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[magneticwave]

Just saw Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer.

ZOMG, so excited. Seriously, even though I'm confused about the timeline and I don't understand if Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen, the Queen of Hearts, or a random hybrid and why is Johnny Depp like twenty feet tall during the teatime scene? but none of it matters because I AM SO PUMPED.

Comments

[dresstokill]

Yes, it looks amazing, doesn't it? It does bother me a little bit that Johnny Depp is really tall (and the Mad Hatter is supposed to be short). I also don't really know the difference between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. Enlighten me? :)

[magneticwave]

I know! I'm thinking it [the height disparity] might be a momentary thing . . . then again, knowing Tim Burton, one can never be sure.

The Queen of Hearts is the villain of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'--you know, the classic "Off with their heads," plays flamingo croquet, rose garden, deck of cards as soldiers--she's the one that most people are familiar with. The Red Queen is the villain of 'Through the Looking Glass' and is, IMO, way, way creepier than the Queen of Hearts. She's a lot more subtle, although she's full of weird riddles and things. The movie is supposed to be a sequel to both books, right? So I think Burton is mixing together the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts into one intensely creepy character for HBC.

[dresstokill]

I see, thanks for explaining. I haven't read 'Through the Looking Glass', although now I'm intrigued.

I don't know when the movie is supposed to take place, time wise, because in the trailer she still drinks the potion that shrinks her, which is how I remember 'Wonderland' starting. Perhaps he's doing his own blended interpretation of both?

[magneticwave]

'Through the Looking Glass' was interesting but weird. It's one big chess metaphor, but as a chess metaphor it doesn't really work, because I think he screws up how pieces can actually move in chess . . .

The only thing is, Alice is a child in the books and she's supposed to be 17 in the movie . . . god, this is intensely confusing. GAH.

[fatal_red]

It does look intriguing.

Hmm, was Depp that incredibly tall because Alice was super short from the shrinking? I've only ever read Through the Looking Glass, and that was years ago.

[magneticwave]

Well, the only problem with that is that Alice shrinks in order to fit in the rest of Wonderland--in a way, everything she meets after she drinks from that bottle (the Hatter, the sea, the Queen) are all miniaturized. So why would the tea party be magically bigger?

Dunno, though, that could turn out to be some very Burton-esque logic. :)

[lanternicity]

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