New Moon reading: Bella almost drowns
In this New Moon reading, Ryan’s acting gets even hammier more dramatic and the special effects step up a notch as he masters both fire and water. If you look really, really closely, you might spot a bit of subtle sponsor logo placement too … and if you can’t find it, bing it. This was very moving performance — definitely one of Ryan’s best. I thought the microphone in the bucket of water was a particularly emotional moment and I loved the part when he was dancing to rave music fighting against the water.
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I couldn’t even tell which way the surface was. The angry water was black in every direction; there was no brightness to direct me upward. Gravity was all-powerful when it competed with the air, but it had nothing on the waves—I couldn’t feel a downward pull, a sinking in any direction. Just the battering of the current that flung me around like a rag doll. I fought to keep my breath in, to keep my lips locked around my last store of oxygen. It didn’t surprise me that my delusion of Edward was there. He owed me that much, considering that I was dying. I was surprised by how sure that knowledge was. I was going to drown. I was drowning. “Keep swimming!” Edward begged urgently in my head. Where? There was nothing but the darkness. There was no place to swim to. “Stop that!” he ordered. “Don’t you dare give up!” The cold of the water was numbing my arms and legs. I didn’t feel the buffeting so much as before. It was more of just a dizziness now, a helpless spinning in the water. But I listened to him. I forced my arms to continue reaching, my legs to kick harder, though every second I was facing a new direction. It couldn’t be doing any good. What was the point? “Fight!” he yelled. “Damn it, Bella, keep fighting.”
Meyer, S. (2006) New Moon. Atom. p 360
