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Actors: Sterling Holloway, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Kathryn Beaumont, Verna Felton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
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This ia Disney animated film of Lewis Carroll's strange tale about a young girl's dream filled journey down a rabbit hole. Young Alice (Beaumont) is tutoring her sister on a beautiful spring day outside in a field. Her attention wonders as she pursues a strange white rabbit who is wearing clothes and carrying a pocket watch. He scampers off, claiming to be late as he disappears into a hole at the base of a tree. Alice gives chase only to tumble down a long passage where her dress acts as a parachute slowing her descent. She falls into Wonderland where she encounters a talking doorknob and must alternately shrink and grow (a recurring theme throughout the story) to get through the entryway as she is washed into the keyhole by an ocean of her own tears.
Floating in a bottle, Alice eventually reaches land and is among an odd assortment of creatures circling around a dodo bird and a campfire on the beach. She resumes her chase after the rabbit and instead finds Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. They engage her in a story about a walrus and a carpenter who endeavor to eat baby oysters. Before they can begin another story she takes off and finds the rabbit is now at it's own little cottage and is calling her Maryann. She goes inside but grows to an enormous size after eating a wafer. The rabbit is in a panic to get her out of the house. She eventually shrinks and takes off after the rabbit once more. Next Alice meets a bed of beautiful singing flowers and they serenade her before driving her off. The next strange sight she finds is a caterpillar. Once again she experiences unnerving changes in her size before she is conversing with the prank playing Cheshire cat (Holloway). Alice looks in on the Mad Hatter (Wynn) and his tea party.
Walking through a labyrinth of bushes Alice stumbles upon the realm of the Queen of Hearts where her card shaped soldiers are painting white roses red. She is brought before the Queen of Hearts (Felton) and she is put on trial. Again Alice shrinks and grows before making her escape into the ocean and to the talking door where she first entered the Wonderland. Upon she her sleeping image she calls out to herself to wake up. She does rouse from her slumber to the voice of her sister calling her name. They decide to call it a day with the history lesson ended and go home for tea.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 60%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on another world/distant past
Explore/1st contact
Yes
Explore plotlet:
- exploring CUTESY fantasy world
Character operated on/altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- made bigger/smaller
If a cartoon...
- animated cartoon
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) long, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality
- English/British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- animal
Hair color
- red
How much in movie?
- 20%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- fat (female)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Water?
Yes
Forests?
Yes
Misc settings
- fort/castle
Style
Tone of movie
- funny
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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