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Silver Bullet

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Silver Bullet	label	Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet	page	SilverBullet
Silver Bullet	comment	A 1985 film adaptation of Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, directed by Daniel Attias, and starring Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Terry O'Quinn, and Lawrence Tierney.A small Maine town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Haim), a young boy in a wheelchair, suspects a werewolf is to blame, and is proven right when it tries to attack him. Now he's got to try and discover its human identity and a way to deal with it, with the help of his older sister Jane (Follows) and their alcoholic uncle Red (Busey).
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Silver Bullet / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Silver Bullet / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Andy Fairton.
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Silver Bullet / int_1183175e	type	This Was His True Form
Silver Bullet / int_1183175e	comment	This Was His True Form: The werewolf turns back into human after he is fatally hurt, but still rises for one more Jump Scare.
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Silver Bullet / int_1231e49d	type	Resist the Beast
Silver Bullet / int_1231e49d	comment	Resist the Beast: Played with. Based on the dream he had, it was heavily implied Reverend Lowe wanted to do this, since he considered his curse to be a nightmare. However, circumstances of the story where he loses an eye to Marty, receives a bunch of letters implying they know he's the werewolf and encourages him to commit suicide, and is possibly driven more and more insane by a combination of the full moon coming closer and the trauma of losing his eye practically ensure he never seriously tries to put this into practice or put any effort into maintaining his humanity in the face of the beast within himself.
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Silver Bullet / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Silver Bullet / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Four times. Marty's motorized wheelchairs (both regular and the modified motorcycle Uncle Red builds for Marty) are nicknamed "the Silver Bullet" (the bike even gets it stenciled on the side), and on the film's climax as the plan to kill the werewolf gets put together, Marty explains to Uncle Red the folklore about silver bullets and Red asks a local gunsmith to make him a silver bullet.
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Silver Bullet / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
Silver Bullet / int_1c571556	comment	The Tease: When Jane wasn't involved with taking care of Marty or investigating the werewolf, she was pretty flirtatious with some of the local guys.
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Silver Bullet / int_22793d67	type	Terrifying Pet Store Rat
Silver Bullet / int_22793d67	comment	Terrifying Pet Store Rat: A rodent startles Jane into falling over and knocking down a stack of cans. Her reaction seems a bit extreme, considering it's a gerbil.
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Silver Bullet / int_2583f1a0	type	Super Wheelchair
Silver Bullet / int_2583f1a0	comment	Super Wheelchair: Marty's uncle Red rigs up a silver-painted wheelchair/motorcycle combo for his nephew as a gift. He even gets it filled up at the local gas station like a car.
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Silver Bullet / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Silver Bullet / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Marty.
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Silver Bullet / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Silver Bullet / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Uncle Red has blonde hair.
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Silver Bullet / int_2a9b1de6	type	Bear Trap
Silver Bullet / int_2a9b1de6	comment	Bear Trap: When the posse searches the forest, one guy accidentally steps in a bear trap.
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Silver Bullet / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Silver Bullet / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Reverend Lowe after his dream where his churchgoers all turn into werewolves.
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Silver Bullet / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
Silver Bullet / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: Joe Haller is the local sheriff and tries to both find the werewolf and keep the people from going off the rails.
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Silver Bullet / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Silver Bullet / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Two of the werewolf's victims, Clyde Corliss the church janitor and an unnamed drifter. Several minor townspeople who never encounter the werewolf in the book, including Recurring Extra principal Ollie Parker, barmaid Elise Fournier (who moves away out of fear of the werewolf) and hot-headed gas station attendant Pucky Davis. Marty's grandfather. Pete Zinneman, Elmer's brother and the man who starts the hunting party to go after the werewolf after it slaughters his herd of pigs.
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Silver Bullet / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Silver Bullet / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: After what he did to its eye, Marty expects the werewolf to come after him in one form or another for both revenge and to prevent any chance of the truth coming out. Lowe makes that abundantly clear very shortly.
