personally, i think this movie reminds me of the twilight series by stephenie meyer. both are about young girls who fall in love with immortal beings. i can't remember the finer points of tuck everlasting, but they seem to follow somewhat closely at times.
shareI definitely agree. Upon watching Tuck Everlasting and reading Twilight both recently, I noticed quite a few similarities: Both fall in love with immortal beings, and at least one person in both families most definitely does not wish immortality onto the girl. I hope that the Twilight Series dont end the same way Tuck Everlasting did though :[
shareI don't think it will because for sure Bella can't live long without Edward ... she can't move on, and I'm guaranteed she wouldn't move on.
shareI hope Bella doesn't! Watched the film today and it was really good despite the sad ending, but as they say 'life isn't fair.' The Twilight series are brilliant though and I think i'll give the book 'tuck everlasting' a try too!
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Knew this had to be mentioned. I love Tuck Everlasting, & every book in the Twilight series thus far. There are definate similarties. The young girls falling in love with immortals beings, the choice between mortality & immortality, the familys of the young men, etc. In fact, I think Alexis Bledel & Jonathan Jackson would make the perfect Edward & Bella for the films.
shareyou know, i read twilight on my birthday 7 months ago and couldn't put it down, the same with new moon and eclipse, and have re read them a lot (5 times for twilight and new moon, 2 1/2 times for eclipse, and i have already been told to get a life by my mother every day since i got those books) anyway, i really wanted to watch tuck everlasting and i was thinking "gosh, wouldn't they make the perfect edward and bella?" and then i kept thinking and was just like, "this sooooo reminds me of twilight!" so yes, i do see the similarities and it is awesome.
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virtue? pssssshhhhh!!!!!
There is DEFINATELY more passion in twilight b/w Edward and Bella though... and I don't think Bella treasures living life as much as Winnie does in Tuck Everlasting...
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No one can play Bella except Kristen Stewart.
shareI was just about to make a post about that exact topic. I defintiley see how they are related but love the twilight series a lot more. I also hope Bella gets to be immortal unlike Winnie who doesn't. :)
i was thinking the exact same thing! though i loved the end of tuck everlasting, i really want bella and edward to end up together.
sharethey both lost mortality at 17 years also
shareYeah, I can recognise the similarities too. However (Though I've only seen the film of TE), Edward and Bella's love seems to be stronger. When Edward left Bella never really lost him, he was still there in her every thought, the major presence in her life. In TE, it seemed like when Jesse left his spell over Winnie was kind of broken and she saw things clearly, life without him. Winnie could detach herself enough to look at what she would be giving up and she decided that it wasn't worth it- that life without Jesse was still a life. Bella does consider her life and her choice (Especially when her options are emphasised in Eclipse) but ultimately decides that Edward is the most important thing.
I honestly believe Bella and Edward will get their eternity together. Winnie's choice shows what Bella could have decided but I think Eclipse showed that she had made her decision. So unless something drastically changes, I believe Bella and Edward will get the immortality together that Winnie and Jesse didn't.
"You know what hurts the most about a broken heart? Not being able to remember how you felt before"
im sorry, but I must disagree with Ethereal's statement:
In TE, it seemed like when Jesse left his spell over Winnie was kind of broken and she saw things clearly, life without him.
nope, I think that she loved jessie, even after he left. she just knew that she would probably never see him again, so she moved on, but she still loved him.
just like in Titanic, Rose clearly always loved jack, but she just had to move on with her life.
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Yea I agree bout d similarities!!! This jus had 2 be mentioned 4 real......I jus watched tuck everlasting for the first time after reading the twilight books, i jus love them....its all I think about sometimes so I automatically recognized d similarities. But there are also a few differences like jesse would be able to have children with winnie while edward cant have children and bella still chose edward while winnie didn't. its_natalie306 said that Winnie knew she would probably never see Jesse again but why didn't she jus go with them wen they were leaving and come back to drink from the spring? Its what Bella's going to do if she chose Edward. She must never see her family again to keep their secret. She will have to fake her death or something.
"Do not pity the dead but those who live without love"
I love Twilight. I am obsessive, seriously. So when I first saw Tuck Everlasting, me and my brothers (who have also read the books) were like waaa..? by the way, when i say 'the boys' i mean edward and jesse, and by girls i mean winnie and bella)
Him and her have a forbidden romance from the girl's family, but the boy's family is fine with it; Edward and jesse are both frozen at seventeen; both boys will live forever; bullets and objects won't hurt the guys; both girls have to choose between immortality and love, or life and a future; the boy's families are all immortal, as well; the girls are the only people that the boys have told their secret to; at least one person from each family doesn't want the girl to become immortal (rosalie from twilight, and mike and tuck the dad from the movie).
there are so so soo many. its crazy.
