He wants to pass the werewolf’s curse onto his daughter. While fighting a monster, the priest has become a monster himself.Īt the end of the story, the Big Bad Wolf turns out to be Red Riding Hood’s father, Cesaire. However, Solomon does not want to die and utters, “I meant only to serve to protect us from darkness.” He does not know he is the darkness itself. Since the priest will soon become a werewolf, his captain has to kill him.
When the blue moon rises, Father Solomon confronts the wolf, but the beast bites him. Although he pretends to protect the villagers and sugarcoats his crusade to kill the wolf under the banner of the greater good, in the end his real concern is his personal vendetta. That is why he is so vengeful and obsessed with killing the wolf. We eventually learn Father Solomon’s secret: in the past, he had to kill his wife, who had turned into a werewolf. Gradually, people notice the resemblance between the priest and the wolf. Indeed, as he says on one occasion, whatever he does is “for justice and the greater good.” It is symbolic that just like the wolf with deadly claws, Father Solomon, too, has hands with menacing silver-coated fingernails. Like the papal inquisitor during the Dark Ages, Solomon tortures people, burns them in the torture machine, and rules the village with an iron fist in the name of justice and the greater good.įather Solomon is a stubborn, self-righteous tyrant who firmly believes that he is doing the right thing. Gradually, however, he turns into a tyrant who terrorizes the village, just as the nefarious Big Bad Wolf does. At first, Father Solomon poses as the savior of the village, who protects the people from the bad wolf. It is worth noting in passing that the “elephant” is a symbol for the conservative Republican Party in the US whereas “red” implies a radical Leftwing ideology. One day, Father Solomon, a famous witch hunter, arrives with soldiers and a huge torture machine in the shape of a metal elephant. Thus, the villagers become suspicious of one another and accuse others of being associated with the wolf. Fear spreads among the villagers because no one can be sure who the werewolf is and how many of them are infected. Like a corrosive ideology, the werewolf infections are highly contagious. Whenever he bites a villager, he dooms them into becoming a werewolf like him. When the blue moon rises, he turns into the Big Bad Wolf and terrorizes the village. In this film, based loosely on the fairy tale, the wolf is not out there in the woods he is a werewolf living in secret among the villagers in disguise. The 2011 Hollywood movie, “Red Riding Hood,” produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Catherine Hardwicke, sheds a new light on this story. He cuts open the belly of the wolf and takes out Red Riding Hood unharmed. Just in time, a woodcutter comes to the rescue. When she arrives, the wolf swallows her too, and falls asleep. Aware of this, the Big Bad Wolf rushes ahead to her grandmother’s house, devours the grandmother and dons her clothes, then waits for the girl whose nickname is Red Riding Hood in disguise. In the famous fairy tale “Red Riding Hood,” a girl goes on an errand to bring food to her sickly grandmother who lives in the woods.
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