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Alice in Wonderland
Apparently I have enough to say about this film that I want to make a post!
- I want a recording of Johnny Depp reciting Jabberwocky in a Scottish accent, and I WANT IT NOW.
- I was amused by how so many of the characters were sort of smushed-together versions of other characetrs in existence; the Hatter had a fair dollop of Jack Sparrow and the soft-voiced twitchiness of Depp's Willy Wonka. And HBC was definitely borrowing from Miranda Richardson's Queenie in Blackadder (though I know MR has also played the Queen of Hearts at some point, heh).
- VOICE ACTORS <3 Stephen Fry! Alan Rickman!
- Not sure how I feel about the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts being smushed into the same character, but overall I think it didn't really matter.
- THE QUEENS IN GENERAL. AAAAAHHHH. So much hinted-at backstory of awesomeness! The White Queen and her potion-making! I latched onto Hathaway's portrayal as being a very interesting one, and started thinking about why Miranda is the way she is, and then I stumbled across this quote:
“Miranda comes from the same gene pool as the Red Queen,” Hathaway said. “She really likes the dark side, but she’s so scared of going too far into it that she’s made everything appear very light and happy. She’s living in that place out of fear that she won’t be able to control herself.”
YES. EXACTLY.
- To that end...I am, predictably, writing a drabble about the Queens. I had to scour the internet for the correct spelling of 'Iracebeth', but I wish I could find the names of all the creatures. I KNOW the White Rabbit and the Dormouse had proper names and I wish I could remember what they were.
- The art design was amazing, obviously -- and Alice's costumes were FANTASTIC and I want them all, especially the last blue coat and the crazed mess of petticoat that is the dress made out of the Red Queen's curtains.
- Also! I was so so happy to see them borrowing heavily from Tenniel, most notably this picture, from which they took the entire climax of the film and the Jabberwocky's character design.
- I want a recording of Johnny Depp reciting Jabberwocky in a Scottish accent, and I WANT IT NOW.
- I was amused by how so many of the characters were sort of smushed-together versions of other characetrs in existence; the Hatter had a fair dollop of Jack Sparrow and the soft-voiced twitchiness of Depp's Willy Wonka. And HBC was definitely borrowing from Miranda Richardson's Queenie in Blackadder (though I know MR has also played the Queen of Hearts at some point, heh).
- VOICE ACTORS <3 Stephen Fry! Alan Rickman!
- Not sure how I feel about the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts being smushed into the same character, but overall I think it didn't really matter.
- THE QUEENS IN GENERAL. AAAAAHHHH. So much hinted-at backstory of awesomeness! The White Queen and her potion-making! I latched onto Hathaway's portrayal as being a very interesting one, and started thinking about why Miranda is the way she is, and then I stumbled across this quote:
“Miranda comes from the same gene pool as the Red Queen,” Hathaway said. “She really likes the dark side, but she’s so scared of going too far into it that she’s made everything appear very light and happy. She’s living in that place out of fear that she won’t be able to control herself.”
YES. EXACTLY.
- To that end...I am, predictably, writing a drabble about the Queens. I had to scour the internet for the correct spelling of 'Iracebeth', but I wish I could find the names of all the creatures. I KNOW the White Rabbit and the Dormouse had proper names and I wish I could remember what they were.
- The art design was amazing, obviously -- and Alice's costumes were FANTASTIC and I want them all, especially the last blue coat and the crazed mess of petticoat that is the dress made out of the Red Queen's curtains.
- Also! I was so so happy to see them borrowing heavily from Tenniel, most notably this picture, from which they took the entire climax of the film and the Jabberwocky's character design.
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Also, I need some epic femslash for this film, like, RIGHT THE HELL NOW. Brb trying to decipher just why Um!Alice was so very skdfjhj;gkjahsd;lf. My theories legion, their number many, etc.
ALSO FFFF was it just me, or did Alice start remembering the full names of various characters entirely without help or interference?
*_*
Disjointed thoughts are tipsy-tiredly disjointed.
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I love the original Alice in Wonderland and this movie lacked everything I loved about it.
The funny thing is I wasn't even going expecting to see anything of the original. I thought it was going to be a original story imagining what Alice would be like grown up. Instead I got a poorly done reharsh of the original. The original dialogue and story telling was cack-handed.
JD didn't even recite Jabberwocky in full! It just complete throws off the rhyme and meter of the bloody thing when you randomly skip lines.