Alice Through the Looking Glass | Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm

Alice Through the Looking Glass | Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm | class interpretation of lewis carrolls novel

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	Alice Through the Looking Glass Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm Lions Gate, 2005 average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The most honest, true to text interpretation yet!

For the person who didnt like that it didnt make sense to them, welcome to the concept of nonsense ("The dialogue is filled with non sequiturs" That is Lewis Carrolls text you are commenting on not this movie READ THE BOOK!)

I give this version top marks as it is the only version ive seen that is so faithful to Lewis Carrolls text. The nonsensical situations and conversations work perfectly without any actor having to go overboard with silliness. Many versions annoy me as the actors feel that have to act as daft and 'mad, totally mad' as they can. No need! the material is weird enough. This version feels weirder as a result cos the actors play it down a bit and act as if everything is as it should be when it clearly isnt.

The Alice stories were not all happy happy bouncy silly madness. Specifically, Through the Looking Glass has a dark edge to the insanity. And no songs is quite refreshing.

Oh and read the book, there is no plot, Alice is trying to reach the final square to become queen. If this is too challanging, forget Svankmejers version and go straight to the Disney infant friendly version.

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class interpretation of lewis carrolls novel

I found this to be a wonderfull version of the continuation of lewis carrolls classic alice series. This version unlike the others ive sceen which include the original disney animation, the 1903 silent, the 1966 bbc made for tv, and the 80's tv version of alice through the looking class, and that horrible abc version with woopy goldberg, and the jan svankmajer version alice which is by far the best interpretation ive ever sceen mixing live action with claymation and stop motion photography. This version like the 66 black and white which is live action has the characters played by some of britishes finest actors and actresses with semi make up. The 66 version has the strong cast instead of extremelly lavish make up draws completelly on strange indevers and with ravi shankar draws in verry psycodelic themes. This version has also an extremelly gifted british cast wich includes kate beckinsle (van helsing, underworld) of course as alice playing a 7 year old, ian Holm (lorg of the rings as Bilbo Baging, and the fifth element as the priest)as the white knight, and sian phillips (from lynches dune as the witch with the hand box) playes the red queen. This version also unlike others has alice in one of the most book convincing rools as she her self really falls into the dream as she talks to her self in the mirror in several occasions and becoming as insane as the rest of the cast instead of most of the other movies she dosent seem to be in the dream but an oversear not changing her character from dream to reality. Because i dont know about you but when im in a dream i too become one of the lavish characters. It is almost if not more insane as the 66 version drawing from the book the complete quirkyness of the characters. Their wasnt to much digital nonscence as i thought, their are a few cheezy parts but more believable ones than not. I didnt care for the flowers in the garden as they were merelly women in heavy make up and stupid hats. The tweedledee and tweedledum part is interesting as they tell the story of the walrus and the carpenter, They are played by actors and little cuts of clamation versions of them self and the oysters are puppets its great. Each character tells their stories in a beautifle poetic fashion. Also the only other thing i didnt care for was in the other 80's tv version of alice through the looking glass is their was a jabberwocky that was constantelly interupting the happy campy mood through the mirror, as a child the jabberwocky terribied me I loved it. This one the jabberwocky is only sceen as an (evil dead) rushing camera swirl
until the white knights story of him being slayed he apears only after he is killed and is being dragged. Anywho please give this a chance if you are interested in another version than the campy singalong version that disney created. Be warned that this is a comlettely insane version that draws more on the book and backwards logic and is verry dream oriented no song and dance. may not intertain children old enough to read i feel this version is a bit more adultish but has nothing inaproprite in it. If you love alice this keeps the ball rolling. see all the versions and make your own conclusion

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Awesome Film

Anybody, but especially those who have done any sort of recreational drug(especially hallucinogens), will really enjoy the special esffects in this movie...the entire movie is, in a way, a total brain-tease. And Kate Beckinsale....well, I fell in love with her when I saw this movie...(it was long before she started in all these new films..but I knew instantly that she would be a big star!) I personal believe that this is a film that any Alice, Beckinsale, Lewis Carol, or recreational drug fan definately check out!

Is the closest to the book that i've found.

The movie is the closest to the book that i have found. The beginning is completly different from the book, and they cut out a couple parts. For example the lion and the unicorn scene, which is my personal favorite, did not exist in the movie. And the part with the white knight was also extremely close to the part in the book, but it was so BORING...it just makes you wait for the movie to get over, and in my mind bogs down the movie. But other than that i would recommend this to anyone who is a die hard for the Alice in Wonderland series.

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Great for all ages

Alice Through the Looking Glass is a great interprataion of the book, however I was slightly disapointed with it because I was on Amazon searching for the version I remember when I was a child, all I can seem to remember was two women walking through a garden with huge dice or something of that sort on their head, I don't know what version that was, but it certainly wasn't this one. This version is excellet though and clearly defines nonsense language. A bit lenghtly in parts, this film is good for all ages.

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