... die at the end? He confronted his demons and killed his father, shouldn't he have been allowed to redeem himself further, through the love of that girl? Feels like poor writting, kind of a copout. Feel free to disagree.
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Of course he died!
And it was a tragedy, he had to die. There isn no 'cure'. Just like the original.
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Simply dying, or beeing doomed, isn't sufficent in order for something to be a tragedy. There has to be a point to downfall, death or whatever, no? This point, i.e Eudipus adempting to avoid his faith leading to him fullfilling it, Michael Corleone trying to protect his family resulting in its destruction, is what makes the characters arc a tragedy. I simply can't see what in Talbots story arc had to kill him, it was a reduntant death. He fought and defeated his demons, avenged his family and confronted the source of the curse then, out of nowhere, died. That's what feels like a cheap copout to me but I guess I could be wrong. I havn't seen the original so I can't really say anything about that, are tey exactly the same?
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Well how are you meant to 'cure' him? Just like "AWIL", there's no cure except death.
He IS a werewolf now. He either dies or carries on killing people against his will.
A cure would be a silly thing indeed (like the awful cure ending to the otherwise solid "Near Dark").
Same as the original film except he's killed by his father (who is not a werewolf, or bad at all in the original).
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The means of his cure is up to the writer. A good writer could come up with some way of curing him or write his death in a better fashion. I'm not opposed to klling him all together, I realise it would have been hard to write it any different, it's the poor wy his death was executed that makes it feel like a cop out.
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You wish for a happy ending? The story of a werewolf is always a tragedy, simple as that.
shareBecause this isn't Underworld or Twilight or Teen Wolf or any of these other things lately that want to make it seem that it's "cool" to be a monster.
This one was a return to the tragic monster. And it was long overdue.
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
I responded above to the both of you. I guess what I'm saying is that simply killing Talbot won't make it tragic, simply killing Edward in twilight 4 wouldn't make twilight tragedy, it's why he dies that makes it tragic.
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I tought of that too, it makes the most sense but, as you point out, the sacrifice becomes redundant when Abberline is "infected". Nothing wrong with enjoying the movie tough I kind of liked it, and there sure isn't a whole lot of good werewolf movies out there, but the end really bothered me.
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I feel like Aberline being bitten takes away from the death scene.
However I think that all things given, the situation in which Talbot died was perfect for the film. I think they could've cut down on the melodrama a bit (remove *some* of Gwen's lines there to minimalize it, and don't have Lawrence talk when he dies)
"I feel like Aberline being bitten takes away from the death scene.
However I think that all things given, the situation in which Talbot died was perfect for the film. I think they could've cut down on the melodrama a bit (remove *some* of Gwen's lines there to minimalize it, and don't have Lawrence talk when he dies)"
I actually wanted more melodrama. I liked it in the old version of the Wolf Man when LT goes on about his mortality, etc. Like he would be torn between living his life like his dad lived for 25 years or having someone kill him. That was gone from this film, any dialog.
simply killing Edward in twilight 4 wouldn't make twilight tragedy
Because he was shot
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