A while ago I asked people to throw questions at me about some of the films I’d recently watched. Today I answer a question from Necromancy Never Pays about ‘Breaking Dawn: Part Two’.



Jeanne: What did you think about the "it was all a dream" battle in Breaking Dawn Part II? The group of now-nineteen-year-olds I've seen all the movies with thought it was the best part "imagine if they'd really killed off that many of the main characters!"

Jodie: I’ve got to agree with the teenagers. I usually hate ‘it was all a dream’ endings no matter what, because they are such a cop out and a huge, huge tease. But this time I was just so relieved that no one died (I didn’t read the book before seeing the two films, so when Carlisle’s head came off I thught it had really come off) I didn’t even care about the trickery and even on reflection it doesn’t really bother me.

I think partly it’s because that fake out vision, provided me with a communal theatre experience that I haven’t really had since ‘Inception’. When the film cuts to black, before we know the fate of the top there was a huge intact of breath and that happened again in our screen for ‘Breaking Dawn: Part Two’. Even though you go with people, watching a film in the cinema is a pretty solitary experience until you leave the screen (except for talkers I guess – booooo) so it’s kind of fun to get the occasional unexpected moment where a whole group of strangers reacts in exactly the same way to something in a film.