The 1941 horror film Wolfman written by Curt Siodmak was recently remade in 2010 starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins. Between the 1941 and 2010 film, there are several significant changes moviegoers will notice after leaving theaters.
One of the changes is the original plot. The 2010 film's plot has been altered and has been extended, however, this isn't the only noticeable change. The other noticeable change is the transformation of the wolfman in the 1941 and 2010 films. Each film took a very different approach to showing a man turn into a flesh eating beast.
In the 1941 film, the transformation was very simple and zoomed in on one particular part of the body to show the changes. For example, in one of the scenes, the full moon passed in the sky and the camera focused directly onto the man's feet. His feet took nearly the entire frame and began to get progressively hairier with each passing second.
I also noticed that the changes took place from top to bottom as a sort of black line ran down the screen showing the changes. This is the same exact approach they took when focusing on the man's face instead of his feet.
To say the 2010 film handled its transformation scenes differently would be an understatement. While in the hospital strapped to the chair, Benicio's transformation into the wolfman started with his head cracking and parts of his cheek bones bulging out. The noise he made and strange behavior notified the viewers that a change was soon to come. The camera then focused on his hands which were disjointing and then quickly showed his feet bursting out of his shoes. Toro's mouth began expanding, his teeth began receding and his eyes grew the size of golfballs. The transformation came to completion with his ears growing out and teeth getting sharper.
Both transformations were handled entirely different, obviously due to the technology each director possessed at the time. The 1941 film used a simplistic way of showing a change while the 2010 film showed a more complex, almost unrealistic looking change.
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