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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Dir: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1951).
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Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has inspired countless movie adaptations. Arguably the most successful screen version is Walt Disney’s feature length animation.
The well known story of Alice... concerns a curious young girl who chases a waistcoat wearing rabbit down a rabbithole into the weird and wonderful Wonderland. Many encounters with assorted freaks later, her adventure concludes with an unusual game of croquet in the court of the Queen of Hearts.
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Can relate
“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Why, sometimes I'd believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"I can think of Six Impossible Things before breakfast." - Alice
First edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Fun Fact:
The Cheshire Cat was first introduced in Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The character was inspired by an old phrase "Smiling like a Cheshire cat". The origins of that phrase are still debated to this day, but the most widely accepted theory is that it refers to a cat living in the English county of Cheshire, which is known for producing a lot of milk and dairy, which cats love, hence the smiling. Carroll decided to personify the cat from that phrase, he gave it a physical form, a personality and magic powers. In the book, the cat doesn't play quite as large a role as he does in the Disney movie, but the two have very similar characteristics. They talk in really confusing ways that are sometimes funny but also kind of annoying, they raise philosophical questions to Alice even though she clearly doesn't understand them and while they sometimes appear to be making a situation worse for her, they're actually rooting for Alice to succeed and even are helping her indirectly.
Dreamchild by Gavin Millar.
Ian Holm is amazing as Lewis Carroll. But like Return to Oz, so are the Lyle Conway/Jim Henson Creature Shop characters.
Check it out, you won't be disappointed.
RAMBLE ALERT
I love ballets but it’s a shame no one posts about them in a fandom context.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is such a silly show. Two teenagers being all lovey dovey idiots and the White Rabbit is just struggling to keep them alive the whole time.
The Pig & Pepper scene is my favorite, I really like the butcher. If I knew how to edit, I would edit her to Piggy Pie by Insane Clown Posse.
I really don’t like the ending though. If the ballet ended with Alice waking up in the real world it would be fine, that’s the usual ending, but they end it with “The whole show was a dream by a real person reading the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” I think that’s stupid.
Everything else in the ballet was perfect in every way though. Just cut it at the ending and pretend it ended nicely.
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