Little Red Riding Hood as a police investigation, using flashbacks to
show multiple characters' points of view. It was directed and written by
Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech and was among the earliest
computer-animated films to be completely independently funded. Due to
its small budget, the animation was produced in the Philippines with a
less realistic design inspired by stop motion films. Its structure was
inspired by the Japanese film Rashomon and it is part of the fairy tale
parody genre. Released shortly after the first two installments in the
successful Shrek series, Hoodwinked! intentionally deviated from that
series in its style of humor and in certain plot elements. The Weinstein
Company signed on as the distributor near the end of production, and
while the company recast many roles, it otherwise made few changes.
Critical reception to the film was varied; although its script and cast
were praised by many reviews, its animation quality was heavily
criticized. It was a commercial success, earning over ten times its
budget. A sequel, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, was released in 2011.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodwinked!>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1272:
While en route to Sicily during the Ninth Crusade, Edward I
became King of England, upon the death of his father Henry III, but did
not return to England for nearly two years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England>
1885:
After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,
Louis Riel (pictured), Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father
of Manitoba", was executed by hanging for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel>
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic
drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide>
1989:
Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón
Cañas" in San Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered
by a Salvadoran Army "death squad".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered_scholars_of_UCA>
1992:
In Suffolk, England, an amateur metal detectorist found the
largest hoard of Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late
fourth and early fifth centuries ever discovered within the former Roman
Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoxne_Hoard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blobbily:
In a blobby manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blobbily>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments
may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their
own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized
first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.
--Robert Nozick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick>
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