So, Alice is supposed to be this bad ass mind reading vampire with a taste for fashion. In the books, she designs clothes for her family and keeps their wardrobes up to date. The movie did a fair job of updating the wardrobe of the vampires, and making them more stylish than their Olympic Peninsulan school mates.
As one of those who grew up in the depths of the creepy Western Washington woods, I generally lack style. Or perhaps more accurately, I have many styles, and none of them quite add up. But does this stop me from giving a critique? Of course not!
I think Alice's movie wardrobe could have been a little different. I think they were trying to make her look weird and edgy. That's fine, but it mainly seemed weird. Her hair is cute, but an older style. Is this because her hair cannot grow out once cut, and she just had to have that spiky year 2000c 'do? Or is it because the book was started several years ago, and its important to keep some of the visual details accurate, even if they are slightly outdated? Will we ever know?
Does Alice use her mind reading abilities to pluck fashion ideas from top designers? That would be pretty cool. We need to see Alice use her visions for trivial things. Like chess games, rock paper scissors... the movie only shows us a minimal amount of Alice and her mind reading abilities... just enough to keep the plot going. I guess movies have to do that. Visual media is all about abridging. Unfortunately this cut out some great lines, like Bella discussing her vampirism --"You won't catch me betting against Alice." A very important thought.
I have hope that the things they didn't manage to fit into this movie will go into the next one. They can fit all these great quotes into the beginning of the next movie, thus putting off Edward's departure until the middle of the movie and successfully shortening the amount of time we have to wait until the exciting conclusion in Volterra.
I will now sit and wait patiently for the director to call me and ask me to come work on the set.
Yes, why does Book Edward dress like a douche? Beige? Tan? Preppy? Middle aged? With a an insistent fashionista like Alice dressing him, how would he get away with that? That is one thing they got right in the movie--letting Edward wear more contemporary, youthful clothes in an icy, dark palate. If only they hadn't given Alice flippy hair, a la Paige Davis, circa 2001.
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