[122][123] The ballet was based on the novel Wheeldon grew up reading as a child and is generally faithful to the original story, although some critics claimed it may have been too faithful. The Dormouse is a fictional character from the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. [25], Bill the Lizard may be a play on the name of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. A visitor to the Liddell home saw the storybook and thought it should be published, so Carroll revised and expanded it. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics professor at Oxford University. [177][178][179] As of 2013, no further developments had been made.[180]. 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She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures, often changing size unexpectedly (she grows as tall as a house and shrinks to 3 inches [7 cm]). Release Date: March 5, 2010. As the unhappy Alice bursts into tears, the passing White Rabbit flees in a panic, dropping a fan and pair of gloves. 3. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. [42], Beyond its refashioning of Carroll's everyday life, Cohen argues, Alice critiques Victorian ideals of childhood. Pat Bauer graduated from Ripon College in 1977 with a double major in Spanish and Theatre. The tale plays with logic, giving the . Summary. [112] Carroll attended a performance on 30 December 1886, writing in his diary he enjoyed it. [16] Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, who wrote a literary biography of Carroll, suggests that Carroll favoured Alice Pleasance Liddell in particular because her name was ripe for allusion. [4] The titular character Alice shares her given name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knew. Arthur DiBianca and David Widger. [89] Shortly after, the Vue cinema chain also reached an agreement with Disney, but Odeon had still chosen to boycott in Britain, Ireland, and Italy. [181] On May 31, 2013, James Bobin began talks to direct the sequel under the working title Alice in Wonderland: Into the Looking Glass. 19-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world of her youth. Not flamboyant, not very showy, but just somebody that's got a lot of internal life to her. Alice in Wonderland came under development in December 2007, when Burton was asked to direct two 3D films for Disney, including the remake of Frankenweenie. The website's consensus is: "Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherenceand much of its heartbut it's an undeniable visual treat". 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[53] Roth pitched the idea to Walt Disney Studios, who greenlit the project, and Woolverton was commissioned to write the script. [144] The film received three nominations at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Johnny Depp, but did not win any. Alice is a an innocent virgin who acts and dresses younger than her age. In Wonderland, Alice struggles with the importance and instability of personal identity. The girls and Carroll took another boat trip a month later, when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. [118] The cast also included Debbie Allen, Michael Jeter, and Mark Linn-Baker. [19], Carroll began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version is lost. 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Sayles's "Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star", "They told me you had been to her"White Rabbit's evidence, This page was last edited on 16 April 2023, at 01:31. Corrections? Alice asked Carroll to write out the stories for her, and in response he produced a hand-lettered collection entitled Alices Adventures Under Ground. [22] John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the published version of the book. Alice in Wonderland. The real Alice Liddell was the daughter of Henry Liddell, the dean of Christ Church college at Oxford University, where Dodgson taught mathematics. The Blu-ray version has nine additional featurettes centered on additional characters, special effects and other aspects of the film's production. "Three inches is such a wretched height." 10. Flipped shot. "[69], Sony Pictures Imageworks designed the visual effects sequences. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. The leaked version was originally to be shown to one of the three Facebook groups used to promote the film that had the most members. Produced by porn maverick Bill Osco of Flesh Gordon fame (Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm, 1974) and made on a decent budget of $400,000, the film follows . Following its release, the film drove about $1.6 billion in retail sales for Disney, including home video and merchandise sales. Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American period adventure fantasy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.The film stars Mia Wasikowska in the title role, with Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, and Matt Lucas, while featuring the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy . Alice's sister wakes her up from a dream, brushing what turns out to be some leaves from Alice's face. When Alice is riding Bayard towards the Red Queen's Castle, her Bandersnatch scratch is on her left arm, when it should be on her right. [171] The company also released Cruella, a live-action spin-off of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and has plans for live-action spin-offs of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan along with a live-action prequel to Aladdin. She receives an unwanted marriage proposal from Hamish Ascot at his father's garden party, where she spots a familiar white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). As she . 2020 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 2 Seasons | Sci-Fi TV. After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?," the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eatI eat what I see" and so the riddle's solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life itself, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eatera horrific image of mortality. [94] In some confusion, a small number of copies were put on shelves a week before schedule in smaller stores, but were quickly removed, although a handful of copies were confirmed purchased ahead of schedule. Tim Burton's depiction of the real world is inverted from the 1951 film's version, which was ordinary and boring to Alice. The record was first overtaken by Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($15.2million). It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. [121] It had the largest weekend per-theater average of 2010 ($31,143 per theater) and the largest for a PG-rated film. Alice in Wonderland Decor - Set of 4 Prints Includes Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, and White Rabbit - 8x10 Unframed Art Prints - Home Decor Wall Art Perfect Alice in Wonderland Gifts and Decorations. Disney Interactive released in 2013 the game Alice in Wonderland: A New Champion for iOS. The name refers to Lewis Carroll's well-known children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which Alice feels (among other things) her body . Disney's pretext for cutting short Alice's theatrical run, is possibly to avoid the release of the DVD clashing with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [87], On February 12, 2010, major UK theater chains, Odeon, Vue, and Cineworld, had planned to boycott the film because of a reduction of the interval between cinema and DVD release from the usual seventeen-week period to twelve. [50] Rickman, Windsor, Fry, Gough, Lee, Staunton and Carter each took only a day to record their dialogue. With Kristine DeBell, Bucky Searles, Gela Nash, Ron Nelson. [56] However, the idea of the climax of the story being Alice's battle with the Queen's champion, the Jabberwocky, was first added in the video game American McGee's Alice, and the landscape, tower, weapons and appearance of Alice in those scenes of the film are very reminiscent of the same scenes in the game. But the real Alice lived her life in an above-ground wonderland, almost as amazing and often . By the end of the 19th century, Alice (taking the two volumes together) had become the most popular childrens book in England, and within two more decades it was among the most popular storybooks in the world. Alice then awakes and gets out of the rabbit hole, dirty and scratched from her fall. [128][129] In 2015, Alice characters featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of the book. Rotten Tomatoes, which classified it as "rotten", summarized the critical consensus as criticizing the film's "narrative coherence" but praising its visuals. While nearly everyone can recount the events of the fictional tale, few people know the true story behind the book. Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, Nijiro Murakami. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [44], Alice is full of linguistic play, puns, and parodies. [80] In July, new photos emerged of Alice holding a white rabbit, the Mad Hatter with a hare, the Red Queen holding a pig, and the White Queen with a mouse. Despite that fact, this is still a very famous and well-known version; it is credited for being the first version out of the dozens of Alice films and plays and can be watched . [69] Carroll saw a specimen copy in May 1865. [176] Rob Ashford was attached to direct and choreograph. The Queen proves to be short-tempered, and she constantly orders beheadings. When the Cheshire Cat appears as only a head, the Queen orders his beheading, only to be told that such an act is impossible. Alice in Wonderland is a well-known Children's book written by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. [59], Wonderland is a rule-bound world, but its rules are not those of our world. [184][187][188] On January 21, 2014, the film was again retitled to Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass. 5. 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