WE ARE STILL ON THIS

[cleolinda]

Stiiiiiilll worrrrrking on New Moooooon. To that end, does anyone have a still/screencap of that really ridiculous, blatant fanservice moment when Jacob takes off his shirt to, like, dab at Bella's head? I mean the exact moment when he takes it off, you know the shot. It's an illustrated Fifteen Minutes, and the more on-the-nose the picture is, the better the punchline will work, and I only have shots from later in the scene. I just really don't want to Google for it, you know? The internets scare me.

(I'm wrestling with the last few problem scenes and trying to go back and polish the finished ones while I rack my brain for something interesting. It's running long--well, by "long" I mean "the standard 5000 words that most of the older ones are," but Twilight has kind of taken the place of the Harry Potter fandom in terms of OMG YOU LEFT OUT MY FAVORITE PARRRRRRT complaints. Within the stuff I felt compelled to include, I'm trying to tighten as much as possible. Also, the coding on this one has been a bitch because I tried to get fancy with a text effect. Fnarr.)


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Is this going to be one of the annotated 15Ms? If so, could you please send me a sample of the text effect so I can start seeing if I can translate it for Kindle?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, no--not annotating anything that's not out on DVD. If something else in my house blows up or falls over, I might do POTO/VFV/NM as a set of three ("Lurkers"), but that would be months from now.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Text effect? Is it sparkling? Oh, let it be sparkling...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, no. Oddly, that did not even occur to me. It involves the size(s) of the text, nothing that fancy.

[aranel13.livejournal.com]

What sort of quality are you looking for? I can get a decent, but not great one.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, all my other shots are high quality--I mean, I have low-res caps of the entire movie that someone got (for icons later), but I'm trying to keep the quality mostly consistent. I was hoping the shot was in a trailer or something--I know where to get caps of the Comic-Con clip, but that was... really crappy.

[ikickshins.livejournal.com]

I just tried Googling for you, but I had to stop because looking at shirtless Taylor Lautner over and over again made me feel like a dirty old cougar. And I'm only 24.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

YOU SEE? And I'm about to turn 31! I am nearly twice his age! DO NOT WANT.

[jennytrue19.livejournal.com]

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set?.out=jpg&id=KstScNV43hGqkLWQmcyNew&size=l

So far, that was all I could find.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

HOLY

HOLY SHIT

I

wow.

*has not seen any pictures from New Moon, was not prepared*

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

My friends and I laughed until we cried at this movie. Ironically, I honestly really like the character of Jacob. In any other movie or series he'd be the main hero, not the poor backup plan. Had I been Bella (who, by the grace of GOD I'm not), it would have been Jacob from day one.

Also, was there shrieking when Jacob went shirtless in your theater? Because there was a lot of shrieking in mine, and this wasn't even close to opening day.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

My theater (at the preview!) was actually really quiet, but at that one scene, people, like, laugh-gasped. Like, it was gasp-worthy, but at the same time, it was SO BLATANT.

Jacob's actually a really interesting character when he interacts with people other than Bella. But Eclipse makes me want to punch walls, pretty much because of everyone, but particularly some of the shit he pulls.

[ahirutwin.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I think I know what text effect you mean, but I don't want to say it because I don't want to be That Guy, but I am still VERY EXCITED.

If you can't get an actual screenshot of what you need, there's a backup I know of; if you watch a clip of the scene on YouTube or something and pause it where you want, hit the Print Screen (prt sc) key on your computer. This will make the screenshot automatically, so all you have to do is go into any imaging program and right-click/paste it in. (If you use Paint though, make sure it's set on Select, the dotted rectangle.) I hope this helps!

[ahirutwin.livejournal.com]

See, it would help if I read previous comments; I guessed wrong on the text effect. *silly*

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Oh come ON, it's not fanservice if it's in the book--and Jacob DID take his shirt off in the book to dab her head! hell, as you noted in the recap of the book, he is constantly going around shirtless, and you wondered if that'd be in the movie....

The real fanservice was inserting visual manifestations of RPattz into the movie....though I suppose it upped the sparkly lulz!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, to me it was fanservice because he didn't just take off his shirt like a normal guy; he had to reach up and stretch out and do that sort of male stripper pose, you know? The same way the attempted sparklecide wasn't fanservice, but making sure Edward's robe/cloak was open for the next fifteen minutes was. There's a point where whichever guy is holding him by the throat and it's literally like, okay, pull him back as far as you can so we get the full abdominal panorama, this is what we pay him for.

[aestasbeyond.livejournal.com]

(http://tinypic.com)

I...I have a gif?

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

TURN IT OFF!! I...I...I...CAN'T STOP LOOKING.

