Compare And Contrast Alice In Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is a well known book throughout the world. It was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. This book was the first book in his series Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, the sequel is Through the Looking Glass which is also being made into a movie this year. Alice in Wonderland reached out to people of all ages but was mainly aimed at the children's audience. This book supplies an abundance of amazing imagery for the kids to go into her world as they read through her adventures. Since this was such a well known novel, Disney took his story and turned it into an animated film. This film brought everything to life, to vividly see the imagery Carroll used throughout the novel. This became the first film adaptation of this book as Disney
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The plot starts with a 19 year old Alice about to get married to some wealthy man. She then follows the white rabbit once again as she didn't let up on her dreams. When she goes down the rabbit hole it adapts from the book very well, this relates back to her original adventure but now things have changed. The plotline is all altered after this, as she is there the characters tell her that the red queen has taken over the land. This film is more action/adventure than anything else. It doesn’t compare to the first film as Tim Burton directed it and he made the world more dark, instead of how it was in the story. It was a whole mix up between Carroll's book, Disney’s commercial aesthetics, and Burton’s dark sensibilities. Basically it's just Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland and what he thought should happen, even though it was entertaining to watch, it did not follow the plot line at all. The setting was the same but more vamped by the new technology, which was very pleasing to the eye. Though the 1951 film version stood more true to the plot line of the book, this movie was just entertaining to the viewers, to see something different than the old
The plot starts with a 19 year old Alice about to get married to some wealthy man. She then follows the white rabbit once again as she didn't let up on her dreams. When she goes down the rabbit hole it adapts from the book very well, this relates back to her original adventure but now things have changed. The plotline is all altered after this, as she is there the characters tell her that the red queen has taken over the land. This film is more action/adventure than anything else. It doesn’t compare to the first film as Tim Burton directed it and he made the world more dark, instead of how it was in the story. It was a whole mix up between Carroll's book, Disney’s commercial aesthetics, and Burton’s dark sensibilities. Basically it's just Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland and what he thought should happen, even though it was entertaining to watch, it did not follow the plot line at all. The setting was the same but more vamped by the new technology, which was very pleasing to the eye. Though the 1951 film version stood more true to the plot line of the book, this movie was just entertaining to the viewers, to see something different than the old