other words, do you think, "Well, this is for a teen, and this is for an adult, so I've got to handle it this way?"

MR: No, I really don't. It really isn't about age. It's really about writing character and emotion, and the emotional journey. If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for Twilight, it's a pretty wide range. That stems from Stephenie [Meyer] -- I'm adapting her stories, I didn't invent any of this, but my job is to adapt it and keep the story as universal it was in the novels.

LL: Can you give me one sentence on each director you've worked with, what their main strength is, for The Twilight Saga?

MR: Catherine Hardwicke, she brought a very intimate feel. She had a very indie sensibility, she brought those characters to the screen in a very intimate way.

Chris Weitz did sweeping drama. Beautiful visually, and very classic epic storytelling.

David Slade, so far (the process isn't done yet), brings a level of pacing and intensity.

LL:How much input do you get on the next director? Do they ask you about certain names? Or do they come to you with who you're working with?

MR: It's definitely not up to me. I've seen lists and weighed in, and they always welcome input, which is lovely, but ultimately it's their decision and they'll do what they do and I'll work with whomever they choose. I had no knowledge of the first three directors and it worked. Generally speaking they [the list] are people I haven't worked with before.

LL: Can you talk about Taylor Lautner's growth into a leading man? It's seems like he's really come a long way from Twilight.

MR: Taylor is unusual because he easily could have lost that part. He was a day player in the first movie, and there were all these discussions about whether he'd be coming back. He took it upon himself to transform himself into a leading man. He made himself a leading man. That was nobody but him, he made that for himself.

Taylor Lautner is a rare breed. He wanted something and he made it happen. It easily could have gone the other way, if he doesn't do anything maybe it doesn't happen for him. Incredibly driven. That character is such a physical character that it had to be a transformation.

LL: You've been writing Dexter and The Twilight Saga for the better part of four years now. How do you maintain a balance with your personal life? Or is it just about "The jobs are available now, I'm going to work as hard as I can right now because I don't know if I'll get another shot like this?"

MR: It's the second one. There is no life balance. I've been working for many years and I'm well aware of how rare an opportunity it is to have even one of these projects available, much less both. It's an extraordinary opportunity. You just don't walk away from opportunities like that because you're too tired or it's too much work. I had to grasp them both, and fortunately I have a very understanding husband and very understanding friends.

LL: If an adaptation felt to you like an R rating, but the studio wanted you to bring it in at a PG-13, would that be doable?

MR: Oh yeah. It's completely doable. You don't sacrifice story by cutting language. Nor do you sacrifice story by showing less blood or gore, or whatever it is that's bringing you to an R rating. It doesn't hurt it. When Dexter was aired on CBS they had to re-cut some of it for network television and all they had to do was cut some language. There's more blood and gore in an episode of C.S.I., though of course Dexter is more disturbing. Not because of what you see, but because of what's implied. I don't think you take away from suspense or character by altering a few things like that.

LL: Having read Breaking Dawn, where things get ratcheted up a notch, do you still go for that PG-13 rating?

MR: Oh yeah, absolutely. That's your audience. In this series you don't sacrifice anything. There are some movies that wouldn't play at PG-13, like The Hangover, but this is just not one of them for me. Again, if you're capturing character, emotion, and emotional journey, you're OK.


Şi mesajul postat de Melissa pe pagina ei de Facebook:

"Mulţumesc pentru gândurile voastre. Sunt de părere că - mai mult sau mai puţin sânge, sau mai multe sau mai puţine scene violente, sex, naştere nu definesc Breaking Dawn. Sunt personajele, călătoria, relaţiile. Celelalte lucruri nu vor schimba asta. Deci, indiferent de evaluare, povestea este în esenţă, povestea... Nu o să reuşesc să satisfac TOŢI fanii, dar sper că mai mulţi decât mai puţini. Postaţi comentarii în continuare! xoxo, Mel."

O parte din noul interviul al lui Melissa Rosenberg.
Cum merge adaptarea la "Breaking Dawn"?
Merge foarte bine - este o mare provocare.Este plina cu mitologii si personaje si alegand ce povesti sa apara,este putin greu,dar cred ca lucrurile merg destul de bine.
.Stephenie Meyer a avut cate un cuvant de spus la fiecare film.Avand in vedere ca "Breaking Dawn" este capitolul final,care sunt prioritatile pentru fani?
Stephenie a cerut intotdeauna un lucru,sa adaptam dupa carti.Toate limitele ei sunt legate de adaptarea dupa carti.Astea fiind spuse,nu este foarte cicalitoare cu lucrurile.Imi sustine inventiile.
Apropo de asta,fanii sunt innebuniti dupa pierderea virginitatii Belei,scena nasterii si transformarea Bellei in vampir.Ai vreo idee cum te vei descurca cu asta?
Pe pagina mea de Facbook toti imi spun ca "Trebuie sa contina scena naasterii!! sa fie plin de sange,intestine si sex!!!"Pentru mine e mai interesant sa nu vad astea.Stii,poti face o nastere fara neaparat sa o vezi....asta nu inseamna ca e o experienta mai putin evocatoare.
Kristen are cel mai mult de lucru.Este pregatita de provocare?
Kristen este cu adevarat fantastica.Si unul dintre motivele pentru care il avem pe Bill Condon.Si la fel si pe Chris Weitz;toti au vrut sa lucreze cu ea.

Si mesajul postat de scenarista pe pagina ei de Facebook :
"Buna tuturor!Nu sunt sigura de unde unii dintre voi au ramas cu impresia ca voi lasa deoparte scena nasterii in "Breaking Dawn",dar nu e asa.Desigur ca scena nasterii va fi in film!Si scenele de sex!Si penele!Si sangele!Probabil ca ati interpretat gresit cand am spus ca nu simt nevoia sa vad galeti de sange ca sa creez teroarea scenei nasterii.Dar va puteti relaxa!!"

Interviu cu Mellisa.
http://www.makingof.com/posts/watch/1907/melissa-rosenberg-on-the-script-of-eclipse#ooid=hhcjNpMTpSfj9_8k_aB0l6Z6DO9iSh3N

Melissa despre Breaking Dawn