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Originally Posted by Cursebearer
My point was that werewolves in their myths are not intended to be faithful representations of wolves, but rather are intended as terrifying monsters.
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Those weren't mutually exclusive--wolves were pretty terrifying to pesants and villagers in an age before firearms.
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The wolf does not represent a wolf, the wolf represents our fear of being hunted and a reflection of our own savage natures at our worst
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Again, not exclusive concepts. There's a reason why people transform into wolves rather than sheep or eagles.
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In this way, the werewolf as a concept holds no obligations to the enlightened view of the literal animal after which it is crafted
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True. But physically, the werewolf for most of its existence in legend holds some obligation to physically resemble a wolf.
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In this way I believe exaggerating the monstrous features of the werewolf is perfectly true to the concept of werewolves as a whole.
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I agree, but the concept has room for lots of "true" variations.
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Off of the top of my head, The Vampire Diaries, Twilight and Bitten all have more anatomically correct wolf form werewolves that travel in packs.
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The original poster wasn't asking for anatomically correct werewolves--he was asking for werewolves that more accurately combined wolf and human anatomy. That's a more difficult and interesting feat to accomplish, and most werewolf films haven't really risen to that challenge--they've just exaggerated traits from the very few great werewolf films.