Posted on 03/16/2010 10:52:36 AM PDT by Borges
If you’re planning to see Disney’s new version of “Alice in Wonderland,” know that it really isn’t Alice in Wonderland at all. It’s Gloria (Steinem) and Betty (Friedan) and Susan (Sarandon) in a high tech, souped up, feminist wonderland. It’s like NOW (the National Organization for Women) invaded a kids’ flick and turned it into a horror movie. There’s nothing wondrous or wonderful about it. It’s dumbed down baloney.
The new “Alice” is about the horrors of marriage and how, even back in the 1800s a young girl knows more about business and trading in far off lands than a wealthy English tycoon. The movie, which debuts in theaters tonight, bears very little resemblance to the classic Lewis Carroll fairy tale, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” While the 3-D effects were okay and some of the movie was cute, the destruction of Carroll’s charming tale is a huge disappointment. And it simply wasn’t “Alice in Wonderland.” It was the feminist manifesto fraudulently and deceptively dressed up in that name.
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Isn’t the bad “guy” a girl?
eh.... I enjoyed it
Who cares? Johnny Depp is in it!:)
Debbie’s own filters are coming through on this. It was very good and used typical literary archetypes.
Johnny Depp who lives in France because he hates capitalist America??
Oh I see....OK.
cunning runts all.
Good old Debbie, once again proving she didn’t actually see the movie, she might have sat in the theater but the brain was elsewhere.
I can see the anti-greed theme in Avatar.
I can see the anti-war theme in Green Zone.
I can’t see the far-fetched attempt to tear down Alice as a feministic movie. This is Tim Burton we are talking about here. He didn’t want to re-do the same story. He wanted to throw twists in the movie like he always does. Feminism is not one of them.
He lives in France because his wife is French and his daughter is being raised there.
It must be weird to go through life only able to see any piece of art through a small ideological prism.
When J.D. Salinger she equated him with Howard Zinn and condemned him to Hell for being some sort of Father of the 1960s counteculture. She’s great for a laugh.
And to always be looking for a reason to not enjoy what you’re seeing. She really seems to be quite dedicated to her own unhappiness.
“died”
He may say that, but his wife is a famous French actress, non? She probably wanted no part of the US.
Oh, please Debbie. One can find “hidden” messages in anything.
So is Debbie saying that she is for forced marriages of the sort that Alice was facing? How is that any different than Islam? Would she prefer if Alice surrendered to the marriage and stayed in the background like a good woman while the men handled the finances?
It was a fine movie based on a book, not a great movie, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.
Debbie Schlussel is seriously weird.
Robo Ebert had a another take:
Roger Ebert: Alice in Wonderland
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 3, 2010 | Roger Ebert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2465012/posts
...This has never been a children’s story. There’s even a little sadism embedded in Carroll’s fantasy. It reminds me of uncles who tickle their nieces until they scream...
I agree with you. I will defend Avatar a little bit, too. How would we as Americans react if a foreign entity entered our land and sought to change our way of life? We would probably fight, too. I really didn’t see all of the “anti” themes too much in Avatar.
The liberals tried to use it as a rallying cry against conservatives and capitalism, but it really wasn’t about that.
Otherwise, it was a typical Hollywood plot. But then again, there are only really 7 plots in the world.
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