Alice in Wonderland
Short description
Alice Kingsleigh is nineteen and out of place in the Victorian society around her. When a proposal of marriage is sprung on her at a party held in her honour, she slips away and follows a waistcoated rabbit with a pocket watch down its hole, returning to the strange realm she visited as a small child and no longer consciously remembers. There she finds a land that has fallen under the rule of the Red Queen, while the White Queen and the realm's inhabitants wait for someone to set things right.
Tim Burton directed the film, the sixteenth of the twenty-two features he has made, arriving between Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007 and Frankenweenie in 2012. Linda Woolverton wrote the screenplay, and the cast includes Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts and Matt Lucas as the Tweedles.
The production, from Walt Disney Pictures with Roth Films, Team Todd and Tim Burton Productions, was mounted on a budget of 200 million US dollars and took 1.03 billion US dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.4/10 from 466,000 votes and on TMDB 6.6/10 from 15,059 votes; a critics' rating of 5.9/10 from 275 reviews places critical opinion slightly below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Mia Wasikowska, the first of the actors announced to the press for the project, was cast four months before filming began.
- Johnny Depp joked in one interview that he could have played all the roles in the film. He was subsequently chosen for the role of the Mad Hatter.
- Filming with live actors lasted only 40 days.
- Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role of Alice.
- The film's soundtrack was composed by well-known rock bands Tokio Hotel and Franz Ferdinand, as well as Canadian singer Avril Lavigne and The Cure vocalist Robert Smith.
- Only three sets were built for the film.
- Well-known young actress Dakota Blue Richards auditioned for the role of Alice. However, due to the age difference (the script called for an 18-year-old heroine) and a number of plot twists, including a love affair with the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), 14-year-old (at the time) Blue Richards was turned down.
- The film is based on Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).
- The film is based on Lewis Carroll's eponymous fairy tale and its sequel, 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
- Mia Wasikowska, who plays Alice, is 5 feet 4 inches tall in real life. Throughout the film, Alice's height constantly changes – from 6 inches to 20 feet. A lot of work went into using more practical methods to alter height than special effects; often, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) had to use stilts to be taller than the others.
- The film retains characters, plot elements, and central themes from Lewis Carroll's books (“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,” 1865; “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There,” 1871), but it is a completely new story. Alice returns to Wonderland, where she was as a child, but she has no memories of her previous adventures.
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