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Silver Bullet / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
Silver Bullet / int_3b789458	comment	Several minor townspeople who never encounter the werewolf in the book, including Recurring Extra principal Ollie Parker, barmaid Elise Fournier (who moves away out of fear of the werewolf) and hot-headed gas station attendant Pucky Davis.
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Silver Bullet / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Silver Bullet / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: As Andy rants on about the failures of the cops, asking about what they pay their taxes for, another customer named Aspinall quips that, after reading the last town report, he'd thought Andy wasn't paying his taxes.
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Silver Bullet / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Silver Bullet / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The werewolf mauls young Brady to death and kills a pregnant woman too. No-one is safe.
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Silver Bullet / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Silver Bullet / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Virgil the gas station attendant seems to be familiar and friendly with Marty while filling up the silver bullet in one scene.
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Silver Bullet / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Silver Bullet / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The werewolf becomes more violent the closer the full moon draws near and is strongly implied to be unable to control the urge to kill. Lowe offers up a motive, but it comes across as a lie he tells himself to try and justify the fact he can't stop murdering people.
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Silver Bullet / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Silver Bullet / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Milt Sturmfuller was one of the werewolf’s final victims in the novel, but here he is the third victim. In the book the werewolf laid low while the posse hunted for him. Here the werewolf goes after and kills several of them.
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Silver Bullet / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Silver Bullet / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted. We never see the act of the werewolf killing Brady, but while we see the bloody crime scene from a distance afterwards, along with Brady’s kite covered in blood, we never see the body itself. Judging by how Brady's dad reacted though, it wasn’t pretty.
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Silver Bullet / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Silver Bullet / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: The werewolf is quite adept at using whatever weapon or object happens to be within easy reach, in addition to his ability to rip people to shreds barehanded.
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Silver Bullet / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Silver Bullet / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Reverend Lowe tries to justify his actions by saying to Marty that most of his victims were sinners.
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Silver Bullet / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Silver Bullet / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When the werewolf grabs Jane, Red attacks it with a chair. After it breaks, he grabs a firepoker.
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Silver Bullet / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Silver Bullet / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When Jane is collecting bottles for the bottle drive, she talks to Reverend Lowe, who's on his knees gardening with his back to her. Then the camera cuts to his face — and, complete with Scare Chord, we see that he's sporting an eye-patch over the same eye that Marty damaged on the werewolf...
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Silver Bullet / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Silver Bullet / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Marty. He's the only person that legitimately injures the Werewolf, and then kill him. Not bad for a twelve-year-old kid confined to a wheelchair.
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Silver Bullet / int_56723175	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Silver Bullet / int_56723175	comment	Adaptation Induced Plothole: In this movie, the werewolf actually goes in the woods to confront the hunters when they go looking for him, when he could have easily avoided them, seeing how he knew they were going to go look for him. In the original book, he instead leaves the town for the night so he will be out of their reach when he transforms. One possibility for this is that he didn't yet know that he was the werewolf in the film (whereas in the book the hunting parties went out after the werewolf had lost an eye and started receiving Marty's threatening letters, both of which helped make him realize the truth about himself).
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Silver Bullet / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Silver Bullet / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The gunsmith knows how to make silver bullets and one of his lines implies he is aware of the existence of werewolves. You have to wonder what exactly he has experienced prior to the events of this movie.
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Silver Bullet / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Silver Bullet / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The cops are hard pressed to actually do anything when the murders start and blow off anyone who calls them out on not taking the investigation seriously. To be fair, the town’s police department consists of two people.
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Silver Bullet / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Silver Bullet / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Jane displays a strong fear of snakes and rodents.
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Silver Bullet / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Silver Bullet / int_5c5d0032	comment	Marty insists through his uncle that Sheriff Haller should question Reverend Lowe after learning that he started wearing an eye patch after he hit the werewolf in the eye. After realizing that he doesn't have any other leads, he decides to take the advice. Of course, he's killed for his trouble anyway.
