First Look at Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
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Dustin Rowles
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June 22, 2009 | Comments (73)
USA Today premiered the first promotional photos for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (due out in March) today. And it’s actually, somehow, even more creepier than I’d expected of Tim Burton. Dark and cartoonish, I suspected — but, the images of Johnny Depp (as the Mad Hatter) and Helena Bonham Carter (as the Red Queen) are a coulrophobe’s nightmare. Depp looks like a Bohemian Bozo the Clown.
Also revealed were some plot details — it’s not exactly a faithful interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. It’s more of a continuation of it:
The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn’t remember.
Strange. The Burton/Depp/Bonham Carter team can get a little tiresome and almost predictably weird, but I’m actually game for this interpretation. Check out the photos:




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I don't know what frightens me more, the overall production design or the fact that Anne Hathaway is playing Alice. Hell, I'd go insane for a weird and visually disturbing Alice in Wonderland, and if it weren't for Anne, I'd embrace the freakiness. Anne does not strike me as Alice or for that matter, any actual actress in a movie. I still haven't seen Rachel Getting Married and Anne Getting Make Up to Look Ugly because she so irritates me. The rest of the casting I agree with, but couldn't they find someone like Amanda Seyfried, she seems more like an Alice to me.
Bah humbug. I guess I'll just have to deal with the TV movie version of Alice with Ben Kingsley or the one with Carol Channing as the White Queen.
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