Red Riding Hood - Under the Wolf Moon
| Movie | |
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| German title | Red Riding Hood - Under the Wolf Moon |
| Original title | Red Riding Hood |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | Cinema: 100 minutes DVD: 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Catherine Hardwicke |
| script | David Leslie Johnson |
| production |
Jennifer Davisson Killoran Leonardo DiCaprio Julie Yorn |
| music |
Brian Reitzell Alex Heffes |
| camera | Mandy Walker |
| cut |
Nancy Richardson Julia Wong |
| occupation | |
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Red Riding Hood (Original title: Red Riding Hood ) is a fantasy thriller by director Catherine Hardwicke with Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman in the lead roles. The film's title refers to the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood , which in English Little Red Riding Hood 's; the plot also contains motifs from it.
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The remote village of Daggerhorn has been terrified by a werewolf for two generations . However, through the ritualized sacrifice of an animal, there is a kind of truce, a pact between the villagers and the wolf.
Although young Valerie has been in love with the woodcutter Peter since childhood, at the request of her parents, she is supposed to marry Cesaire and Suzette Henry, the son of the rich blacksmith Adrien. That's why Valerie and Peter decide to flee together. This fails because the werewolf strikes unexpectedly and Valerie's older sister Lucie kills in the attack. Valerie then learns from her mother that Lucie was only her half-sister and that Adrien is Lucie's real father. The mother used to be unhappy in love with Adrien and had betrayed her husband with him.
The villagers want to hunt down the werewolf because he broke the pact. One of them believes that only the famous werewolf hunter Father Salomon can do this and calls for him. One group, however, makes their own way to the cave on Mount Grimmoor and kills the animal, killing Adrien. The village seems saved.
When Father Salomon reaches the village, the villagers celebrate the killing of the wolf and demonstrate the animal's impaled head. However, Father Salomon teaches them better: the wolf whose head the residents of Daggerhorn show cannot be a werewolf, as he would have to transform himself back into a human when killed. Salomon knows this from his own experience, he once severed the front paw of a werewolf who had murdered his best friend, put it in his pocket and found his wife at home with a bleeding stump. The severed paw had meanwhile turned back into his wife's hand. Solomon was forced to kill his wife and has since made it his mission to hunt down every werewolf. In addition, there is currently a so-called blood moon, a three-day phase in which the bite of a werewolf does not, as usual, lead to the death of the victim, but transforms the victim into a werewolf itself. Salomon therefore urges the villagers to be particularly careful and wants the village to be cordoned off immediately. His warnings are not believed, however, and the villagers continue their celebration.
Valerie and Peter get closer for the first time and Henry notices this too. However, the festival is interrupted when the werewolf strikes again and kills several people. Valerie and her friend Roxanne are pushed into a corner by the wolf. He speaks to Valerie and reveals to her that he has come to fetch her and take her out of Daggerhorn. If she refuses to come, he will destroy the village. As the wolf speaks to her, his eyes change so that Valerie can see that the werewolf's eyes must be dark brown in his human form. It also turns out that Valerie is the wolf's chosen one and therefore the only one who can understand him.
Father Salomon now exercises his power in the village and takes a mentally handicapped youth prisoner whose card tricks give him an excuse to accuse him of witchcraft. The young man's sister, Roxanne, tries to get him free and reveals the incident with the wolf to Father Salomon. Valerie is therefore accused of witchcraft and taken prisoner. Henry and Peter now team up to free Valerie. During their attempt at rescue, however, the werewolf attacks again and bites off Father Salomon's hand. He is then killed by one of his helpers so that he does not turn into a werewolf. Valerie is released to use as bait for the werewolf. There is no trace of Peter, who was previously picked up by Solomon's henchmen and imprisoned.
The next morning, Valerie wakes up from a nightmare in which her own grandmother turned out to be the werewolf. She decides to go to their house in the forest and see if everything is going well. In the forest, Valerie meets Peter, who begs her to go away with him. Valerie thinks he recognizes the werewolf in him, pulls out a knife and threatens to hurt Peter. Peter does not want to let go of her, however, whereupon Valerie quickly stabs him in the stomach and runs to her grandmother's hut. However, there she finds her father Cesaire. He murdered his own mother because she had revealed his secret: he is the werewolf.
