Queen Heather

[king_duncan]

Clara asked me last night if one of the scenes in my play was based on the White Knight scene in Alice Through The Looking Glass. Not intentionally, no, but it doesn't surprise me that Carrollian themes pop up in my plays.

She also mentioned that there are several references to the Alice books in the movie Heathers, which I'd never noticed before

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[vergence]

Alice references in Heathers???

Like what? I'm intrigued now. I've seen that movie 50 times.

[king_duncan]

Other than the croquet, it's more of an "essence", from what I can see- none of the Heathers are presented in a sexual way- they're always dressed in very childlike ways, or they're frigid ice queens...

I've been reading the Screenplay today; there's not so much Alice references as there are references to all kinds of literature- Moby-Dick (Eskimo!), Catcher in the Rye (Heather Duke is reading it), Charles Ludlam novels (Veronica's Dad), Archie Comics & Mark Twain (Veronica Sawyer's abandoned best friend is Betty Finn)...

[king_duncan]

Actually, I see now in the screenplay Heather Duke (I get 'em confused)is reading Catcher in the Rye, and not Moby-Dick, as she does in the movie (which makes sense, since I only found the word "esqimau" in Moby-Dick).

[king_duncan]

Of course, now that I think of it, if we assume that Veronica is Alice, the 3 Heathers correspond to the three queens in the books- H. Chandler is the Queen of Hearts (The continual red rage), H. Duke as The Red Queen (cool know-it-all), and H. MacNamara as the White Queen (erratic and frazzled).