#or the mad hatter from that really old live action alice in wonderland movie

[goodlucktai]

my friend and i have the quote “nor i” (said in a british accent, in a slow, suspicious tone) stuck in our heads and we CANNOT remember what its from

[bubble-masquerade]

I'm bored and can't get myself to work on any art so here's this.

I do have an idea for a rottmnt au, but have no idea if I'll do much with it. Guess it depends on how interested people will be. For now I want to get it out there cuz, personally, I think it's cool.

We're All Mad Here

It's based off my favorite fairytale, Alice In Wonderland with a splash of American Mcgee's Alice: Madness Returns. So, essentially it's going to be fun (at least for me) and dark. I love that game with all my heart, and I'm genuinely so sad we aren't getting a third instalment :( it's messed up what happened and I'm genuinely so sorry for the team.

For the cast. I had some ideas but unfortunately not every role has been filled.

First and foremost, out dear Alice. I immediately thought of the darling April O'Neil for this, hands down. I have some design ideas my head that I just haven't gotten down yet. So yes, it would've been April centric which (from what I've mostly seen) would be pretty different.

The Mad Hatter. Again, without even a thought, I thought of Michelangelo. We've all seen him. He can be absolutely unhinged. I wanted to use that to the absolute best of my ability and make an awesome character. And honestly he just gives me Mad Hatter energy, I can't really explain it.

The Cheshire Cat. This took a little bit of thought before I settled on Leonardo. So I would be going with, essentially, the blue version we got in the live action Alice In Wonderland movies and also the Alice: Madness game. Leo is cunning, a bit of a trickster. He fits with what I have in mind purrfectly... I'll see myself out.

The Queen Of Hearts/The Red Queen. I didn't really feel like I had to think much on this one, I went with Big Mama. Cuz like... Come on. Have you seen her??? Yes of course there's also her husband, the king, whose role would probably go to Splinter.

Of course there's still the remaining two brothers: Raphael and Donatello.

With Raph I thought at first to go with the March Hare/Thackery Earwicket. He's the best friend of the Mad Hatter, and of course, equally insane as him. But unfortunately I also thought of Donnie for this as well down the line. I love the Raph/Mikey and the Donnie/Mikey dynamics so much I wasn't sure which to choose. And I'd hate for either of them to get a minor part.

Of course there's also the Caterpillar, the White Queen and other characters to think about.

Why this?

Well..Why not? 🤷🏼 Honestly. And as I've stated prior, I feel in love with the story and concept when I was a kid. I watched the movies and fell in love even more. And with the game, it was the first one I really bought by myself haha. I felt so cool doing so. I saw it was an Alice inspired thing and immediately had to have it. Then I played it and my mind was blown.

The horror, psychological horror, the art style, the aspects of it... It holds near and dear to my heart still to this day. I mean, fucking hell I'm replaying it on my old PS3 (hang in there old girl don't catch on fire pls). I probably was a bit too young, considering the target audience of it, but still. I'm happy I was allowed to have that experience... No matter how buggy it was and still is 😅.

I think I mostly enjoyed the ability to escape into another world and be able to just... Leave this one for a while. I'm talking about the original story here lol.

Anyway one day I was just thinking and decided on this concept. I love the turtles and AIW. Putting those two concepts and medias together would definitely take a lot of time and planning but I pretty much have a basic layout of what I want. I just really need to have it physically wrote down lmao.

Everyone has such cool AUs and I kind of wanted to join in...? I know this probably won't blow up and get popular, and I'm okay with that. I just mostly enjoyed getting this idea out there. Trust me, I've had this in my pocket for a long while.

End Notes

I guess that's all for now. It's a very shitty basic layout but it's something that still took me a bit of thought. It's okay to ask questions if you like. Bye for now!

[coolgirl32]

Episode 6 do not be late for a very important date

As always I'm making this message short

As you woke up you were face to face with the Blue fairy you asked her where she teleported you too and her answer was that she teleported you to the story of Alice in wonderland, you always loved Alice in wonderland the classic cartoon movie not the live action version although both movies are good you still love the old classic animated Alice in wonderland movie especially the songs, speaking of songs you couldn't quite help but hear a beautiful singing voice of a little girl.

After the song ended you realized that the Blue fairy had disappeared and then you noticed a note that said the plans for today the plans were to help Alice get through wonderland safely and it also have fun so after reading it you went right towards Alice tapped her on her shoulder she was a little bit spooked you apologized and after apologizing and introducing each other Alice's cat Dinah was trying to get Alice's attention when Alice noticed what Dinah was trying to do she reassured her cat that it's just a rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch of course you already knew he was going to say his line.

Mr Rabbit: oh my fur and whiskers I'm late I'm late I'm late for a very important day no time to dilly-dally now hello goodbye I'm late I'm late I'm late.

Alice started to wonder what the rabbit was late for probably a party or maybe the queen castle either way you wasted no time in following Alice into the rabbit hole and when you both were in she accidentally slipped and when you grabbed onto her you slipped as well you both except Dinah fell into the rabbit hole you both waved her goodbye and she did the same, as you both were finishing loading safely down you both landed on the ground and saw the white rabbit and you both immediately followed him that's when you both saw a door knob when Alice grabbed onto the door knob he made a really loud ow sound after apologizing to the doorknob he gave you and Alice instructions on how to get inside after Alice drank a little bit of the shrinking potion she forgot there was a key of course you grabbed it and drink some of the potion and you both went inside, after going inside you both were walking around when suddenly you bumped into Little d and Tweedledum they both began to tell you both the story of the walrus and the carpenter after the story ended you both snuck away from both of them just so you can find the white rabbit.

