alice

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

drugs (bbc.com)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150707132059/http://www.newyorker.com:80/culture/cultural-comment/the-rabbit-hole-rabbit-hole

what do I want to say about it?

  1. 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
  2. it’s interesting that the phrase rabbithole has stayed with us, this idea of exploring curiosity
  3. 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?
  4. i do want to compare/contrast it to wizard of oz, which i’m not sure about how i’m gonna watch
  5. 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

live-noting the movie

What was happening in 1951
who was Lewis Carroll
why did Disney choose to make the adaptation? Walt lived 1906-1966)
Im kinda reminded of Sephiroth in the original FF7

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“In my world, book nothing but pictures”
“my world would be nonsense”
cats and rabbits in fancy houses
Flowers with powers and talking 
my works would be a wonderland 
rabbit who’s late
So economical, she enters the world within 6 minutes, first 2 minutes were credits 
Topsy turveyness of the world is demonstrated while she’s going after Mr rabbit 
Curioser and curioser

Door knob amused by language 
Too big for the door
Locked
Key left on the table 
use of perspective to show her big
Cries
Falls into bottle 
Sailors life for me
Ahoy and other nautical expressions
started tomorrow will finish yesterday 
12 mins rabbit again 
Tweedledee tweedledum
Beginning backwards 
How do you do, shake hands, state your name and business
looking for rabbit, curious where he’s going
The oysters were curious too
what happened to the oysters? Story within a story,
Walrus and carpenter 
Shoes and ships and ceiling wax and cabbages and kings
Callow callay no work today
Walrus pied piper 
20m end of oyster story
they start reciting another story but she goes off – artful incompleteness, lived-in world
21 rabbit again, the house 
another embiggening cookie
Why does rabbit call her Mary Ann 
Lizard with a ladder
Burn down the house
Rabbit runs into forest
Flowers
Bread-and-butterflies
flowers very opinionated about the songs 
“what kind of garden do you come from?”
Genus humans Alice
I’m not a flower
A weed
I’m not a weed / you wouldn’t expect her to admit it
flowers wash hr  away

AEIOy smoke

3 inches is such a wretched height

Cheshire at midpoint

Unbirthday, tea party, smoke

Tell us the story – functions as a recap for the audience 

“I have an idea, let’s change the subject”

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Riddles?

Clock is two days slow

Watch is full of wheels

Stupidest tea party

“I’ve had enough nonsense, I’m going home”

“That rabbit, Who cares where he’s going anyway”

It’s getting dark and nothing looks familiar

A shovel bird

52m would be nice if something made sense for a change 

don’t step on the mome raths

A path

Dog brushing away the path

When one’s lost, good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you

If I listened earlier I wouldn’t be here

But that’s the trouble with me

I give myself good advice but seldom follow it

That explains the trouble I’m always in

be patient is good advice but waiting makes me curious

there’d be a price to pay some day

she cries and all the weird eonderland clearers gather and cry to 

Will I ever learn to do the things I should 

Moon becomes chrfhire cat 

I wanna go home but can’t find my way

You have no way, all ways are the queens ways

shortcut to the kingdom 

Through the maze

Painting the roses red

Each of us would quickly lose his head

What do the cards mean

Queen is the first person to say “it’s a little girl”

tedious courtly behaviors

The croquet game

A trial

Calling up the old characters 

Dormouse 

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