| 02.09.2011 - Everyone who grew up reading the fairy tale of the Red Riding Hood is unaware that this story has a 700 year-old-legend. Warner Bros. brings audiences the breathtaking vision in the new romantic fantasy thriller. Directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke. The film features an ensemble cast led by Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, the Harry Potter films), Shiloh Fernandez (Skateland) and Max Irons (Dorian Gray). Its a story of a beautiful woman named Valeri who is torn between two men. She is love with a brooding outsider, but her parents have arranged for her to marry a wealthy man. (Please CLICK on the title for the full article) |
In-between this storied drama there lies between death of a relative, who was killed by a mysterious werewolf.
For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
"When fairytales were first written, they were so much darker," says Amanda Seyfried whose first exposure to such tales was as a child listening to recordings on her tape deck. "Over time, they became more prudish in a way, taking the danger and sexuality out of the stories."
But as exemplified by her Valerie, a lusty medieval lass caught in a love triangle between her wealthy intended and a bad-boy woodsman as well as sharing a strange bond with a werewolf that is terrorizing her village, Seyfried promises, "We are throwing all the sex and danger back in."
However, this beauty is no naive babe in the woods. Says director Catherine Hardwicke, "Valerie is pretty tough and brave, although not a super heroine. The novel based on the movie just came out with the tagline: 'Good girls don't talk to werewolves.' She is not just a goodie girl. That is true to the early stories of Red Riding Hood. Her mother tells her not to dilly-dally on her way to Grandmother's. She instead picks flowers to get in touch with her sensuality and tells the wolf where she is going."
In other words, she says with a laugh, "she is a bit of a naughty girl."
Many have commented on the similarity to Twilight, not surprising since Hardwicke steered that franchise's 2008 original. But the director notes there is a major difference with her gothic horror fantasy: It is also a suspense thriller, since the human identity of the murderous beast remains secret until the end.
As Hardwicke concludes, "Solving the mystery is a huge driving force of the movie."
Opening soon across the Philippines, Red Riding Hood is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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