Comments | faeriemaiden: oh the werewolf comes stepping along; he don't even break the branches where he's gone

faeriemaiden

oh the werewolf comes stepping along; he don't even break the branches where he's gone

May 26, 2010 19:42

Right before we left to visit the grandparents (which is to say far later at night than I should have), I watched The Wolfman, which I've been wanting to see for a while, what with, you know, werewolves being sort of A Thing with me, although I realised recently that I haven't actually read or watching anything that is a) decently werewolf-centric ( Read more... )

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vega_ofthe_lyre May 26 2010, 23:49:28 UTC

All of your thoughts are things I am mulling over because I am seriously pondering the actual writing of a modern!AU of this movie. Because while I am so totally down with the atmosphere and the narrative thrust and the characterisation of the movie, there are so many silly bits that make no sense at all; like, Benicio, God bless you, but the accent, she was not pulled off. But I can make that work! And I agree that shabby-looking wolfmen are wildly inferior to proper wolves and that a Janet-arc for Gwen would fit so utterly perfectly and, oh hell, I'm really going to have to write this thing.

lady_moriel May 27 2010, 06:30:51 UTC

DOOOO IT. I don't know you except for seeing Jolene reblog your stuff all the time on Tumblr, but if you wrote that I would so read it and probably love you forever.

vega_ofthe_lyre May 28 2010, 15:10:12 UTC

Oh, it is so immensely tempting. I am... probably going to start drafting this thing soon.

lady_moriel May 27 2010, 07:50:56 UTC

Okay, torrenting this now, because...I'd seen the 1941 version and was somewhat unimpressed, but I figured it was necessary for Research, given that it really started the modern werewolf mythology (despite the fact that werewolves didn't change with the moon until The Wolf Man sequels...actually, there's a lot in that movie that didn't survive into modern pop culture, but somehow it still started things off, so whatever). Anyway I was hoping the remake would be good but didn't have that much hope because, you know, remakes are like that, and then it didn't get the greatest of reviews.

Whatever, now I need to watch it, because just reading your post gave me multiple Thinky Thoughts about "Moonstruck," which is always a good thing.

The really, really sad thing here is that the best cinema werewolf I've ever seen was in freaking New Moon. But then, when the others have been horrible-fursuit-or-worse in The Wolf Man, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Being Human, and Buffy, or equally-horrible-CG-anthro!wolf like in PoA, or humans-with-claws ( ... )