Red Hot Riding Hood


First, let me start off by saying this cartoon tale of Little Red Riding Hood is very adapted, modern, and risky! I appreciate the shift of the monster from a wolf in the woods into a man prowling the clubs of a city. While this cartoon ends sadly and violently, I believe it is a solid adaption of the original tale and has a lot to say about modern men and how they act and perceive women.

This cartoon I found online was called “Red Hot Riding Hood” by Tex Avery and MGM Companies. In 1994 it was voted #7 of the “50 Greatest Cartoons”. The plot of “Red Hot Riding Hood” begins just as the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, but is an urban, contemporary setting. The narrator (Little Red Riding Hood character-type) is an attractive Hollywood performer who has a stage name of “Red Hot Riding Hood.” In the cartoon, the Big Bad Wolf is now a Hollywood “swinger” who follows Red Hot Riding Hood to the clubs where she is performing that night! One night, the wolf-man falls deeply in lust with the Hollywood performer. As the night goes on, the wolf goes to the performers table and tries to seduce her, but fails. Red Hot Riding Hood escapes the claws of the wolf for now, but dumbly tells him exactly where she is going: to her grandmother’s house. Just like in the original, the wolf arrives first at the grandmothers house (which is a penthouse on the top of a skyscraper). In a turn of events, the grandma is thrilled this handsome wolf-man has come into her house. The wolf-man attempts to escape, but the grandma blocks him and locks the door. Blocking the door, the grandma tries to seduce the man, and a chase around the penthouse ensues. Finally, the wolf man makes his escape out the window, only injuring himself slightly. He makes his journey back to the club. There, the wolf-man states “I’m through with women. Why, I’ll kill myself before I’d even look at another babe.” Immediately after Wolf finishes saying this, Red Hot Riding Hood takes the stage of the club for another one of her nightly performances, and the wolf-man pulls out two guns and commits suicide. In the closing scene, the wolf-man’s ghost rises from his dead corpse and howls and whistles at Red Hot Riding Hood as he did in his former life. 

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Animation: Preston Blair, Ray Abrams, Ed Love, Irven Spence; Directed by: Tex Avery; Story: Rich Hogan
Source:
https://cartoons.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Hot_Riding_Hood)






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