Monday, November 23, 2009

Weekend Party

There was a release party for the New Moon movie which came out before the weekend. I was asked to help a photographer with the workload and in exchange, I got 2 tickets to the event and the midnight showing of the movie. I'm going to start off by saying that I'm too old for midnight showings. I'm a morning person and I get sleepy around 10pm, BUT they were free tickets so I couldn't let them go to waste :) Plus, the opportunity to take pictures of the "crazies" was too good to pass up. We only live once, right?

The fans were interesting. Some had a little too much to drink and others were so into Twilight that it was a bit nauseating. I'm a fan of the books and the movies were pretty good too, but that's as far as I go. I'm not collecting memorabilia, dressing up as a vampire/wolf for the movie or yelling things like "take off your shirt" when Jacob enters the scene at the movies. I laughed it all off. The best part about the night and the only thing that made it fun was having my friend, Heidi, along for good company.

This event was organized to benefit The Edith Bishel Center for the blind. I would say that it did very well, there were a lot of people. Some local actors were cast to play the characters from the movie and a couple of them looked like the real thing. Here's my attempt at recreating one of the poses from the New Moon poster of Jacob and Bella.....

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And here is the cast, they were a lot of fun and so good at putting up with the "twihards" wanting certain poses with them. It was REALLY hard to keep a straight face at times.

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3 comments:

ditndetes said...

Wow, some of them look close to the real actors!

Debie Spurgeon said...

I think that's funny. I'm not a huge fan, but it's entertaining. I haven't seen the current movie. I am totally with you on midnight movies, last time I went to one I struggled and it was like torture to stay awake. I enjoyed your pics.

Krista said...

Yep, some of them do really look like the actors, nice job taking the pictures.