Alice in Wonderland
So, yesterday I went to the movies, and I watched Tim Burton´s Alice in Wonderland. I have heard many opinions good and bad on it, but I guess that´s something that´s due to happen with all big movies and I really wanted to watch it since I saw the first trailer.
In all honestly, I´m NOT disappointed.
Here´s the deal: There´s not much Lewis Carroll in the movie. His characters are there and his world is there, but there´s not really too much of the original in the movie, and I can see how that can upset some people. The thing is, it´s not supposed to be a cinematographical adaptation of the books. It´s a fresh story with a different purpose, that seeks to establish other kinds of conflicts taking advantage of the "everything can happen" inherently associated with the names "Alice" and "Wonderland".
I saw the visual richness and colorful scenography that was to bee expected, with a very creditable attention to details, but instead of a journey to a dream-like land, you get a torn underland, in wich the characters and their actions actually make sense. You can understand why the mad hatter choose craziness over reality, why the white queen tries so hard to be perfect, heck, you can ever feel sorry for the Red Queen (beautifully acted, btw) once you understand why she is her own brand of evilness.
Besides, there is an everpresent disdainful social criticism in the double-edged dialogues, and some crude scenes that I would advice to take with a bit of humor, or take the risk to end somehow grossed out. Danny Elfman makes an awesome job with the music, as usual, though I felt a Pirates-of-the-Caribbean deja-vú with the opening music. I loved the song played at the credits for Avril Lavigne, Alice (Underground). It will definitely find it´s way to my iPod for the bus trip tomorrow. All in all, it was a good weekend movie.
In all honestly, I´m NOT disappointed.
Here´s the deal: There´s not much Lewis Carroll in the movie. His characters are there and his world is there, but there´s not really too much of the original in the movie, and I can see how that can upset some people. The thing is, it´s not supposed to be a cinematographical adaptation of the books. It´s a fresh story with a different purpose, that seeks to establish other kinds of conflicts taking advantage of the "everything can happen" inherently associated with the names "Alice" and "Wonderland".
I saw the visual richness and colorful scenography that was to bee expected, with a very creditable attention to details, but instead of a journey to a dream-like land, you get a torn underland, in wich the characters and their actions actually make sense. You can understand why the mad hatter choose craziness over reality, why the white queen tries so hard to be perfect, heck, you can ever feel sorry for the Red Queen (beautifully acted, btw) once you understand why she is her own brand of evilness.
Besides, there is an everpresent disdainful social criticism in the double-edged dialogues, and some crude scenes that I would advice to take with a bit of humor, or take the risk to end somehow grossed out. Danny Elfman makes an awesome job with the music, as usual, though I felt a Pirates-of-the-Caribbean deja-vú with the opening music. I loved the song played at the credits for Avril Lavigne, Alice (Underground). It will definitely find it´s way to my iPod for the bus trip tomorrow. All in all, it was a good weekend movie.
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