Red Riding Hood


Could anyone get me the twisted version of the Red Riding Hood that they tell in this movie. I borrowed this movie from a friend about a year ago, and the one thing I remember was that they had a very dark-twisted version of the Red Riding Hood. Could anyone give me a link, or post it for me?

When God is in his heaven, alls right with with the world.

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Sorry that I'm unable to help much, but I think your sig is a bit of a travesty to Robert Browning. The quote is, verbatim, "God's in His Heaven -- All's right with the world!". It was that way in N.G. Evangelion as well, which I'm assuming you've plagiarized it from.

Anyways, perhaps look up Grimm's Fairy Tales, or Rotkäppchen.

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There are way too mnay versions of the Little Red Riding Hood, but here is the one from Jack and Wilhelm Grimm:

Little Red Cap
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next. Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear it all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Cap.
One day her mother said to her, "Come Little Red Cap. Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother. She is sick and weak, and they will do her well. Mind your manners and give her my greetings. Behave yourself on the way, and do not leave the path, or you might fall down and break the glass, and then there will be nothing for your sick grandmother."

Little Red Cap promised to obey her mother. The grandmother lived out in the woods, a half hour from the village. When Little Red Cap entered the woods a wolf came up to her. She did not know what a wicked animal he was, and was not afraid of him.

"Good day to you, Little Red Cap."

"Thank you, wolf."

"Where are you going so early, Little Red Cap?"

"To grandmother's."

"And what are you carrying under your apron?"

"Grandmother is sick and weak, and I am taking her some cake and wine. We baked yesterday, and they should give her strength."

"Little Red Cap, just where does your grandmother live?"

"Her house is a good quarter hour from here in the woods, under the three large oak trees. There's a hedge of hazel bushes there. You must know the place," said Little Red Cap.

The wolf thought to himself, "Now there is a tasty bite for me. Just how are you going to catch her?" Then he said, "Listen, Little Red Cap, haven't you seen the beautiful flowers that are blossoming in the woods? Why don't you go and take a look? And I don't believe you can hear how beautifully the birds are singing. You are walking along as though you were on your way to school in the village. It is very beautiful in the woods."

Little Red Cap opened her eyes and saw the sunlight breaking through the trees and how the ground was covered with beautiful flowers. She thought, "If a take a bouquet to grandmother, she will be very pleased. Anyway, it is still early, and I'll be home on time." And she ran off into the woods looking for flowers. Each time she picked one she thought that she could see an even more beautiful one a little way off, and she ran after it, going further and further into the woods. But the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked on the door.

"Who's there?"

"Little Red Cap. I'm bringing you some cake and wine. Open the door for me."

"Just press the latch," called out the grandmother. "I'm too weak to get up."

The wolf pressed the latch, and the door opened. He stepped inside, went straight to the grandmother's bed, and ate her up. Then he took her clothes, put them on, and put her cap on his head. He got into her bed and pulled the curtains shut.

Little Red Cap had run after flowers, and did not continue on her way to grandmother's until she had gathered all that she could carry. When she arrived, she found, to her surprise, that the door was open. She walked into the parlor, and everything looked so strange that she thought, "Oh, my God, why am I so afraid? I usually like it at grandmother's." Then she went to the bed and pulled back the curtains. Grandmother was lying there with her cap pulled down over her face and looking very strange.

"Oh, grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"All the better to hear you with."

"Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

"All the better to see you with."

"Oh, grandmother, what big hands you have!"

"All the better to grab you with!"

"Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have!"

"All the better to eat you with!" And with that he jumped out of bed, jumped on top of poor Little Red Cap, and ate her up. As soon as the wolf had finished this tasty bite, he climbed back into bed, fell asleep, and began to snore very loudly.

A huntsman was just passing by. He thought it strange that the old woman was snoring so loudly, so he decided to take a look. He stepped inside, and in the bed there lay the wolf that he had been hunting for such a long time. "He has eaten the grandmother, but perhaps she still can be saved. I won't shoot him," thought the huntsman. So he took a pair of scissors and cut open his belly.

He had cut only a few strokes when he saw the red cap shining through. He cut a little more, and the girl jumped out and cried, "Oh, I was so frightened! It was so dark inside the wolf's body!"

And then the grandmother came out alive as well. Then Little Red Cap fetched some large heavy stones. They filled the wolf's body with them, and when he woke up and tried to run away, the stones were so heavy that he fell down dead.

The three of them were happy. The huntsman took the wolf's pelt. The grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine that Little Red Cap had brought. And Little Red Cap thought to herself, "As long as I live, I will never leave the path and run off into the woods by myself if mother tells me not to."


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They also tell how Little Red Cap was taking some baked things to her grandmother another time, when another wolf spoke to her and wanted her to leave the path. But Little Red Cap took care and went straight to grandmother's. She told her that she had seen the wolf, and that he had wished her a good day, but had stared at her in a wicked manner. "If we hadn't been on a public road, he would have eaten me up," she said.

"Come," said the grandmother. "Let's lock the door, so he can't get in."

Soon afterward the wolf knocked on the door and called out, "Open up, grandmother. It's Little Red Cap, and I'm bringing you some baked things."

