Monday, April 16, 2012


Bryan Hynes

                             Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Mistake

     Once upon a time there was a girl named Little Red Riding Hood. Her Mother gave her a job to go to her grandmother's house to take care of her while she was ill. She had a disease that gave her a high fever and that made her grow extreme amounts of hair all over her body. But Red’s mother never mentioned the part about the extreme amounts of hair. While they were talking there was a wolf, however, listening in on the conversation. He devised a plan to eat the grandmother then eat Red afterwards when she arrived at the house. So the wolf made his way to Little Reds grandma's house as fast as he could. While Little Red on the other hand, was making her way very slowly walking along the path observing everything in sight. When the wolf finally got to grandma's he bursted through the door trying to startle her. But it didn't work, Reds grandma was a hardened war veteran, nothing could startle her. She jumped up and sprung towards the wolf tackling him to the ground. After she had him pinned she ate him up in one big bite. The wolf never saw it coming. Reds grandma rolled back into her nice warm bed and waited for her granddaughter to arrive. Finally, after watching the singing birds and bright blue sky, Red showed up at her Grandmas inviting door. She walked in without knocking because she was sure that her grandma was expecting her. The fresh smell of warm cookies and that very distinctive old person smell hit Red in the face when she stepped inside. She noticed some blood splattered up against a wall, but she didn’t think much of it. When she came to her grandmother's bedroom she couldn’t believe her eyes. She saw a hairy looking animal sleeping in her Grandmother's bed! From the blood splattered on the walls, and her past experiences with wolves, she made the assumption that this wolf ate her Grandmother. Little Red was furious. She’s had too many relatives eaten by wolves, and she wasn’t about to let this beast get away. She pulled out her .44 Magnum that she got from her Grandmother. Her Grandma was a war veteran after all. Red took aim and fired. It hit her right between the eyes. What Red didn’t know was that she just shot her own Grandmother. She took a closer look at what she thought was the wolf, and realized what a big mistake she had made. She ran out the door, crying all the way home.


Bryan Hynes
 Dear Mr Weinstein,
     This is a letter about the movie Hoodwinked Too. You asked me to evaluate the movie and decide whether or not you should spend the money to release this nation wide. In case you don’t remember, this movie mixes traditional fairy tale characters into one in a humorous way. I think you should spend the money on this movie because of its great originality. The movie does a great job at fracturing the traditional fairy tales they mix together. Some of the main characters in the movie are from the story Little Red Riding Hood. Like Red, Her Grandmother, and the Wolf. Except the Wolf isn't actually trying to eat them, he’s helping them stop the evil characters in the movie. Hansel and Gretel are also apart of this, but they aren't just two innocent little children trying to find their way back home. They are actually the evil masterminds in the movie. Hansel and Gretel also get help from The Three Little Pigs who actually work for them. The pigs have high tech guns and gear throughout the movie that they use to fight against Red and her partners. Too bad they didn't have that when the big bad Wolf blew their house down. The movie also uses the traditional fairy tale characteristics and makes fun of it a little. Like when the Wolf starts to tell us where Red is, he continuously says that she is far, far, far away. Making fun of the fact that traditional fairy tales usually say that someone or something is very far away. The movie has a narrator and it even has a magic or enchanted Item that everybody wants too, like most fairy tales. It has a lot of magic in it and forests where people live. But it also has a modern day sort of fracture added into it. There is a big city in the movie, with trains, cars, and helicopters. The fairy tale characters and animals have cell phones and tv’s. Just like normal people in the real world would have.  So in conclusion, I think you should spend the money to have this movie released nation wide. It has a lot of originality and creativity all throughout the movie. And it even has humor mixed in with the traditional fairy tales.
    Sincerely, Bryan Hynes.