Alice in Wonderland

[justcarol67]

Carol earlier:
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> > Is anyone planning to see the new (and extremely weird) production of "Alice in Wonderland" with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? 
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> > It looks too strange and surreal for my taste, but maybe I'll watch the Alan Rickman part on You Tube eventually.
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Potioncat:
> Not me! In the first place, I can barely stand the old Disney animated movie. An older 30s version used to scared the daylights out of me and just the photo of Depp!Hatter gives me chills. He looks like an Inferius. (Ed Wynn's Hatter was one character I liked.)
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> Oddly enough we were having this very conversation this morning. My husband he and my son are going, and I'm not sure if he was serious or just teasing me.
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> MD asked if you had read the book. I haven't. But the whole story has always seemed like a fever dream to me. <snip>
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Carol responds:
Hi, Potioncat! The book isn't bad, really, if you don't mind a too-smart-for-her-own-good seven-year-old (she seems more like ten) and the rather ugly 19th-century line drawings. Some of it is funny, especially the parodies, which Lewis Carroll did more cleverly than JKR (IMO). But the Disney version, with its stupid songs, was a travesty (though the Alice character was considerably prettier than the original).

I love one of Alice's lines (to her older sister, who is reading one of the dullest books ever written): "And what is the use of a book without pictures and conversations?" The original Alice books have plenty of both. And BTW, in the original, she does wake up to find that it's all a dream and the characters are "nothing but a pack of cards." Apparently, that's not the case in the new one, which looks as if she's on drugs (anyone remember Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"?) or just plain insane.

Carol, glad that someone else is creeped out by this movie