Hello everyone! Happy Monday!! A new week is starting, yay!!! How are you today?? How are things going?? As always, I wish you the best!! Today is a holiday here, so for me the day looks promising! I have some stuff I want to do to enjoy my free moment. I have some stuff to do for college as well, but not too much, and they're not necessarily that urgent, so I have some time to do some nice stuff, like Sketching, watching something, writing on the blog, talking to friends, and all that! It's not holiday for you, I guess, but I hope you may have a nice day as well, and if the day is not nice, don't worry, today is only a day, it will pass, and your tomorrow may be better! Just keep on living and doing your stuff, good things might be waiting for you, besides the good things you're chasing!
Recently I've been reading a lot of cool books, I read Coraline (and I should write a post on this one in the future, amazing book!), I read Mary Poppins (also a lovely book, different from the movie in a lot of ways, but in a way that doesn't make the movie looks bad), and this saturday I decided to read Alice in Wonderland again! As I said, I read the book at least four times, more or less, since the time I bought it, back in 2014. It's truly a lovely piece of literature, for children, for teenagers, for adults, for elder people, for everyone!
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| Alice, the March Hare, the dormhouse and the Mad Hatter in a very weird tea Party! By John Tenniel |
MINOR POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!!
The book, written by Lewis Carroll, pen name of the author: Charles Lutwidge Dogson, is really lovely! The illustrations by John Tenniel are quirky, full of details, extraordinary! This is really an odd story, and thank Goodness for that! The very imaginative and creative Alice is bored by the real world. When she sees a very anxious rabbit running so he can't lose his important event, smartly dressed, she gets extremely curious, of course, and runs for him. And with that, she ends up falling into his fantastic and EXTREMELY LONG rabbit hole, full of nice things. The very slow fall gives her the opportunity to think out loud and see every stuff, and that's the way that she enters in a different world, a weird and hostile Wonderland. This is how the story goes! She meets talking Dodos, talking Hares, talking everythings, she meets Duchesses and their smiling cats, she goes to a mad tea party, and she ends up in the court of the very angry Queen of Hearts, angry at everything, always ready to explode. Of course, in this journey she finds dangers, and anybody there is too nice to her, giving her orders in a blunt way, insulting her, and even trying to kill her! She falls into the most weird misadventures! And we follows her into all the stuff, in a really delightful and nonesensical experience! Though Wonderland is in the title, this is really a land of nightmares, but at least is a very beautiful nightmare, because who said bad places can't be full of color and beautiful?
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| In the fancy court of the angry queen of hearts, by John Tenniel |
MAJOR FOR-SURE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!
Now, I wrote about the 1959 movie as well! This one is way more faithful to the book than the 2010 adaptation by Tim Burton is, specially because the last one quoted take stuff from the first book, blends them with Alice Through The Looking Glass, adds new unecessary stuff, and honestly do a mess. Okay, returning to the 1959 adaptation, though is more faithful, there're a lot of interesting things to point out! First, Alice is not having history lessons in the begining of the book, and she's on the movie, with her sister (who doesn't sound like her sister in the movie, more like a tutor). The movie has lots of songs, and of course we don't see that in the book. The wonderland of the movie is less dark and more colorful, the creatures are less hostile, though they're still not too friendly, and there're, guess what, NO UNBIRTHDAYS IN THE BOOK! NOT A SINGLE MENTION TO IT!!!! The white rabbit doesn't meet the mad hatter and his group, also, no Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum in the book, none of his stories as well, they're from Alice Through The Looking Glass, there're some elements of this book in the movie, though not too much. Also, there's no Duchess. The Cheshire cat has an owner in the book: the Duchess of Cheshire! The Cheshire is a little bit more absent in the book as well, we see him far more in the movie, also he's not treacherous like in the movie, he doesn't put Alice in trouble, he's just a lovely weird minor character, not the potential antagonist. These are some of the differences between the movie and the book, BUT I guess the movie is really its own material, I don't think the movie should translate everything that's in the book, sometimes changes are good, and they definitely are well succeeded in the movie, in my opinion, they both complement each other!
Now, IN MY PEEEERSONAL OPINION, though the 2010 Alice is still a movie I really like, I have to say this one is unexcusable, it's just a mess! Too much going on, the lines are dumb honestly, too much computer effects (some good, some don't), not enough interesting story, the movie is pretentious, what they did to the characters is terrible! They try to explain everything, and then they don't, it goes up and down, just terrible. But I have to say is enjoyable, for a time or two watching, and if you ignore the story, and just focus on the Wonderland, and ignore Alice in his real life, a very odd (in a bad way) addiction to the already overcharged story. I mean, the aesthetics of the movie are EXTRAORDINARY, the whole world is BEAUTIFUL, JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! The soundtrack is wonderful, and the song Avril Lavigne - I love Avril - did for the movie is great! Well, but besides this and other minor details, that's about it for this movie, at least for me, if you love it and totally disagree with me that's totally fine, actually let me know if you don't in the comments, if you want to! This is just my personal take, really nothing set on fire.
Well, and for me the 2016 continuation of the movie is just... well, I won't say unnecessary, it's nice to see where Alice went after the 2010 version, but well... that's about it, I cannot defend this one, it's just AWFUL. The 2010 you can watch more than once, the 2016 one you can just ignore it, there's very little of it in my opinion to take from it.
And that's it for today, but I definitely will write more about Alice in the future, she's such an inspiration for me, I heavily identify with her, and many of my stories are on this style! Thank you so much for reading!! You're the very best!!!!!!! And let's close this post with my favorite illustration from the book!!
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| The trial on the kingdom of the queen of hearts! By John Tenniel |
Oh! Also have the song by Avril for the 2010 movie!! For Spotify and Youtube!
And again thank you so much for reading this very long post, if you're still here! (If you left at some point early you're not reading this, that's okay, but anyway, I'm thankful you reached the blog) You're the best!! See you soon!!
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