Young Alice is stubborn, prone to temper tantrums, and overall just frustrated by anything that doesn’t make sense to her. This brings me to Alice’s character change from the animated film (when she was a child) to the live action film (when she was a young adult). This gives Alice the courage to fight the beast – and win. When Alice is fighting the “evil” monster, Alice says “this is impossible.” Hatter just looks at her and says “only if you believe it is”. He pushes her to regain her “muchness” (which does benefit her when she returns to her world) and when she does Hatter is Alice’s biggest cheerleader. He frequently tells her that she lost her “muchness” and that she isn’t the “same Alice” she was when she was a child. The Hatter is part of the reason that Alice’s character develops into the person she needs to be for Wonderland. Seriously, this woman took an oath to do no harm to anything but is just leaving her people to be killed? He was present when a bunch of people were massacred by the Red Queen – and was abandoned by the White Queen. According to the Hatter, he comes from a long family of hatters who serve the royal family. With the White Queen comes a backstory for the Mad Hatter – as well as a lot of trauma. The Mad Hatter’s Development The Mad Hatter. She doesn’t kill anything, but for some reason is entirely fine with having Alice slay a monster on her behalf (which very much confused me… Alice does not want to kill this creature, she just does so because the White Queen wants her to). The White Queen is a very obvious juxtaposition to the Red Queen. Image retrieved from Disney.Ī new character, the White Queen, was also added to the film. Her character is the same, though, just made a bit darker (after all, the animated film was made for children). There are many references to the queen’s large head, with the White Queen (who is the Red Queen’s sister) speculating that there is a growth in the Red Queen’s head that makes her like cutting people’s heads off. Speaking of the Red Queen… her design is very different. See, in both films these things take place in the same chronological order: Alice finds herself falling through a magical rabbit hole, she is in a room with a small door so she must shrink to fit but forgets her key so she has to grow then shrink again, then she runs into the Cheshire Cat who directs her to the hatter, she runs into the Mad Hatter and the March Hare and joins them for a tea party, then she needs to find the Red Queen, then the Red Queen tries to kill her so Alice needs to escape. It is very interesting to me how similar the plot is even though this is a sequel. However, live-action Alice’s clothes do not change with her, so she has to improvise with clothes. See, in the animated film when Alice grows/shrinks her dress changes with her. I also like live action Alice’s “ugly” dress.

All things considered, I think it was done fairly well – after all, the blue dress couldn’t be done perfectly because live action Alice wore her blue dress to a fancy party. As you can see, the live-action film tried to emulate the iconic animated blue dress. Images retrieved from Disney.īut first, let’s talk costumes. Alice’s Costume Alice’s blue dress from both films. This fact makes my job in comparing the two films difficult, so this will be more of a film review (particularly on my thoughts about Alice’s character development). So, you can imagine my shock when I turned on the live-action Alice in Wonderland and found that it’s simply a continuation of the story. I assumed that (like all the other films we’ve looked through) the animated Alice in Wonderland would simply be a more modernized retelling of the animated film. In fact (even though I’m a fan of the weird and creepy Tim Burton films), I had not seen any film from the Alice in Wonderland franchise. I realized during my animated Alice in Wonderland watch that while I thought I had seen the film, I must not have – there were so many scenes that I had absolutely no recollection of. WARNING: This article will contain spoilers for both the live action and animated films.

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