![]() ![]() ![]() Screenwriter Linda Woolverton seized on one key remaining element from Carroll and built her story around it: time travel. There are two choices open to storytellers in this scenario: mine lesser characters and sequences, or invent new ones. Looking Glass takes place primarily on a massive chessboard, and even that concept was already incorporated into the first film. So did the Red Queen, who was amalgamated with the Queen of Hearts from the first story. I was, to be generous, apprehensive about revisiting this movie world.Īlice Through the Looking Glass wasn’t left with many of the key elements of its source material that weren’t already used in its predecessor: Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Jabberwock, and the White Queen originated in the second Carroll novel. ![]() Depp loomed so largely over the film (he’s not only top-billed, he’s the only cast member whose name appeared prominently on the release posters) that his Mad Hatter felt intrusive. Though I loved Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp appeared to be acting in at least three different movies, only one of which was the same one everyone else was making. I found it to be too dreary to be fun and overly forceful about its “We’re all mad here” environs. It was recognizable without being rote, presenting us our old familiar friends with a freshness to match their muchness. For some viewers, Alice in Wonderland was an inventive synthesis of Lewis Carroll’s literary universe with a bold, new vision that posited it as a distinctly modern film. ![]()
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