{"id":3854,"date":"2012-03-18T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:14:58","slug":"red-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/18\/red-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Red (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dfqVdYx.jpg\" width=\"348\" height=\"228\" \/>There aren&#8217;t nearly enough animated independent films out there. And when there are, there aren&#8217;t nearly enough willing to experiment with the medium. &#8220;Red&#8221; is a fantastic short and sweet ditty that takes the Red Riding Hood fairy tale and adds another twist on the lore. Sure, we&#8217;ve seen the mythos of Red Riding Hood twisted and turned on its head providing allegories and symbolism for everything under the sun, but &#8220;Red&#8221; does something different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><!--more-->For one thing it doesn&#8217;t provide us with any dialogue or clunky exposition. Its primary center of storytelling relies on sound and sight and that sound and sight is depicted through a vibrant color palette that&#8217;s used to identify with the emotional core of the scenes and the characters as a whole. &#8220;Red&#8221; is composed of images that tell the tale of young Red Riding Hood skipping through the forest one day until stalked and confronted by the big bad wolf. &#8220;Red&#8221; then plays with our expectations diving in to full on panic mode devising a premise that feels like the prelude to a long journey of revenge and mourning for young Red that would logically lead us in to a feature length film about the character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">With dashes of bold reds and quick action shots, &#8220;Red&#8221; has its foot firmly planted in the revenge genre with Red fulfilling her journey in the end and becoming a warrior of the woods and with an amazing score by Manuel Borda and bold pastels, &#8220;Red&#8221; spins another new and exciting direction for the Red Riding Hood yarn in a tale that&#8217;s open to limitless interpretations. With bold animation and a sharp score, &#8220;Red&#8221; is yet another take on the red riding hood story that&#8217;s short, sweet, to the point and action packed. While it does feel more like a prelude to a larger story, it fulfills its purpose one hundred percent and satisfies completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t nearly enough animated independent films out there. And when there are, there aren&#8217;t nearly enough willing to experiment with the medium. &#8220;Red&#8221; is a fantastic short and sweet ditty that takes the Red Riding Hood fairy tale and adds another twist on the lore. Sure, we&#8217;ve seen the mythos of Red Riding Hood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,64,99,349,501,813,938,1090],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-indie-film","tag-r","tag-short-film","tag-thriller-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}