{"id":34446,"date":"2023-11-14T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34446"},"modified":"2023-11-09T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T11:30:03","slug":"34446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34446","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Wolfman&#8221; (2010) starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt &#038; Hugo Weaving \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z111423zview_wolfman2010.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wolfman <\/strong><\/em>(2010)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Joe Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Written by: <strong>Andrew Kevin Walker, David Self<\/strong> based on <em>The Wolf Man<\/em> by<strong> Curt Siodmak<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt<\/strong><strong>, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik, David Schofield, Roger Frost, Geraldine Chaplin, Rick Baker <\/strong>and <strong>Clive Russell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>The legend is alive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1891.\u00a0 Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro), the famous actor, received word that his brother has disappeared.\u00a0 By the time Lawrence arrives at the family estate, his brother&#8217;s mutilated body has been found in the woods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some townsfolk believe that a wild animal did the deed.\u00a0 Others blame a group of gypsies that have moved into the area.\u00a0 A few believe that a werewolf has returned.\u00a0 When Lawrence visits the gypsy camp, a wild animal attacks killing several people and badly wounding Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Lawrence makes a unnatural recovery from wounds that should have been fatal, people believe that he was bitten by a werewolf.\u00a0 Anyone who survives such a bite, becomes a wolfman when the moon is full.\u00a0 Now Lawrence is marked for death.\u00a0 They believe he will turn into a werewolf at the coming full moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The truth is\u00a0 much worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Wolfman<\/em> won Rick Baker and Dave Elsey the 2011 <em>Academy Award<\/em> for <em>Best Achievement in Makeup<\/em>.\u00a0 Their werewolf design looked like a cross between the monsters in <em>The Wolf Man<\/em> (1941) and <em>Curse of the Werewolf<\/em> (1961).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt would reteam five years later for <em>Sicario<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan of both.\u00a0 Kudos also to Hugo Weaving for his performance as Inspector Francis Aberline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Danny Elfman did the score.\u00a0 When the film was recut for release, Elfman was already at work on another movie and couldn&#8217;t return to adjust his music.\u00a0 Ultimately other composers were brought in to reshape Elfman&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Wolfman<\/em> has an excellent cast.\u00a0 Rick Baker created a great looking werewolf.\u00a0 I wish Art Malik, as Singh, got more to do.\u00a0 He was an interesting character.\u00a0 You can never go wrong with Del Toro and Blunt.\u00a0 Getting Hopkins was a bonus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z111423zview_wolfman2010a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfman (2010) Director: Joe Johnston Written by: Andrew Kevin Walker, David Self based on The Wolf Man by Curt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34449,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446\/revisions\/34449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}