What is Alice In Wonderland?
The award winning 2010 movie Alice In Wonderland, is a Burton-esque twist on the enchanting tales, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865, and “Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There”, 1871, written by Lewis Carroll. The popular movie, full of magical details such as evil queens with abnormally large heads, talking animals and insane red-heads, was pulled off well with Burton’s approach of a mixture of live action and animation. This wonderful version of the story keeps the classic nature of Alice while bringing freshness by focusing part of the film upon the poem “Jabberwocky” rather than the initial novel.
What is it about?
The film follows a young girl, Alice, who takes a tumble down a mysterious rabbit hole after running away from her engagement party. Arriving in the strange place known as ‘Wonderland’, Alice is taken aback as the magical world resembles her recurring childhood nightmares. Meeting old friends such as Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Absolum and the White Queen, Alice soon discovers she
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When compared to the all-animated 1951 original movie (which was very much beyond its time), Tim Burton’s version breathes a new life into the film, by enhancing the plot and providing an all-round brilliant viewing experience to the 21st Century. Additionally, Alice in Wonderland is different to the clear majority of Disney movies, especially those based upon classics, due the leading female role. We all know the drill when it came to many of the original Disney films: the beautiful princess is a damsel in distress, getting rescued by the handsome prince and living happily ever after. However, this isn’t the case in this movie. Alice faces many struggles throughout the movie and with the help of her friends, realizes her own resolutions to problems as well as being relied on as a hero, which is uncommon for a female character in a Disney