Disney movies are always a popular hit. Whether it be the classics such as the princess movies or the newer reality and animated films. One of the overall best of them is one that combines most of the popular traits into one movie. This movie is Alice in Wonderland. Alice, the main character, first tells of a magical world where "[n]othing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would". Alice goes on an unforgettable journey when she follows a white rabbit into a rabbit hole. Where her journey is precisely the magical world she talks about, There are talking animals, creatures with strange powers, and even a disappearing cat. All of these creatures …show more content…
in wonderland contribute to the wonderland's uniqueness. Alice in Wonderland is a groundbreaking and intriguing film because of its originality, unique characters, impressive cinematography, and memorable soundtrack. For its time period this movie is incredibly unique, no one has made anything quite this mad before.
Sure Disney has brought inanimate objects to life but never in this way and to such extent. Other early Disney movies such as Cinderella have brought some small aspects of personification before, but Wonderland is an entirely different idea. "If he had his way, "Alice in Wonderland" would have been even wackier - and likely better" (Bjorkman). This movie was the product of Walt Disney's very first idea and how he got his start, in a sense Alice in wonderland was the original Disney movie. Alice in wonderland also uses all of its individual stories to create one story in the movie. This has never been done before in that time which is incredible considering that many movies now have side stories that all tie back into the main plot. Alice in wonderland takes a new perspective on the way animated films were previously thought to …show more content…
be. Every movie needs its own unique set of interesting characters. The list of characters goes on forever, Alice, the mad hatter, the march hare, the dormouse, the flowers, the dodo, the caterpillar, the cheshire cat, the queen, the king, tweedledee and tweedledum, and white rabbit. See fig. 1. Fig. 2. From left to right. Walrus and the Carpenter, Caterpillar, The White Rabbit, Playing Cards, Alice, The King, The Queen, The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Dormouse, and up The Cheshire Cat Every one is completely different from the next, each character has its own story to tell. Take the mad hatter, March hare and the dormouse, they are all having tea and sing songs. When Alice asks what they are doing, a whole musical comes out about her 'very, very, unbirthday'. See fig. 2. Other characters such as the white rabbit and the chester cat, help alice with her own story they give her a sense of direction through wonderland, on an adventure she does not have the slightest clue about. In the new Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton, the characters look much more real, but they do not feel as real. This version of Wonderland is dramatically different than the previous one. The matter hatter is not nearly as mad, the playing cards look more like soldiers, the dormouse is now a mean fighting mouse, and the storyline is much too simple. The new Alice in Wonderland makes a mockery of the the original exciting characters. Fig. 2. Alice at the tea party with the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, and the March Hare. Since this is a cartoon there are no cameras and actors, only drawings and voices. The voices in any animation make or break the movie. The voices in Alice in Wonderland make the movie. The animators even made the mad hatter look like Ed Wynn, the person who voices him. Each one of the voices are unique to the character in their own individual way. Alice sounds innocent, the white rabbit seems nervous, and the queen always seems to angry. This is all thanks to the voices they were able to correctly display each of the characters with amazing accuracy. The way Alice in wonderland is drawn it seems to start out like most other disney movies however, when alice goes into wonderland the whole cartoon changes. Plants begin to talk and have personas, animals have inanimate objects incorporated into their design, and other animals walk on two feet and talk like humans. All of these slight touch-ups make the watcher feel like he or she is sitting in wonderland. See fig 3. The color scheme Disney uses looks slightly different than previous movies such as cinderella. Alice in Wonderland seems more vivid, while cinderella has more of a softer hue. The color scheme can drastically changes the way the movie as a whole is perceived. Fig. 3. Alice with many strange creatures in wonderland. Alice in wonderland has always been a favorite movie for centuries, partly because of the music that gets stuck in your head.
