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    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film)
    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film)
    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film)
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    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film)

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    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film), excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateApr 19, 2019
    ISBN9780028671185
    A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film)

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      A Study Guide for "Into the Woods" (lit-to-film) - Gale

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      Into the Woods

      2014

      Introduction

      Into the Woods is a 2014 musical film combining several fairy tales into a single narrative, adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name. The film debuted in second place at the box office, earning over four times its budget, and was received warmly enough by critics.

      The musical on which the film was based debuted in San Francisco in 1986. After a Broadway production, it earned several Tonys. It has since been produced six times, most recently in 2012. The involvement of Sondheim, a prodigious composer and lyricist, all but guaranteed its success, and for Lapine, already well known for his work with stage and screen, it was a breakout moment.

      The story follows the adventures of a baker and his wife cursed with childlessness by a witch; they must find four special items for her to lift the curse. In the course of their quest, they are joined by Jack (of beanstalk fame), Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Red Riding Hood and confront the Big Bad Wolf and other villains from classic fairy tales. What initially look like happy endings are reversed, with several characters dying and a much darker mood prevailing before the surviving characters learn to find their way through grief and loss to relative fulfillment.

      Plot Summary

      The film opens with a cloudy sky filling the screen, actually a reflection in a puddle through which Cinderella hurries with a splash, singing of her wish to attend a festival, while a boy named Jack wishes his cow would give milk and a baker and his wife wish they had a child. Cinderella's stepmother and two stepsisters mock her wishes. Jack's widowed mother joins in the tune, bemoaning the futility of wishes. The camera cuts and tracks back and forth between these characters during this sequence.

      Red Riding Hood steals a cookie from the baker's tray and pleads with the couple for bread for her grandmother. Cinderella, meanwhile, must perform a variety of burdensome chores if she wishes to go to the festival. She summons birds for help with a song as Jack's mother tells Jack to take the cow, Milky-White, to market to sell because she does not give milk. Red Riding Hood is given a basket of bread by the obliging baker and his wife and leaves, skipping through the village into the woods.

      Cinderella's birds finish the chores, after which she helps her stepsisters, Florinda and Lucinda, prepare for the festival. In Cinderella's bitterness, she overtightens Florinda's hairdo, earning a slap across the face.

      The witch who lives next door to the bakery barges in and tells the couple that the baker's father once stole from her garden to feed his pregnant wife. She caught him in the act and demanded his baby in return—the baker's sister (later discovered to be Rapunzel). The witch did not notice the father taking the magic beans that her mother had insisted

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