i finally watched disney’s alice in wonderland (1951) for the first time a few weeks ago. i haven’t yet read lewis carroll’s book. lewis carroll incidentally was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898),
it’s hard in present day to be sure of how much precisely the movie influenced things vs the book.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole
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what do I want to say about it?
- It’s cool that it’s a part of pop culture. it doesn’t feel very “disney”, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that it’s very lewis carroll? and most of what we think of as “very disney” is probably not actually the original vision of walt disney, but downstream of that. though to really answer that question we have to investigate the various epochs of disney
- it’s interesting that the phrase rabbithole has stayed with us, this idea of exploring curiosity
- as an author/creative i waas very impressed with how a lot of it was structured, up until the end which i thought could probably be better. but oh how easy it is to criticize. i do still think alice in wonderland is a must-watch. something i’ll show my kid someday. which is an interesting… skin-in-the-game list-making. what movies will you show your kids?
- i do want to compare/contrast it to wizard of oz, which i’m not sure about how i’m gonna watch
- also compare/contrast with narnia, harry potter, the matrix, but at this point it’s kind of spiralling… the magic world, the portal, the extraordinary world