Red Ridding Hood

The wolf, a little out of breath from running, arrived at Grandma's and knocked lightly at the door. Come in, come in! I was worried sick that something had happened to you in the forest," said Grandma thinking that the knock was her granddaughter.

The wolf let himself in. Poor Granny did not have time to say another word, before the wolf gobbled her up!

The wolf let out a satisfied burp, and then poked through Granny's wardrobe to find a nightgown that he liked.

He added a frilly sleeping cap, and for good measure, dabbed some of Granny's perfume behind his pointy ears. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.

So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said: 'See, Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here - why do you not look round?

I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.

Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: 'Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too.

It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time. So she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers.

And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door. The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her.

He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going.

He suggests that the girl pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be her.

He swallows the grandmother whole in some stories, he locks her in the closet and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange.

Little Red then says, "What a deep voice you have! Then he falls asleep. In Charles Perrault's version of the story the first version to be published , the tale ends here.

However, in later versions, the story continues generally as follows:. A woodcutter in the French version, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf.

Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die.

In Grimm's version, the wolf leaves the house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown. Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of being eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she gets eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe.

The tale makes the clearest contrast between the safe world of the village and the dangers of the forest , conventional antitheses that are essentially medieval, though no written versions are as old as that.

The story displays many similarities to stories from classical Greece and Rome. Scholar Graham Anderson has compared the story to a local legend recounted by Pausanias in which, each year, a virgin girl was offered to a malevolent spirit dressed in the skin of a wolf, who raped the girl.

Then, one year, the boxer Euthymos came along, slew the spirit, and married the girl who had been offered as a sacrifice.

Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja's not having slept, eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding.

A similar story also belongs to the North African tradition, namely in Kabylia , where a number of versions are attested. The theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly is also reflected in the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf and another Grimm tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids , but its general theme of restoration is at least as old as the biblical story, Jonah and the Whale.

The theme also appears in the story of the life of Saint Margaret , wherein the saint emerges unharmed from the belly of a dragon , and in the epic "The Red Path" by Jim C.

A Taiwanese story from the 16th century, known as Grandaunt Tiger bears several striking similarities. When the girl's mother goes out, the tigress comes to the girl's house and pretends to be their aunt, asking to come in.

The girl says that her voice does not sound right, so the tigress attempts to disguise her voice. Then, the girl says that her hands feel too coarse, so the tigress attempts to make them smoother.

The original release date, set for April 22, , [9] was moved to March 11, USA Today complimented the production design, but wrote that, "it's a foolish story, marred by a strange blend of overacting and bland, offhand performances.

Mary Pols of Time magazine named it one of the 10 worst films of The teaser trailer and the poster were released in November , featuring "The Wolf", a new song written exclusively for the film by Swedish act Fever Ray.

The novelization received criticism for not including the story's final, concluding chapter, which instead was only made available for download online following the release of the film.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. Brian Reitzell Alex Heffes. Nancy Richardson Julia Wong. Appian Way Productions.

Release date. Running time. Los Angeles. Tribune Company. Retrieved March 13, Retrieved She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter Fernandez , but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry Irons.

Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.

For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life.

Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon Oldman , to help them kill the wolf.

But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.

As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the Written by Warner Bros.

Has it become increasingly difficult to write an ending? Have writers suddenly forgotten that the climax is the high point of a story?

Or is Hollywood getting lazy? Red Riding Hood is probably the most frustrating and unsatisfying movie I've been to, and the above reason is just one of many.

While it certainly isn't bad, I haven't finished feeling so let down since Haneke's "The White Ribbon". Of course, Hardwicke is a director who is willing take big risks.

She did so with Twilight, which was a huge smash with teens everywhere. And she does have a good eye for a shot, and several scenes here show.

If had to recommend the movie for one thing alone, it would be for the visuals. The look of the film has a gorgeous, lush and colourful palette that made this film worth seeing on the big screen.

The film's biggest problem aside from being anti-climatic is that the plot is just