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Silver Bullet / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet / int_628d08d4	comment	Silver Bullet: Marty and Jane give their silver necklaces to Red, so that he'll take them to a gun store and have them turned into a silver bullet. In addition, the film scores points for tackling head-on the difficulties in making bullets out of silver, instead of someone simply getting silver bullets and going to work. When Red takes the silver to the gunsmith, he says that his nephew just discovered the Lone Ranger and wants to make him silver bullets as a gift. The gunsmith states that silver isn't a good choice for making bullets. When the bullets are done and Red picks them up, the gunsmith has a few lines where he states that he crafted the bullets carefully and compensated for using silver by giving the bullets a lower powder load than would be used for a lead bullet, making them more accurate. The gunsmith also pretty directly implies he knows exactly what Red is up to.
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Silver Bullet / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Silver Bullet / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The werewolf begins gunning for Marty and Jane after realizing they figured out its human identity.
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Silver Bullet / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Silver Bullet / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Kent Broadhurst as Herb Kincaid. And Everett McGill as Reverend Lowe.
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Silver Bullet / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Silver Bullet / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The werewolf is Rev. Lowe.
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Silver Bullet / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Silver Bullet / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Stella is about to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills when she is attacked and killed by the werewolf. The werewolf is implied to have contemplated this, but due to his religious beliefs, he can't bring himself to do it.
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Silver Bullet / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
Silver Bullet / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: Silver Bullet is based on the graphic novel Cycle of the Werewolf.
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Silver Bullet / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Silver Bullet / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The werewolf was no slouch in the book, but his method of dealing with the mob hunting him during the full moon was to move to another town for the night so they wouldn't find him. In this movie, he actually goes to confront them, and wins. Mr. Knopfler manages this twice over in a Composite Character sort of way. In the book he is just a random victim who runs the diner. In the film, he's a no-nonsense bartender whose quick to break up fights with threats of his baseball bat, and joins in the hunting parties that pursue the werewolf. Billy Robertson, the local bartender from the book is also less tough than Knopfler, letting a drunk leave his bar despite knowing it might be a werewolf night, and not talking back to a belligerent customer out of fear of being hit. In the book, Constable Neary is a somewhat incompetent man who fails to follow up on good leads and despite boasting about good police work, during the next full moon is caught drinking and unprepared in his car. Sheriff Haller in the film is a more competent and professional authority figure who gets a good attempt at Shaming the Mob and does investigate more thoroughly. Marty and Jane. Marty gets a cooler, motorized wheelchair in contrast to his normal one from the book, and is able to climb out of the window with his upper body. In the second half, the two go out trying to find the werewolf's identity rather than stumbling across it accidentally while trick or treating.
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Silver Bullet / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Silver Bullet / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: The opening credits present the film as Stephen King's Silver Bullet.
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Silver Bullet / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Silver Bullet / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Tammy and her mother depart the story, apparently leaving town, after Milt's death.
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Silver Bullet / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Silver Bullet / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: At the beginning of the film, an older Jane is narrating the story so it's clear that she'll survive the events of the film.
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Silver Bullet / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Silver Bullet / int_77922c8c	comment	Mr. Knopfler is attacked and dragged beneath the mist by the werewolf, and he makes a last-ditch effort to drive it off with his baseball bat. We see a human hand rising out the mist and hitting with the bat twice, there is a beat, and then we see the werewolf's hand holding the bat and striking its victim instead.
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Silver Bullet / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Silver Bullet / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The very first victim gets his head knocked off by the werewolf.
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Silver Bullet / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Silver Bullet / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Haller is a more sympathetic and professional man than his book counterpart. Virgil the gas station attendant is a Nice Guy while the gas station attendant in the book was a unpleasant hothead who hit a customer in the face with the gas nozzle in an argument over the price and then commented that he didn't know why the guy was complaining, because he could have hit him harder. Milt is a downplayed example. He's still pretty rotten to both Marty and his family but his book counterpart cheated on his wife (giving her an STD) and physically abused her with alarming regularity.
