Burton's Alice.

[parasitegirl]

It would be fair to say that the Oz books and the Alice books were highly influencial in my childhood and in my desire to illustrate (I entered art school wanting to illustrate childrens' books...insane ones).

And Tim Burton is making an Alice movie...I mean there are many reasons why not to make Alice at all...because it is a story that wanders here and there with no real direction...but you probably feel like I do, if anyone can do the eye candy of my brain as a child reading those books some justice it might be Mr. Burton.

By now everyone has seen the character pictures of the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland project...and only one bothers me.

The White Queen....


Oh, Anne Hathaway's look, I love...I do...

But the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass is and old dottering lady....and...well...chess, not cards, so she has no battle to pick with the Queen of Hearts, much less a power struggle, she's too busy getting bossed about on occasion by the RED queen.


 

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[misa1.livejournal.com]

Chad and I were just reading an article about Burton's AiW treatment. Apparently his movie is supposed to take place after the events of the book. Alice is 19, and she returns to Wonderland. I can't remember the details of the white queen from the original book, but the article (which of course I can't find at the moment...) said that the white queen supposedly ages backwards, (ala Benjamin Button, I guess?). Therefore, when Alice returns in this new movie, the queen looks younger than she did before.

I'm intrigued, but the only character design I'm lukewarm on is Depp's Hatter. He'll do a good job I'm sure, but the neony look doesn't seem as cohesive as the others.

[the-mouthpiece.livejournal.com]

From what I'm told. The Project started out as an adaption of American McGee's Alice but has since turned into Tim Burton's brainchild. I have no idea whether or not it's going to be based on AM's version of Alice, so I'm trying my best to unlearn that story so I'm not spending the entire film comparing the two.

[misa1.livejournal.com]

That's interesting to know. I was thinking of MC's Alice when I read about this.

As much as I love Nightmare Before Christmas, and a lot of Burton's other movies, I'm sometimes lukewarm when he adapts other works. He does very well when the material lends itself naturally to his style (Batman, Charlie and Chocolate Factory). But when he gets a hold of something that that isn't already "Burton-esque", he has a tendency to make it unrecognizable (like his Superman ideas). Risky with beloved titles. AiW could go either way. It's funny, because he is apparently very picky with what's done with his own original characters.

[bluemoonsaga.livejournal.com]

old people aren't allowed in hollywood anymore.

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

I thought you might be. A revisit, years later, to the people and characters might be the only way one could make a reasonable plot....but it's soo risky.

And the idea that the white queen ages backwards bothers me

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

And whenever I have qualms about a movie adaptation I can always say "Well, at least nothign can ever be worse than The Wiz"