Hoodwinked Movie
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... I realize that there were other independently funded projects being done at the same time, but ... we were the first ... the first kind of a new model and a new way of making an animated film. It was made with no studio money, overseas, then picked up by a major distributor. A few other animated films have followed this path, but not to the level of success that Hoodwinked was able to achieve. I know Veggie Tales had a movie come out earlier that year, but that was with a struck deal and brand recognition. Hoodwinked was this freak of nature that was made completely outside of the studio system and, thankfully, worked.
The filmmakers found independently producing the film to have both benefits and challenges. Although they were given a great amount of creative control by their executive producer Maurice Kanbar,[11] their small budget kept them from making potentially beneficial changes to the story once production was underway. Todd Edwards related that \"Money doesn't just buy you more talent and more machinery, it also buys you flexibility on a story level. At Disney, if they don't like the third act, they just throw the whole thing out and re-animate the whole thing, even if it's finished ... We had no such luxury, and so in a way, you're watching our first version of the movie.\"[20]Knowing ahead of time their inability to alter the film's script once animating had begun, an effort was made by the filmmakers to finalize the script as much as possible before the start of production, which is not a common practice for studio-produced animated films.[20]
In an effort to save costs, the film's cast was originally going to be composed mostly of friends and family members of the filmmakers.[10][28] Cory and Todd brought in their cousin Tye Edwards to play Dolph and turned to their friend Joshua J. Greene to play Jimmy Lizard.[28][29] Japeth was written specifically for Benjy Gaither, the son of gospel music singers Bill and Gloria Gaither. He had been a friend of the Edwards brothers since childhood and Cory's short film Wobots had been produced through his animation studio Live Bait Productions.[15][30] Cory's wife Vicki was given the role of a skunk reporter, and while some consideration was initially given to having an adult play the child woodpecker Quill, the role was instead given to producer David K. Lovegren's daughter Kathryn.[31] The Edwards brothers, Leech, and producer Preston Stutzman all took on roles as well.[28] Wanting to do one of the voices in his movie and having watched a lot of squirrels,[16] Cory took on the role of Twitchy, and Pro Tools was used to speed up the recording of his dialogue by 50 percent.[32] Todd played the local Sandwich Man, Leech played both Det. Bill Stork and Glen, and Stutzman played Timmy.[33]
The film's animation was created on Maya software, and in an effort to save costs, was produced in Manila, Philippines.[11][35] Producers Sue Bea Montgomery and David K. Lovegren founded the animation studio Digital Eye Candy for the purpose of the film's production[36] and stationed it in a 5,000-square-foot rented house. Cory Edwards traveled to this studio a total of fifteen times over the course of the film's three-year production and has explained that although the house was located in an expensive part of Manila, the rent was no more than that of his two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.[4] When Cory was not able to be on site, Todd took over directing duties. \"Along with Tony, we were kind of a 'three-headed monster,'\" Cory explains. \"We all knew what movie we were making, and I trusted those guys to make creative calls when I couldn't be there.\" Lovegren had attempted to start an independent animation studio in the Philippines before in 2001, but the studio, called ImagineAsia, was closed after it failed to attract business. Digital Eye Candy hired approximately twenty animators that had previously been employed by ImagineAsia,[11][37] and at one point the studio reached fifty employees.[4]
The Weinsteins had recently left the Walt Disney Company and according to Cory Edwards, they \"loved the idea of picking up an animated film and giving Disney a run for their money\".[48] The involvement of the Weinstein Company encouraged Kanbar enough to enlist Skywalker Sound.[2][3] The film was nearly complete by the time that the Weinsteins became involved, and Edwards has stated that nothing was done by them to ruin \"the original vision of the movie.\" However, a few edit suggestions were made to quicken the film's pace which Edwards felt were good ideas, as he considered the first twenty minutes to be dragging.[19]
