Friday, March 5, 2010

Alice

I know there are mixed feelings about this weekend's opening of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

 

Personally, I'm looking forward to it. I've always been a big Alice fan - From Lewis Carrol's original with the Tenniel illustrations to the first movie I saw, Disney's first animated full length Alice. 

 

Becca and I plan to go to Mom's this weekend and see it on Sunday with Mom, Sister and Grandma (and maybe Cousin Suzy?) Plan to, but I've been sick for the past few days, so we're going to see how I feel tomorrow.
 
Anyway, back to Alice.  I think one of the things I like so much about it is that it's so versatile. It really is a story that allows for a lot of variation.
 
You can go sugary and sweet.
 
 



You can go gothic and angsty.
 
 


Or you can just do your own thing altogether.
 
 

Besides, what other children's story has such wonderful role models? Hooka-smoking, 'shroom ingesting Caterpillers?  A step up from the Brothers Grimm in my opinion.
 
 
 
And it has the added bonus of Johnny Depp, and directed by Tim Burton. Both of whom I love.  So it can't be that  bad, can it?
 
 
 
 
 

1 comment:

Jp said...

Good post, love the pics. Did you see it? How was it? How about a review?