The most memorable part of any movie is the music. I know that I will never forget the "unbirthday song" and "painting the roses red". Disney chose these songs because they were very catchy, very short, and very random. each one of these songs will invoke some emotion. Whether that be happy for the unbirthday song, sad for alice's very good advice, or compassion for the walrus and the carpenter. These songs were instant classics, they were unforgettable when the came out and they will be for many more years to come. They will forever remain in the people who watched it as a child and who watches it
now. Alice in wonderland's trailblazing approach to all animated films by using original ideas, interesting characters, advanced cinematography, and memorable soundtrack is the reason for its previous enjoyment and future enjoyment. "But if you are not too particular about the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if you are high on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat slow, uneven pace, you should find this picture entertaining" (Crowther). This movie just does not have to be for kids, anyone who enjoys anything along these lines will surely be enchanted by it. It is truly amazing what happens to a movie when one creates something so new to the film industry. This movie has inspired other movies to do the same.
Alice in Wonderland starts when Alice “sees” a rabbit exclaiming it was going to be late. When Alice starts dreaming about the Wonderland it may have been a little strange, but she ends up realizing that it helps with her problems in the real world.
...ce films, the latest released in 2010, directed by Tim Burton. There were also two more sequels written by Dodgson and multiple comic books. There is even a statue in New York’s Central Park featuring Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Mad March Hare. Alice continues to be a modern symbol of the bewildering and twisted side of today’s visual arts, literature, and entertainment.
National Catholic Register. Reprinted at Decent Films. “Alice in Wonderland (2010)”. Steven D. Greydanus. http://www.decentfilms.com/reviews/aliceinwonderland2010
Alice in Wonderland is a Disney film that is different from all the others. It was released in 1951, similar to Cinderella, and helped the world get over the war. It is the 13th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and is one of Mr. Disney’s favorites. Alice is a bit younger than most female Disney characters, about seven or eight. Most of the other Disney movie’s offer a world where the character had no control on what was in it, however Alice gets to live in her own Wonderland. She is a very adventurous child and wants to discover what is around her, testing her imagination. Alice learns many lessons and values that most young children should learn and use in their own lives. Most of the Disney movies have many valuable lessons that can be related to everyday life.
The CD hit number one on Billboard charts almost immediately. This album reminds me of my childhood because I watched the movie over and over. All of the songs have a magical feeling to them. The orchestra in the background of the songs is absolutely beautiful. Some of the songs are just the orchestra and it's amazing that you can tell exactly what emotion is happening in the movie without seeing it. I love every track but my favorites are “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” by Walt Disney Records and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” by Walt Disney Records which are both Disney
Thus, Alice in Wonderland is a good illustration of a Hero’s Journey. This story allows us to see how Alice overcomes the three main phases, and most of the stages identified by Campbell in her journey-transformation from an undisciplined child to a wise young adult. Throughout the story, Alice overcomes the nonsense of the young and the old before she truly understands what adulthood is all about. All through her adventures in Wonderland, she encounters numerous new situations and meets different archetypes that are necessary for her to be considered a Hero.
The Wizard of Oz is a classic a universally loved film. It’s full of adventure, symbolism, and has a feel good story. It’s interesting though to see some parallels the Wizard of Oz had with other well-known classic fairytales. One example, is the famous story of Alice in Wonderland. A classic in its own right, and a staple in nearly everyone’s film repertoire. The similarities between these two stories are numerous. Starting with the main heroines themselves. Both Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have a young girl as their main character. Even the character’s appearances and lines are similar. Both sporting a blue dress, and describing their fantasies as curious. When Dorothy arrives in Oz she says, “What a curious place”.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story that has been loved and read by different age groups. Lewis Carroll wrote the book in such a way that the reader, young or old, could be trapped into Alice’s world of adventure. The illustrations by John Tenniel help portray the story beautifully. Tenniel put pictures to Carroll’s thoughts exactly. When a student reads Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the first time, it is always great if he or she could be introduced to his illustrations. However, it is a good idea for teachers to bring in different portals of Alice to help show how other people may view this little girl’s world. In addition, it will show that even though Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been written many years ago, people are still relating to Alice’s character. Overall, it is amazing to see how many different illustrators have portrayed Alice in a totally new and modern way, such Greg Hildebrandt. I decided to use Greg Hildebrandt’s illustrations to assist me in teaching about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland because he portrays Alice as a much older looking girl. I believe this will help students understand how Alice’s character seemed older than seven years of age. He also depicts some of the characters as more humanlike than cartoon. I believe this will help students picture themselves into Alice’s world. In addition, Hildebrandt helps portray the bizarre story line that many people have come to love.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story about a little girl who comes into contact with unpredictable, illogical, basically mad world of Wonderland by following the White Rabbit into a huge rabbit – hole. Everything she experiences there challenges her perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited with peculiar, mystical and anthropomorphic creatures that constantly assault Alice which makes her to question her fundamental beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. Nevertheless, as she woke up from “such a curious dream” she could not help but think “as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been ”.
