Blood and Chocolate

February 1st, 2007
by Ide Cyan

This is a heads-up kind of post:

There’s a movie currently in theatres in North America called Blood and Chocolate.

I haven’t seen it yet, but I know this much: it’s based on a Young Adult novel of the same title by writer Annette Curtis Klause, and was directed by Katja von Garnier. And it’s about a young woman who’s a werewolf. The screenplay was written by two men, but, I’ll emphasise:

It’s a movie about a female werewolf, directed by a woman, and based on a book written by a woman.

It’s in theatres right now.

Anyone see it?

What did you think?

You can also flesh out the FSF Wiki entry about it. Make a list of the differences between the novel and the movie, for instance. Spoilers should preferably go there — I’m hoping to see it soon, but I won’t be able to discuss it until I do.

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9 Responses to “Blood and Chocolate”

  1. Liz Henry on February 3, 2007 6:35 pm

    Oooo! I’ll definitely see it as soon as I can! Thanks for the headsup.

  2. Michelle on February 4, 2007 1:24 am

    “female werewolf”

    I’ve read in various places online – but am reluctant to believe without better sources – that the “were” in werewolf is derived from the original, full English name for man, being wereman. The female equivalent being woman, and the base for *both* names being man. Eventually the “were” part got dropped and (you can see where this is going) “man” came to refer to both male persons AND humans, while “woman” retained its qualifier.

    Nice theory, but does anyone know if it’s true?

    As for the title in question, all I know of it is from Coffee and Ink’s description: “Annette Curtis Klause’s Blood and Chocolate is a YA werewolf novel which is surprisingly good on the psychology of the werewolf pack and surprisingly sexy and violent for YA. A bit purple, but enjoyable.”

  3. Ide Cyan on February 4, 2007 2:07 am

    From what I can tell, the archaic words for man and woman were “were” and “wife” (with spelling variations). Outside of “werewolf”, “were” has fallen into disuse, whereas “wife” now so strongly denotes “a woman who is married” that its wider meaning has almost completely fallen into disuse as well.

    There’s a Wiki entry explaining that, and dictionary entries for “werewolf” back up this etymology:

    The wer- or were- in wer(e)wulf means “man”

    I addressed the bearing of the word’s etymology on female werewolves in the FSF Wiki entry for werewolves.

  4. Liz Henry on February 4, 2007 2:42 am

    The one review on IMDB is interesting… from someone who liked the book – and who says the movie made the characters hollow, miserable, depressing… instead of strong and cool like they were in the book. I think I’ll read it first before going to see it!

  5. Ariel Wetzel on February 4, 2007 2:58 pm

    I loved the book when I was a teenager. (In part, I think, because there was sex in it.) I’ll probably avoid the film, sounds like it will disappoint.

  6. Ide Cyan on February 4, 2007 7:10 pm

    I went to see it this afternoon. I never read the book, except the brief exerpt at Amazon (& from that glimpse it’s totally different from the film), and the movie’s not especially feminist (it doesn’t meet The Rule, or scarcely in an all-too-brief exchange), and it has some WTF bits (I mean, absinthe? now that’s posing) but I loved it. Loved it. Loved it. It’s a love story with werewolves and ethical issues.

  7. Draconismoi on February 22, 2007 8:49 pm

    They adopted all the wolves used in the filming and moved them to a wildlife preserve….apparently wolves are hunted like vermin in Romania.

  8. Ide Cyan on February 23, 2007 1:49 am

    Good news for those wolves, then.

  9. Ariel Wetzel on July 29, 2007 2:16 pm

    I finally rented this movie (I had a free coupon) and I thought it was terrible. Lessons I learned from Blood and Chocolate:

    - Shake your ass at a guy on the dance floor but don’t go home with him, and he can chase you down a dark ally and then come into your home and rip your guts out

    - Stalker-like behavior is romantic, and you apparently have to find just the right way to say no because the boy will still blame you for allowing him to fall in love with you when you’re part of a dangerous werewolf pack

    The writing and special effects and fight scenes would have been alright in a TV movie. I’m glad I didn’t see this in the theater.

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