(hours later)

After walking and meeting the mad hatter and his friends and also meeting the Cheshire cat you and Alice were both walking until she sat down and began to cry you asked her what was wrong and she told you she wanted to go home and she was sick and tired of being in wonderland you reassured her that everything will be okay that made her tear up a little and when the Cheshire cat appeared you both asked him away out of wonderland and when he told you the only way to get out of wonderland is to see the queen of hearts of course you knew the Queen of hearts was no good so after going to the castle of hearts you both met the deck of cards who were painting the roses red and you instantly knew there was a song coming up.

When the song ended you both bow to the queen in respect and try not to get your heads off you both introduced yourselves after introduction the queen asked if you to have played before you both answered correctly and when the game started it seemed like Alice was losing of course when it was your turn you pretended to lose when the Cheshire cat appeared and Alice tried to tell the Queen the queen got angry and tried to order you and Alice's heads being cut off but her husband said there should be a trial and of course the queen agreed reluctantly.

(A few hours later)

When Alice and you were both running from the queen of hearts and everyone from wonderland you both bumped into the door knob and try to open it of course the door knob said he was locked but one thing you remembered was that you still had the key with you so when you unlock the door you both ran right through the door and made it outside into the real world and luckily the door was locked already when Alice's sister appeared she asked about what happened and about you when I was explained about you her sister understood and when Alice explained about what happened her sister just looked at her weird so before they headed home Alice said her goodbyes to you and you did the same to Alice and you both went your separate ways that's when you met the Blue fairy again and she opened the portal up for you and when you went through it you went through the seventh door.

To be continued.

[thetorturedmusesdept]

Was that [IMOGEN POOTS]? Oh no no, that was just [ALICE KINGSLEIGH], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [DISNEY’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND]. They are [TWENY-SIX] years old, use [SHE/HER], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

FULL NAME: Alice Kingsleigh AGE: 26 SPECIES: Human FANDOM: Disney’s Alice In Wonderland GENDER IDENTITY: Cis female; she/her SEXUALITY:  Pansexual/Polyromantic NATIONALITY: British ETHNICITY: Caucasian HOW LONG HAS YOUR CHARACTER BEEN HERE?: A few months JOB: Unemployed for the moment WHERE HAS YOUR CHARACTER BEEN PULLED FROM IN THEIR FANDOM?: Years after the live action movies. Alice is a grown adult who’s been running her father’s trading company with her mother the last few years. So she’s ready for a change. And excited to be in a new world where she can chart her own path! HAS ANY MAGIC AFFECTED YOUR CHARACTER?: No, she somehow remembers everything. It does make her homesick at times, but she’s still got her memories at least.

FACE CLAIM: Imogen Poots SPECIAL / RECOGNIZABLE FEATURES: Long, wild curls, freckles, tattoos. HAIR COLOR: Blonde EYE COLOR: Blue ACCENT: British

SIBLING(S): Margaret Kingsleigh PARTNER(S): None atm. CHILDREN: None atm. PARENT(S): Charles Kingsleigh and Helen Kingsleigh

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platonic connections: Friends are always welcome the most. Alice hasn’t always had many friends, but she likes to think she’s a good one. more platonic connections: Anyone else from Alice in Wonderland, especially the Mad Hatter or Queen of Hearts! party friends: Alice really wants to let loose now that she’s somewhere on her own, free to do what she pleases. She wants to go wild! bad influences: Alice is very easily influenced by those around since she’s very “go with the flow��� in attitude a lot of the time. So people who could influence her in a bad way could be interesting to explore how she moralizes it. good influences: Of course, on the flip side, she needs good influences too. People who will encourage her to be the Best Alice, so that she can have a happy, long life filled with love! hook ups/fwb/romance: Alice is pansexual and polysexual, so no matter what level of intimacy there is she will always have room in her heart for more relationships of varying intimacy. She’s open to casual, she’s also open to more as long as the person understands where she’s coming from with loving more than one person!

[nathanrm]

Alice returns to Wonderland

This idea has always been in my head ever since I started getting into the twst fandom and I just wanna talk about it, what if Alice returns to (twst) wonderland after being gone for many years?

For a bit of context though this Alice will be my own version, a mix of all types of Alice in wonderland content that I’ve seen over the years, my version will be male because 1.my blog is for male and enby readers 2. NRC is an all boys school 3. There are already a lot of female twst reader content to the point when I look up “twst x male reader” there still a shit ton of female reader content

(and yes I will keep Alices name the same despite making him a boy, I just prefer it that way, let’s just say Alice’s mom desperately wanted a girl but Alice was born a boy, so Alice’s dad let his wife let her name the baby boy Alice)

The basics of my idea for this fanfic is that Alice grew up in wonderland being able to visit it when ever he wants with the help of the white rabbit , he’s been visiting since he was young (maybe 3-4 years old) he grew up with the weirdness of wonderland and see the beloved characters as family, King and Queen of hearts are parental figures, mad hatter, the March hare and the teapot mouse as uncles and aunt, and the jabberwock as a giant house pet , and with the rest of the great seven as his other parental figures as well (yes I’m very well aware of great 7 yuu and great 7 yuu is one of my inspirations for this fanfic idea) Alice often stays in wonderland longer than he should but it doesn’t matter since time works differently in wonderland than Alice’s words, Alice can stay in wonderland for week, months or even years but in Alice’s world he’s only been gone for a couple of hours or a day (since we see in the live action, in wonderland Alice has been there for days but when she returns it’s only been a few minutes).

And Alice was somewhat involved with the making of NRC , yes i know this sounds far fetched but I saw a theory about NRC being the evil queens old castle, they even compared pictures of both NRC and pictures from the Snow White movie as proof, since that place is really really old it obviously had a lot of changes to it, and in my fanfic ramshackle was a dorm specifically for students that are from Alice’s world, normal magic less students who are more interested in things that are considered abnormal in their world, like Alice’s natural curiosity for things that aren’t the norm in the Victorian era, here’s a bit of the fanfic for context

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“My dear do you like the idea of going to this school once it is finished?” The queen of hearts asked Alice as the boy was sitting next to her looking at a book with only pictures in it and little to no words.

