Film Analysis Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

In addition to the Tweedles, the actions of the Cheshire Cat also misrepresented in the animated film. Alice first encounters the Cheshire Cat in the house of the Duchess, and later has a pleasant conversation with the cat in the forest as he directs her to the Mad Hatter’s tea party and says he will see her later if she attends the Queen’s Croquet Match (Carroll, 68, 72-74). The animated version of the Cheshire Cat is an extremely confusing and frustrating character to Alice, and later manipulates the Queen’s croquet match that gets Alice into a great deal of trouble. His actions and side are unpredictable, he gives no warning about his future decisions and gives misleading advice, whereas the few times after that Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat in the novel she greets him like an old friend (Disney; Carroll, 93).

While misrepresenting characters in its adaptation, Disney also contradicts several of Carroll’s messages and themes in the original text. The added scene of Alice lost in Tugly wood, a mysterious and dark forest with odd creatures, may intensify the unforgiving nature of Wonderland and all its inhabitants, however, it is also detrimental to all of Alice’s

In the sacrifice of a unique artistic depiction of the world heavily reflective of Disney’s style, the film’s story becomes a weaker version of Carroll’s original text with several plot changes and characters misrepresented, showing Alice as a hollow and version of her Victorian counterpart and the themes of the novel completely contradicted. Though there is debate whether any film adaptation could compare to Carroll and Tenniel’s Wonderland , had Disney not made these mistakes and instead evolved Alice to a character audiences could relate more too, perhaps these errors could have been fixed and the film could remain as timeless as the classic