TWILIGHT RECAP (MOVIE)

Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan [Kristen Stewart] moves from sunny Arizona to cold and rainy Forks, a small town near the Washington coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings.

Bella sits next to Edward Cullen [Robert Pattinson] in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. After that first day he disappears for a full week and Bella believes he is gone due to her, although she can’t understand why. Upon his return, Bella is almost killed by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves across the parking lot and stops the vehicle with his hand. He later refuses to explain to Bella and warns her against befriending him. Both his actions and his continuous warnings to stay away from him have the opposite effect; she is compelled to find out his secret.

After much research and a conversation on Quileute legends with family friend Jacob Black, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his”vegetarian” vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Interrupted during an entertaining game of “Vampire Baseball”, the group is introduced to three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent. James, a tracker, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over Bella and wants to hunt her for sport.



Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom out of Bella's wrist, thus preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James' murder.