"Hey, Grandma," she said, "Why are your ears so big?"
"In order to hear you better, dear."
"But Grandma, why are your eyes so big?" Little Red Riding Hood asked again.
"To see you more clearly, dear."
"Grandma, why are your hands so big?"
"You can hold you better."
"Grandma, why are your mouths so big?"
" I can eat you up in one bite!" As
soon as the wolf finished speaking, he jumped up from the bed and swallowed Little Red Riding Hood into his stomach. After the wolf satisfied his appetite, he lay back on the bed to sleep. Later, the hunter passed by here and found the wolf sleeping fast. He was about to shoot at the wolf when he suddenly thought that the wolf might have swallowed grandma in his stomach, and grandma might still be alive. Instead of shooting, the hunter took a pair of scissors and cut the wolf's asleep. He just cut it twice and saw the little red hat. He cut it twice, and the little girl jumped out, and then grandma came out alive. Little Red Riding Hood hurried to bring a few big rocks and stuff them into the wolf's belly. After the wolf woke up, he wanted to escape, but the stones were too heavy. As soon as he stood up, he fell to the ground and fell to his death.
This is the Little Red Riding Hood in memory, belonging to childhood. But time flies so fast that in a blink of an eye, I can no longer see the shadow of childhood. Fortunately, the development of film art can reproduce time and connect the past again in series. "Transformers" is very modern, but it evokes the memories of childhood. There are also "Maleficent", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Frozen". Although many new elements have been added to the old story, the touch is still the same. But "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel: The Witch Hunter" somewhat ruined childhood. She hangs a sheep's head guise adapted from a fairy tale, but sells dog blood and dog meat of conspiracy and killing. Especially in "Witch Hunter", there is no fairy tale tenderness at all. It is just a hunter game with blood flying across, which makes people can't bear to look directly at it.
"Little Red Riding Hood" is somewhat better. The classic elements in the fairy tale are still there. Although it is no longer the main driving element of the story, it can at least connect the memories in the fairy tale.
It's all for Amanda Seyfried. This girl with big eyes, wearing a scarlet robe, walking in the snow, is a strong metaphor that seduce people to read the whole story. There is also Catherine Ha Dwick. The experience of directing "Twilight" makes this new version of "Little Red Riding Hood" add a lot of highlights, not to mention the female director also put a new love triangle into the story Among.
The film uses a suspenseful technique to tell the ins and outs of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood". Jianjiao Village in the small mountain village has been harassed by wolves, but the villagers and wolves have established a fragile balance, that is, the villagers will give sacrifices to the wolves every month to ensure the safety of the villagers. But one day, after the villagers presented the sacrifices, the wolf still attacked the people. It killed the sister of Little Red Riding Hood. Later, he hurt Little Red Riding Hood's mother and killed Little Red Riding Hood's future father-in-law. When the villagers were panicked, the new pastor brought even more frightening news. The pastor said that the wolf was actually a werewolf. It did not live in the mountains, but was among the villagers. He may be any villager, and he will only become a werewolf on a moonlit night. This news puts everyone in danger. What made Little Red Riding Hood even more frightened was that she discovered that the werewolf was directed at her this time. Only she could understand what the werewolf said, while the other villagers only heard the roar.
At this time, Little Red Riding Hood is falling into the confusion of love. She had always been in love with the carpenter's son Peter. But Little Red Riding Hood's family promised her to Henry, the rich boy. In fact, Henry is not a bad guy, he is also a handsome guy, and he has full respect for Little Red Riding Hood. Now, with the arrival of the werewolf, Little Red Riding Hood felt the werewolf's interest in her, and then began to wonder if it was Peter. Under the suggestion of the movie scenes, almost everyone thinks that the werewolf is Peter. But in the end it was Little Red Riding Hood's father who was the real werewolf.
The director's little trick successfully deceived everyone, and then the camera shook and the mystery was revealed. It turns out that Little Red Riding Hood's father and grandfather are both werewolves, and with the arrival of the blood moon, he needs to relocate. Originally, he wanted to arouse the wolfishness of his eldest daughter and secretly pass on the blood of werewolves to her. But when he used wolf language to communicate with his eldest daughter, he sadly discovered that she was not his own daughter, but the product of his wife's affair with the future father-in-law of Little Red Riding Hood. So in a rage, he killed this evil barrier, then hurt his wife and killed her concubine. And this inevitably caused the panic of the people in Jianjiao Village, and then the hunting of the priest, and therefore more killings occurred.
But the werewolf just wanted to take Little Red Riding Hood away, so that the daughter who had the blood of the werewolf inherited the blood of the werewolf and became a real strong man. But Little Red Riding Hood obviously wants to live his own life more than inheriting the unclean blood of the family. So, he finally teamed up with Peter to kill the werewolf father, filled his stomach with the stone, and threw it into the middle of the lake.
The story is shocked, plus a triangle of love, it's actually not ugly, at least better than "Hansel and Gretel: The Witch Hunter". But I still feel that removing the shadow of the fairy tale and changing the title to something like "Desert Village Wolf Shadow" is the same, or it can be more rounded. But that obviously lost a lot of propaganda, so the new story of the deserted tone was set on the fairy tale. However, this kind of stealing is obviously a lack of confidence, and it also makes the film obviously not a classic.
Counting the ruined childhood, only Amanda Seyfried’s big eyes flickered, which became the only bright spot in the film.
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