When the wolf is lying on its side in the road in front of the car, there is a close-up of the wolf's head with his tongue hanging out. Will Randall begins to pull the wolf to the side of the road. The next cut comes very fast, as a snarling wolf attacks Will. Then the wolf runs off into the snowy woods. As Will gets back into his car to drive off, two wolves watch. Then there is a close-up of a wolf's face and eyes. For this scene, real and mechanical wolves were used. The scene where the wolf is first spotted in the car's headlights was shot on a soundstage. The wolf was positioned by his trainer to stand on a mark and look at one of the trainers. It was a fake wolf that was hit. When you see the wolf lying in the road, it was the real wolf who had been trained to do a "lie down". The closeup of the face of the wolf with the tongue hanging out was that of the mechanical wolf. It was both the real and the fake wolf that was pulled to the side of the road. When the wolf snarls and attacks, the wolf was responding to trainers saying "teeth". The wolf was also filmed jumping over the camera. The camera was positioned low and a trainer held a food reward behind the camera as another trainer released the wolf. For the brief attack, the trainer doubled for Jack Nicholson. The trainer held a bone that the wolf snapped at and tried to bite. When the wolf runs away, the wolf was actually running from one trainer to another. The first trainer released the wolf as the second trainer called to it. The several wolves that are seen looking at Will as he drives away were mechanical wolves.

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