Man, before Woolverton's Alice in Wonderland, this was my favourite adaptation--aside from the whole 'oooh I have to sing at the party' thing, which bothered me a bit.
aside from the whole 'oooh I have to sing at the party' thing
I suppose it was a way to work in the other little recitations such that a modern audience would understand - maybe he thought we wouldn't "get" the idea that Victorian adults could demand that children be able to recite their little poems at the drop of a hat? It always made perfect sense to me.
It also gave a sort of forced coherence to her experiences, since we could interpret them as her subconscious working through her stage fright - but Alice's adventures are not SUPPOSED to be coherent like that, so perhaps that was another bothersome aspect of the "have to sing" thing. (You have a knack for making me think about these things!)
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I suppose it was a way to work in the other little recitations such that a modern audience would understand - maybe he thought we wouldn't "get" the idea that Victorian adults could demand that children be able to recite their little poems at the drop of a hat? It always made perfect sense to me.
It also gave a sort of forced coherence to her experiences, since we could interpret them as her subconscious working through her stage fright - but Alice's adventures are not SUPPOSED to be coherent like that, so perhaps that was another bothersome aspect of the "have to sing" thing. (You have a knack for making me think about these things!)
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