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Caterpillar Sans Aliceby ~RevolverWinds

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I equipped him with a mushroom umbrella in lieu of a hookah, because smoking's not cool. Even for caterpillars, mmm'kay.

!FelixKlee Mar 22, 2010

I watched Disney's Alice in Wonderland today, after Tim Burton's really disappointing adaption. However your version of the caterpillar tops both. It looks like I had hoped the Burton one would be. A fascinating piece.

~RevolverWinds Mar 22, 2010

Lewis Carrol's characters were lyrically mad, never raving lunatics as in Burton's portrayal. Victorian social interactions were presided over by strict etiquette, for which there is no rational basis. And, this is what Carrol riffs in 'Alice in Wonderland'. That silverware must be arrayed in a certain order aside a dish is nonsensical. His book plays on the governing manners of the era, inventing a 'Wonderland' of manners foreign to our world but equally absurd. The seemingly innocent act of eating tarts is infact a grievous crime in Wonderland, just as showing your soles in the Middle East is offensive only in the context of that area. The breaking of Wonderland's exotic customs ultimately lands Alice on trial before the royal court. "Why did you eat these here tarts" roared the Queen. "Off with her head!"

Burton's Alice interpretation is oddly most loyal to Carrol's spirit in its segments occurring in Britain. The remainder of the film is little more than a cash-in on the book's reputation with none of its charm. Being that Carrol is the second most quoted author in the English Language after Shakespeare you would hope an adaptation of his work would hold dialogue to a standard. Not so with Burton, whose script is so rancid that it'd give even a goat diarrhea. Without the saving distraction of Johnny Depp's cheekbones I wonder how many others would realize the hackeynedness of this film.

For an Alice film actually worthy of its source material see Jan Svankmajer's Alice.