Alice's very weird wonderland (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 19, 2010 | Alison Boshoff

[EveningStar]

The word is that watching Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland is the closest you can come to falling down the rabbit hole yourself and into Lewis Carroll's fantasy world.

Those who have seen the film, or clips of it, say that it is utterly breathtaking, a hallucinatory alternate universe completely realised in every detail, from the sun streaming in through the gills of the mushrooms to the light falling on the individual fuzzy hairs on the caterpillar's back.

[EveningStar]

ping

[discostu]

But it’s the same thing. Whatever age Alice is Wonderland is still a place that’s deeply messed up and only one of the freak directors like Burton could put it on screen.

[Dead Corpse]

I’ve been meaning to try absinthe. Could be the perfect excuse...

[EveningStar]

Fantasy, not scifi, but you might be interested.

[Dead Corpse]

Assuming we can find a babysitter... My wife wants to see it almost as badly as I do.

[ArrogantBustard]

What has been seen, cannot be unseen.

The characters of a book, which is read, are fleshed out by the reader's own imagination. Watching a movie adaptation of a book imposes the producer's, director's, and actors' visions of the characters, scenery, etc. over the viewer's own vision of same, and does so quite powerfully.

This is part of what makes motion picture a very powerful propaganda tool.

I somewhat regret watching the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

[mmichaels1970]

I like Burton’s movies, I guess it’s just one of those things, you either love it or hate it.

The wife loves it, I can take it or leave it. I enjoy the fact that she enjoys it...if that makes any sense.

[dawn53]

'I read the Lewis Carroll stories over and over again, and I learned everything I could about Victorian times,' Depp says.

I guess you could say Alice in Wonderland was about Victorian times, but I always thought Carroll's stories were acutally political commentary, disguised as fantasy, to ensure he didn't hear the words "Off with his head."

[Tax-chick]

The only thing I brought back to the books from the LOTR movies was Elrond’s looking like a young Sam Neill playing Mr. Spock.

[Bainbridge]

What, crazy, slightly perverse and creepy ?

[Doulos1]

I meant to say “Watch my dog clean herself”. Oops :)

[Borges]

Carroll's stories were acutally political commentary, disguised as fantasy, to ensure he didn't hear the words "Off with his head."

By the Victorian Era, I don't believe that being critical of the Monarch was a Capital offense.

[Borges]

Carroll's stories were acutally political commentary, disguised as fantasy, to ensure he didn't hear the words "Off with his head."

By the Victorian Era, I don't believe that being critical of the Monarch was a Capital offense.

[Paradox]

The wife loves it, I can take it or leave it. I enjoy the fact that she enjoys it...if that makes any sense.

Of course it does, you love your wife!

[BJClinton]

Yup.

[BJClinton]

The trailer sounds great, can't wait to see it in 3D w/ surround sound.

Trailer on youtube

[CGASMIA68]

Happy I stashed that pill bottle of dried shrooms from that cow pasture by pirates world....Looks like they will come in handy......hope the ticker can take it........

[CGASMIA68]

can the “good stuff” be obtained in the states?

[999replies]

I really liked Big Fish.

[TennesseeGirl]

I’ll pass.