The title character, Alice, is a young girl around pre-teen age. In the real world, the adult characters always look down on her because of her complete nonsense. She is considered the average everyday immature child, but when she is placed in the world of "Wonderland," the roles seem to switch. The adult characters within Wonderland are full of the nonsense and Alice is now the mature person. Thus creating the theme of growing up'. "...Alice, along with every other little girl is on an inevitable progress toward adulthood herself"(Heydt 62).
Along with his love for playing-on-words in the story, Carroll also provided an original poem that he wrote at the beginning of the novel before the first chapter that serves as an epigraph for the book, suggesting the story’s theme and origin. The poem opens with a description of the sunny, summer day in 1862 when Carroll and his Oxford friend Liddell’s three daughters went out on a boat trip on the river together, where the story of Alice all started. During the outing, the girls—addressed in the epigraph as Prima, Secunda, and Tertia—beg Carroll to tell them a story, as he often did when he was with them. He claims that he is too tired on account of the rowing and the “dreamy weather,” (stanza 2, line 2), but he gives in as he finds himself
Although the novel is notorious for its satire and parodies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland main theme is the transition between childhood and adulthood. Moreover, Alice’s adventures illustrate the perplexing struggle between child and adult mentalities as she explores the curious world of development know as Wonderland. From the beginning in the hallway of doors, Alice stands at an awkward disposition. The hallway contains dozens of doors that are all locked. Alice’s pre-adolescent stage parallels with her position in the hallway. Alice’s position in the hallway represents that she is at a stage stuck between being a child and a young woman. She posses a small golden key to ...
The lion king I believed can be forever remembered for the impact it had on the world and they way it took the world by storm. It was an epic and memorable movie that took my imagination by storm. Talking lions and singing blew my mind away. As I got older I could appreciate the amazing story telling and impact this movie had on my life and the way it made me look at the world. Watching the movie sometimes I forget that its an animated movie because the voice actors and the storytelling is so convincing that it could be a live movie. This movie grabbed my imagination as a child and still holds my attention to this day when I watch it.
The Role of Rational Thinking in Alice’s Identity Crisis. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland follows the story of a young Alice trapped in the world of Wonderland after falling down through a rabbit hole. The rabbit-hole, which is filled with bookshelves, maps, and other objects, foreshadows the set of rules, the ones Alice is normally accustomed to, that will be defied in Wonderland. This conflict between her world and Wonderland becomes evident shortly after her arrival as evinced by chaos in “Pool of Tears” and Alice brings up the main theme of the book “was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
Alice in Wonderland belongs to the nonsense genre, and even if most of what happens to Alice is quite illogical, the main character is not. “The Alice books are, above all, about growing up” (Kincaid, page 93); indeed, Alice starts her journey as a scared little girl, however, at the end of what we discover to be just a dream, she has entered the adolescence phase with a new way to approach the mentally exhausting and queer Wonderland. It is important to consider the whole story when analyzing the growth of the character, because the meaning of an event or a sentence is more likely to mean what it truly looks like rather than an explanation regarding subconscious and Freudian interpretations. Morton states “that the books should possess any unity of purpose seems on the surface unlikely” (Morton, page 509), but it’s better to consider the disconnected narrative and the main character separately, since the girl doesn’t belong to Wonderland, which is, as Morton says, with no intrinsic unity. Whereas, there are a few key turning points where it is possible to see how Alice is changing, something that is visible throughout her journey. Carroll wants to tell the story of a girl who has to become braver in order to contend with challenges like the pool made by her own tears, or assertive characters, like the Queen.