Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 10: Red
Posted By Randy on October 10, 2017
“Fairy Tales, as they were originally written, weren’t the saccharine offal children who don’t belong to Mrs. LFM and me, or a few notable Friends, grew (or are growing) up with. They were intended to convey valuable life lessons to the offspring of people who lived a lot closer to reality than most in the so called “first world” do now, and the stories routinely employed animals as representations of very real dangers and foul intentions. One you’ll recognize immediately is the Big Bad Wolf in Red Riding Hood who represented all that was evil at its ravening, grandmother killing, child devouring worst.” ~ Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 2: A Fairy Tale
So began our DS Season 5 presentation of an animated version of Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, adapted to The Little Girl and the Wolf by James Thurber. Tonight’s Dark Sentiment returns to that subject matter.
Made in 2012, Red was co-directed by Jorge Jaramillo and Carlo Guillot, with a musical score by Manuel Borda., and decisively puts the red in that riding hood.
Leave it to you to find these incredible clips. Great music and graphics. However, the fairy tale idea was always considered to be warning cautionary messages and I don’t think they were generally aimed at young folk, as you point out.
Aesop and the Grimm Brothers, case in point.
Thanks Steve. It is a late breaking state of affairs wherein children have come to be regarded as fragile and thin shelled incarnations of weakness.