00:00Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series arrived at the perfect time,
00:03intersecting with the emo and scene movement and evoking the PG fantasies of high school girls the world over
00:10via the glittery, lovestruck vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen.
00:13Sexy, sultry vampires were in, and true creatures of the night could go begging.
00:18Of course, adaptations were big money in the late noughties,
00:22and 2008's Twilight put Robert Pattinson's face to Edward's name,
00:26making the collective fantasy all the more real.
00:28The film wasn't Shakespeare, but it had some indie credentials
00:31that included having Katherine Hardwick behind the lens, and it did serious numbers.
00:36Unfortunately for everyone, the next novel to be adapted, New Moon,
00:39was essentially money-spinning filler that treaded water and introduced some necessary additional characters
00:44before the more serious business of subsequent releases got underway.
00:48Perhaps recognising this, Hardwick jumped ship,
00:50and The Golden Compass's Chris White steered the film into a creative iceberg,
00:54producing one of the most lacklustre sequels ever committed to celluloid.
00:58The $50 million budget was primarily used to make the film aesthetically pleasing,
01:03without consideration for the plot.
01:04Despite this, teens and tweens piled in with $710 million of their parents' hard-earned dollars,
01:11and made it an overwhelming success.
01:13it's very important for people to keep on learning,
01:13and to keep on learning,
