Was Michelle the original wolf that bit Jack? (SPOILERS!)
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dragon_x — 16 years ago(October 25, 2009 11:00 AM)
You are wacky if you are saying just because she is "wild" she is turning into a wolf. There was nothing to indicate she was wild. She seemed docile. I also wondered if she was the original wolf. but I wondered that at the beginning
So there is nothing to indicate Laura was "wild" or a wild child or a wild animal? She was definitely wild. She is a blue blood - and old family with lots of money, so she has to act a certain way. Clearly in her younger years she was wild - because she got to know the "criminal elements of society" as she put it. Since her family expects her to act a certain way she may rebel against this strict and stuffy upbringing and get into all sorts of trouble. bad relationships, trouble with the law, jail time etc. And I'm sure she could also hide her wild side when she wanted to. Girls even women are great at that.
Her brother was wild
Her dad looked like he could rip Stewart's (Spader) face off - if he wanted to.
Wolves do fight for dominance in the packs. Males fight for the alpha male spot and iirc - females fight for the alpha female spot. So maybe she was afraid, since he could kill her, even if she was some sort of 'wolf' or wild child?
And MAYBE werewolves kill lesser/weaker wolves (unless they are already part of an established family/pack) and the better were wolves probably retain enough intelligence to plan and strategize.
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rhps_boy — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 12:39 AM)
It was also said, "not all people who are bitten change to the wolf. An analogue of the wolf." I think during there hook up, she transferred the curse of the wolf. Also, said:
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jwarren2001 — 16 years ago(April 30, 2009 02:40 AM)
Bingo. "The passion of the wolf is enough." I think it's pretty safe to infer that Laura was "infected" by Will during their night of passion. Also, it's unlikely that Laura was the original wolf that bit Will, otherwise the horses should have been afraid of her (a predator) as they were of Will after he was bitten.
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Jetfire59 — 16 years ago(February 01, 2010 12:36 AM)
Jwarren2001 & riveroserik, You got it. She was given the "wolf essence" or whatever you call it when she had sex with Will. No way was she the wolf that bit him. She was way too freaked out by what the cop told her about the canine DNA they found in Mrs. Randall's wounds. When she goes back to the car and he comes up behind her, she is very jumpy. Had she been the wolf who bit him, she wouldn't have been.
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aquascenes83 — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 03:26 PM)
Yeah, thats how i remember it. Pretty sure Spader bites her in the last scene of the movie when they are fighting eachother in the horse stable. She turns into a full wolf a lot quicker than Jack's transformation though so its kinda weird. It's on now so ill have to look for that.
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DSo1976 — 13 years ago(March 18, 2013 06:38 PM)
^^^^^^^^^
This!!!! What are all you people talking about with the transference of the wolf essence through sex? It was very clear that James Spader bit/scratched her.
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hippiewanab — 16 years ago(April 30, 2009 03:07 AM)
I just saw the movie for the first time and thought it was amazing, extremely underrated and not well known enough. From the very beginning the first scene they do together, I thought it was strange how he just randomly ran into her. And to me I think she is the original wolf that bit him. The things that made me think that is how strange it was that they ran into each other like that, and how from the beginning they had a chemistry and he was almost drawn to her. I don't think she was changed through sex, because his wife wasn't and she had sex with both men that became werewolves after they were bitten and she didn't become one. I know what the man said that he talked to "passion" but I think that was added in there just to make you think. They never said she couldn't hear the phone ringing or that she was scaredI'm still not quite sure what to think of her going to the police, but it doesn't change the way I see it. The thing that stands out to me, is am I the only one who noticed how old the photos he was looking at in her house looked?? And how strange that two people in her family die..her brother being psycho and the way Jack described her and how she acted sounds to me like she was keeping secrets from people. But the end, when she mentions what the officers had drank..instead of being shocked her dad laughed. And when her eyes glowed yellow that did it for me. Neither one of the other characters that turned to werewolves eyes were that color, but her eyes were the same color as the one in the beginning. And her dad didn't question her on how nonchalant she seemed about the whole ordeal. She didn't have enough time to transform is she had gotten scratched in the fight and all of it just seems to point toward her being the original werewolf to me
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daisy-tillman3 — 16 years ago(February 08, 2010 09:20 AM)
I am so glad this thread was opened - I totally agree, Michelle (Laura) WAS the wolf that bit him. That fade out scene between Laura's eyes and that of the Vermont wolf was meant to elude to that. I think Laura knew what her father was doing to Will, I think she sought him out in a way. I think she was testing his worth - all the stuff in between was a ruse for the viewing audience to throw us off the fact that she was the mastermind. Sex couldn't have been the transferring factor, otherwise Mrs. Randall would have been a wolf, too. Great movie. Love the Morricone soundtrack. All hail the Spader!
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AcademyAwardWinnerJordy — 16 years ago(March 16, 2010 01:39 AM)
^How could that be? She didn't have supersonic hearing, she didn't have supersonice smelling and why weren't the animals afraid of her?????
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daisy-tillman3 — 16 years ago(March 16, 2010 04:46 AM)
You know, I been rethinking my analysis of the situation lately, and it seems another poster was right, the passion of the wolf was enough to change Michelle's character. I now believe that she became a wolf after sleeping with Will.
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koffeenkreame41-1 — 14 years ago(March 07, 2012 05:27 AM)
^^Agreed, that last shot of her before the fade to black made me think the same. She had to be the one was watching Jack take off in his car after he was bitten.
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smokehill retrievers — 16 years ago(April 30, 2009 10:03 AM)
No, or the horse would have been afraid of her, like Jack.
The only thing that makes sense is that her "turning" began when she made love to Jack. She was bitten by Spader, I think, but the time wouldn't have been adequate to do anything to her, based on how it went with Jack. By the end of the movie, only a few minutes after the fight with Spader, she was clearly "turning" and knew what she was.
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pfalkyk — 16 years ago(May 19, 2009 03:04 PM)
no. i don't believe so. i see nothing to connect michelle's character with the original werewolf. she was far too easily subdued by james spader's werewolf AND! the horses were mortally terrified of Will when he was barely even beginning to feel his wolf nature. yet michelle's character could ride the horses without difficulty EXCEPT when Will appeared & frightened the manure out of them.