If Edward has been alive for more than 100 years, (and he does seem way more mature than any 17 year old). Then shouldn't he desire adult women by now instead of teenage girls?
shareAccording to Meyer, if you're sired at 17, you stay in the mental state of 17. Which doesn't make sense because Edward doesn't act like he's 17. But at the same time, it makes perfect sense because he's overly melodramatic like 17 year olds.
You are sin.
But, Edward is in the body of a seventeen-year-old. Being under eighteen makes him a no-no for adult women.
Edward is also more mature because of the period he was born and raised in. And Bella is considered an 'old' soul. Because she took care of her mother, she's more mature than other girls her age.
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Isn't the whole point he is into her is because her blood smells really good and he can't read her mind?
According to Anna Kendrick's character when she is talking to Bella in the school cafeteria that first time, Edward isn't interested in the girls in school. She says it like 'none of them are good enough for him'.
Maybe you never experienced it, but sometimes you meet someone who simply transcends normal age inhibitions. They are so cool and they click so well with you that it wouldn't matter if they were 16 or 17.
I met a girl like this in Germany when I was in the Army. She was 16 and she could hold her own with any adult. We hung out for a year and after she turned 17 we started going out- like boyfriend and girlfriend- for a while.
Even after we broke up we kept in contact. We wrote and emailed each other for years and years. I kept up with her marriage, her giving birth to her children. Her hopes and fears. And when she and her husband separated, we even got back together for a while. Traveled to romantic European cities for liaisons. That was more than 20 years after we met. And even when we saw each other for the first time after two decades, it was like not one moment had passed- it was the same as where we left off.
She is the only one who truly understood me. And that from the first moment and I knew it. I knew it then and I knew it every moment we were together afterwards. We were so into each other it just wasn't right somehow.
It's funny, even when we had some long periods between contact, I knew when Twilight came out that she would really like that film and when we eventually spoke about it, it turned out she did.
Sometimes, as hokey or cheesy as it might sound to modern cynical ears, two people are just meant for each other. When it's like that- it's more like a force of nature than a normal relationship. Age, education, money. Those things are irrelevant when it's like that.
I think this is how it was for Bella and Edward.
Metatron_Fallen - Eloquently said! Truly romantic
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I am always aware of that when I watch Twilight. That the age separation between Robert and Kristen is similar to that of me and this girl/woman. And that Kristen is actually falling in love with Robert as this project is being made and that we see some of this emotion on the screen.
I can see why he was smitten with her. And I know it happens often in films that the romantic leads fall for each other but this must have been really intense for both of them- particularly for Kristen. So many of the lines she had to deliver in character must have mirrored her actual feelings.
I read in an article online somewhere that Robert first saw Kristen in, "Zathura," and was smitten then. I think that was one of the reasons he took the movie ... so he could work with her.
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I actually have that dvd and was saving it. Maybe I'll just pop that in.
I recorded it when it was on one of the DirecTv channels. It's a pretty good movie.
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Robert first saw Kristen in, "Zathura," and was smitten then.
She doesn't look too young in that movie, so maybe he wasn't aware of her age. But, then again, he's British, and they have different age rules over there. I read another online article where the screenwriter kept reminding Robert that Kristen was 17. I think that is because of the age rule difference between the two countries. He wouldn't have gotten in trouble in his country, but he would here in the US. Not sure about in Canada. Though I think the first movie was filmed all in the US. I could be wrong on that.
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Yeah, she looks older in that film.
I live in the UK. I just have to say, sure, the age of consent is 16. But they can get pretty freaky about anything smacking of paedophilia here. There was a footballer- Adam Johnson- who recently got convicted of having sex with a young girl. She was 15. At any rate, he's sat in prison now and was absolutely vilified by the tabloids here.
People here like to set up stings and catch guys who think they are grooming young teenage girls on the internet. I think that's about the lowest possible thing you can be here- a paedo.
At any rate, at the age she was in that film (Zathura), they would have skewered him here for that.
In Germany, where I lived as well, the age of consent was 14. What's also different too in Germany is that a 16 year old can drink and buy beer and wine (but not spirits). So, a 16 year old girl can go into a pub and buy beer.
You're right though, I remember seeing it in the Twilight extras where the director was telling Rob he could get arrested for being with a minor although the age of consent in many US states is 16 (and I think in Washington too). I, myself, was actually married when I was 17 and my wife was 16 and I am from Georgia.
I didn't check to see what her age was in that movie. I'm sure Robert didn't know at the time. She was soon of age when he did meet her though.
I had an aunt who married at 14. I don't remember how old my uncle was, I don't think he was too much older than her. Of course, back in that time there really wasn't such rules in place. Or maybe it was that parents consented to the unions. Grown men were marrying young girls soon after they got their monthlies. I had a cousin who married a 14-year-old, and he was much older than her. Her family didn't have a problem with it though, so he didn't get into trouble. I think that makes a big difference. If you have their parents' consent, chances are you won't get into trouble.
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