Product Description
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Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical
adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and
magical, ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an imaginative new twist on one
of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska),
now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first
entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true
destiny. This Wonderland is a world beyond your imagination and
unlike anything you've seen before. The extraordinary characters
you've loved come to life richer and more colorful than ever.
There's the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Queen (Anne
Hathaway), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the White Rabbit
(Michael Sheen) and more. A triumphant cinematic experience --
ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an incredible feast for your eyes, ears
and heart that will captivate audiences of all sizes.
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Tim Burton was born to bring Alice in Wonderland to the big
screen. Ironically, his version of the Victorian text plays more
like The Wizard of Oz than a Lewis Carroll adaptation. On the day
of her engagement party, the 19-year-old Alice (a nicely
understated Mia Wasikowska) is lead by a white-gloved rabbit to
an alternate reality that looks strangely familiar--she's been
dreaming about it since she was 6 years old. Stranded in a hall
of doors, she sips from a potion that makes her shrink and
nibbles on a cake that makes her grow. Once she gets the balance
right, she walks through the door that leads her to Tweedledum
and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the
Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), and the Cheshire Cat (a
delightful Stephen Fry), who inform her that only she can free
them from the wrath of the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter
channeling Bette Davis) by slaying the Jabberwocky. To pull off
the feat, she teams up with the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp in
glam-rock garb), rebel bloodhound Bayard (Timothy Spall), and
Red's sweet sister, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway in goth-rock
makeup). While Red welcomes Alice with open arms, she plans an
execution for the hat-maker when he displeases her ("Off with his
head!"). Drawing from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass, Burton creates a candy-colored
action-adventure tale with a feminist twist. If it drags towards
the end, his 3-D extravaganza still offers a trippy good time
with a poignant aftertaste. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Stills from Alice in Wonderland
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Alice in Wonderland Trivia
Depp s Designs:Actor Johnny Depp goes through ample preparation
for each of his roles and preparing to play the Mad Hatter was no
different. Long before production began, the actor began doing
watercolor paintings of what the Mad Hatter might look like,
discovering later that his vision was quite similar to direct Tim
Burton s.
Mad Hatter Mood Ring:The Mad Hatter suffers from mercury
poisoning, a common and unfortunate condition of many hatters of
the time who use the regularly for their craft. Depp and
Burton elevated this Hatter s madness by literally showcasing the
character s man mad mood swings in his makeup and wardrobe,
creating a virtual human mood ring.
Changes: Mia Wasikowska who plays Alice is five feet four inches
in real life but Alice changes size throughout the course of her
adventures in Wonderland, ranging from six inches to two feet to
eight-and-a-half feet, to a maximum of 20 feet tall. The
production worked hard to use practical methods rather than
special effects and often it was a case of putting Alice on an
apple box to make her taller than everyone else.
Drink Me:The potion Alice drinks to shrink is called Pishsolver.
The cake she eats to grow is called Upelkuchen.
Sweet and Sour:Actress Anne Hathaway, who portrays the White
Queen in Alice in Wonderland, decided that her representation of
the character wouldn t be completely vanilla. The White Queen
comes from the same gene pool as the evil Red Queen, after all,
so Hathaway envisioned a punk rock vegan pacifist and was
inspired by Blondie, Greta Garbo, Dan Flavin and Norma Desmond.
Futter What?Futterwacken is the term used to describe the
Underlanders dance of unbridled joy. Composer Danny Elfman was
stumped when it came to creating the music for the dance. He
wrote four different pieces for the director, each fun, unique
and, as Elfman says, pushing the bounds of what could be
acceptable.
Two Tweedles:Actor Matt Lucas was tapped to play both Tweedles,
rotund twin brothers who constantly disagree with each other and
whose confusing chatter makes little sense to anyone but
themselves. Lucas, however, was unable to play Tweedledee and
Tweedledum at the same time (for some reason). Actor Ethan Cohen
was called on to portray Dum to Lucas Dee (or vice versa) during
filming, but will never actually appear on screen.
Bandersnatch?This disgusting, drooling, foul-smelling creature
has a big filthy body and the squashed, teeth-baring face of a
rabid bulldog. The creature leaves Alice with a rather painful
reminder of the Red Queen s horrible reign. --Walt Disney Studios
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