Wednesday, July 22, 2009

“Little Red Riding Hood” Contemporary Re-Telling

The story of Little Red Riding Hood was told to Italian and French kids way back in the 1600′s. In the 1800′s, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm popularized this tale along with their other “Grimm Fairytales.” With 400 years, nearly 9,000 versions on Amazon, and even Bugs Bunny taking a shot at it – one could say the story of Red Riding Hood “has been told.”

However, Red receives an updated retelling by Swedish artist Tomas Nilsson.

I find this animation inspirational. If Tomas can add fresh, hip life to this ubiquitous story… Imagine what you could we do with your marketing messages, or products, or brands, or hiring practices…?

From Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo. Discovered via mindblob.

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Fred H Schlegel • Thursday, July 23 2009 at 3:56 am

This was a real hoot. I laughed out loud when the nutrition label was applied to grandma. Thanks for the find.
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Geistesblitz - Rotkäppchen und der Wolf – neu erzählen • Friday, August 7 2009 at 7:13 am

[...] Stoff, von dem es sogar eine Bugs Bunny-Version gibt, neu darstellen? In Pauls (wunderbarer) Idea-Sandbox bin ich auf eine grandiose Version von Tomas Nilsson (das klingt nicht nur nach einem Schweden, das [...]