This is a story that starts with a “once upon a time” but that does not end with a “happily ever after”. After all, that’s life too. Bad things happen to good people. This is the story of a baker and his wife, cursed by a witch, but it is also the story of Red Riding Hood, the John and his Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Cinderella, perhaps as never imagined. It’s a fairy tale that is as charming as violence. There betrayals, deaths and even a wolf somewhat perverse. Paths Forest is the new Disney movie, a musical by Rob Marshall, adapted from the Broadway hit Into The Woods . It is the revenge of fairy tales or just a story of our day?
It is perhaps the darkest Disney movie giant, known exactly for their stories to delight. Those stories can even get ill but always end well, normally flashy weddings – the prince who finds his princess and the witch disappears forever. Those stories where the good and the bad ever win are left aside. It is this same Disney that brought generations to sigh with his fairy tales now agreed to bring to the big screen a story where not always good prevails. It’s a story that goes beyond the usual, and now cliche, “… and they lived happily ever after”. What happens after that?
“This is a modern vision of fairy tales and was very impressed with the enthusiasm shown by Disney in advance with the film,” says Rob Marshall in a conversation with . several journalists in London, sure that Walt Disney was alive would want such stories were told
The story of Forest Paths is not unique: the film is an adaptation of Music acclaimed Into the Woods which opened on Broadway in 1987 and has a legion of fans in the United States nearly the level of sagas as Star Wars . It had been thought to cinema in the past, even in the 1990s, with Cher in the role of witch and Robin Williams in baker’s paper. The project was in the drawer while the desire to Rob Marshall, who had seen the show, to pick up the piece was growing. The musical is not it a strange kind – in 2003 won the prize he had to win (Oscars, Golden Globes) with Chicago – but other films were up overriding the Forest Paths ( Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , Nine , Memoirs of a Geisha ). Also by to make sure that only would advance the project had had the best of conditions met. The first take at his side James Lapine, the author of the musical, and comp oser Stephen Sondheim, responsible for the original soundtrack.
“It’s one of those pieces that I think it was ahead of its time”, account director, revealing that the first person who called to join the cast was Meryl Streep, who promptly accepted the challenge. “It was a dream, I can not imagine any director on the planet who would not die to work with her.” After that, Marshall invited Johnny Depp, who had worked in Pirates of the Caribbean . The actor accepted but with the condition that have a small role. “He wanted to be part of the cast but not be him loading the film,” says Rob Marshall, questioned by Epsilon. Johnny Depp is the wolf, who pursues the Little Red Riding Hood in the forest -. but here the story has different contours that of the Brothers Grimm
The wolf we see in Paths of Forest is wicked, their intentions for the child (Lilla Crawford) are unclear. “It’s a sensitive subject, although he is a wolf,” says the director, responding to criticism that the theme sung by Depp is sexually oriented. “We see what we want to see of course that the wolf is talking about eating your meal, but there are different ways of looking and to me that’s what’s interesting,” he says with certainty that “kids will only see the scary wolf wants to attack the Red Riding Hood “.
Meryl Streep also is on the side of the villains. It is the witch, a role that has earned him a nomination for the Golden Globes in the secondary category of representation, and the character around which the story takes place: it is she who casts a spell to Baker (James Corden) and his wife ( Emily Blunt – also nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of Best Actress), preventing them from having children. To reverse the curse, the couple has to leave for the forest in search of the goods ordered by the witch: a white cow as milk, such as the blood red cape, a yellow hair like corn and pure as gold shoe. And suddenly, all crosses. And everything shuffles. There is a before and after the forest. As in real life, people intersect and unexpected things happen. And if what we both wanted after all is not what we really wanted? And if the prince (Chris Pine) not really want to stay with Cinderella (Anna Kendrick)? Or Cinderella with him? And if Little Red Riding Hood lose even grandma?
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