The following is excerpted from New Yorker writer David Denby's Do The Movies Have A Future? (published by Simon & Schuster. The following was written in 2009, but is published here for the first time: Good chick flicks can be constructed on the solid foundation of classic folk tales—not just Cinderella, but Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood, all of them archetypal stories that can be varied in infinite ways.