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Silver Bullet / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Silver Bullet / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Deputy Sylvester, who never appears when Haller is hearing Red and Marty's suspicions or after Haller is killed. Herb Kincaid and Andy Fairton are never seen after the werewolf's fight with the pursuing mob, despite their prominent roles in it.
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Silver Bullet / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Silver Bullet / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: At least one of the werewolf's victims fell under this category. The first was Milt Sturmfuller, the overbearing father of Marty's girlfriend. From the way he talked to his daughter, it could be inferred that he was pretty emotionally abusive to her at the very least. He also made some pretty nasty remarks about Marty even though Marty hadn't done anything to him.
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Silver Bullet / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Silver Bullet / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: A variation when it comes to Reverend Lowe. At the start, he appears to be a genuinely conscientious priest who wants to do good for his flock and is horrified by what his curse has made him into. However, events of the movie gradually turn him more and more into this due to a possible combination of the trauma of losing his eye, being sent multiple letters encouraging him to commit suicide, and the full moon drawing closer and smothering his humanity. By that time, he's become completely evil and depraved, attempting to murder Marty and giving some poorly justified reasons on shaky religious grounds for his murders.
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Silver Bullet / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Silver Bullet / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: When the posse is organizing itself, Sheriff Haller tries talk them out of it. He is in turn shamed by Brady's dad, who's fresh off from his son's funeral.
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Silver Bullet / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Silver Bullet / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: "Give my best to your brother, Jane."
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Silver Bullet / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Silver Bullet / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The movie takes place over a long period of time, and many of the kills occur on random nights of no significance. The climax, however, is on Halloween night.
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Silver Bullet / int_a164f37d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Silver Bullet / int_a164f37d	comment	Fairplay Whodunnit: Before Reverend Lowe is revealed to be the werewolf, there is a scene where the character has an intense Nightmare Sequence showing several other townsfolk turning into werewolves during a sermon.
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Silver Bullet / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Silver Bullet / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: When the werewolf attacks Marty during his tryout of the fireworks that Red gave him, he defends himself by shooting a rocket into the beast's eye. Later, Marty shoots the werewolf's other eye out with a silver bullet, killing it.
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Silver Bullet / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Red fits it to a tee, and Marty practically idolizes him. Red actively spends time with him, insists there's more to the kid than his disability, builds him a high end motorized wheelchair, gives his fireworks to set off (after Marty says a carnival he was looking forward to was cancelled because of the murders), entertains all this talk of werewolves (albeit occasionally expressing irritation), and defends the kids during the climax. On the other hand, Red's lifestyle is critiqued by others: his constant drinking is portrayed negatively, he apparently has a few failed marriages, Jane is often dismissive of him, and he has a strained relationship with his sister. Nan even remarks that it's easy to come in every so often and be the cool relative; it's hard to actually raise the child.
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Silver Bullet / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Brady's father Herb Kincaid is just mentioned once or twice in the book but has some notable scenes, including a Shaming the Mob one, in the film. Brady himself appears in several earlier scenes as a friend of Marty.
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Silver Bullet / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted (like in the book). Reverend Lowe is a major character and a Baptist, but the town also has a Catholic priest who's a minor character (he's the hunter with Virgil who steps into a bear trap) and Marty has a St. Christopher's Medal which is more associated with Catholicism.
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Silver Bullet / int_a8c9ac97	comment	Lunacy: Discussed Trope. When Mary first starts suspecting that a werewolf is behind the killings, Red just says its probably a psycho, since the "full moon drives them crazy". Once they know it's an actual werewolf, they believe the closer the full moon is, the more vicious it likely becomes.
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Silver Bullet / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Closeups on the werewolf's eyes have them lighted with red.