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In the book, Winnie is ten years old, their isn't much of a love affair between then. Winnie crushes on "seventeen" year old Jesse and he sort of proposes to her and I always thought he did that because she was the only one he had ever told about the spring. I've read the book like twelve times no kidding. But Edward and Bella are more intense, while Winnie and Jesse are more fleeting. It doesn't mean that Winnie didn't love Jesse, its just that the circumstances were so drastically different.
shareOh wow. I totally forgot that Winnie was very young in the book. I read "Tuck Everlasting" nearly five years ago, so I have forgotten a lot of plot. However, judging from the movie, which I have seen more recently, I do agree with one of the above posters on how Winnie and Jesse's love was more of puppy love than lasting eternal love like Bella and Edward's. I do think that both Winnie and Jesse loved each other, but not enough to last an eternity. If you think about it, Bella and Edward have spent over two years with each other, while Winnie and Jesse spent (I think) a few weeks together. Bella has had much longer to test her love for Edward, while Winnie didn't have Jesse with her to test her love, as he left. Personally, I think Winnie made the right choice for herself. She had a lot to live for, while Bella doesn't really have much to live for; her whole life is centered around the Cullens (Who could blame her? Edward is fine!).
shareYou are so rght..I loved this film when I first watched it and have only just made the connection :D... I think she would have made a perfect Bella but the fact that she has been in this film would be too wierd
Bella better be a vampire in this next book or else...I'll break down and cry:C
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I saw Tuck Everlasting for the first time today and I was all the time finding connections with Twilight.
Jesse looks 17 but is 104 the moment he meets Vinnie who is the only child in the family and Jesse is the youngest of his family. Edward looks 17, when he meets Bella(who's the only child) he's 104 and he's - at least looking like - also the youngest one of the family.
And the theme is pretty much the same, too: first love, falling in love with immortal etc. But the story's don't end the same way: Bella would do anything to be immortal and be with Edward forever and Edward would do pretty much anything to keep Bella human whereas Jesse wants Winnie to drink the water and she doesn't do that and dies when she's old without seeing him ever again.
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I was thinking about Tuck Everlasting in the car this morning and how I never got to see the ending.Then I was just getting lost in thoughts and thought hey this reminds me of Twilight.
I guess I don't have much more to say..
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Stephenie Meyer should've taken a page from Tuck Everlasting and kept Bella Swan mortal in her own books.
So I love Twilight, but Tuck Everlasting is way better. It came first, number one, and so it's more original. But the thing I like better about Tuck Everlasting is WINNIE.
Because Bella is so annoying. Winnie is actually a strong person, strong enough to give up the man she loves to actually live her life (in the movie, at least--she's way too young in the book). Edward leaves for like nine months and Bella basically dies. The character of Bella had so many possibilities to be great, but she's just so bland and identifies herself only with other people. Winnie had the guts to try new things and once she left Jesse she could use her love for him to better her life and the lives of others. Bella just went off and hung out with a stupid werewolf and basically just stunk up her life.
Like I said, I love Twilight, so this isn't a bashing thing. But I can't stand Bella and how weak she is. Winnie would have handled herself so much better, but still has the capability to love passionately.
I know, as soon as I read the Tagline:If you could choose to live forever, would you? I thoght Twilight!!!
Ok so, yes there is a connection but if you go through most movies and books you will see alot of connections.
Twilight is nothing new...it is amazing, yes, most definitly not a new idea. I give you The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate (btw. read the book. the movie was completely different! tho it was good on a movie level.), Anne Rice's books, the list can go on and on.
But unlike Twilight, Tuck everlasting is pretty much one of those classics that will live on forever. It was published in 1975....ok doesnt make it a classic...yet.
Twilight may become a classic but Tuck will become one before Twilight. About 25 years before Twilight.
That is more than the years in my life. And I'm only guessing more years than most of you on this thread.
I am not trying to offend anyone, but please it would be great if you(anyone/everyone) knew that Tuck everlasting is a BOOK first, then a movie. and of course most movies and books are going to have connections between each other. It's life. Until someone comes us with a whole new, different, completely un-heard of idea, society will be given the same ideas over and over as entertainment just sometimes a little masked and a little spinned off.
i saw this movie today and every now and again something would happen that reminded me of twilight.
shareGeez twilight is freaking everywhere
I love twilight but i have to say that i love Tuck Everlasting more. For people to say that Bella and Edward's love is stronger is completly wrong, it's based on a different time when love was less obvious and make-out sessions (even with a vampire haha) were not until after marriage. Just because it isn't as intense doesn't mean it's not strong. I love the fact (SPOILER) that she chooses differently, she lives her life to the fullest and loves another because she saw life for what it was, possibilities.
The messages i think are completely different, sure there about love and secrets, but tuck everlasting is about slowing down and enjoying every moment of life while twilight is more about sacrafice and fighting for everything that represents life.
I seriously didn't think of twilight at all until this board popped up, I understand the similarities can be seen, but take in that there is life away from twilight and this movie showed not to be stuck and just exist. It a great movie and shouldn't be compared.
The connection is obvious, but only on a superficial level. I like Twilight, but it does not reach the depth of Tuck Everlasting on any sort of level- not the book, or even the movie adapdation.
I agree with brightstar 91 on his or her opinion of the love shared between the title characters in both books. I've never really bought into Bella and Edward's love. To me, it seems as if it's written by someone who doesn't really know what love is (not a reflection on S.M, because I do not know her, but this is how I read Bella and Edward).
No matter how many times Bella and Edward declare their eternal love, all I can take from their story is two people so extremely obsessed with each other, which often begins as love or a crush (in this case, I vote lust) and then begins to mask as love. And remember, the narrator is never the best source of truth (Twilight is written in first-person), so there's absoloutly no reason to believe what Bella believes.
Winnie and Jesse's love was very different, it was more of a strong connection, which would eventually develop into a passionate love (but of course Winnie was too young). However, I believe Winnie's decision is what makes Tuck Everlasting a true classic. Instead of going down the easy road and giving the characters a happy ending, the authour gives us an ending with meaning and of course, an ending we can all relate to. It's a truly beautiful story.
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