In February 2006, author Timothy Sexton wrote an article titled \"Hoodwinked: A Postmodern Examination of the Dangers of Runaway Capitalism\" for Associated Content, in which he posited that Hoodwinked! was one of the first postmodern animated films and that the film also carried political undertones. He argued that the relative nature of truth was shown by revealing deviations from the original fairy tale as the film explored the story from each of the central characters' points of view. Calling Hoodwinked! \"the most subversive movie released nationwide since Fahrenheit 9/11\",[83] Sexton went on to interpret the film as a critique on the free enterprise system. He drew comparisons between the film's villain and the typical American business owner, going so far as to say that the character was \"clearly based on people like Bill Gates and Sam Walton\".[83] In Sexton's view, the film exposed the flaws of capitalism, showing that if left unregulated, business owners will establish monopolies and eliminate competition.[83]
The film's director and co-writer Cory Edwards was surprised by Sexton's interpretation and denied that the film intentionally carried any political messages. He explained that he and the other filmmakers were simply drawing from the evil schemes common of James Bond films, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and The A-Team, and wrote \"If Mr. Sexton sees my movie as a sermon against mega-corporations monopolizing America, that's fine. But our villain is just as easily the face of every dictator in history, or every schoolyard bully who is compensating for low self-esteem, or any Mafia boss who dominates by either absorbing or wiping out his competition. Hey, if you look at an abstract painting and see the devil in a red splotch, that's your prerogative ... I guess a movie's message is only partially supplied by the filmmaker.\"[84]
The target audience also seems conceptually mushy: most of the verbal gags aim at adults, the slapsticky violence might please kids, but these tracks remain divergent. Plus, with all its energy directed toward the hyper-actionation, the movie loses the fairy tale's creepy focus, namely, the little girl's engagement with the fuzzy beast pretending to be her grandma. Here, Red's martial arts skills rather undermine the threat, and place big bad Wolf -- and everyone else for that matter -- at a disadvantage. Bland rather than lively, Hoodwinked eventually peters out.
pretty sure I've seen this movie more times than almost anyone on planet earth. the music is unironically one of the sickest soundtracks of the early 2000s, the mystery script is nearly as good as knives out, and the comedy is infinitely more clever than the entire shrek franchise combined. this chad movie is based on rashomon which the virgin shrek doesn't have going for it. also I just friend requested the director on facebook. maybe we can be buddies. idk.
Somehow, bafflingly, this is the first movie I remember seeing in a theater as a kid...and through no intention of my own, I guess I can quote every line word for word. Either way, it's an absolute testament to the quality writing that despite horrendous and sometimes truly nightmarish animation, it's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I'm actually shocked that it doesn't get more meme attention because every second is solid gold and total chaotic energy. Also: all the music is totally original and totally early 2000s and it totally bops.
Considering the success of the Shrek franchise, it is not surprising fairytales are becoming popular material for movie scripts. Like Shrek, this screenplay runs on two levels, mixing jokes aimed at adults with childhood humor. However, it manages to do so without sinking to the use of sexual innuendo or potty jokes. In fact, the only real concern is the violence that occurs when the Goody Bandit finally gets cornered. He (or she as the case may be) straps a character to a cable car full of dynamite and engages the help of some thugs when the law starts to move in. Other incidents of peril turn out to be little more than a logical misunderstanding once the facts come out.
Although the movie makes some references to other tales, this spoof on Red Riding Hood is built on the retelling of the same incident four times. Luckily, the directors do an excellent job of making all the puzzle pieces fit and tying up all the ends. They also break common stereotypes, give fresh life to well-established characters and introduce some new animals to the story including a yodeling goat (voice of Benjy Gaither) who is under an evil spell.
The Woodsman (Jim Belushi) is really an actor and avid yodeler. And on it goes: The lead detective is a debonair frog named Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers), the sheep (Chazz Palminteri) is named Woolworth, and that wisecracking goat, who sounds like he could well have a future in bluegrass, keeps turning up, as if auditioning for a different, funnier movie.
The digital animation ranges from competent to clunky, the jokes too often feel tossed-off and random, and the movie too often descends into dullness, only to be yanked back from the abyss by the goat.
The heroine, a plucky Little Red Riding Hood voiced by Anne Hathaway, has immense eyes in an oversized head; she looks like nothing so much as an instant-message avatar, which is fitting, since the 9-to-13 age bracket is the only audience that'll be amused by the movie. Writer-directors Cory and Todd Edwards and Tony Leech have pooled their talents to come up with a Mad magazine parody minus the edge, or ''Shrek\" with added drek. 59ce067264