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Silver Bullet / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Red demonstrates himself throughout the movie as an irresponsible drunk who is the laughing stock of the town. The first thing he does when he sees the werewolf? Smash a chair over its head, and then take it on with a fire poker.
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Silver Bullet / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Silver Bullet / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: One member of the mob, Aspinall, has this reaction when he realizes the werewolf is there with them, hiding under the fog. Jane when she realizes she's alone in a confined space with the werewolf's human identity and that the person knows she's figured it out.
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Silver Bullet / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Silver Bullet / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Justified. Initially the werewolf is smart enough to kill without drawing too much attention but, as the full moon draws near, he becomes more savage and his victims more numerous. A drunk dying by the railway doesn't draw suspicion. However, mauling a woman and a child to death sparks a mass manhunt for the killer. An act which leads Lowe to wittingly murder three more people and brings himself even closer to being caught.
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Silver Bullet / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Silver Bullet / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Lowe justifies killing the pregnant woman by saying he knew she was going to commit suicide. He cops to killing the body, but he insists he saved the soul. Of course, he says this after he just tried to kill Marty, so he may just be believing his own lies at this point.
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Silver Bullet / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Silver Bullet / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: An angry mob goes into the woods in a bid to drive out the killer. They don't suspect he's among their number, which is a real possibility, and no-one knows the killer is also a werewolf. All it accomplishes is adding more victims to bury.
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Silver Bullet / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Silver Bullet / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Red serves as one to Marty, being a fun and loving guy but also a drunk that's quick to shirk his responsibilities. Nan openly worries about Marty turning into someone like him, someone who just gives up and coasts by. Appropriately, Nan is one to Jane. Early on, Jane's narration notes that continually having to watch after Marty was a cross to bear; we then see her suffer an embarrassing prank and exclaiming she hates him. Later on, it's clear that Nan didn't enjoy a lifetime of watching after Red; their one-on-one scene highlights a noticeable strain on their relationship.
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Silver Bullet / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Silver Bullet / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: The werewolf's human identity is driving after Marty with the intent of running him off the road. The car pulls into the opposing lane and gets right alongside Marty's Super Wheelchair, but an approaching truck forces slamming on the brakes and swerving, giving Marty more time. Marty is soon afterwards cornered at the bridge with no way out, but Mr. Zimmerman suddenly drives by. Marty calls out to Zimmerman for help, and the werewolf's human identity opts to flee rather than risk being exposed.
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Silver Bullet / int_c5249b29	comment	Virgil the gas station attendant is a Nice Guy while the gas station attendant in the book was a unpleasant hothead who hit a customer in the face with the gas nozzle in an argument over the price and then commented that he didn't know why the guy was complaining, because he could have hit him harder.
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Silver Bullet / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Silver Bullet / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: The werewolf often demonstrates that it is not some mindless beast. Savage as it is, it often thinks out its moves, such as when getting the drop on the mob or when cutting the power at the Coslaw house. Of course, Stupid Evil also comes up here and there, as seen below.
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Silver Bullet / int_cccb4fd1	type	Death by Pragmatism
Silver Bullet / int_cccb4fd1	comment	Death by Pragmatism: Once Sheriff Haller has no more leads, he decides to take a look at the reverend's place due to Red's earlier insistence. Once he actually finds some damning evidence, he is of course discovered by Lowe, who then promptly transforms and bludgeons him to death.
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Silver Bullet / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Silver Bullet / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Averted. Once Marty has seen the creature with his own eyes, injuring it in the process, the people he trusts do in fact believe him. Jane believes him for reasons she can't quite explain, despite how crazy it sounds, and begins helping him track down anyone with an eye injury matching the one inflicted on the werewolf with a firework. She discovers both a murder weapon and the injured Lowe. Marty insists through his uncle that Sheriff Haller should question Reverend Lowe after learning that he started wearing an eye patch after he hit the werewolf in the eye. After realizing that he doesn't have any other leads, he decides to take the advice. Of course, he's killed for his trouble anyway.
