Wolf riding hood
The story of Little Red Riding Hood
[en español]
by Leanne Guenther
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One morning, Little Red Riding Hood asked her mother if she could go to visit her grandmother as it had been awhile since they'd seen each other.
"That's a good idea," her mother said. So they packed a nice basket for Little Red Riding Hood to take to her grandmother.
When the basket was ready, the little girl put on her red cloak and kissed her mother goodbye.
"Remember, go straight to Grandma's
house," her mother cautioned. "Don't dawdle along the way and please don't talk to strangers! The woods are dangerous. "
"Don't worry, mommy," said Little Red Riding Hood, "I'll be careful."
But when Little Red Riding Hood noticed some lovely flowers in the woods, she forgot her promise to her mother. She picked a few, watched the butterflies flit about for awhile, listened to the frogs croaking and then picked a few more.
Little Red Riding Hood was enjoying the warm summer day so much, that she didn't notice a dark shadow approaching out of the forest behind her...
Suddenly, the wolf appeared beside her.
"What are you doing out here, little girl?" the wolf asked in a voice as friendly as he could muster.
"I'm on my way to see my Grandma who lives through the forest, near the brook," Little Red Riding Hood replied.
Then she realized how late she was and quickly excused herself, rushing down the path to her Grandma's house.
The wolf, in the meantime, took a shortcut.
..
The wolf, a little out of breath from running, arrived at Grandma's and knocked lightly at the door.
"Oh thank goodness dear! 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.
A few minutes later, Red Riding Hood knocked on the door. The wolf jumped into bed and pulled the covers over his nose. "Who is it?" he called in a cackly voice.
"It's me, Little Red Riding Hood."
"Oh how lovely! Do come in, my
dear," croaked the wolf.
When Little Red Riding Hood entered the little cottage, she could scarcely recognize her Grandmother.
"Grandmother! Your voice sounds so odd. Is something the matter?" she asked.
"Oh, I just have touch of a cold," squeaked the wolf adding a cough at the end to prove the point.
"But Grandmother! What big ears you have," said Little Red Riding Hood as she edged closer to the bed.
"The better to hear you with, my dear," replied the wolf.
"But Grandmother! What big eyes you have," said Little Red Riding Hood.
"The better to see you with, my dear," replied the wolf.
"But Grandmother! What big teeth you have," said Little Red Riding Hood her voice quivering slightly.
"The better to eat you with, my dear," roared the wolf and he leapt out of the bed and began to chase the little girl.
Almost too late, Little
Red Riding Hood realized that the person in the bed was not her
Grandmother, but a hungry wolf.
She ran across the room and through the door, shouting, "Help! Wolf!" as loudly as she could.
A woodsman who was chopping logs nearby heard her cry and ran towards the cottage as fast as he could.
He grabbed the wolf and made him spit out the poor Grandmother who was a bit frazzled by the whole experience, but still in one piece."Oh Grandma, I was so scared!" sobbed Little Red Riding Hood, "I'll never speak to strangers or dawdle in the forest again."
"There, there, child. You've learned an important lesson. Thank goodness you shouted loud enough for this kind woodsman to hear you!"
The woodsman knocked out the wolf and carried him deep into the forest where he wouldn't bother people any longer.
Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother had a nice lunch and a long chat.
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The Darker Side of “Little Red Riding Hood” | by Sandi Parsons
The innocent tale you remember from your childhood will never seem the same again
Photo by Šárka Jonášová on UnsplashWrapped up in a classic fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood is the ultimate stranger danger story.
But stranger danger wasn’t the original objective behind the tale.
The Brothers Grimm version, published in 1812, is the most recognized. In their tale of the girl who meets a wolf in the forest, Little Red was initially named Little Red Cap.
The Brothers Grimm paint a picture of innocence as a young girl skips through the forest on her way to her Grandmother’s house. She stops to talk to a wolf. The wolf appears harmless, but he has an ulterior motive — he’s starving!
“The wolf thought to himself: “What a tender young creature! What a nice plump mouthful — she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.” — Brothers Grimm
Our hungry wolf devises a quick scheme to trick Little Red into taking a longer route. Little Red continues on her merry way skipping through the forest collecting flowers. At the same time, the wolf races ahead and gobbles Little Red’s Grandmother up.
When Little Red comes knocking, she finds the door open but naively steps inside anyway.
There lay her Grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, looking very strange.
“Oh! Grandmother,’ she said, ‘what big ears you have!”
“All the better to hear you with, my child,” came the reply.
“But, Grandmother, what big eyes you have!” she said.
“All the better to see you with, my dear.”
“But, Grandmother, what large hands you have!”
“All the better to hug you with.”
“Oh! but, Grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!”
“All the better to eat you with!” — Brothers Grimm
A passing huntsman happens on the house and rescues Little Red and her Grandmother. Having learned her lesson, Little Red is now wary of strangers.
“As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.”
It is also related that once, when Red Cap was again taking cakes to the old Grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path.Red Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her Grandmother that she had met the wolf. — Brothers Grimm
Like many other fairytales, Little Red Riding Hood has a moral. The wolf represents stranger danger. The use of fantastical elements in the rescue removes children’s immediate fright. This gives the tale a happily-ever-after ending leaving the story on a positive note. Positively is particularly important in children’s tales. This could be why the Brothers Grimm published their sanitized version 1812.
