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performance and acting to the director’s lack of ability to

compose some of the unique elements and scenes in the

book that were not mentioned in the movie.

“I thought it was interesting in its own right. It just

seemed that Robert Pattinson was a bit self conscious in parts

that made him awkward and that made the scene awkward,”

Do said.

Therefore, the eagerness

for the next Harry Potter

movie has intensified.

The setup of both

the Harry Potter and the

Twilight movies was very

different, taking fans by

surprise. Harry Potter is

well-known for its lavish

sets and intricate set ups.

Twilight on the other hand

was a lot more simply made-

-but it did not have the big

budget opportunities that

the Harry Potter movies

had.

“The Twilight movie was made by a documentary

director. She’s never done a movie--that was her first time--

so it looked more documentary-ish and not like a movie. You

couldn’t connect with it,” junior Khushali Patel said. “But in

Harry Potter it’s all like, ‘Wow dude! Hogwarts!’”

All in all, it is obvious that the war between vampire and

wizard is continuing, as both Robert Pattinson and Kristen

Stewart, the leads in Twilight, have signed on for the second

movie in the Twilight saga, New Moon. Likewise, Harry

Potter and the Half Blood Prince is set to be released July

17.

One thing for unruly Twilight fans to be happy about

though, if they did not like director Catherine Hardwicke’s

interpretation of the novel, is that she is not signed on to

direct New Moon. But that still does not leave some fans

content.

“I think [the] [director] should do Twilight all over again

because she missed a lot of funny things. Like I wanted to

watch that part where Tyler asks Bella out,” Patel said. “It

was a really short movie and I wanted to see more of it.”

In the end both Harry Potter and Twilight have a huge

fan base, with many enjoying both book series and all the

movies. Maybe the truth is there really is no war to be fought,

just books to be read and movies to be seen.

Alas. The moment which crazed fans across the entire

nation have been yearning and waiting for as patiently as

possible for what seems like an eternity. On November 21,

2008, loyal fans poured in countless numbers into their local

area theater to watch Twilight, a movie based off of Stephanie

Meyer’s Twilight series about a girl who uncontrollably and

inevitably falls in love with a vampire. Although Harry Potter

and the Half-Blood Prince was

supposed to be released on

the same date as Twilight, the

competition was too intense,

and the wizard backed down

from the vampire’s challenge,

promising to return next year

thundering with a force that

will seize the eyes of anyone,

even the faithful devotees of

Twilight.

Besides, who says that the

two varying movie and book

series that have dominated the

entertainment empire can’t

share the same aficionados?

Who says their faithful admirers can’t be on both Team

Harry Potter and Team Twilight? Who says they cannot dare

to transcend these boundaries?

“I don’t know [which one I like more], it’s hard! I

like Twilight and Harry Potter. They’re different because

Twilight is a love story and romance, but Harry Potter is

more adventurous,” sophomore Lacy Hanlon said. “They’re

kind of the same heights in their own categories.”

The response to the Twilight movie was extremely

diverse. Some reviews should have made the Twilight

directors proud of their persistent efforts to make the book

come to life, while some comments were not anticipated,

sending a wave of jumbled feelings and perspectives about

the movie.

The first reaction that fans emphasized was the universal

concept about the relationship between books and their

movies: the books are always winners in the battle of

superiority.

“The book [is better]. Always the book because the

movies could never compete with the book,” senior Truc Do

said.

Furthermore, for some fans, the movie was a prodigious

disappointment. The reasons for this immense dissatisfaction

were numerous, ranging from views about the cast’s poor

Harry Potter and Twilight have huge fan followings.

By Suraiya Rahmetullah