Movie: Alice in Wonderland (1999)
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This was another movie we got with a free certificate from Amazon Video on Demand. I had videotaped this when it was originally on and never got around to watching it, so I thought it would be nice to see a clean digital copy without commercials.
I was flat out astonished when the opening credits came up and there was the name of the director: NICK WILLING! (Also known for directing Tin Man and Alice.)
It was a fun adaptation and the story wasn't hugely altered; it felt a little bit long, especially since it worked in large portions of both books. Of the many star turns, I think my favorite was Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle. Robbie Coltrane and George Wendt were a lot of fun as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, once I stopped thinking of them as Hagrid and Norm. Whoopi Goldberg made for a great Cheshire Cat. My favorite set was one made up entirely of giant books that was used for the Caucus Race.
When I first saw Matt Frewer as the Charlie, the White Knight character in Alice, I remember thinking that he seemed to be channeling Christopher Lloyd. Well, in this adaptation, the White Knight is played by ... drumroll please ... Christopher Lloyd!
This was another movie we got with a free certificate from Amazon Video on Demand. I had videotaped this when it was originally on and never got around to watching it, so I thought it would be nice to see a clean digital copy without commercials.
I was flat out astonished when the opening credits came up and there was the name of the director: NICK WILLING! (Also known for directing Tin Man and Alice.)
It was a fun adaptation and the story wasn't hugely altered; it felt a little bit long, especially since it worked in large portions of both books. Of the many star turns, I think my favorite was Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle. Robbie Coltrane and George Wendt were a lot of fun as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, once I stopped thinking of them as Hagrid and Norm. Whoopi Goldberg made for a great Cheshire Cat. My favorite set was one made up entirely of giant books that was used for the Caucus Race.
When I first saw Matt Frewer as the Charlie, the White Knight character in Alice, I remember thinking that he seemed to be channeling Christopher Lloyd. Well, in this adaptation, the White Knight is played by ... drumroll please ... Christopher Lloyd!
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Date: 2011-04-24 03:46 am (UTC)I suppose it was a way to work in the other little recitations such that a modern audience would understand - maybe he thought we wouldn't "get" the idea that Victorian adults could demand that children be able to recite their little poems at the drop of a hat? It always made perfect sense to me.
It also gave a sort of forced coherence to her experiences, since we could interpret them as her subconscious working through her stage fright - but Alice's adventures are not SUPPOSED to be coherent like that, so perhaps that was another bothersome aspect of the "have to sing" thing. (You have a knack for making me think about these things!)