-Alice looked up at his mother practically beaming with excitement ”of course mother! Night Raven College sounds like it would a wonderful school! I can’t wait for it to be finished! Meet all kinds of people from other lands, and learning new things from them just makes me excited!” The boy yelled with joy and excitement.

-The Queen couldn’t help but coo at how adorable her son was, his natural curiosity always getting the best of him “well there will be another dorm added for special students” the Queen said to grab her son’s attention

-The Queen had Alice’s full attention now, placing himself on her lap so he can listen to her with wide eyes filled with curiosity and smile on his face “this dorm will be for students like you my dear” she stated then bopping Alice’s nose making him giggle “this dorm will be for students from your worlds” she continued “students who don’t fit in with the norms of their society or government or whatever it is they have there. Magic-less students who have unique qualities of their own to make up for their lack of magic, like how your such a curious little boy, smart and a fast learner!”

-The Queen cheered and tickled Alice making the boy laugh and trying to keep his mother hands from tickling him more, the pair laughed and hugged each other in a loving embrace

-Once they’ve stopped the boy got off his mother’s lap and looked up at her to ask if he could go tell his father, the King of hearts about it, she gave a nod of approval then the boy ran off into the garden to find his father to tell him about the news

And this is the last time Alice sees his wonderland family after going back to his normal family which he regrets a lot because the white rabbit never came back to bring him back to wonderland and he’s been waiting ever since.

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I’m still very nervous to post the stuff I write and draw on here, and I’m still nervous about my writing since I’ve mainly only written stuff for myself for a long time but I wanna share the stuff I write and draw, I’m still new to writing for other people so for those who are way better writers then me feel free to point out any mistakes I make, I wanna learn so I can be a better writer

All of my writing will be male and enby readers so please don’t ever ask for a female reader I’m begging you please just don’t, I will never do female readers, I posted my rules about request before but deleted it because I haven’t posted any of my writing about twst, I will remake it once I’ve posted more of my stuff

I’ve rambled about my version of Alice for twst on @Twisted-wonderland-but-gayer blogs and a lot of their writing inspired me to make my own about twst

Here is some art work of my version of Alice for twst

[jazzmandd]

Kingdom hearts 4 Predictions.

Having recently beaten Kingdom hearts 3 after a very long lull since buying the game day 1, I’ve been thinking and thunking about what worlds are going to show up in Kingdom hearts 4.

I am an old man driven by madness that is of the anime boy and Ducks and Dogs who fight shadow blobs in the Princess worlds. This is all based on speculation, where the series currently sits and where I personally feel they’re gonna go. I can be entirely wrong or entirely right on these guesses, but if it’s a 100% success rate: Pikmin 4 is real, Banjo-Kazooie remake is happening and Crash Bandicoot Nitro fueled racing will be on PC.

Here’s what I think is gonna happen.

Star Wars

I think this one is gonna be the most obvious selection, if the Kingdom hearts 4 trailer is to go by with the shots of supposedly ‘Endor’ and the robot mech foot.

I’m not too sure if the world would be a play by play of Episode 6 or not, but it’s likely to involve a fight with Darth Vader at some point.

Moana

Moana seems like a natural fit for a Kingdom hearts world, easily workable allies with Moana and Maui, unique locales, natural fit for bosses such as the giant crab or the volcano god at the end and could probably fill the niche of pirate’y world that seems to crop up in all the mainline games (as much as I like Treasure planet, I think Normua would want to go for a world thats easier to adapt with already existing CG for).

Alice in Wonderland

Here’s a weird one, but hear me out!

Sora in KH4 is going to begin in Quadratum a world based off a video game called Verum Rex, which was in the Toy Story world in 3, its a location rested in un-reality it’s basically Sora’s ‘after life’ after the events in KH3 and yes this sounds really stupid.

The point is this world is going to be acting as a hub for Sora according to Normua and considering the whole ‘un-reality’ of it all, I think this is going to be backdoor entrance to making worlds based off live action properties, especially for anything previously visited in the games before.

Alice in Wonderland I think is the most natural fit to showcase the difference between the Cartoon Disney Wonderland and the Live action attempt, especially since the world itself in Kingdom hearts 1 was kind of....Empty? The live action movie probably has more to work with, a possible jabberwocky boss, Mad hatter being a team mate, and I think it would be fun to have a scene with Sora utterly confused at someone who looks like Jack Sparrow but isn’t in a world thats supposed to be Alice in Wonderland but very different.

Frozen 2

As much as I utterly hated this world in KH3, I think there’s going to be at least one returning world from it and it’s going to be this. Nomura loved Frozen, It’s likely going to be “the movie plot” ism just like the first one but at least we won’t be climbing up and down a mountain this time. Right?

Inside Out

I can’t see Kingdom hearts 4 not having any Pixar content going forward with the series, whether it’s a returning world like Toy Story, or something new, I think Inside Out is the most interesting idea the series would use.

“But Jazz, how can Inside out be a world when its inside a persons head” Don’t ask me, these games has several different worlds based off London and France.

I think the most likely thing is it takes place inside Sora’s head, you could have the different emotions talk about Sora’s past, and that you don’t need to be a happy go-lucky hero all the time, Dream eaters could be involved again, and you could possibly have locations based off places Sora’s been before all mish mashed together. 

Considering how many times Sora and Co have been in those ‘Dive to the heart’ Stained glass areas usually at the start of the games, how could you not finally explore what the hell those are?

Coco

Another very popular Pixar movie, and also dealing with the same themes Sora is going through right now. Sora and Miguel are both characters that wind up in some sort of After life world, and both likely want to return to the world of the living, this could be yet another world to bring back the Dream eaters since the spirit animals everyone has are a great analogue. 

