[ SECRET POST #4049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4049 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Help me get a sense of perspective on this

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh. I would recognize it, but I can see how someone wouldn't.

I mean, you're kind of making my point with the Scooby Doo reference, in a way. Those specific monster movies are really only notable anymore for the influence that they've had on subsequent culture through things like parodies and references and tropes and remakes. And, really, at this point, it's mostly influencing things at a significant remove. I mean, the original Scooby Doo series itself ended 40 years ago - people today know Scooby Doo itself from remakes and parodies, and the Universal monster movies are another degree removed beyond that. Of course, the Wolfman is hardest hit by this, because people are familiar with the other franchises through other means - Frankenstein and Dracula through the books, The Mummy because there was an actual successful remake - whereas people are mostly familiar with werewolf stories through more recent werewolf movies, which were influenced by The Wolfman but were not actually part of that franchise.

This is also probably why that whole Universal Dark Universe thing completely bombed, by the way.

Re: Help me get a sense of perspective on this

[thewakokid]

Those specific monster movies are really only notable anymore for the influence that they've had

Agreed, and while the Wolfman hasn't had the same impace as dracula, he'd had more impact than the mummy at least before the Brendan Fraiser films. And even before the Brendan Fraiser films, it would have been weird if somone said "What the fuck is the mummy?" You'd point to scooby Doo and go "Seriously?"

Re: Help me get a sense of perspective on this

[(Anonymous)]

People would know about mummies through diffuse pop-cultural sources, but that's not the same as knowing about the original Universal movie

Re: Help me get a sense of perspective on this

[thewakokid]

Oh, I see, no, I'm not talking about knowing about the movie the wolfman. I'm talking about knowing about the CHARACTER of the Wolfman.

Re: Help me get a sense of perspective on this

[(Anonymous)]

But how would you know about the character of The Wolfman without knowing about the movie?

You can't know about the character just by knowing about werewolves, because werewolves are a general kind of horror monster that aren't specifically connected to The Wolfman (and also are called by a different name). So I don't see how you'd make the connection without knowing about the actual specific movie.