A reoccurring theme in today’s society is turning once great, but now outdated movies into big screen productions. These updated movies include better graphics and modern actors, but tend to greatly stray from the original film. An example of this is the 2006 and 2011 movie versions of Red Riding Hood. The 2011 version is updated with better graphics and a modern female protagonist; however, is strays from the breathtaking 2006 version in the aspects of plot, character structure and theme. Red Riding Hood 2006 portrays a young teenage girl. One day she makes the unwise decision to take a trip to her grandmother’s house. Before leaving, her mother warns her not to take the shorter path through the woods, but she refuses to listen. Once in the woods, a man on a great white horse approaches Red. The man warns Red not to stray in the woods due to a lurking werewolf. After the man leaves Red, …show more content…
In this short story, a little girl walks through the woods to visit her grandmother. When she arrives at her grandmother’s house, she makes the terrifying discovery that a wolf has eaten her grandmother. Suddenly, a huntsman bursts through the door and cuts the grandmother out of the wolf’s stomach, saving the grandmother and killing the wolf. The theme to this story is children should always listen to their parents. Nevertheless, in the 2006 version of Red Riding Hood, Red disobeys her mother. This hardheaded decision leads to many catastrophic and unnecessary events, to occur. The theme of the 2006 version adheres to the fairytale version’s theme that children should always listen to their parents. In contrast, the theme of the 2011 version greatly differs. The main message in this movie is even those closest to us can never be fully trusted. Valerie never expected the wolf to be her own father; when she learned this information and her father’s plan, she was forced to kill
When novels are adapted for the cinema, directors and writers frequently make changes in the plot, setting, characterization and themes of the novel. Sometimes the changes are made in adaptations due to the distinctive interpretations of the novel, which involve personal views of the book and choices of elements to retain, reproduce, change or leave out. On the contrary, a film is not just an illustrated version of the novel; it is a totally different medium. When adapting the novel, the director has to leave out a number of things for the simple reason of time difference. Furthermore, other structures and techniques must be added to the film to enhance the beauty and impressions of it. Like a translator, the director wants to do some sort of fidelity to the original work and also create a new work of art in a different medium. Regardless of the differences in the two media, they also share a number of elements: they each tell stories about characters.
Fifth, a consequence for those who rebel. And lastly, a realization of a character, the audience, or both that the society portrayed is not perfect. As a brief run-down of the film, we first meet a quiet boy named Lucius Hunt. He was very good friends with a special needs boy named Noah Percy. In the beginning of the movie, Lucius asks the elders of the village for permission to go to the village to get medicine to help Noah. The elders refuse and life continues on. It seems to the audience that there is a line that is beside the Covington woods. The people are not allowed to pass the line because there are “the people who we don’t speak of” that wear red cloaks. The elders of the village dress up as the people in red and come into the town one night and mark the doors in red and kill livestock and skin them. The village people do not know that these people are the elders. Life goes on and Lucius and Ivy have decided to get married. Ivy is Noah’s love and Noah gets upset. Noah stabs Lucius until Lucius is barely living. Ivy, who is blind, travels into the woods through Covington woods. By now, Ivy’s father has told Ivy that the people in red are fake. Ivy sets off into the
According to the Oxford Student’s Dictionary, adulthood is associated with being “grown to full size or strength, mature” (Seuss.14). Then why is it presented in underlying ways, in works that are considered to be children’s texts? The assumption is that children’s texts are supposedly “childish” which means “ unsuitable for a grown person, silly and immature” (pg.172). However, while studying Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, “The Story of Grandmother”, Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” and Brothers Grimm “Little Red Cap” and “Snow White”, it was evident that adulthood was both reinforced and subverted through the use of literary and narrative techniques.
Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.
Almost everyone knows this story: two children taken into the forest by their father and left alone. The children are tricked and trapped by the witch in the gingerbread house. Using their wits, they defeat the witch, escape and return to their happy home. This original story is a narrative circle. It begins and ends at the same place with the children happy with their father in their home in the woods. It is the narrative circle that underlies the whole film, and the audience is always conscious of this. The main narrative circle of the film unfolds after Hansel and Gretel have grown up, but it really begins where the first circle
In the story “The Company of Wolves” little red riding hood (LRRH) sexuality empowerment was short lived. LRRH is raised in a time where “Children do not stay young for long in this savage country” because they had to help out the family and did not have time to play. Since LRRH was “so pretty and the youngest of her family” she was not as wise and maybe a little naive. So when it as a
...l, she then goes into the woods to encounter the id. There she disobeys her mother's instructions, and becomes "the poor child." In the moral, these "pretty, nicely brought-up young ladies" turn "foolish" upon talking to strangers. As "elegant" as they were once considered, it is a child's own fault if she leans to far to the irrational id. Furthermore, Freud dramatically insinuates that this struggle can only end in death, which is the exact fate of Little Red Riding Hood.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.
...ult's fairy tale: “Red Hot Riding Hood.“ Both Hopkinson's and Avery's wolf share some human qualities which make him even more dangerous for young innocent girls.
A Comparison of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and Little Red Cap by the Brothers Grimm
As stated numerous times throughout this essay, movies must stay true to their book predecessor for full effect. Books are normally beautifully described and written, and help the reader visualize a completely new world. Most movies, not just The Book Thief, normally omit several
The fairytale “Little Red Riding Hood” has so many versions that has been told from books and movies. There are many different versions of the fairytale with different messages for everyone. “Little Red Riding Hood” is told all around the world, but one message that is always in the fairytale is danger is around. When telling a child about “Little Red Riding Hood” they understand one message that they should not talk to strangers, but children do not understand other messages that are analyzed like killing, poverty, abuse, etc. As adults, we grasp the concept in the messages, I have categorized concepts into groups: representation sexuality, evolution, and victim. My Literature review focus on these three categorize and the meaning
Folktales such as the “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault and “The Grandmothers Tale” told by Louis and François Briffault tell us how appearance and symbolism of different settings develop meanings about innocence and maturity. In the “Little Red Riding Hood” by Perrault conveys to us the meaning behind the red hood worn by the little girl, and how that captures the interest of sexual predators. Perrault also expresses how the little red riding hood was not mature enough to resist the approach of the wolf leading to her demise. “The Grandmother’s Tale” shows us how maturation influences the decisions made by the little girl through the use of symbolism.
The fairytale Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault is a story that recounts the adventure of the protagonist Little Red Riding Hood as she fulfills her mother’s wishes to bring a package to her ill grandmother. Perrault’s short story conveys influential life themes on the idea of male predation on adolescent women who fall victim to male deception. Perrault successfully portrays these themes through his use of rhetorical devices such as personifying the actions of the antagonist Wolf predator as he preys on the protagonist Little Red. Perrault illuminates the central theme of upholding sexual purity and being aware of eminent threats in society in his work. Roald Dahl’s poem, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, is an adaptation to
“Don’t ever take candy from a stranger or get into his car” this line has been drilled into our young little brains from teachers to parents. We have grown up being told never to trust a stranger because “stranger danger” one of my favorite lines as a child. Not only was this directed to us with our parents and teachers, but the classic folktale, “Little Red Riding Hood” has been taught to young children for many years. The stories moral is not to trust strangers and do not associate with them for any reason. While reading Perrault’s version of the classic folk tale, his moral is that children, especially young girl’s, can be eaten by wolves by just talking and trusting a stranger. He points out that women are more