As he wanted to enable his daughters to have a better life in the city, he had decided, as has been the custom in his family for years, to transmit the werewolf powers to his firstborn by a bite at the time of the blood moon. However, since Lucie, unlike Valerie, did not understand him as a werewolf, Cesaire realized that this could not be his own daughter. If his blood would flow through her veins, she could understand him in his wolf form. Cesaire killed Lucie, disappointed and angry that his wife had betrayed him. In revenge he also attacked Adrien in the cave, because he had betrayed him with his wife.
Valerie doesn't want to go away with her father and not become a werewolf. When suddenly the injured Peter appears, there is a fight between him and Cesaire. Valerie distracts Cesaire so that Peter can throw the ax in his back. However, Cesaire is killed by Valerie, who rams Solomon's severed hand into his chest; Salomon had silver nails on his fingers.
However, Peter was bitten by Cesaire during the fight and therefore becomes a werewolf himself. So that the truth about Cesaire and Valerie does not come out, they cut open the dead man's stomach, fill it with stones and sink him into the lake. As the daughter of the werewolf, Valerie would probably be killed by the other villagers. Valerie wants to be with Peter, but Peter decides to leave because he fears that he cannot control his powers as a werewolf. Valerie promises to wait for him.
In Daggerhorn, things are back to normal: Valerie's mother realizes that her husband will not return home, the villagers continue to live in fear and sacrifice their animals to appease the wolf, of whose death they know nothing. Henry becomes an honorable man and henceforth protects the residents of Daggerhorn from dark dangers. But Valerie can no longer stand it in the village itself. She moves into her grandmother's house and from then on lives in the forest. One night she leaves the house in her fiery red cloak and Peter reveals himself in his werewolf form. The film ends with the two of them looking at each other and Valerie's face showing a smile.
Alternative ending:
Valerie and Peter sleep together before they sink Cesaire into the lake. However, Peter leaves Valerie to protect her. The film ends with Peter appearing at the hut in the forest in the form of a werewolf at night. Valerie is on the way back to the hut, turns around when Peter appears and you can see that she is holding a baby - obviously Peter is the father.
background
- The film premiered in Hollywood on March 7, 2011. It was released in theaters on March 11, 2011 in the USA and on April 21, 2011 in Germany.
- Production costs were estimated at $ 42 million. The film grossed around $ 89 million in cinemas worldwide, including $ 38 million in the United States.
Reviews
"Director Catherine Hardwicke already made teenagers' hearts beat faster with her Twilight film Until (s) dawn and in Red Riding Hood is doing everything to make her target group happy with similar visual aesthetics and very similar smooching dialogues."
“The narrative wealth of Little Red Riding Hood is immense and actually offers enough material for a further, exciting reinterpretation. Unfortunately, "Red Riding Hood" isn't exactly that. That is tragic, especially since Catherine Hardwicke's film tries, at least in part, to provide an original reading of the story. But none of the ideas are consistently thought through to the end, and so the balance sheet is just an indifferent, discouraged show piece with a penchant for penny-penny romance. [..] And it is precisely this fluffy harmlessness that unfortunately fits a film that wastes the potential of its story on a terrifying toothless cuddle cinema. "
“A neat woman between two poster boys, internal emotional confusion and external dangers from murderous creatures create potential for conflict, presented with the complexity and depth of a photo love story from» Bravo «. And the pore-deep purity of a Clearasil advertisement, because even killed werewolf victims with three decorative scratches still look like they have been peeled from an egg. Unfortunately, the characters seem just as sterile and impersonal, the interpersonal conflicts never generate interest. "
“Red Riding Hood” picks up where “Twilight” left off. You could also call him: Isabella Swan (the main female character from "Twilight") dreams of the big bad wolf. Almost all constellations of the vampire saga come back here, set in a digitally cleaned Middle Ages, in which the characters use hair gel and forging is not work, but rather a kind of unusual hobby. [..] In any case, the red cape is just a chic item of fashion here. "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- official website
- Red Riding Hood - Wolf Moon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Red Riding Hood - Under the Wolf Moon in the Lexicon of International Films
- Red Riding Hood - Wolf Moon atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Alternative ending
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Red Riding Hood - Under the Wolf Moon . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ In the cinema: Amanda Seyfried - Blondkäppchen in Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 20, 2011
- ↑ Horror fairy tale "Red Riding Hood": The one with the wolf cuddles in Spiegel Online from April 24, 2011
- ^ Pomp and embarrassment in editing - Das Filmmagazin from April 19, 2011
- ↑ The dream of the bad wolf in Berliner Zeitung from April 21, 2011