The word of the day* for January 28, 2007 is “lycanthrope” — NOUN: 1. A werewolf. 2. A person affected with lycanthropy.
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Went to see Blood and Chocolate at the theater yesterday. Of course, the movie doesn’t follow the book very well—the venue changed to Bucharest rather than Maryland, and the heroine seemed to be in her early twenties, not sweet sixteen. However, there was a plot, and very little “cat in the face” type action. For action/adventure fans there is breaking glass and gratuitous fire. Maybe not so gratuitous—fire is one of the ways to dispose of werewolves in this movie. The special effects (e.g., people changing to werewolves) were nicely done.
It is not, however, a horror movie, in the sense of The Haunting or even Dracula. In fact it is a coming of age movie in which the heroine has to learn to stand up for what she wants to do with her life. I enjoyed the movie. So did my husband, although he was there for the werewolves, not the story.
The quote† for today is from Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, quoted in Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause (ISBN 0-440-22668-6):
In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.
;^) Jan
* The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
† The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
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