Friday, March 11, 2011
The Fairy Tale of the Tape: BEASTLY vs. RED RIDING HOOD
Posted By Scott Renshaw on March 11, 2011, 11:19 AM
Two weeks, two movies based on fairy tales. How do they stack up in key points of comparison? ---
Source Material
Precursors
Beastly : Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bete
Red Riding Hood : Hoodwinked
Advantage: Red Riding Hood (not as much baggage)
Male Eye Candy
Beastly : Alex
Pettyfer, but he’s covered up in gross-out makeup for half of the movie.
Red Riding Hood : Shiloh Fernandez and
Max Irons.
Advantage: Red Riding Hood
Female Eye Candy
Beastly : Vanessa
Hudgens, glamming down as a hipster with a heart of gold.
Red Riding Hood :
Amanda Seyfried in a bodice.
Advantage: Red Riding Hood
Comic-Relief Guest
Star
Beastly : Neil
Patrick Harris as a wise-cracking blind tutor.
Red Riding Hood :
Gary Oldman as a werewolf killer.
Advantage: Beastly, since apparently Oldman didn’t
get the memo that he should have been the comic relief.
Mysterious, Possibly Magical
Female Presence
Beastly : Mary-Kate
Olsen as a Goth-chick teen witch.
Red Riding Hood :
Julie Christie as a loner grandmother.
Advantage: Beastly, since Olsen actually over-acts less than the Oscar-winning Christie.
Supernatural
Transformation
Beastly : Blurry
camera tricks, and the studly guy is suddenly a freak.
Red Riding Hood : Big
wolf appears; big wolf goes away.
Advantage: Beastly, since a werewolf movie without
a transformation sequence is just weak tea.
Director’s Sundance
Pedigree
Beastly : Daniel
Barnz directed Phoebe in Wonderland
Red Riding Hood :
Catherine Hardwicke directed thirteen.
Advantage: Beastly, since Phoebe actually indicated the presence of some skills.
Moral of the Story
Beastly : Beauty is
transitory, so it pays not to be an a-hole about it.
Red Riding Hood :
Be suspicious of everyone, stabbing people arbitrarily if necessary.
Advantage: Red Riding Hood, because that’s just
good common-sense advice.
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