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Silver Bullet / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Silver Bullet / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Mr. Knopfler is attacked and dragged beneath the mist by the werewolf, and he makes a last-ditch effort to drive it off with his baseball bat. We see a human hand rising out the mist and hitting with the bat twice, there is a beat, and then we see the werewolf's hand holding the bat and striking its victim instead. The hunter who steps in a bear trap. His companion carefully pries open the device's "jaws", which have made a bloody mess of the man's ankle ... and then loses his grip when a call from another hunting team startles him, letting them champ down on the poor guy's leg all over again.
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Silver Bullet / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Silver Bullet / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Two minor examples. In the book, Elmer Zinneman is one of the leaders of the hunters who go after the werewolf, and does so with careful and efficient planning while knowing that it is a supernatural beast they're seeking. In the movie, Elmer is just a friendly passerby who sees Marty trapped on the covered bridge and interrupts Reverend Lowe's attempt on his life and wasn't even part of the mob of hunters. Arnie Westrum is shown to just be a drunken man who is decapitated from the shadows by the werewolf. In the book, he is hinted to be psychic (or at least keenly perceptive), having had omens about something bad coming to Tarker's Mills and not letting in the werewolf when he hears scratching at his door, as well as putting up a brief fight with his ice axe.
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Silver Bullet / int_dae24d7a	type	Recruit the Muggles
Silver Bullet / int_dae24d7a	comment	Recruit the Muggles: Almost every townsperson with a name or dialogue joins in a massive effort to hunt down the werewolf after the sheriff steps aside and confines their efforts following a Shamed by a Mob speech. They accomplish little besides giving the werewolf a few more victims.
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Silver Bullet / int_df9021e7	type	Disabled Means Helpless
Silver Bullet / int_df9021e7	comment	Disabled Means Helpless: Red argues that Nan treats Marty as just some helpless kid and that there's more to him than his disability. In her defense, she counters that Red only drops by every so often and doesn't actually have to put in the work that comes with raising children (disabled or otherwise). Of course, unlike many others in the movie, Marty ends up surviving multiple encounters with the werewolf.
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Silver Bullet / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
Silver Bullet / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: Downplayed. The werewolf has a scene as a human where it wishes for things to stop but otherwise, it shows no remorse for its actions. Justified as the human side gets suppressed more and more as the full moon approaches.
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Silver Bullet / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Silver Bullet / int_e4965307	comment	Mr. Knopfler manages this twice over in a Composite Character sort of way. In the book he is just a random victim who runs the diner. In the film, he's a no-nonsense bartender whose quick to break up fights with threats of his baseball bat, and joins in the hunting parties that pursue the werewolf. Billy Robertson, the local bartender from the book is also less tough than Knopfler, letting a drunk leave his bar despite knowing it might be a werewolf night, and not talking back to a belligerent customer out of fear of being hit.
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Silver Bullet / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: After one death too many, the town gathers an angry mob to go on a Witch Hunt into the woods to find the killer. The search is poorly organized and at one point a townsman steps on a bear trap, badly injuring himself. Then the werewolf shows up to start killing people.
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Silver Bullet / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Silver Bullet / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hearing the kids' claims of a werewolf, Red admits he expects this kind of stuff from Marty, but he says Jane has always been practical and level-headed.
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Silver Bullet / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: When Red questions the culprit's supposed lycanthropy by pointing out that there wasn't a full moon when Marty was attacked, Marty and Jane posit that while the stories say that the werewolves turn during the full moon, this werewolf may perhaps turn whenever he likes. The werewolf also targets a very specific woman in her own home and breaks in to murder her there, which is uncharacteristic of most werewolves who in both mythology and other works of modern fiction keep to themselves for the most part and only attack and prey on those they come across.
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Silver Bullet / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Brady being killed by the werewolf.
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