They remained silent, and did not open the door. The wicked one walked around the house several times, and finally jumped onto the roof. He wanted to wait until Little Red Cap went home that evening, then follow her and eat her up in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what he was up to. There was a large stone trough in front of the house.

"Fetch a bucket, Little Red Cap," she said. "Yesterday I cooked some sausage. Carry the water that I boiled them with to the trough." Little Red Cap carried water until the large, large trough was clear full. The smell of sausage arose into the wolf's nose. He sniffed and looked down, stretching his neck so long that he could no longer hold himself, and he began to slide. He slid off the roof, fell into the trough, and drowned. And Little Red Cap returned home happily and safely.

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Once upon a time there was a little girl...
who hadn't seen her mother in seven years.
Her mother had dressed her in iron clothes,
saying "When you wear out these clothes
you may come to me,"
The little girl rubbed her clothes on the wall trying to tear them
Finally she did.
She got some milk and bread...
and a little cheese and butter...
and set out for her mother's house.
In the woods she met a wolf.
He asked her what she was carrying.
"Milk and bread, and a little cheese and butter,"
she answered.
The wolf asked for some...
but the girl said no, it was a present...
for her mother.
The wolf asked whether
she would take the path of pins...
or the path of needles.
The girl said the path of pins...
so the wolf hurried off down the path of needles...
and ate up the little girl's mother.
Finally the little girl reached her mother's house.
"Mother, unbar the door!"
"Just push on it. It's not locked"...
...answered the wolf."


"Just push on it. It's not locked"
the wolf answered.
But the door still wouldn't open,
so then she crept in through a hole.
"Mother, I'm hungry."
"There's meat in the cupboard. Eat some."
It was the flesh of her mother, killed by the wolf.
A big cat jumped up on the cupboard
and said...
"That's your mother's flesh you're eating."
Mother, there's a cat on the cupboard
"It says I'm eating your flesh."'
It's lying,
of course.
"Throw a wooden shoe at it."
The little girl, having eaten the meat, was thirsty.
"Mother, I'm thirsty."'
"Drink some wine from the jar."
When she did so,
a little bird perched on the chimney.
That's your mother's blood you're drinking.
"You're drinking your mother's blood, you know."
"Mother, a little bird on the chimney says
I'm drinking your blood."
"Throw your cloak at it."
Having eaten the meat
and drunk the blood...
the little girl turned to her mother and said...
"Mother, I don't know why, but I'm very sleepy."
"Come over here and rest."'


The girl undressed and approached the bed...
where her mother lay in a strange position...
with a hood pulled over her face.
"Mother, what big ears you have."
"All the better to hear you with, my dear."
"Mother, what big eyes you have."
"All the better to see you with, my dear."
"Mother, what big claws you have."
"All the better to catch you with, my dear."
"Mother, what big teeth you have."


The girl undressed and approached the bed...
where her mother lay in a strange position...
with a hood pulled over her face.
"Mother, what big ears you have,"
"Mother, what big eyes you have."
"Mother, what big claws you have."
"Mother, what big teeth you have!"
And then the wolf...

ate up Little Red Riding Hood.

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Oshii's story is a "this is the way the world is" story. Because of this, some source material may be altered.

Additionally, don't forget this line:
"The hunters kill the wolves only in the tales humans tell."

That's yet of another of one the things that Oshii infers through his work.

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actually (and this is like a year after you posted coz i just joined not to long ago) the line is:

"Only in the tales that humans tell, do the hunters kill the wovles in the end"

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it's rotkappchen by perrault. searchable on wikipedia.com

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You´re wrong shekae. Perrault's version is not nearly as dark and bloody as the version that is told in the movie.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#perrault

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if still someone is reading this and is really interested... i recommend the chapter about oral literature in "The Great Cat Massacre" by Robert Darnton. there you'll find several versions of red riding hood as it was told in france for centuries. you'll find as well some remarks on perrault, grimm, etc. but the known oral versions have in common that they mostly are much darker and more pessimistic then the ones by perrault and grimm. the interpretations of the tales or more precisly the disproof of some well-known interpretations of little red riding hood (by e.fromm and others) are more less a weakpoint of the book, but anyway it's a good source to some older versions of lrrh.

and you should read jan2k's link - very interesting...

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I always laugh when people tell me that Jin-Roh has the wrong version of Rotkappchen told in this movie, and always think it was altered to fit the movie.

It wasn't.

The version told in the movie is EXTREMELY similar to the version that my grandmother (German) always told me when I was younger. (That version had been in my family for several generations.)

There were no Hunters in her version, and her version did end when the Wolf ate up Little Red Riding Hood. That's why I never liked having the nick name Red Riding Hood (I had a red jacket for many years) when I was younger, because I was always afraid the wolf was going to eat me and my grandma.

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/299838

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Just watched that. Actually looked up this movie because of that.

It's almost exactaly the same as the version of the story posted above, Check it out.

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lol, i did the exact same thing. Good work by the Flash animator for crediting the film

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Yea see the Newgrounds thing that creature_productions posted it is one of the darkest flash movies I have ever scene it is truely a work of art.

The MPAA just a buch of wacko's in buisness suits.

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the story itself is reprinted in german in the official soundtrack of the movie. though, you have to be able to read german. and you have to buy the soundtrack seperate, not in a bundle.

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