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It's a bit late NOW, but somebody did ask about it before, so...
Earlier today, apparently in honor of the new Van Hellsing movie, The
History Channel ran episodes of exploring the origins of The Great
Monsters. One of these was a documentary on werewolves. Throughout the
program, interspersed with period woodcuts depicting lycanthropes, was
artwork taken from WWs' Werewolf the Apocalypse. Toward the end of the
episode, they even showed some Werewolf LARPers, and showed a brief
snippit of explanation of the game from the "Storyteller". Many
authors of Werewolf stories were also spoken to (including the guy who
wrote The Howling novels), and one mentioned how the game was unique
to extolling the positive virtues of the creatures...
BTW, apparently most of the Hollywood conventions we all recognize as
werewolf lore, was invented by a German scriptwriter (Kurt something),
who felt he needed to spice up the mythology some...so he came up with
the bite changing one into a werewolf, the vunerability to silver,
etc.
According to the program, one of the main reasons Hollywood never
produced a werewolf story *quite* as popular as Dracula and
Frankenstein was because A) there never was THE definitive Werewolf
novel, and B) Hollywood censors feared the crucial transformation
scenes were an endorsement of Darwinism, so we didn't get to see such
scenes for a long time...
Interesting stuff, tho I found the info on Dipple, the "real-life" mad
scientist with his alchemical experiments in Castle Frankenstein, more
interesting...
Dex
It's a bit late NOW, but somebody did ask about it before, so...
Earlier today, apparently in honor of the new Van Hellsing movie, The
History Channel ran episodes of exploring the origins of The Great
Monsters. One of these was a documentary on werewolves. Throughout the
program, interspersed with period woodcuts depicting lycanthropes, was
artwork taken from WWs' Werewolf the Apocalypse. Toward the end of the
episode, they even showed some Werewolf LARPers, and showed a brief
snippit of explanation of the game from the "Storyteller". Many
authors of Werewolf stories were also spoken to (including the guy who
wrote The Howling novels), and one mentioned how the game was unique
to extolling the positive virtues of the creatures...
BTW, apparently most of the Hollywood conventions we all recognize as
werewolf lore, was invented by a German scriptwriter (Kurt something),
who felt he needed to spice up the mythology some...so he came up with
the bite changing one into a werewolf, the vunerability to silver,
etc.
According to the program, one of the main reasons Hollywood never
produced a werewolf story *quite* as popular as Dracula and
Frankenstein was because A) there never was THE definitive Werewolf
novel, and B) Hollywood censors feared the crucial transformation
scenes were an endorsement of Darwinism, so we didn't get to see such
scenes for a long time...
Interesting stuff, tho I found the info on Dipple, the "real-life" mad
scientist with his alchemical experiments in Castle Frankenstein, more
interesting...
Dex