Little Red Riding Hood story
An overprotected young lady named Mary learns that there is merit to her parents' advice that she stick to the path and not talk to strangers. Starring Mary Steenburgen as Mary (Little Red Riding Hood), Malcolm McDowell as Reginald Von Lupin (the Wolf), Frances Bay as Granny, John Vernon as Mary's Father, Diane Ladd as Mary's Mother, and Darrell Larson as Chris. Written by Rod Ash and Mark Curtiss. Directed by Graeme Clifford.
20 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| be wary of strangers | choice | The obvious moral of the story is that strangers may be wolves out to eat you. |
| father and daughter | major | Mary and her overly protective father argued at length. |
| grandmother and granddaughter | major | Mary sought council from her loving grandmother over how to handle that everyone was still treating her as if she were a small child. Grandmother presented a delighted Mary with a hooded, red cloak for her birthday. Mary was sent to deliver a food basket to her ill and indisposed grandmother. |
| human childhood | major | Mary was trying to assert herself against her parents, as adolescents do. |
| infatuation | major | Mary and Chris fell for each other from the start. |
| mother and daughter | major | Mary and her relatively lenient mother chatted about this and that. |
| overprotective parent | major | Mother accused father of being overprotective of Mary. Apart from ordering her to be careful all the time, he chased away her suitor, Chris, for this reason. |
| coping with aging | minor | Grandmother struggled to thread a needle, showing that her eyes were not what they once were. |
| coping with being an outcast | minor | The wolf spoke to himself about having been expelled from his pack, we understood. |
| coping with being ill and indisposed | minor | Grandmother was ill in bed with cold-like symptoms. |