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Now on to the feature:
In this feature, we will examine the evolution of Alice's plotline, as well as her development as a protagonist.
1865- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. Alice is a young child of about seven. Intrigued by her cat Dinah, Alice is the quintessential mischievous young girl, utterly bored by her sister's history books, preferring to make daisy chains and petting Dinah. Lewis Carroll uses satire (sometimes the whole book is considered allegorical irony) to portray the useless memorization endured by British schoolchildren-Alice repeats ridiculous poems and fails at simple addition.
1951- Alice is first portrayed wearing her classic blue dress and Alice band, which has had a huge influence on fashion today. Disney adopted the character of Alice as a Disney Princess of sorts, infusing her character with Disney values. Alice dreams big- she wants to find a wonderful world for herself. She is portrayed as a lonely girl with a dream- much like Disney's princesses Cinderella, Aurora, Jasmine, and others. She is polite and has excellent manners, but, like other princesses before her, has a streak of rebelliousness and independence that emerges as she wanders around in Wonderland.
2010-In Tim Burton's stylized "Alice" movie, Alice is a strong, adolescent female lead, with a distinct voice, character, and strength.
She makes decisions by herself (leaving her fiance, etc etc). She slays the Jabberwocky in heavy armour. In this movie, the most recent of Alice's appearances, she has the most independence and strength than she ever did before, portraying her not anymore as a young, muddled child, but rather as a distinctly real adolescent of this day and age, with decisions and opinions of her own and the will to carry them out.
Wow...... I never looked at them all like this. Although, personally, I didn't like the movie........
ReplyDeletereally?
ReplyDeleteit was not pure alice at all. he twisted and bent the story to his own will. However, the goal was not for this movie to be pure, and i think it was rather good.
Awesome analysis!
ReplyDeleteI actually really liked Alice in the movie.. by the end she was the old Alice, but older and more mature. I really liked her character development, and the actress was very good.
The story wasn't Alice in Wonderland, but it was still good, and the acting was great.