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THE NEW IMPROVED BEAST

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« on: December 28, 2008, 03:48:47 am »

WEREWOLVES AND SILVER (SCREENS)
"Even a man who's pure of heart and says his prayers at night
Can become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."

Maria Ouspenskaya, as the spooky gypsy woman Maleva, recited this famous couplet in the film The Wolf Man (Universal, 1941), starring Lon Chaney, Jr., as the hapless werewolf. The screenplay, by Curt Siodmak, is the first work to establish the werewolf's well-known vulnerability to silver weapons, and the first that links the creature's transformation to the full moon.

(The moon still figures in modern urban legends. Some people mistakenly believe that the moon determines women's menstrual cycles, or that thefts and violent crimes rise during a full moon.)

Like most Universal horror flicks of the 1940s, The Wolf Man (and the earlier Werewolf of London, 1935) treated its monsters as victims worthy of pity. Intolerant humans were the true monsters. This set the pattern until 1981, when The Howling and An American Werewolf in London reinvented werewolf films as horrific spectacles laden with special effects. The Howling attitude mirrored that of other monster films of our time: If you're a monster, you're evil and should be punished. Parallels with the American legal system and general societal attitudes are left as an exercise for the reader.


"Live with wolves, howl like a wolf."
-- Russian proverb
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