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Post by thecoffinflies on Mar 19, 2014 14:32:28 GMT
That's how I wrote the novel - preserving the ambiguity. Curt Siodmak didn't want ambiguity, which is precisely my problem with him. In 1951 he wrote and directed Bride Of The Gorilla, and it is as near as he could get to his personal vision of The Wolf Man, as far as it contains certain scenes and ideas he specifically claimed to have wanted in the earlier film, including the moment where we see Raymond Burr looking into water, and his reflection is that of a gorilla. Otherwise, we only ever see Raymond Burr. If that's ambiguity, it's too subtle for me - I see it as a deliberate negation of any supernatural content. Sort of like a Gothic novel where the ghosts are mechanical illusions, or as if Ira Levin had taken the trouble to state that Rosemary was just a hysteric. Siodmak said that for him, The Wolf Man was about a psychological problem, rather than any kind of ambiguity. I haven't read your novel of The Wolf Man (mostly cos I've never found a copy of it), but I should clarify that despite my sneers at Curt Siodmak, I really love the film, and that the ambiguity you may be defending is possibly between Siodmak and Universal Studios, not a part of Siodmak's template.
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