The Wolf From Within
Being a monster is monstrous enough...but being a monster when you want to be a regular guy is a tragedy. This holds true for two men Will Randall-chief editor of a New York publishing office- in the 1994 horror movie "Wolf" and Larry Talbot-an American educated son of London astronomer Sir John Talbot- in the 1941 horror movie " The Wolf Man". After being bitten by a wolf, they both began to experience the transformation into a werewolf. It is said that once someone is bitten, if that person was evil in their ways before being bitten, they will be just as evil as a werewolf. This helps to explain why these two men leading different lives-but going through the same change, displayed so many different characteristics. Will is what one might call a "civilized man". He is a chief editor of a New York publishing office. He is married with no children. The type of man who puts others before himself. After being bitten, the first changes are apparent as he sleeps all day and is awake all night followed by the sudden acuity of his sensory perceptions. He gains the ability to read without
Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal of Sir Larry Talbot gives mores than a few clues to the wolf from within. He is what is thought to be an "uncivilized man". Larry, the American educated son of London astronomer Sir John Talbot. Is an oversized, thick-browed, jolly kind of man who knows what he wants and goes for it? Larry tries to charm, Gwen, a village girl he spies on through his father's telescope. His inner wolf seems to become somewhat offended when Gwen suggests that he buy the cane with the cutesy-pie handle at her dad's antique shop: "How about a little dog! She suggests innocently. "That would suit you!" Grrr, he might have replied, I'll be a big doggy by the end of the hour! A little dog, you see, has been civilized. Yet, the true canine heart cares nothing for social restraint, convention, ritual or class. A dog will scratch himself at a funeral or wedding, and then run off, unrepentant, with a hunk of Sunday dinner between his slavering jaws. But, unlike his domestic cousin, a wolf lacks the "Down, boy!" gene and crosses the line from roguish misbehavior to assault. Unlike Will, Larry goes again
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