My only contention with this being a world is the plot. Both Pixar worlds in KH3 were basically original stories, I’m not sure if Coco would really do the ‘the movie plot’ ism like a lot of Disney worlds do, This is probably my least confident pick to see show up in KH4, especially when there's some like Incredibles or Soul that deserve it more. 

Maleficent

Finally to cap it all off (I’m assuming Kingdom hearts 4 will keep the 7 world structure) The Angelina Jolie Maleficent.

What better way to also showcase the un-reality worlds then Sora teaming up a different version of a character who is currently a villain? What happens if you have the Cartoon Maleficent and the live action one show up face to face? You also get another chance to expand a previous world (From Birth by sleep) to include more locales, the castle, the forest, the fairy tale knoll maybe even deal with the weird Maleficents bird species place from the sequel.

Conclusion

I very much doubt these will be all the worlds in KH4, there could be less or more worlds then these 7, the minigame world (Pooh bear?) could return or be different, and frankly if it were up to be Atlantis and Treasure planet would be there.

But considering how Sora is going to be in this weird new not tokyo location and Donald and Goofy are presumably visiting worlds with after lifes (Hercules and possibly Pirates?) I wouldn’t be surprised by some of the thematic connections some of these have.

Thanks for listing to my TED talk.

[etherealellaelf]

Disney Remakes: they’re not all bad.

I submit that some of the disney live action remakes are, regrettably, a bit off. But not all of them. A lot of them are really good. Here’s why.

-Lion King did really put me off with the lack of expressions. I’m not sure if I have much to say about it, lol I’ll have to see it and let you know. Honestly though I don’t think I can because I love the original Lion King so flipping much, it’s a masterful movie and part of its mastery is the beautiful hand drawn animation and its expressive characters. I can’t think I can watch a bunch of real lions just talking. Who knows? I’ll keep you posted.

-Alice in Wonderland, one of the first of them, had some really good feminist moments. I love the Hatter and Alice’s love for each other, I guess he’s like the only human in Wonderland so it makes sense. But I get some weird ideas because the denizens of Wonderland are supposed to mirror the characters in Alice’s real life, and since the only redhead in Alice’s life is Hamish, that weirdo who asks her to marry him and he’s a total jerk.... and the Hatter is a redhead too.... idk it’s weird. Also it’s weird if he represents her dad because number one he’s dead and number two it’s incest, but the Hatter does say a few things that her dad said at the beginning....hmmm... fishy. However I feel like I can rest assured because this might just be the case of “Johnny Depp came to shoot today in a homemade cosplay and nobody can stop him because he’s just a mad genius”, in which case why do they keep letting him do that??? I don’t mind the hatter’s design, but can you imagine Just Plain Old Johnny Depp In All His Sexy Glory as a mad hatter? It would have been fine. They had to give him a gap between his teeth, CGI enlarged eyes, crazy red hair, white and pink makeup... oh well, whatever, it’s fine. I like how Underland looks a bit more like Narnia than like a Tim Burton land; I honestly don’t know if they gave him complete creative control when it came to the CGI set design. It might’ve been cool to see that.

-Cinderella was wonderful, I thought. I really love how Cinderella and the Prince interacted a lot more, falling in love over a long period of time. In fact, I feel like it was a spiritual remake of Ella Enchanted(which, in my opinion, Disney really botched up because the book was just so amazing), so they did really good in my book. My brother, however, hates that at the end she just twirls in her tower and doesn’t do anything to save herself, when in the original she tried to escape. He thinks it’s really unfeminist and he doesn’t want his daughter to act like that. I agree on that mark, but I’ll let everyone watch it. Also they threw a little bit of the Beauty and the Beast original fairy tale in there when her dad, a merchant, asks what she wants and Cinderella asks for the branch that brushes his arm or whatever; similar to a single rose, when her sisters ask for riches. I also liked the handling of Lady Tremaine; it really humanized her and I felt for her. The stepsisters were silly as per the usual. The King went from a bumbling psychopath(the cartoon) to a very melancholy, concerned father, and I cried at his death scene. Bravo, Kenneth Branagh, bravo.

-I really like all of Beauty and the Beast, although I do think that they made Lumiere & friends a little bit too important in this movie. I needed more moments between Belle and the Beast that were in the animation! Evermore was breathtaking though, let’s be honest. Although let’s be honest, I REALLY REALLY wanted to see a shirtless Dan Stevens emerge from a wall of rose petals because that sounds absolutely magical and super HOT. I’m so mad they had to redo it. Also I like the subtle crush Lefou has on Gaston; I’ve always wondered if he liked him. I do wish that Josh Gad had toned it down with his fabulousness though, because although I love fabulousness I wonder if it was slightly offensive. I really liked Gaston, and I feel like he could have gone a little bigger and with more bravado, could have been from slightly comedic to VERY comedic, but I think that’s alright. He did a great job. And as for everyone complaining about the villagers being really nasty and openly evil towards Belle, I actually liked it. It’s clear in the cartoon that the villagers whisper behind Belle’s back, but I feel like she just has a small smidgeon of an idea that they think she’s weird. In this, they freaking ATTACK her. They’re like ‘We can’t have smart bicc’s in our town! Get out me town!” It is a bit on the nose sometimes but I think it works because it helps Beast and her relate to feeling like outsiders. I do think the Beast knowing how to read kind of gave them something in common as well, but I disliked how he scoffed at her favorite book, Romeo and Juliet. I wish he had been more understanding like, “There’s this poor girl whose library is like, seven books, and amongst those seven books, one of which is probably the freaking bible because they belong to a pastor, her favorite is basically a romance. She’s not well read; I’m going to show her the classics.” Which back then was probably, like, idk, Voltaire? Too soon? Eh I’m not sure when it takes place. I do wish he’d gifted the library to her though, that was a nice gift for her in the previous movie. (Here’s the thing; the Beauty and the Beast cartoon is basically a perfect movie and I don’t think anything can live up to it, but this one was good too. It wasn’t better, but nothing can be better than that movie. Except maybe the Princess Bride or the first Pirates of the Caribbean or the stage production of Phantom of the Opera. No, not even then.)

