I was really worried about my interpretation, and thought about deleting my post.
I'm SO glad you didn't! Because I hadn't thought of it myself, and it enriches the movie for me.
a fierce and pretty and strong and imaginative warrior [...] a coming-of-age story for a young male warrior
Alice is so *beautiful* in armor, with that golden hair rippling freely over the silver metal - it's a gorgeous, liminal image, and you've helped me find a meaning there that works.
I've been collecting odd editions of Alice in Wonderland since junior high school. At first I picked up anything unusual, including non-Tenniel illustrations, then, as I began to run out of room/money, I decided to focus on unusual texts: adaptations, abridgements, parodies, pastiches, etc. I love to see how people play with and reinvent the story; so often, they'll reinvent Wonderland, but it's not that often they do something radical and exciting with Alice. I enjoyed this movie, but I enjoy it even more now by looking at it through your lens.
Re: part 1/2
I'm SO glad you didn't! Because I hadn't thought of it myself, and it enriches the movie for me.
a fierce and pretty and strong and imaginative warrior [...] a coming-of-age story for a young male warrior
Alice is so *beautiful* in armor, with that golden hair rippling freely over the silver metal - it's a gorgeous, liminal image, and you've helped me find a meaning there that works.
I've been collecting odd editions of Alice in Wonderland since junior high school. At first I picked up anything unusual, including non-Tenniel illustrations, then, as I began to run out of room/money, I decided to focus on unusual texts: adaptations, abridgements, parodies, pastiches, etc. I love to see how people play with and reinvent the story; so often, they'll reinvent Wonderland, but it's not that often they do something radical and exciting with Alice. I enjoyed this movie, but I enjoy it even more now by looking at it through your lens.