The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

The sequel to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), it is the fourth installment in The Twilight Saga film series. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively.

Summit Entertainment announced that Breaking Dawn would be adapted into a two-part film on June 10, 2010.

Principal photography for both parts began on November 1, 2010, and wrapped on April 22, 2011. The first part was shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Vancouver, Canada.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 premiered at Rome Film Festival on October 30, 2011, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 18, by Summit Entertainment.

Despite receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, the film grossed $712.2 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2011.

A sequel, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, was released in 2012.

During the reception, werewolf Jacob Black, who had left town upon receiving an invitation to the wedding, returns, much to Bella’s delight.

They share a dance in the woods, where Bella says that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage on their honeymoon while she is still human. Jacob becomes furious, fearing that such an act could kill her.

After the wedding, Bella and Edward travel to an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon, and they have sex for the first time. T

wo weeks later, Bella vomits after waking and notices that her period is late. She informs Carlisle Cullen, a medical doctor and Edward’s adoptive father, that she believes she is pregnant.

Edward is distraught, as it is highly unlikely a human will survive giving birth to a vampire’s baby. He encourages Bella to receive an abortion from Carlisle; she refuses and convinces Edward’s sister Rosalie to be her bodyguard.

They fly back home to Forks, Washington, where Jacob rushes to the Cullens’ house to find a pale, underweight, and visibly pregnant Bella. He implores her to terminate the pregnancy immediately, but she refuses.

Jacob storms out of the Cullens’ residence and meets in the woods with his packmates, including their leader Sam,

Who soon feels they should kill Bella to ensure her half-vampire child does not harm anyone. Jacob refuses, and he and several other werewolves separate from the pack.

As Bella’s pregnancy progresses, her health declines rapidly. She soon realizes the fetus is craving blood, so begins drinking human blood obtained by Carlisle from the hospital,

Improving her health. As a half-vampire, the fetus’s development is far more accelerated than that of a human fetus, and thus Bella’s pregnancy progresses at an alarming rate.

Edward’s resentment for the baby dissolves when he discovers he can read its thoughts. When Bella suddenly goes into labor, Edward, Jacob, and Rosalie begin performing an emergency C-section while Carlisle is out obtaining blood.

The procedure is excruciatingly painful, and Bella falls unconscious, though she wakes to find she has delivered a healthy daughter, whom she names Renesmee (a combination of her mother’s name and Edward’s mother’s name).

Bella’s heart suddenly stops, and Jacob desperately attempts CPR. Edward injects Bella’s heart with his venom in an attempt to transform her into a vampire, but his action appears to be futile as Bella remains lifeless.

A distraught Jacob decides to kill Renesmee for apparently causing Bella’s death; however, when he looks into the baby’s eyes, he “imprints” on her: a werewolf phenomenon in which one realizes one’s soul-mate.

This prevents his pack from killing her as their most absolute law is not to harm anyone who has been imprinted on.

Over the course of two days, though still unconscious, Bella’s injuries heal and her figure returns to normal. Finally, her eyes open and are blood-red, signifying that she has become a vampire.

In a post-credits scene, the Volturi, the keepers of vampire law, receive a letter from Carlisle which summarizes Bella and Edward’s wedding and her transformation into a vampire.

The Volturi bicker about how Carlisle is growing his coven and that the Volturis’ dispute with the Cullens is over. However, the Volturi leader mentions that the Cullens still have something he wants.