-Dumbo? I haven’t seen it yet, I’ll have to and update this.

-Okay so Aladdin is really good. I entered the film with the meme cringe in my mind, totally expecting it to look weird and bad, but honestly Will Smith was such a great actor! And I actually freaking cried so many times because number one: the genie was aladdin’s father figure that he never had! He taught him how to date! Number two: the genie got his true love as well, and you see her and their kids at the beginning of the movie! SPOILERS btw. Sorry. Also Number three: they picked Will Smith to play the genie because he’s HITCH of course! The matchmaker extraordinaire! (I just love Will Smith. I wish he would run for president; it wouldn’t be the first time we had an actor in the white house. Just kidding, I don’t want to burden him that way, and there are really smart candidates this year to choose from. I just am urging everyone to go vote, and no more harambe crap!!!!) Also Jasmine had a nice new empowering role in this movie. I just sort of wish Jafar had been more menacing and villainous. But his actor was fine, just a bit soft-spoken.

-Lady and the Tramp- I started it on Disney+, I need to finish it. I’m halfway there. 

-Christopher Robin is a gift; it’s both simple and complex. It has a lot of nice metaphors and I could feel my heart hurting for much of the film. Seriously good aesthetics as well, Director of Photography!!! 

-The Jungle Book is a really good remake! So much excitement, and I could totally see Bill Murray in Baloo. (I think it’s equal in terms of story to the movie Mowgli, although Mowgli had that nasty little surprise at the end, I’m still hurt about it.)(also in comparing, the CGI is similarly good, but Mowgli wanted to do a really ambitious face capture thingy and I’m not sure if it worked,(uncanny) but it was interesting! It was also a lot darker. I think they’re both good.) Ben Kingsley was superb, of course, as Bagheera, as always, and he has a really fatherly voice(I thought Christian Bale did well as Bagheera as well, but he was more of an action figure in that movie, less of a father/teacher figure). And John Favreau, as always, went the extra mile to bring the action, the writing, and the moral through, and made it super good for children at the same time!(the same cannot be said about Mowgli, as there were some violence/action things that go beyond ‘peril’, hence it’s PG-13 rating) My one discrepancy was the voice of Kaa. Scarlet did fine, but I always thought of Kaa as a boy. I think they could have found a slithery voice actor for Kaa. Benedict Cumberbatch did really well as Smaug, hissing and growling, and he could have done well. I also think that Tom Hiddleston could have done a great job; he has a really gentle and pliant voice that can turn menacing in the matter of seconds, and if it’s about the snake being sexy as Scarlet Johanssen(haha what??), I think that Hiddles can bring it.(I’m not quite sure what I’m talking about at this point so I’ll shut up now.) I do feel like Mowgli started shooting way before The Jungle Book was even a glimmer in John Favreau’s eye, and that kind of makes me want to root for Mowgli because I’m sure that different movie houses have people working in both, probably swapping stories with their friends, and I’m sure it wasn’t an exact copy, but I can totally see Bill Murray in Baloo’s face and that can’t be by accident. Just saying. Not calling Disney out or anything, but I’m sure they can take it, they have like a trillion dollars. Anyway. Still a good one.

-Haven’t seen Pete’s Dragon.

-101 Dalmations, I know this shouldn’t count but it just does. I loved watching this as a child. I’m so happy they didn’t make the dogs talk? Haha it usually works when they do, but it gave a lot of room for Doctor House and Mister Weasley to interact. Also Glenn Close is great. I think this movie’s a good example of a career woman who decides to get domesticated and her sista is like, “Girl, you can’t do this! We have to be strong women! You have to come back to work!” But Anita is all, “Girl, respect my decisions! Feminism isn’t forcing your girl to be exactly like you, it’s giving me the respect to make my own decisions. If I want to have a baby with my husband, that’s fine. I want to be a mom!” I feel like the “new” 101 dalmatians remake they’re gonna make, will have a different opinion. Similar to wicked and maleficent, it’s going to humanize Cruella, but I just hope that they’re nice to Anita. She’s such a smol soft bird and if she wants 2 billion dogs and one baby, that’s fine... ugh, that’s gotta be like so much dog poop in her house... anita what are you doing...

-Maleficent. Obviously I love it. I love how those arguing fairies are super incompetent at raising Aurora because they’re too busy fighting, so Maleficent has to swoop in and rescue the princess. I like how Maleficent is a fae and it’s so sad how there’s like this rape metaphor when Stefan cuts off her wings, and that would be reason to curse his baby, especially because they were in love and he betrayed her! Stole her wings! Married someone else! T^T Maleficent, you poor misunderstood fairy! I love her motherly relationship with Aurora. I love that she’s the one who kisses her forehead to wake her up because Philip met her just that day. However, I don’t like how they just shove Philip out of the way, because Sleeping Beauty is honestly so romantic, and I love how they dance together and everything. I also like the raven boi. I ship him and Maleficent so hard and I hope he doesn’t die in the sequel, I haven’t seen it yet.

-So technically the Parent Trap is a remake. It’s awesome. It gave my childhood so much romance and prank ideas. It’s much better than its predecessor, especially because the mom in the old one is, like, urged to look prettier by her butler(wtf?!?! YOu’re FIrEd?!?). I’m so glad we’ve come so far.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Are the remakes better? In some cases they are. I think Cinderella is better than its predecessor. I think the original Alice is very good, as a nonsense movie, and I feel like the remake is equally good, but they’re different movies with different motives and plots. The original Beauty and the Beast is my favorite and it’s perfect, so the new one isn’t better, but it is really great and I love it, too. Anyway, that’s all.

