Alice in Wonderland

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Child Of Midian" <md at ...> wrote:
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> md:
> > The title of the original book is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the looking glass."
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> Geoff:
> You're splitting hairs. In the UK, the book is almost universally known as "Alice in  Wonderland".

md again:
> Actually I thought from a marketing standpoint it was REALLY DUMB to use that title. Further, I wasn't splitting anything, simply pointing out that "Alice in Wonderland" was not what the book was originally published as.

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Carol:

The movie versions, however, have always been called "Alice in Wonderland." And we're talking about a movie version here, or rather, about a sequel that fails to identify itself as a sequel.

If you mean that it's really dumb of Tim Burton to use that title, then we agree. If you mean the producers of earlier versions that follow the book more closely (or turn it into a musical like the Disney version), I disagree. As you probably know, the book is commonly referred to as "Alice in Wonderland" in the U.S. as well as the U.K. Most people expect a film called "Alice in Wonderland" to be about a little girl, just as they expect a film called "Moby Dick" (generally spelled without Melville's hyphen) to be about a mad captain and a white whale).

By the way, there's no need to get upset when someone disagrees with you. This is a discussion group, after all, and if we all agreed, there'd be no point in discussing anything.

Carol, who agrees with Geoff that the title is misleading