The story, the style, the setting Everyone is familiar with this cartoon flick. These animated films and characters have been entertaining generation after generation, and there are TV shows , promotional products, and theme parks that celebrate them further. One of the best things about Disney remakes is that legendary stories can be told and enjoyed in a whole new way. But there are new adventures, some updated characters and some real people playing the parts, making it something that has never been seen before.
In the cartoon adaptation, Alice is this young girl with a vivid imagination; she would rather be watching the clouds float by, playing with her cat, singing and daydreaming than doing school lessons or attending stuffy parties put on by her family. Fans with their heads stuck in the clouds can relate! In the live-action adaptation, Alice has to come back to this land to fight off the Jabberwocky.
She is older, she is put in more dangerous situations, and it is up to her to save this place and these people. Alice herself seems to be modelled after a Victorian porcelain doll, bathing in all kinds of warm colours and hues. Alice at the Palace is a true music extravaganza. Another star in this production is Debbie Allen. Completely unjustified, I would say: even though it, admittedly, may require a taste for musicals, the production is visibly made with passion and joy, making it an unmissable Alice adaptation.
Carroll was not secretive about his fascination with photographing little girls, ideally nude. They always seem… to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up. In retrospect, for Alice this left behind a frightening aftertaste on Wonderland. Though his admiration for Alice was rather extreme, Carroll is no monster — rather a tragic, stuttering figure who leaves Alice and the viewer torn between confusion, contempt, pity, and sympathy.
While a fairy tale has got an educational aspect — it works with the moral of the lifted forefinger good overcomes evil , dream, as an expression of our unconscious, uncompromisingly pursues the realisation of our most secret wishes without considering rational and moral inhibitions, because it is driven by the principle of pleasure.
The film is absolutely stunning, making use of very basic visuals and slow-stop motion to capture the insane world of Wonderland, which makes it stand out from the rest of the crowd.
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A beautiful paperback edition of Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. Macmillan was the original publisher of Through the Looking-Glass in and is proud to remain true to the vision of its creators. Every bit as iconic are Sir John Tenniel's remarkable illustrations, perfectly capturing the combination of the ordinary and the extraordinary at the heart of Wonderland.
With a new foreword from Phillip Pullman, this stunning anniversary hardback book reproduces every word of Carroll's masterpiece and its famous sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
Beautifully reproduced colour versions of Sir John Tenniel's originals, and coloured by Harry Theaker, under the direction of Tenniel himself. Includes lively and authoritative non-fiction content from Macmillan's rich historical archive to tell the real-life story of how Alice was written and published.
Macmillan was the original publisher of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in and is proud to remain true to the vision of its creators. A beautiful paperback copy. Curious Alice's second story takes her through the looking-glass to a place even stranger than the Wonderland of her first adventure.
At every step she is hindered by unusual, funny and nonsense characters who crop up, such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and Humpty Dumpty. Some of them insist on reciting poems to her and these poems, such as The Walrus and The Carpenter and Jabberwocky , are now as famous as the Alice stories themselves. Find out what happened to your favourite characters after Alice left Wonderland — is the Queen of Hearts still ruling with an iron fist? Can the Mad Hatter learn to be sensible? Will Tweedledum and Tweedledee ever stop arguing?
This gorgeous colouring book features all of Wonderland's favourite characters — the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen and of course Alice herself - just waiting to be brought to life with colour.
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