Just saw Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland...

Jun 02, 2010 18:54

Yeah, so everyone else saw it in the theatres...but I never seemed to get it together to do so. Loved Johnny Depp of course and loved the fact that it was an "older" Alice who made it to "underworld." That made it more interesting in my eyes than some young girl being yanked around. Nice take on Alice's quandry about whether to marry the irksome, ( Read more... )

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anneelise June 3 2010, 01:27:49 UTC
"That made it more interesting in my eyes than some young girl being yanked around."

What exactly are you referring to? In the books, Alice is not yanked around; she chases after her curiosity. Yes, there is a scene in Through the Looking Glass where the Red Queen takes her hand and runs really fast, but yanked around? No. Alice follows her curiosity and when other characters attempt to "yank her" she doesn't take it (see the courtroom scene in "Alice's Evidence" and the coronation in in "Queen Alice"). If anyone in the books is yanking people around, it's Alice. She pretty much does as she pleases throughout both books exploring both worlds. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have been, for the last 150 years, "rah-rah girl power" books, long before that phase was coined ( ... )

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Actually, in the time you describe.. lillian78 June 5 2010, 20:36:38 UTC
you may have confused a few literary moments with the true women of that age, women who didn't marry (successful authors or not who by the way couldn't go by a woman's name but had to hide their glory under a male name) were considered "spinsters' and therefore failures in societie's eyss. Jane Austin primarily wrote about societies mores and hypocrisy but while she poked fun at them to their great expense she never stepped beyond their "polite" boundaries. The Bronte sisters were much more in the way of rebels but then, by their societies standards, they came from a very odd family indeed for that time. There were, of course, always a few standard bearers that marked the time for women but by and large it was not an age where women held much, if any, power unless they were on a throne and even then the only option was to marry them off quickly and produce as many viable heirs as possible. And I believe Alice in the original incarnations of the books was never about "girl power" but about the power dreams have over our lives. She is ( ... )

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