The Twilight Saga had different directors and with that came different styles, but there’s a huge difference between the first movie and the rest, and it’s all about the color tone, as Twilight was very blue – here’s why it looks like that and why it changed. Vampires and werewolves have become some of the most popular monsters in pop culture, and in 2005, a new type of these creatures was introduced in the novel Twilight, written by Stephenie Meyer, and the first entry in a series of four novels. The core of the series was the problematic romance between human Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, who came across different obstacles through the novels, including other vampire covens and wolf packs.
The Twilight novels were a big phenomenon, and it didn’t take long for them to make the jump to the big screen. The Twilight Saga was released between 2008 and 2012, with the final novel, Breaking Dawn, being split into two movies, and while the saga didn’t do well with critics, it achieved its goal of appealing to its target audience and, most importantly, the fans of the books. The Twilight movies had different directors, with only Bill Condon directing two (both Breaking Dawn entries), meaning there are different approaches to the stories and characters, but also different visual styles, but the biggest difference can be seen between the first two movies, Twilight and New Moon.
Twilight was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and while critics weren’t pleased with the story, they did praise Hardwicke’s direction, but she didn’t return to direct any of the sequels. New Moon, then, was directed by Chris Weitz, and this change was more evident in the visual style of the movie, including the color tone, which also changed because the focus of the story was different from the one in the first movie. Twilight has a lot of blue and grey tones, which fit with the atmosphere of Forks and enhances the pale complexion of the vampires, but New Moon was given a much warmer look, with orange and brown tones. This is because Twilight’s main focus is Bella’s relationship with Edward and thus the introduction of vampires, while New Moon is more about Bella’s relationship with Jacob, her best friend who is revealed to be a werewolf/shape-shifter.
The blue and grey colors are more fitting with vampires, given their pale complexion and their coldness, figuratively and literally, while warmer colors like orange and brown are more reminiscent of werewolves, especially in the Twilight universe as it’s revealed in New Moon that their body temperature is a lot higher than that of a regular human, thus being the opposite of vampires. The blue tones in Twilight can also be attributed to Catherine Hardwicke’s filmmaking style, as she used those same tones in the 2003 movie Thirteen, while Chris Weitz has used warmer tones in his movies, such as American Pie and A Better Life.
The subsequent movies in the Twilight Saga had either more neutral colors or a combination of warm and cold, depending on the scene, as is the case of Eclipse, where the scenes involving the newborns and the battle were more blueish and cold. These are easy to miss details in the Twilight movies but they ultimately elevate the experience of watching them and show that, contrary to what many believe, there was attention to detail when making these movies.
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