We see action, romance, comedy, revenge, damnable villains, and a heroic (though complicated) central character.

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The complicated scene involves the character Jacob -- the werewolf -- falling in love with Bella and Edward's halfling vampire baby.

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And I thought it was important that the decent folk, simple folk be the heart of the story, and a character who is guileless, who isn't complicated in the sort of flawed way our Dark Knight is, and isn't political in any way.

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Among the more complicated, he says, is former Lehman Brothers chief Dick Fuld, and for that reason a favorite character of his to write.

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