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Alice in Wonderland
For your delectation. I don't know if anyone's seen this trailer before. But I watched it this morning and was so excited I nearly did a wee. Nearly!
Tim Burton's film is a re-imagining of the book, and as such is a lot darker, the characters all affected by age and cynicism. And because its Burton, the new story line appears to work superbly in tandem with Lewis Carroll's masterwork, rather than against it. (Although it is only a trailer)
All the hallmarks of a Burton film are present - grotesque character proportion, Depp / Bonham Carter, grey sky, massive gothic buildings - and yet this is wonderland. Where everything should be brightly coloured and surreal? Well, no. Not by watching this.
Thought I'd share it, because it does look like it'll be one of the films of the year. Plus it's featured in the new issue. Beautifully smooth tie-in to relevance with the magazine there.
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"a re-imagining"
Is that the same as a rewrite, i.e. he's kept the same characters but written a new story?
yes sort of
It's centred around the idea that Alice grew up, ran away, fell down the hole again (error) and discovered the Red Queen had taken over all of wonderland. So same characters later in the story as it were. But I don't know about rewrite - as that implies the original story was messed with. It hasn't been. I suppose you could call it "Alice In Wonderland 2: The Return" but that would be a bit lame.
Hmmm
looks more like a re-imagining of "Return to Oz" to me. She's grown up, She goes back, every things gone to pot, She sorts it out. Where's the big round robot with the tash?
Can't bloody wait
but must. It comes out the day before my birthday. Tee hee. You would think I was 14 again...
"a re-imagining"
Because the original work is never good enough for Hollywood auteurs, is it?
That Lewis Carroll...
So unimaginative...
I'd love to see a 'from the text' version. Disney have already reimagined it.
I'm sure Depp will be great though & I like Tim Burton's films as a rule.
On the other hand
I rather like the assumption that they don't need to do a film version of the book because clearly everyone has already read it.
Ha ha ha!!!!
Everyone's seen the Disney version. Which, incidentally I really like.
If only we lived in a world where everyone had read 'Alice...' :-)
I was thinking of Peter Jackson's faithful rendering of 'Lord of the Rings...' - that sort of approach.
There's room for all of it, of course. I'm sure Burton's effort will be blinding - I'll be there, for sure.
It looks good...
...but I fear it will end up with a big battle scene for 15 minutes towards the end like 99% of films seem to.... why can't they just peter out quietly for a change? Maybe I'm just going to the wrong films.
you should watch some of that "Awkward" cinema
apparenty that stuff peters out from begining to end.
Peter Doubt
is my favourite film maker.
thanks
for repping my other current musings
Thanks
I haven't been to the cinema for quite a while but after watching this the FPO and myself will be checking this one out for sure. It looks very good.
Yes, indeed...
Just watched with the family & now everyone can't wait until March!
How good does this look? Brilliant.