Present Perfect Tense

Intro

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• opening day
• spoil
• gothic
• trend

• nightmare
• werewolf
• terrorize
• smitten

• delve into
• fairytale

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If you think about it, a lot of the classic children’s stories we tell our kids are pretty scary. A wolf that eats a little girl’s grandmother and then pretends to be the grandma so it can eat the girl as well? Yikes! That seems like the kind of thing that would give most children nightmares.

So maybe it’s not surprising that the story of Little Red Riding Hood has been made into a scary movie for adults. In Red Riding Hood, Amanda Seyfried plays a beautiful young woman who is in love with two men. And at least one of those men might be the werewolf that has been terrorizing the girl’s town. Find out if Jason and Jeff were scared or smitten by this grown-up fairytale.

Dialog

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Jeff

Jason

Jeff:  So have you seen the…this Red Riding Hood movie?

Jason:  Saw it opening day.

Jeff:  Oh, you saw it already?

Jason:  Yep.

Jeff:  I was pretty excited to see it. Don’t spoil it for me.

Jason:  OK.

Jeff:  But isn’t it the same director that directed Twilight? Loved them.

Jason:  Yeah, the first Twilight. They changed the director…

Jeff:  Loved that one especially.

Jason:  The first one?

Jeff:  Yeah.

Jason:  Yeah, it’s got a cool, gothic kinda vibe to it, you know? Which really works with a fairytale.

Jeff:  It does, it seems to be a trend, lots of darker fantasy characters. Vampires, werewolves, etcetera.

Jason:  Exactly. Amanda Seyfried looks kinda gothic already. She’s got these big eyeballs, and I think it’s just gonna be a new trend in vampire movies, sort of mixing them with the children’s element, because already, when you think about the fans of Twilight, they’re like 13 years old. So why not reach out to them by kind of delving into the classic literature for that age group.

Jeff:  Yeah, I think it’s definitely something we’ve seen recently, as far as a trend in movies.

Jason:  Yeah, do you think people like those werewolves and vampires because it makes them feel like kids a little bit? Like they get to have these monsters?

Jeff:  Yeah maybe. Maybe it’s a transition from being a younger kid and being freaked out about that stuff, and then sort of involving some more adult themes into the story.

Jason:  Right.

Jeff:  That could be it.

 

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