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Yes Your Majesty

a/n: Ah! Here’s my self-indulgent story about how Paterson met his future wife (in my head they are a poet and a book store clerk/ keeper pair)! I love the idea of them properly meeting at a Halloween party or something really cute. Enjoy! I might make this a multi-chapter thing.  <3

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Summary: Paterson finds that one cute woman from the bookstore and they have a fun time. Unknowingly meets his future wife. Fem(y/n)

Masterlist!

“I just feel like it’s a little overboard.” 

Paterson felt unsure about this whole situation. Just because he saw a cute bookstore clerk at the local store did not mean it was an invitation to be all gussied up and dramatic about it. Right? Yea, Halloween was time to dress up and all, but it seemed a little out of his element. Especially to draw attention from someone he had just met. 

“What? No. It’s perfect.”

“But… It’s… um, I don’t know. It stands out?”

“That’s the point. It’s supposed to draw attention.” 

Marie had invited herself to help Paterson get ready for tonight’s costume party at the bar after he mentioned meeting someone interesting at the store. After everything, he seemed a little less lonely when he talked to her and it felt nice for a change. That's at least what he told Marie one night. She thought it would be best to catch her attention, in a big way. Paterson did not like big ways. Or attention. Not anymore. He just wanted to be left alone to write and read with no distraction. That’s what he wanted so bad and it led him right to this clerk. 

“I still don’t know about this.” He looked incredulously at his costume then at Marie. This was not what he had in mind. He’d rather be on the couch writing poetry or reading a classic. Or rereading. That was totally fine too. Being at the bar on a night like this meant having to socialize and do friend stuff. It just didn’t feel right.

“It’s fine. You’ll be fine. It’s only for one night.” Says the girl who’s going as a witch, thought Paterson. He deeply inhaled and exhaled. Oh god, why did it never cease? He could turn back now. He could just say no. Right now, no. He could take everything off and just say, actually I don’t feel like it. Or, no thanks, you go on without me. It was so tempting to think about. This was uncomfortable and not even in Paterson’s range. It didn’t feel right. He could feel the anxiety of talking to someone new and he just wanted to crawl in bed. Paterson wished Marvin was still here to give him the excuse, aw no thanks, I actually have to take care of my sick dog. 

“I hope you’re satisfied with this.” 

Paterson immediately regretted the words that just tumbled out of his mouth. This was going to be a really long night. Are costume parties even long? How do people stay in costumes all night? Was he going to come home early enough to be in bed on time? What was he even thinking, he’s a grown man, bedtimes don’t even exist. This was more stressful than it had to be. 

“Thank you! I was hoping you would say yes.” 

“I’m still not so sure about it though.”

“Come on, let’s go before you change your mind.” Paterson gathered his keys and wallet before heading out with Marie and meeting up with another of her friends. He walked behind them. 

The whole walk over there, Paterson was a nervous wreck. He didn’t even know if she was going to be there. Again, Paterson just hated the prospect of being there. If he was her, he wouldn’t even bother. 

By the time they reached the front door, he was almost prepared for what the night had in store and by the guesses of it, no. He was not going to bed at a reasonable time. The whole bar was decorated with crazy orange pumpkins. There was an old couple handing out candy outside. They probably didn’t want to be in the middle of a crowded bar tonight. Maybe Doc asked them to. Children were passing by in their little mermaid costumes and Scream masks. Grown adults were walking in the bar in costumes that left little to the imagination. Paterson felt uneasy as he opened the door and walked into literal chaos. 

He had to close the door and walk back out to take a deep breath. This can’t be as hard as it seems. Not to a regular person. So it won’t be. Paterson frowned and walked back in with a little more confidence and observed the surroundings. 

Doc’s bar had transformed into a haunted buffet with themed food and drinks. It was a bar after all, so there were martinis with eyeballs, beer served in skeleton cups and shot jellos the color of blood. How amusing. The lights changed colors from red, to green and then blue. Everyone seemed to be dancing already and having a blast. There were a couple of people sitting at the actual bar, the rest were up and at it. 

Paterson suddenly didn’t feel as self-conscious anymore because here he was in the middle of a very large group of people dressed as ghouls and goblins. It was almost like living in Halloweentown. God he loved that movie. 

As he sat down at the quite possibly furthest seat from all the action (which was really hard because the bar itself was tiny) Paterson picked up a skeleton head and checked it. Just in case. He took a sip and deemed it okay because this was Doc’s bar after all and everyone here had to be over college age. The barley taste soothed his palette as he smiled when a mummy sat next to him and ate an eyeball. He nodded and the mummy nodded back. 

He had lost Marie and the others almost instantaneously when they walked in so it was only him. Me, myself, and I, Paterson thought. As usual. 

Paterson knew he couldn’t keep drinking when he finished this cup so now was big decision time. He also knew everyone was in costumes so his so-called “mission” as dubbed by Marie, was probably getting thrown out the window. How could he possibly know who the clerk was? He didn’t even know her name. That made Paterson look down in a sort of shame. Here he was trying to find this woman, he didn’t know anything about her except that she worked at the Lovegood Bookstore on the corner of Maple and Monroe avenue. In the middle of a costume party, that was worth less than a dust bunny.

 Paterson frowned deeply and downed the last of his beer. Maybe this was kind of useless and embarrassing. If he left now, no one would notice. No one would say, “Hey Paterson! Where are you going? Gonna miss all the fun?” No one would care. He wasn’t going to dance anyway. A tall, lanky man like him couldn’t dance, even if he tried. As Paterson made the mental decision to just leave the party, someone tapped him on the shoulder. He looked up. 

“Hey! Aren’t you that guy I saw the other day at my store?” The stranger giggled and kept her hand on his shoulder. Paterson blinked. 

He managed to stammer out, “Hey, maybe.” It was the best he could do, she was all giggly and probably drunk. Ah, a drunk red queen of hearts. Magnificent. “It looks like the mad hatter could use a madly good time! Drink?” 

