Леа Клирвотер, суки.(с)

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Гуляя по тумблеру, наткнулась на это эссе. В нем перечислялись 15 причин, по которым стоило посмотреть "Затмение". Кинула текст в гугл-переводчик, поняла не все, но что поняла, с тем согласна на 200%. Леа рулит А автор эссе умеет читать мысли). Мои так точно умеет, вот, переложил их на бумагу . Не пропускаем ссылу на ютуб, Белка в гостях у волков, первая встреча с Леей.
ПС: А зря у меня нет тега для Леи...



from das_mervin’s review of the Eclipse movie


And, finally! The last reason (#15) why you need to see this movie. And honestly? This is the most compelling reason out of any of the movies so far. It trumps all the lulz and hilarity in Twilight. It trumps death by striptease in New Moon. It trumps all the fantastic new characterization in Eclipse. It trumps Emmett. Oh yes—this is very serious. The main reason you need to see this movie even if you’ve never seen any of the others is: Leah Clearwater, bitches!
Do not adjust your monitor. She really is that hot.

Leah is an amazing anomaly in the Twilight universe—a happy accident, if you will. I am hesitant to call her a Scary Sue, even though that is definitely what Meyer intended her to be: a flat character who hates her precious protagonists just because she’s jealous and exists to be stepped on and used to show just how wonderful everyone else is because she’s mean and bitchy and stands in the way of everybody’s true love and is daring to impose her stupid vagina on all of the poor wolf boys (yes, because clearly, she did that on purpose). However, she isn’t just a Scary Sue—meaning she’s not just one of those flat, cardboard cutouts who hurls tenth-rate insults and always lets the main character ace her, but has the single redeeming feature of hating the Head Sue and occasionally pointing out her shortcomings and inadvertently being the voice of reason because Meyer is too stupid to realize what she’s writing.

Leah Clearwater is the only—I repeat, only—three-dimensional, realistic, non-Mary Sue character with a legitimate story arc, character development, character motivation, and genuine reader sympathy in the entire freaking series. She has genuine character flaws that are a part of her character and something she eventually works to overcome (her flaws are admittedly exaggerated into the realm of the ridiculous sometimes, part of Meyer’s hackish attempts to make her a bitch, but they’re still real flaws, not a faux-flaw like Bella’s clumsiness or an unintentional flaw like Edward being a controlling douche but that we’re supposed to see as a virtue). But what makes her so different from any Scary Sue I’ve ever seen and the reason why I’m hesitant to even call her one is the fact that Meyer absolutely cannot bring her down. It’s not for lack of trying. Oh, Meyer’s favorite hobby is shitting on Leah and trying her ample best to make sure we think she’s a horrid bitch and just so mean and shallow and selfish, using pretty much every other character as her mouthpiece to say so any chance they get. She writes Leah as being just so mean to Bella and Jacob during trying times when everyone else is being understanding. She even tries to make Leah into a non-person by the rules of the Twilight-universe because she can’t have children. Leah was destined to never find love because what use is love if you can’t make babies, right? That’s why Sam didn’t imprint on her—because she’s an infertile freak. Over and over again, Meyer tries to demonize her and make us hate her and sympathize with the main characters.

And we don’t. Almost everything Leah says is either sensible or worded in a way that makes us sympathize with her more. All of Leah’s “bitchy” remarks and diatribes against the main characters are understandable and usually deserved. When Leah’s lamenting her inability to have children, it feels less like Rosalie’s, “BABIES ARE EVERYTHING,” attitude and more like bitterness that, “I was stripped of all my choice, and I feel like a freak.” Why does she feel like a freak? Because all of the boys think she’s a freak because she can’t have children. Jacob says so. The main characters demonizing her is usually done without any reason or justification and so it just makes them look like needlessly cruel assholes. From beginning to end, Leah is an awesome character and every one of her scenes just makes us love her more. I have no clue how Meyer created her. NONE. And the fact that she did it by accident is what boggles me the most. Pretty much every anti on the planet loves Leah. She is their shining beacon, the figurehead of most Anti-Twilight sites and recaps. Leah rules. We all love her and think she’s awesome!

And apparently, so did the Eclipse screenwriters.

First, they cast that absolutely stunning young lady you see up there. Julia Jones simply is Leah. She’s gorgeous, she’s fierce, she’s sexy, she nails the character—she’s got it all. Then they introduced her in the movie. Guys, the first words out of her mouth are basically,
“Bella, GTFO, you disgusting cocktease.”

I’M DEAD SERIOUS. I almost came right there in the theater. And she maintains this level of awesome through the whole damn movie! All of her best moments in canon were beefed up and made to show just how great she was—the screenwriters didn’t have to deal with a Meyer filter this time, where anything she did was colored by Bella or Jacob or Edward calling her a bitch. No, they could show what Meyer wrote—and what she wrote was Leah being awesome. The best part is definitely at the end of the newborn battle—they changed things a bit. When Jacob got hurt in canon, it was all off-screen and Bella wasn’t involved. Here, they have all regrouped in the clearing, think it’s over, and the random newborn that they missed shows up and charges Bella, and Leah jumps in to attack him. Jumps in to attack him because the Cullens are all just sitting there doing nothing, and she’s leaping to defend Bella. And while she’s fighting, the Cullens still sit there with their thumbs firmly corked in their butts and do nothing! The fight never takes a turn for the worse with her—it’s just a pretty even struggle and she’s holding her own. You could argue that the vampire was getting the upper hand, but it really didn’t look that way to me—main point is, she clearly wasn’t jumping in to “show off”. And then Jacob leaps in and pushes her out of the way. He just butts in and gets himself clobbered—and it looks every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. In other words, every bit as ridiculous as Meyer wrote it. After Jacob gets hurt, know what Leah does? She comes rushing back after transforming into a human and screams at him: “Why did you do that?!” Yes—she just bawls him out for being stupid. Because he was.

And that really shows just how much the Eclipse screenwriters loved this woman. Because they played up her scenes, yes, but highlighting her awesome wasn’t the only effect it had. They showed that Leah rules—and it was often to the detriment of the other characters. Oh, I don’t mean that they started character-bashing anyone who wasn’t Leah to make them look worse; honestly, for all their changes in characterization, they changed pretty much nothing in terms of the behavior of the other characters towards Leah. They just let canon speak for itself—and the way everyone treats her in canon is appalling, and this movie really shows it. The scene where she calls Bella a cocktease is a good example—Leah snaps at her and walks off, and then Emily comes bouncing out, all bubbly and huggy, and then sidles up to and attaches herself to Sam, and they both look over their shoulders and just smirk at her. I’m not exaggerating—look at this picture

and tell me that’s not what those two smug bastards are doing. Leah’s fight with the newborn is also a good example. I already mentioned that above—the filmmakers clearly showed that Jacob was a dumbass, just as we all agreed. But afterwards everyone yells at her and blames her for him getting hurt anyway, because they’re douchebags. They even used framing and positioning to show just how excluded she is by these dicks. This shot, for example.

All of the boys are grouped together—and Leah is banished to the corner, having to stand alone because she dares to have a vagina.
This movie didn’t merely show how awesome she is. It showed how everyone else is a complete asshole, and how Leah doesn’t deserve any of the crap that she gets. She is sympathetic, she is awesome, and we hate everyone for how they treat her.

Leah Clearwater, bitches.

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