Red Riding Hood Movie

Question 1

Hardwicke Sources

Answer 1

• Used many of them not just one

Question 2

Variants are Documents: Socialize the implied child reader

Answer 2

• Cautionary tale: negative examples
• all have different values (of author)
• ideas of childhood vary
• forest can be danger or freedom
• actions framed by setting

Question 3

Variants are Documents: Forest

Answer 3

Transgression and liberation
- no surveillance, dark (desires), come to knowledge, objectified

Question 4

Variants are Documents: Grandmothers house

Answer 4

• violation of taboos (cannibalism, undressing with wolf)
• story of what?
• Sexual initiation, mentration, disobedience, rite of passage?

Question 5

Variants are Documents: Changing Values of Audiences

Answer 5

-Grimm Christian Values (huntsman good, red cap good but disobeys)
- Valerie achieves goals/ desires, kills wolf
- approve of sexual relationship of unmarried people
- individual above community

Question 6

Opening Scene (RRH)

Answer 6

• epic scope, cold env., voice over (flashback), Snow white rabbit, Peter (new character)

Question 7

Hardwicke and the sources

Answer 7

• feminist rewriting
• resists patriarchal narrative of good girlhood
  -forest is freedome (agency) and a hunter
• village imprisoning, forest freedom (ending)

Question 8

Significant Changes

Answer 8

• does not end in marriage
• Valerie lives in forest
• embraces forbidden desires