God I feel so dirty now.

[kairiki.livejournal.com]

(Unlurk!)

Ah, I was going to be all like, 'Hi, useful lurker with pictures here!' but then people beat me to it sooo... Not-useful lurker here saying hi and that your Twilight recaps and all the Movies in Fifteen minutes have been some of the best things I've read in like...forever and a day. Still trying to get my hands on a copy of the book before Christmas...

And I'll have to appropriate any screenshots of that scene (since I can't find any)...for science. Totally.

(Relurk!)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, do you have a good one? Because so far no one's turned up exactly what I need, if you have a really good quality one.

[fading-october.livejournal.com]

I've noticed quite a lot of fancy risque jokes coming from your writing lately. Is this because of the blatant chest bearing New Moon brings?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is a long, proud tradition of dirty jokes in my writing, but a lot of times they're so dry or subtle that people don't catch them, I guess? Well, and also, "So, WAS it like fucking a popsicle?" last August when Breaking Dawn came out. I don't know--I have kind of a prim/risque split personality, but people only ever seem to remember the prim part.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Consider the screenshot emailed.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I AM SO SMART.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I am watching this as we speak. The pain you put yourself through for our amusement is amazing. You are truly a hero.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOUR ICON.

[naptimewriter.livejournal.com]

You mean the scene where she gets a little scratch on her scalp and he RUBS BLOOD ALL OVER HER FACE?

Uhh.

[l3rittanyx.livejournal.com]

Since when did Jacob have a tribal tattoo on his shoulder? >_> He's only like...fifteen. Or something.

Re: Uhh.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Apparently he gets one during the week when he won't answer Bella's calls. I'm serious, she's all like, "YOU GOT A TATTOO??"

[ailaes.livejournal.com]

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the entry, but I had to share.

My local Wal-Fart has the Ken/Sparklepants doll in stock. ...It scared me. Like, really scared me. I had to run from the isle because I swear that damn thing was looking at me.

And today I got a Barbie Collector catalog in the mail, and guess who was on the back cover? ~shivers~

I think they scared me more than the spider close up in the game I'm playing, and I'm deathly arachnophobic.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I just got the same catalogue myself.

[hollywdliz.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. I do not have that photo, but when I saw the movie yesterday (with the aid of much tequila), that part made me laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. I can't wait to read the M15M and will inflict it on everybody I know.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I sadly do not have said screencap, but I look forward to seeing it - that scene has now been specifically mentioned in three people's summations of this movie. Hee.

Apropos Comic

[dyptych.livejournal.com]

I did this one for my campus paper this week and thought you might enjoy it, considering the subject matter. I know, I know, Taylor's twelve, but I had to take note of the one time that the silence in my midnight showing theater was broken.

(http://i-hate-everything.tumblr.com/post/262908164)

Re: Apropos Comic

[zoomonkees.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha omg, that comic is awesome. "Oo, let me help you-SHIRTRIP!!"

[valancy-s.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you're having the same problem the screenwriter and director seem to have had :) Don't let the ankle tattoo people get to you! You can leave stuff out if you want to!

[suitcasegnome.livejournal.com]

If it helps at all, Cleo, I've been working on two end-of-term research papers since you've been working on the 15M, so you are not alone.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

So you have the required picture then? *squeeeeeee*

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v51/FireWing47/Sparkle%20Motion/?action=view&current=safetydance_macro1.jpg)
Future-Vision Edward and Bella are pleased.

[mrsandreak.livejournal.com]

You know, it wasn't until my THIRD viewing of the movie that I even caught Bella's sparkleface, because the first two times I was apparently giggling too hard. Am I the only one who thought this scene was retarded?!?!??

[keeta.livejournal.com]

Since I have a perfectly legal copy of New Moon on my computer, and since I already spent 2 hours watching Taylor Lautner not wear a shirt and thus cannot feel any more like a pedophile than I already do, here's a picspam (74 total):
http://s405.photobucket.com/albums/pp133/super_bonbon/New%20Moon/
Unfortunately, it's not the best quality since it's from a cam. Alas, piracy ain't always pretty.

[munin-and-hugin.livejournal.com]

ACK! I feel even worse now that I've seen it effectively in slo-mo!. *headdesk* Ugh.

[iamsmr.livejournal.com]

I googled (for I am fearless!...kinda) and didn't find any movie screencaps, but what I did find was this, and I couldn't resist sharing:
http://www.twilightgear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/taylor-lautner-shirtless-abs.jpg He's all, "what, these?" And the him in the corner is like, "Do I SMOLDER you?"

You Belong With Me - jacob remix

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6euzeLoYvQ&feature=player_embedded