{"id":16536,"date":"2016-10-21T04:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2016-10-15T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:09:12","slug":"12-howling-facts-about-the-wolfman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16536","title":{"rendered":"12 Howling Facts About &#8220;The Wolfman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z102116wolfman_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Marck Mancini\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Mental_Floss <\/strong>present <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/85066\/12-howling-facts-about-wolf-man\">12 Howling Facts About The Wolfman<\/a>. <\/strong>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>3. BELA LUGOSI WANTED TO PLAY THE MAIN CHARACTER.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Lugosi lost the role to Lon Chaney Jr, whose performance in The Wolf Man propelled him into stardom. Nevertheless, the former Count Dracula didn\u2019t get left out. Universal cast Lugosi as a mustachioed Gypsy fortuneteller named \u201cBela.\u201d This character is later revealed to be a werewolf who gets the plot rolling by biting our friend, Mr. Talbot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4. THAT SUPPOSEDLY ANCIENT POEM WAS MADE UP BY SIODMAK.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>\u201cEven a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.\u201d Over the course of the film, this spooky verse is recited on several occasions\u2014usually by a character who claims that it\u2019s some sort of ancient rhyme. But the poem was really authored by Siodmak himself. In 1989, he told journalist Tom Weaver \u201cnowadays, film historians think it\u2019s from German folklore. It isn\u2019t. I made it up.\u201d Authentic or not, the poem was repeated verbatim in 2004\u2019s Van Helsing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">12. THE WOLF MAN WAS CHANEY\u2019S ALL-TIME FAVORITE ROLE.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>The film\u2019s success secured Chaney\u2019s place alongside Lugosi, Karloff, and Rains on the Mount Rushmore of horror icons. Over the next few years, he\u2019d more or less become Universal\u2019s go-to guy whenever a new monster role became available. Between 1941 and 1949, the rising star played a mummy, the vampiric son of Dracula, and Frankenstein\u2019s monster. Still, the role of the Wolf Man always held a special place in his heart. Later in life, Chaney wrote \u201cOf all the character\u2019s I\u2019ve been, I liked Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man, the best.\u201d Like Siodmak, Chaney regarded him as a tragic figure. \u201cHe never wanted to hurt anyone,\u201d noted the actor. \u201cDuring his period of sanity, in between full moons, he begged to be confined, chained, even killed to avoid the horrible consequences of his curse. He was a classic product of misunderstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marck Mancini\u00a0and Mental_Floss present 12 Howling Facts About The Wolfman. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 3. 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