If a real-life girl suddenly descends into a world where dapper rabbits run about and cookies make her grow larger and smaller with each bite, could it be anything but terrifying? Švankmajer explores this concept with a morbid curiosity, delightfully showing the horrific aspects of Alice’s adventures without ever resorting to forced, heavy-handed horror tropes. Instead of leaning into the delightful absurdity of Alice's journey, the film indulges in the logical terror of the story. If the main plot of Carroll’s original Alice remains generally intact, though, his charm and wit is stripped away, leaving behind the weird surrealist core underneath.Īlice basks in these strange, twisted occurrences. Most of the same beats are still there: the White Rabbit, neurotic, rushes about in fear of being late the Mad Hatter and the March Hare speak nonsense at a tea party the Queen of Hearts goes on a decapitating rampage. Fields as an unintentionally demented Humpty Dumpty in the 1933 film is impossible to forget), 1988’s Alice takes the prize for the most unsettling adaptation to date.Ĭrafted like a living nightmare, Alice takes the bones of the original stories without altering them significantly. Though the earliest adaptations of Carroll’s stories are cursed with an eeriness that stems mostly from archaic sets, costume designs, and filmic technology ( W.C. Because of its inherent silliness, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is well-fitted for the kind of playful nature found in the 1951 animated version, Tim Burton’s adaptation, and most of the other interpretations. In his stories, Carroll plays with absurdity and nonsense which exist in intentional contrast to the meticulous logic that pervades much of his work. They’re whimsical, timeless, and rich with imagination. That Carroll’s Alice books have been so frequently adapted to the screen is unsurprising. Fox directed by David Lynch- Alice is a film so unapologetically faithful to its unique vision that few studios would dare to make it today. Compared to the dreamlike wonder of Disney’s 1951 animated Alice in Wonderland, the Johnny Depp-starring, Tim Burton-helmed spectacle from 2010, and most other adaptations of Carroll’s timeless tale, Alice is a terrifying fever dream that’ll leave viewers with an unshakable chill. Out of household objects, taxidermy animals, a live-action actress, and a whole attic’s worth of morose props, Jan Švankmajer’s surrealist film takes the viewer into a disturbing wonderland that’s sure to be both familiar and uncomfortably bizarre. That " perhaps," so casually spoken by Alice, is not to be ignored: the following 80-or-so minutes are as odd and unsettling as one could possibly expect from such a movie. perhaps.” So mutters Alice ( Kristýna Kohoutová) during the opening credits of the 1988 Czech stop-motion film Alice, a film that makes a living nightmare out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The most appeared flowers there are the roses:A pink one, a yellow one, a green one, a red one and a blue one.“Now you will see a film made for children. There are many flowers with faces but only a rose talk. There are a rose, an iris, a daisy, pansies, tulips, sweetpeas, blue bonnets, violets, a calla lily, a lily of the valley, a lilac, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, morning glories, daffodils, a tiger lily, a dandy lion, a white rose, a thistle, a yellow daisies, a rosebud and a dandy pup and sing the song The Golden Afternoon. Alice goes to meet her and leaves the flowers. Alice finds out that the red flower is The Red Queen, which her hair are her petals and the thorn is the points of her crown. The larkspur hers her on the gravel-walk. The rose tells her there is another flower that can move like her and looks like her, but she is redder, her 'petals are shorter', and wears her thorns on her head. The violet is rude when she tells her that she had never seen anyone looked stupider, of course, she never saw anybody herself as explained by the tiger-lily. Then all of them make shrill voices and don't stop until Alice whispers them that she will pick them if they don't hold their tongues. The daisies tell her that it says "Bough-wough," which is why branches are called boughs. When Alice asks them if they are frightened when no one takes cares of them, the rose tells her that the tree in the middle is ther. The one Alice first makes contact with is a Tiger-lily, who gets the other flowers straight. 1.1 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found Thereĭescription Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Īlice first meets them in the garden, where they mistaken her for a type of flower that can move.
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