The red queen giggled as Paterson smiled and hesitantly took the cup, being careful to not offend her by not drinking out of it. He answered dramatically, “Thank you, your majesty.” Paterson laughed at his own Alice in Wonderland reference. He duly noted not to do that again in front of a girl. She started to laugh uncontrollably at his reference. She understood it? Surprisingly she remembered it in all her glorious drunk state. Her red heart lipstick was kind of smudged from drinking. 

“Well if my mad hatter won’t be mad about the drink at least tell me your name.” She sat in the stool next to him. Paterson’s brain started to swim, this was overwhelming. He smiled and kindly answered in a really bad British accent, “Paterson, at your majesty’s request.” She giggled and huffed a fake breath. 

“I could never say off with your head, let’s dance shall we?” She was getting smooth with the references. “Wait.” Paterson mentally kicked himself. Wait? What was he gonna ask her? Something deep? Jesus man. 

The red queen swiveled around from her already starting position and stared at him with a smile. She waited for a reply. 

Out with it Paterson, you got this. “I don’t even know your name.” 

“You don’t remember me? Im (y/n), from the bookstore.” 

The bookstore? The bookstore! This was she.

She didn't seem offended but Paterson still felt bad for not remembering. He put his hands over his chest and tipped his fake hat. “Forgive me (y/n). How could I forget such a face.” He practically had to shout. Paterson felt strangely more confident in this costume and it was purely a large coincidence that she was matching with him. The irony. (Y/n) took his hand so fast that Paterson barely had time to put his cup down. 

He felt suddenly so much better and blamed it on the amount of beers he had drank before the queen had whisked him away. 

They spent what felt like hours dancing and every once in a while, they would take a break. A drinking break. But only for her, he still had to get home on his own. Marie had her friends. He didn’t. Throughout the course of the night his hat had been shed somewhere and her shoes for whatever reason were lost. Paterson hoped she had an extra pair. 

It was almost two in the morning when the party decided to die down and wither away. Paterson almost felt bad that the whole ordeal had to end. Contrary to how his night had started, he actually felt weightless, like all his fears had walked away with the rest of the trick-or-treaters. It felt good. Uplifting. 

As people filed out the door, Paterson helped (y/n) sit at a table and he asked a very tired Doc for a glass of water. She drank three. 

“Thank you.” The frazzled and very drunk red queen croaked. Paterson offered her more water and a napkin for her makeup. He stared at her as she wiped it mostly off. 

“Do you have any friends that can take you home? Anyone you came with?” Paterson folded his hands over the hat on his lap slightly concerned. The red queen wiped her tired eyes and then they widened. “My friends. Oh gosh I left them!” She frantically looked around but everyone was pretty much gone except for the occasional drunk, doc and the pair. 

Paterson gave her a sympathetic look. “It seems like they’ve left you.” He grabbed the napkins and threw them away. “Do you need me to walk you home? Do you live far?” He checked his watch and deemed it ungentlemanly if he didn’t walk her home. 

She blinked and cracked a smile. “Why thank you kind sir. I would like that very much.” 

Paterson smiled too and thanked whatever god was out there that she wasn’t the type to argue about being walked home. He didn’t want anything to happen to her. 

“Well then, my Red Queen of hearts. Shall we go?” He got up, offered his hand and looked at doc for a split second. Doc just smiled and tipped his hat. 

The red queen just blushed and took his hand. “Lead on Mad hatter.” Paterson really liked this outcome of the night. It sure beats being a mad hatter alone. 

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Essay and Delivery Plan

LO6: Make judgements and present arguments through engagement with fundamental historical, cultural and ethical concepts and theories associated with your subject.

Engage in research into the background of the Alice books – why they were written, whether they have morals or license to be creative. What sets them apart from other children’s stories – they allow a more creative outlook on literature rather than books that are made with morals and lessons intact. Research the illustrations of John Tenniel and his tongue and cheek nature – why did they suit this book? What else did he illustrate for? What was the medium?

Research the background of all the Alice movies – incorporate the knowledge of Walt Disney pretty much leaving his animations to the Nine Old Men while he ran Disneyworld and focused on his empire. Write about the low success of Pinocchio and Fantasia, Walt’s “babies”, and how this affected the animation department and the outlook on Alice. Write about his major success as a major feature length movie animation studio, his rivals the Fleischer brothers and his early successes.

Sources: Walt Disney documentary, movies themselves, Animation History books, Alice book.

Carry on writing about Disney and how the animation studio has changed and morphed into something almost wholly 3D/CGI based, and how Tim Burton’s adaptation is both live action and CGI. Explain the benefits and compare/contrast with the original 1951 2D adaptation. Explain how animation is now such that a combination of live action/CGI is possible and both believable (NASA thought Gravity was real), but without the CGI it would be almost impossible – relate to Beauty and Beast live action CGI notes.

Explore cultural backgrounds of fairytales themselves - maybe the PowerfulJRE would help this? How could Alice’s story be used as a lesson or a moral - does it even have one? 

Create appropriate relations to theories - Christopher Vogler, Jamie Campbell, Christopher Booker, Vladimir Propp? (maybe). 

Points to Mention

 The plot; what type of narrative structure are they? How can they be compared and contrasted? What makes that particular type of structure good for that style of movie, if at all? Can it be compared to 3 or 5 act structure?

Does it follow a Hero’s Journey or Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale? If only one, suggest/discuss why the other adaptations do not, or whether they follow different types of narrative structure.

Visual storytelling; is it told or shown? (Hitchcock’s idea of “pure” cinema or things explained through dialogue.)

Aesthetics; what type of animation is it? Does this style suit the plot and overall theme of the movie? Refer to mise en scene and semiotics.

Fables and fairytales usually have morals or hidden messages. Do any of these adaptations contain any, and if so, what are they and how can they be compared? Are they the same?

