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Fangs or sus­penders … which shows off Robert Pattinson’s sexy side more?

That’s the ques­tion pre– and post-tween Twi-hards still swoon­ing over Rpattz’s Edward Cullen may be pon­der­ing when they glimpse set snap­shots from his upcom­ing Great Depression-era epic Water for Ele­phants. Those who appre­ci­ate Pat­tin­son for his more seri­ous, less super­nat­ural roles in Remem­ber Me and Lit­tle Ashes are prob­a­bly ask­ing them­selves the same question.

Whether or not you respect Pattinson’s cin­ema pres­ence doesn’t really mat­ter, though; there are plenty more rea­sons to get but­ter­flies in your belly in antic­i­pa­tion of the April 2011 adap­ta­tion of Water for Ele­phants. Based on Sara Gruen’s best-selling his­tor­i­cal novel, it’s a tale imbued with the sort of enchanted nos­tal­gia that makes one feel like they’ve stepped inside a faded, sepia-tinged pho­to­graph or yel­lowed news­pa­per clip­ping scene and trav­eled back in time to tip­toe through the lives of the strangers in the pic­tures. Or as if they’ve per­haps snuck into the mem­o­ries of a 93-year-old for­mer cir­cus vet­eri­nar­ian — like the hero of Gruen’s book, Jacob Jankowski.

Jacob nar­rates the begin­ning of his mem­oir from a nurs­ing home as he sur­veys the install­ment of a trav­el­ing cir­cus from his bed­room win­dow. It stirs up mem­o­ries of his youth as a 23-year-old car­ry­ing water for ele­phants and oth­er­wise car­ing for a menagerie of cir­cus ani­mals dur­ing the 1930s. If that’s not enough of a plot to entice you into Jankowski’s cir­cus, add to it the love tri­an­gle he forms with his mar­ried amour, the daz­zling eques­trian star Mar­lena (Reese With­er­spoon), and her charis­matic but bru­tal hus­band August (Christop Waltz replac­ing Sean Penn). (Rumor has it, in the movie August may end up being an amal­gam of two of the novel’s char­ac­ters: August and tyrant cir­cus owner Uncle Al.) Pile onto that par­a­lyzed drunk pal Camel, who hides out in Jacob’s train car; his ally Wal­ter the dwarf; Rosie the mar­velous and mis­treated ele­phant; and the scan­dalous Coochie Girls. Set it all in the hard-knocks land­scape of the Great Depres­sion and you have the mak­ings of a spec­tac­u­larly thrilling, poignant, and roman­tic adven­ture. And not air­brushed rom-com romance, but rather love with gritty, witty, engross­ing, true-to-life twists and turns that res­onate like they’ve been lifted from the pages of your intre­pid grandpa’s diary.

Need more rea­son to add Water for Ele­phants to your spring movie sched­ule? Two words: Christoph Waltz. When the tal­ent behind the nutty Oscar-winning Nazi from Inglou­ri­ous Bas­terds slips on the shoes of a schiz­o­phrenic ring­mas­ter, odds are good he’ll give a show-stopping per­for­mance — the kind that could earn him Acad­emy Award num­ber two. It will also be inter­est­ing to see if Pat­tin­son holds his own with With­er­spoon and if the two can make sparks fly. Water for Ele­phants is directed by I Am Leg­end’s Fran­cis Lawrence with P.S. I Love You screen­writer Richard Lagrave­nese pen­ning the adapted script. So far, Water for Ele­phants seems like a cin­ema cir­cus worth buy­ing a ticket to see.

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Though Robert Pattinson has slowly begun to carve out his post-"Twilight" acting career, many critics still wonder whether the young star has the acting chops to successfully move past the world of vampires. While it wasn't a flop at the box office, Pattinson's latest non-"Twilight" film, "Remember Me," barely registered with filmgoers.

But next year, it seems the actor will finally have a real chance to show audiences what he's got: he'll star opposite Uma Thurman in "Bel Ami" and with Reese Witherspoon in April's "Water for Elephants," for which a trailer was released Thursday.

Based on a bestselling historical novel released in 2006, "Elephants" centers around a veterinary school student named Jacob (Pattinson) who falls for circus performer Marlena (Witherspoon). Despite their shared affinity for the big top, the pair and their burgeoning romance are threatened by Marlena's husband (Christoph Waltz).

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