[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Alice in Wonderland

[Child Of Midian]

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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 



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I have never been upset about anything, I was having a discussion, it seems
other people are getting upset for no reason I understand. 

Since "Alice in Wonderland" has been filmed, I don't know, 100+ times I
don't think referring to an film as anything other than a new and unique
interpretation would make any sense, this is not in any way, shape or form a
sequel to any of those 100 films, cartoons and tv movies. My understanding
is that re-prints of the original novel have only been called "Alice in
Wonderland" for two reasons, because films have made the title simple and
recognizable and because it's a blanket title for collections -- this is
simply my understanding. I've never actually read the book, nor have I cared
for any film version to date so I have no preconceived idea as to her age.

We all agree the title is a bad move, I was simply pointing out that it's
not actually the original title of the book, don't know why that's a
problem.

md