Why do people hate Twilight? The movie director says it’s because the books and films are about women’s issues and are all told from a woman’s point of view. Can you say ‘Misogyny”? Oh, yeah.

The Breaking Dawn Blu-Ray DVD was released with a commentary track and movie director Bill Condon let fly his explanation for the love-to-hate-it phenomenon among critics: “This series is about things women care about and has a woman at the center,” he says. “So there are people who just stay outside of it and mock it.”

The review (Hat Tip, Deborah!) from Spokane’s local paper had this jewel as well:

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Twilight expert and HogPro adjunct faculty member (only ‘adjunct’ until we can find the extra keys to the Admin Loo here) James, web master at TwilightNewsSite.com, has written today about Stephenie Meyer’s latest film and book projects, both being adaptations or extensions of her sci-fi book, The Host. Yes, They are Making “The Host” into a Movie, and It is Part of a 3-Book/Film series.

I learned a lot there and encourage you to read the whole bit but here was the meat for this carnivore:

I assume that Stephenie is producing, and that the film will wind up at Summit, but I don’t know that.  And with the Summit studio itself in play and up for sale, things may change.

But what should prove interesting is that Niccol is known for these very overt metaphorical films. Incredibly so.  And we know Stephenie is loathe to defend, or even discuss, her works’ along those lines, even when the symbology is quite straightforward.

Stephenie Meyer at the Premieres of the first four Twilight films. Top left, Twilight; top right, New Moon, bottom left, Eclipse; bottom right, Breaking Dawn, Part 1. If photos never lie, this woman has gone through some significant changes recently.

When the Breaking Dawn trailer was released last month, we posted that news here and a ‘troll’ jumped in to say how pathetic the writing in the Forks series is, how juvenile the readers, and how sad it is that we take Mrs. Meyer seriously as an author. S/He was slapped down, of course, but like the mole he popped back up a few times to invite more attacks (see the definition of internet troll).

As a rule, I don’t like it when readers ‘feed the trolls’ by responding at length. When the webmaster at TwilightNewsSite offered his opinion, though, I asked if I could put it up as a guest post. Enjoy!

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