Behind the Hood: A documentary

Monty Python - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbWdgW6sD8&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Japanese Ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8xuVnB-Pk

I found two rather interesting specimens to demonstrate the different usages of Little Red Riding Hood tale types and the emphasis of specific elements to illustrate a point.
The first is from Monty Python. In this we see the ideal German child, wink wink nod nod, which is a complete terror to the forest. The use of a small dog as the wolf is used to contrast this hyperbolic demonstration of Little Red Riding Hood’s character. The dog is made all the more ridiculous by the visible fact of the trainer that is moving the dog throughout the scenes, both by hand and rope. These two don’t even get to interact particularly in this version of the tale because it uses a metaphoric representation of man in the modern world which tries to separate himself from nature. This is evidenced by the fact that in walking through the forest Little Red Riding Hood destroys everything and the wolf becomes a frightened stand-by character that has no strength of will. Then when the wolf gets to grandmother’s house, instead of meeting the old woman, he meets Buzz Aldridge, an American astronaut, which would epitomize modernity and technological development. When encountered by this symbol the wolf is immediately destroyed because technology destroys nature. This exaggeration is meant to be humorous in its commentary of the way in which we interact with nature currently as opposed to the way natural interactions occurred in the time of the original Red Riding Hood. This works with our natural biases and predispositions from modern society.
Since someone else had already talked about the Monty Python version, I chose to look at another Little Red Riding Hood clip as well. It was ad for a construction company. I found the ad quite amusing on the grounds that instead of playing down any sexual references in the text, it completely centered itself around the sexual undertones and made them explicit even to the point that there was no real correlation to any texts except that Little Red Riding Hood was attired in the traditional way and carrying a basket through the woods. Because the ad was in Japanese, I was unable to determine what the content was actually about, however, there is clear sexualization and a misogynist undertone to it, demonstrating women as objects for male consumption.