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Tear Jerker / The Wolfman (2010)

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  • The ending. Gwen, who loves him and can free him, shoots the Wolfman with a silver bullet. Before he dies, Lawrence comforts her and thanks her before dying. And Gwen, after losing two men that she loved, is heartbroken. Her silent sobs are devastating.
    • The ending is even sadder in the novelization. Although Gwen still apparently free Lawrence, he can't talk. So he can't comfort her as in the movie. He only caringly touches her face as sign of thankfulness. And he dies. The hunters and the dogs that were searching the monster and Gwen's tracks stop the hunt. Even the dogs shut after hear her devastating sobs. And Abberline feels sad for her and Lawrence, even after he was bitten.
  • Ben's funeral. Lawrence's mourning is sad, after his exile, he lost all of Ben's life.
    • This is more emotional in the novel. A reverend is talking about guilt, and Lawrence is about to hit him, as he mixes the religious guilt with the lamentation of loss. But he didn't want to make Ben's funeral a circus.
  • Lawrence begging someone to kill him right before he transforms for the second time, this time in a room full of doctors and spectators.
  • Gwen's trying to search a cure for Lawrence for almost a month. She didn't sleep so much after read many books about magic and supernatural things, and finally searches Maleva.
    • In the novelization, she neglects taking care of herself, in her personal image in her search. She reads a book saying that the victim of lycanthropy is trapped under that monstrous form, undefensive and uncapable of acting. She cry after this, thinking about Lawrence's suffering. After meet Maleva, she admits that her love is intrepid and true.
  • Singh's death.
    • In the novelization, Lawrence discovers his hanged corpse as a trophy by Sir John. Lawrence even cry, and he imagine how he died: Singh probably was angry with Sir John after Lawrence's first transformation and werewolf rampage, they probably fight physically, but Sir John killed him. It's implied that he knew Lawrence and Ben since their childhoods. And he was the family guardian, but also maintains the world saved of the Talbot curse. Lawrence is even angrier after this, promising himself to kill that monster, who is his father.
  • The end of the Madness Montage, when Gwen comes to visit and tries desperately to calm him down, all while he's clearly hurt and scared and having hallucinations of werewolves lunging at him. Even worse is the fact that it's possible that Gwen wasn't there at all.
  • The novelization says Lawrence's wails of anguish during his first transformation are (in part) him calling for his mother.
    • The novelization adds quite a few of these, in part because it has the luxury of expanding on and delving deeper into Lawrence's thoughts. His return to Talbot Hall is one long string of emotional trauma over seeing his father again, mourning his brother (and realizing there's no chance of the two ever reconciling), doing his best to comfort Gwen, and lashing out at the townsfolk.

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