Literature Adaptations - Movie Review Example

Since then, this story is continually being told to children and society has seen many adaptations including Jordan and Carter's controversial "The Company f Wolves." Be it presented as literature, oral storytelling, or cinematography these sources have one theme in common: they tell a cautionary tale f the warnings f entering adolescence. In comparing the historical, sexual, and moral aspects f Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood," France's "The False Grandmother," and Jordan's "The Company f Wolves, readers are left appreciating the different means used in communicating the warnings f entering adolescence.

(Bordwell 1-4) Oral stories are quite different from those f common literature. In France's oral version there is little time spent on focusing on detail in terms f an introduction to the story and setting. Instead, this oral version quickly jumps to the girl's encounter with the wolf. This happens all within the first sentence: "Once upon a time a girl was walking through the woods with a basket f goodies for her grandmother, when she met a wolf." Since these stories were told orally, there is most likely no need for a significant amount f detail simply because this was not the focus f the performance.

As well, these types f stories are not read but seen and heard by the audience. What is significantly different about an oral story is that there is a heavy reliance on the storyteller to deliver a captivating performance, meaning that the action f the story is heightened by compressing the sequence f events in a set amount f time. Thus, little time is spent focusing on elements such as a historical setting.Readers are made aware f the setting in Perrault's literary version f Little Red Riding Hood when he writes: "Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen.

" He further reveals information about the surroundings f the story as the girl is sent out to give her grandmother food: "Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village. As she was going through the wood, she met a wolf." There is little to be questioned because f the amount f detail used by Perrault. In stories that are written or published, there is a need to have a certain amount f detail so readers are not left questioning the story. Written stories require more detail than oral stories.

Perrault has added enough information about the location f the story so that readers would not be left confused about certain parts f the plot. (Naremore 5-6)Film is also another means by which folktales can be presented. The manner in which this is presented is far different than reading folktale literature or watching the story be performed with sounds and movements by a storyteller. In "The Company f Wolves" Jordan and Carter incorporate a significant amount f detail in a short amount f time: "close shot f the window looking out onto the dream nightscape; camera tracks in past the window frame EXT.

FOREST -- DAY dissolve from nightscape to daylight forest scene, autumnal colours. Camera tracks in and pans right to disclose a distant church spire." Viewers f this film are better able to grasp the setting because they are visually transported to a setting where they are able to make obvious assumptions about the surroundings. There is a significant amo