The company of wolves- Narrative

Hybrid- based on little red riding hood but takes it further and plays on it to make it into a horror film. It is also based on the short story by Angela Carter
Location- the film is set in the woods, in the middle of nowhere where there is only a small village near by, there is a lot of spooky music played whilst in the woods to give it that eery atmosphere. there is also a lot of smoke around in the woods to make i look more spooky. a lot of the film is set in the darkness and there isn't much light.
Motifs- there are lots of children's toys in the film and a lot end up in the woods, this adds to the creepiness of the film, as they turn evil. most of the toys are broken and buried, or dirty. the toys turn evil at different parts of the film. there is also lots of animals that are stereotypical of a horror film, with bats and frogs and crows.
the film is a dream sequence and it is a broken narrative as there is lots of different people telling stories and the dream goes off and shows the stories.
Rosaleen is the main character, the protagonist is the younger of two sisters. In both real life and in the dream the sister has been stealing the older sisters make up, lipstick. In the dream sequence the older sisters dies.
the dream is about Rosaleen becoming an adult and maturing. the film shows a dysfunctional family, although a common family in most homes, the sisters fight, the dad cannot control the youngest daughter
The dream sequence starts off with the open windows, which relates to the outside world and also open windows link with the horror side of the film.
dream starts with the older sister getting attacked by all of the childhood toys and not being able to escape them, it then goes into the funeral

Red Riding Hood- Narrative

Narrative:

• Context-set in the middle of nowhere, isolated, rural, in the past, dark woods, blood mood- typical fairy-tale setting
• Starts with a flashback, goes to 10 years later
• Love story between the main female character and the boy who is classed as rebellious and not good enough for her are secretly in love, stereotypical  forbidden love story and couple
• Girl-blonde, young, pretty, thin, always in white and light colours
• Male-tall, dark, handsome, always dressed in dark colours, rebellious
• Binary opposition- good/bad, light/dark, day/night
• Dissatisfactory world, couple were going to run away so they could be together because they weren't allowed to be in together at home, the bells stop them from running away – (something happens to kick the story off)
• The wolf kills the main girls sister
• The girl is told she is going to marry someone who she doesn't love because he has money, although the sister was in love with the man. The main girl is told she is going to marry him because she was the pretty one out of the two sisters. The mother doesn't want her daughter to marry for love, because she didn't get to either. 
• Hybrid-werewolf
• The mother loved someone else, like her daughter and still tries to stop her from being with the person that she loves and tries to make her marry the person that has always liked her who has money. The Sister tho died, was actually related to the person she loved although she didn't know, and this is why the mother would never let the sister and the Man with money be together.
• Family secrets and dysfunctional families- the mother had an affair with the father of the boy she is trying to get her daughter to marry.
• The film uses conventions of werewolf films and presumes that the 12 year old that are watching it, know and accept the conventions and folk law about werewolves
• 'Who is the werewolf?' is the main question throughout the film
• People in the film look to religion to find the answers on how to save their village but the religious man tells them not to trust anyone-'there is no knowing what somebody is capable of'
• The village is told that they should be weary of people who are outsiders, a bit different from everyone else, or people who don't fit the norms of society as they could be dangerous
• The main character(the woman) is made to be a victim of society and put in a vulnerable position and put at risk to try and save the village from the werewolf because everyone found out that she could talk to the wolf and so is used to get the wolf out and try to kill the wolf
• religion is shown to not solve everything as the religious man brought into the village to try and save them, gets killed and so does the villages own priest- cannot defeat evil
• Real/original red riding hood story comes in 3/4 way through the film, with bits of the script and acting taken from the original story(eating and drinking grandmother)
• Young vulnerable female, in the middle of nowhere, with no help around is in danger at the mercy of whats around the corner. 
• Climax of the film/ main battle is between the wolf, who turns out to be the father of the main girl, and her and the man that she loves. the man that she loves comes to try and protect her from her father and stop him from turning her into a wolf as well. this is the battle between good and evil because even though she was always told that he was never good enough for her, he is the only one that comes and protects her and saves her. 
• The film is the portrayal of a modern family- you cannot look to your family for trust and reliability, your family are always keeping secrets and you don't know everything
• The main female character (the female protagonist) is the on that kills the wolf and saves the village. 
• resolution- from the wolf being killed is the village going back to normal even though the wolf is dead.
• she goes to live by herself in the wood because she is the 'other'
• Romance- the film tells you to go with your heart and go with the person that you don't and not to listen to the people around you
• References to other fairy stories throughout-Intertextuality