![]() Fingore: Will ferociously defends himself from some thugs ganging up on him at Central Park in a Gory Discretion Shot moment.Faux Affably Evil: Stewart can put on a seemingly friendly attitude, namely him saying to Will that he loves him, but it’s completely false.False Soulmate: Charlotte, to Will, because he separates from her after he discovers she's been cheating on him, but before she gets killed by Stewart, whom she's been having the affair with.Evil Me Scares Me: Will handcuffs himself, afraid of causing harm on his next night out.Evil-Detecting Dog: Done with a horse and the zoo animals that behave threatened in Will's presence due to his curse.Demonic Possession: Or at least that's how Will sees it.Alezais the Indian mystic Will consults, a man who becomes a wolf doesn't also become evil he will be an evil wolf if he was already an evil man. Will appropriately flees as the wolf that bit him gives a Kubrick Stare that's right up there with his actor's previous work. The Darkness Gazes Back: After the wolf bites Will and runs off into the woods, we see a whole pack of wolves glaring at him.Deadpan Snarker: Will, Laura, Stewart and Alden all have moments of very dry sarcasm.She and Mike Nichols had been part of a stand-up comedy act 'Nichols and May' - and in most of their routines played characters speaking on the phone. Creator In-Joke: Elaine May plays the telephone operator.Alezais even asks to be bitten so he too can share the gift. Alezais sees Will's transformation: if he is a good man, then becoming a wolf could be a wonderful gift. Cock Fight: Will and Stewart both want Laura, and it culminates in a battle of beasts when they fight each other in werewolf form.And I think that the wildness within her is attracted to the newfound wildness in Will. Michelle Pfeiffer: Laura has always been the outcast, the black sheep within her family. Ax-Crazy: Stewart, after becoming a demon wolf, becomes vicious and truly savage.Attempted Rape: Laura is on the brink of being raped by Stewart, until Will manages to put a stop to that.Ambiguous Ending: Is Will's transformation permanent, or just part of the full moon cycle? The question is never definitively answered, leaving the audience to decide.Actor Allusion: Jack Nicholson as a man who gradually turns into a werewolf after portraying "Big Bad Wolf" Jack Torrance, complete with the huff-puff-blow threat in The Shining.Wolf provides examples of the following tropes: Worse, he's not certain he hasn't been spreading his condition to others. His new superhuman senses of sight and smell are part bewildering and part fascinating.īut then our hero discovers himself taking on animal characteristics and spending nights hunting deer in nearby forests, waking up at morning with hazy memory of the night's activities but plenty of blood on his hands to give him a hint. His sexual appetite has also increased, and he seems to have a mutual attraction with Laura Alden (Pfeiffer), Alden's world-weary daughter. Gradually, he becomes rejuvenated, revitalized, and more aggressive, which allows him to outperform Stewart and get his job back. A chance encounter with a lone wolf on a snowy country road of Vermont results in a single small bite on his arm. However, Will's life seems to be about to change for the better. Their employer, tycoon Raymond Alden ( Christopher Plummer), announces Will's demotion in favor of Stewart, while Will's wife Charlotte ( Kate Nelligan) has started an affair with Stewart. His skills have somewhat diminished with age, and his disloyal protege, Stewart Swinton ( James Spader), has taken full advantage. ![]() Will Randall (Nicholson) is the aging managing editor of an influential publishing house. Wolf is a 1994 supernatural horror film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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