Little Red Riding Hood.
Little Red Riding Hood is about a girl who walks through the dangerous woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother, but The Big Bad Wolf eats her grandmother before Red Riding Hood gets there, and he dresses up as her, pretending to be her, so he can eat her too. He eventually eats her, but a lumberjack comes to her rescue and cuts the wolf open.
The origins of the fairytale can be traced from various European countries, mostly 17th century, where some versions are very different from the most known, Grimms-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 14th century as well as in Italy, where a number of versions exist, including La finta nonna (The False Grandmother). It's also been called "The Story of Grandmother".
These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a werewolf, making these tales relevant to the werewolf-trials (similar to witch trials) of the time. The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then cannibalizes her own grandmother. The wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her "grandmother" that she needs to defecate and would not want to in the bed. The wolf lets her go, but ties her to a piece of string so she doesn't get away. However, the girl slips the string off and runs off.
In these stories she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning. Sometimes though, the red hood doesn't exist.
There have been many different adaptations of the fairytale.
As well as loads of various novels about the story, both old and new, there have also been films and animations made about it. Red Riding Hood is also used in other forms of media, including television adverts, comics and music videos.
The most current and high budget film made about the fairytale is called Red Riding Hood, starring Amanda Seyfried who plays Red Riding Hood, and this film is based completely around the story.
The character Red Riding Hood is also given a cameo in the Shrek Films.
The main target audience for the Red Riding Hood fairytale is children.
But this is going by the fairytale. The later film adaptations of it is possibly more suited to older viewers, because of the violence.
I would say the target audience is mixed, depending on the version of the story. It might scare some younger viewers/readers, but depending on the context it's in.
Little Red Riding Hood is about a girl who walks through the dangerous woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother, but The Big Bad Wolf eats her grandmother before Red Riding Hood gets there, and he dresses up as her, pretending to be her, so he can eat her too. He eventually eats her, but a lumberjack comes to her rescue and cuts the wolf open.
The origins of the fairytale can be traced from various European countries, mostly 17th century, where some versions are very different from the most known, Grimms-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 14th century as well as in Italy, where a number of versions exist, including La finta nonna (The False Grandmother). It's also been called "The Story of Grandmother".
These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a werewolf, making these tales relevant to the werewolf-trials (similar to witch trials) of the time. The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then cannibalizes her own grandmother. The wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her "grandmother" that she needs to defecate and would not want to in the bed. The wolf lets her go, but ties her to a piece of string so she doesn't get away. However, the girl slips the string off and runs off.
In these stories she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning. Sometimes though, the red hood doesn't exist.
There have been many different adaptations of the fairytale.
As well as loads of various novels about the story, both old and new, there have also been films and animations made about it. Red Riding Hood is also used in other forms of media, including television adverts, comics and music videos.
The most current and high budget film made about the fairytale is called Red Riding Hood, starring Amanda Seyfried who plays Red Riding Hood, and this film is based completely around the story.
The character Red Riding Hood is also given a cameo in the Shrek Films.
The main target audience for the Red Riding Hood fairytale is children.
But this is going by the fairytale. The later film adaptations of it is possibly more suited to older viewers, because of the violence.
I would say the target audience is mixed, depending on the version of the story. It might scare some younger viewers/readers, but depending on the context it's in.
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