Charles Perrault’s version of Little Red Riding Hood, published in 1697, is darker. It contains sexual overtones which change the dynamics of the moral. Perrault’s version centered around young girls losing their innocence to male predators.
The start of Perrault’s version follows the same pattern as that of the Brothers Grimm. Although, is not a young girl — but a pretty girl. A single word change gives the reader a hint of where this version of the tale is heading.
As Little Red is on her way to her Grandmother’s house, she stops to talk to a wolf. The wolf tricks Little Red and arrives first at the Grandmother’s house.
Little Red’s first clue that not all is right is the tone of her Grandmother’s voice. The tone is much deeper than it should be. But Little Red has come to visit her sick Grandmother, so surely her Grandmother must have a cold and thus a hoarse voice?
The wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, “Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me.”
Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her Grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
“All the better to hug you with, my dear.” — Charles Perrault
The story part of Perrault’s version ends with Little Red commenting, “Grandmother, what big teeth you have got.
” Followed by the wolf gobbling her up.
Not only does this version lack a happily-ever-after ending, but there is also no redemption for Little Red. She doesn’t get a chance to learn from her mistakes. Furthermore, Perrault clearly states the moral he intended at the conclusion of his tale.
Moral: Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf. I say “wolf,” but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all. — Charles Perrault
Perrault’s version is a direct reflection of the time. A time when young women were required to protect their innocence. The loss of virginity would see their reputation sullied. The “Red Riding Hood” worn by Little Red is a clue to her age, as the color symbolizes her burgeoning womanhood.
This firmly stated moral conclusion leaves no doubt or room for interpretation. The wolf charmed Little Red, then he tricked her before lying in wait in her Grandmother’s bed. The wolf in the story is a magical talking wolf. He is both wolf and man — a predator. When the wolf eats Little Red it is an allegory for rape.
But Perrault was only the first to pen the tale, not the first to tell it. Little Red Riding Hood had a long history as an oral story before 1697. Versions of the tale appeared in many cultures. In writing down the story, Perrault deviated from the oral versions popular at the time. He left out some of the more unsavory details, including cannibalism and overt pedophilia. Instead, he choose to conclude with his firmly stated moral.
Without the changes both Perrault and the Brothers Grimm made, it’s unlikely Little Red Riding Hood would be a popular bedtime story today.
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Serebryakov, Chursin, St. Petersburg and disgusting 3D graphics in a radical rethinking of the famous fairy tale.
Modern Russian cinema is still infinitely beautiful. Every time you think that he won't be able to surprise you any more, he takes and gives out something so insanely incredible beyond good and evil that it defies any rational comprehension. For example, the film "Little Red Riding Hood" is just one of those.
First of all, you need to know about it that it was created by Lina Arifulina - the one who long ago was in charge of the ever-memorable "Star Factory". It is to her that we, in particular, owe the permanent intrusive presence in the information field of such an odious character as Timati. And it is precisely thanks to her that equally mediocre pop singers and singers have uncontrollably bred, who went into circulation after one or two hyped songs, but still periodically, for some reason sucked from the finger, emerge from oblivion, only to sink back in a couple of days.
And then Lina Arifulina apparently got bored and decided that she definitely needs to make a movie about Little Red Riding Hood. And be sure to fashionable, youth, designed for today's teenagers. About the tastes and customs of which Arifulina has a very vague, apparently, idea. As well as in general about how cinema is made in general. As a result, the result causes a storm of emotions. Including positive ones - provided, of course, that you like aggressively expressive works of a blatantly anti-conventional warehouse (let's call it that).
Little Red Riding Hood begins with Danila "Russian Gosling" Yakushev cosplaying Geralt of Rivia, killing hideously drawn werewolves with an axe. Further, it turns out that it was a flashback, and Danila Yakushev did not parody the flagship Netflix show at all, but actually portrayed the last wolf slayer - a hereditary wolf exterminator. However, they themselves exterminated him, because of which a wolf dictatorship was established in the magical world of Little Red Riding Hood, consisting of two and a half scenery.
That is, naturally, a dystopia is unfolding before us. Where everyone greets each other with the phrase "toothy day" and wish "toothy appetite" (say these wonderful remarks to yourself several times, savor them), instead of birthdays, for some reason, they celebrate the days of appearance, and the aforementioned wolves run everything - werewolves who paint their index and thumb black, dress like Nikita Dzhigurda, and generally behave like Nikita Dzhigurda during the rut.
Alexei Serebryakov and Yuri Chursin got (it is not known for certain exactly for what specific faults) the roles of the most important werewolf wolves, and therefore they replay more monstrously than all the others. Perhaps, in some places even more monstrous than the performer of the role directly of Little Red Riding Hood, who, in this radical rethinking of a familiar fairy tale to everyone since childhood, does not carry pies to her grandmother, but is on friendly terms with representatives of other biological species and identifies herself as a wolf slayer.
And he is also bullied by his wolf peers. Fashionable, youthful, yeah.
An interesting picture is emerging, isn't it? Bright, exciting, promising many amazing discoveries and delivering them on an industrial scale. Then all of a sudden, the Bi-2 group, without warning, will jump right onto the dining table and drag on their hit about wolves, which once sounded on the soundtrack to Aleksey Balabanov's "War" and was perhaps more appropriate there than in children's fantasy. And all those present in the frame, including Alexei Serebryakov, let's dance famously to this.
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