Audience; who is it aimed at? How can you tell? Are they aimed at different audiences? What is the audience supposed to feel – what is the tone and genre? Are they any genre conventions?

History; write about the history surrounding each of these movies – political and historical. Explain how they came about, what it was like during the time they were being animated/created.

Introduction

Before Ozwald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse, there was Alice in Cartoonland – or “Alice Comedies”, 50 silent shorts featuring a live-action girl in a cartoon world.

This was the beginning of the Disney companies long withstanding relationship with Alice. Based on the characters from Lewis Carroll’s classic stories, Alice became the groundwork in which Disney’s reputation grew to what it is today.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” (Carroll and Pullman, 2015, pg. 182)

Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, after a boat ride down Folly Bridge in Oxford with companions Reverend Robinson Duckworth and the three daughters of Henry Liddell: Lorina Charlotte, Alice Pleasance, and Edith Mary.

Illustrated using etching (a style of printmaking) by Sir John Tenniel, one of the leading illustrators of the time who used his satirical and often radical cartoons as chief cartoon artist for Punch, a weekly magazine containing humour and satire.

Compared to other literature of the time (the Brothers Grimm), Alice was a revelation to Victorian society; a story without moral, rules or to inform children that if they behaved in a certain way then they would be punished.

“It’s sometimes said that Lewis Carroll’s Alice books were the origin of all children’s literature” “In Alice, for the first time, we find a realistic child taking part in a story whose intention was entirely fun.” (Carroll and Pullman, 2015, pg. VI)

Follows a ‘Voyage and Return’ story structure by Christopher Booker. The background of Voyage and Return stories is the protagonist voyaging from the real world into a fantasy world where “everything seems disconcertingly abnormal” (Booker, 2005, pg. 87)

In any story there must first be an inciting incident that “occurs toward, or at, the end of that first act, and the protagonist ‘falls down the rabbithole’.” (Yorke, 2014, pg. 30). Insert a figure with the customised structure done in Photoshop. In Alice’s case, her voyage and return was “just a dream” (Booker, 2005, pg. 106) and she learnt no moral or meaning from it, other than it was “what a wonderful dream it had been” (Carroll and Pullman, 2015, pg. 189).

Alice in Wonderland, 1951

“Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible.” “You mean impossible?” “No, impassible. Nothing’s impossible.” (Alice in Wonderland, 1951)

Based on both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Overall, the film stays closely related to the source material, with a majority of the dialogue being taken directly from the book itself.

During the times after the release of Walt’s beloved Fantasia and Pinoccio, which did not achieve the appreciation that he had hoped for, Walt’s creativity “was focused on his ideas for Disneyland and he left the animation department largely in the hands of his trusted ‘nine old men’” (Cavalier, 2011, pg. 154). Disney’s version of Alice was met with no better reviews than his vision, Fantasia, and The New York Times declared:

Meant to be animated as a piece of visual storytelling – where the images and movie itself tells the story, rather than the dialogue driving it.

Alice featured a much more striking and vibrant colour palette than that of its predecessors; movies such as Snow White and Bambi were created with muted colours in mind with fears that use of bright colour would distract from the emotion and make the feature length animation movies difficult to watch for 70 minutes of viewing time.

Created using ‘cel’ animation (coined because of the fact that each animation was drawn and painted on sheets of celluloid before being photographed), which is “achieved when ‘key drawings’ are produced indicating the ‘extreme’ first and last movement which are then ‘in-betweened’ to create the process of the move” (Wells, 2011, pg. 36).

The plot of the movie was carved out by first creating a soundtrack that documented the conflict and substantial meetings of characters, and then the animation was fleshed out to fit these songs and the voiceovers added afterward, this is called “proto-narrative”.

Fans of the Lewis Carroll classic disapproved of the “Disneyfication” (the removal of unpleasant plot elements and the act of making a story “safe” for younger audiences and their parents) of the movie, and Disney fans were “uncomfortable with the story’s surrealist episodes and the spiky and somewhat grotesque nature of the supporting characters.” (Cavalier, 2011, pg. 154)

Alice in Wonderland, 2010

“I’m not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.” (Alice in Wonderland, 2010)

More than 50 years after the release of the original Alice movie by Disney, it was recreated using a hybrid combination of live-action and CGI with Tim Burton as the figurehead director. 

(It is reminiscent of Burton’s macabre stop-motion animation films, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.)

It could almost be seen as a sequel to the 1951 version, as it occurs later in Alice’s life after she has already visited Wonderland – now dubbed “Underland” – and does not follow the original text plot, but draws characters and scenarios from it instead.

The colour palette used for Underland is very dark and muted (see figure), with special exceptions to that of the Mad Hatter (who wears crazy colour combinations that clash and draw your attention) and the Queen of Hearts (donned in a blood coloured crimson).

Alice as Animation

It would not be possible to fully recreate the story of Alice without the use of some type of animation essentially CGI. Fairy tales and fables contain whimsical elements and cause for special effects that cannot be recreated in any other way even with modern technology at the level it’s at – NASA complimented the accuracy of the portrayal of space from the film Gravity (“What I really liked was the feel of space, the look of space, what the earth looked like up on the big screen. It brought back a lot of memories very accurately.” (NASA, 2014) which could not have been achieved without the amount of special effects and CGI used to recreate space itself.

Similarly, the upcoming 2017 live-action adaptation of Beauty and Beast heavily relies on the ability to use CGI for the Beast’s appearance. “You’re only going to see Dan Stevens’ eyes essentially, the rest of him is going to be a CGI creation… He had to have his face covered in basically UV paint, a special new technology… and then he was plopped in front of 30 little cameras and then had to perform the facial part of the Beast” (Clark Collis, PEOPLE, 2017).

Features anthropomorphism (attributing human characteristics to things entirely unhuman such as animals and objects) in the form of the Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar, etc., something that “remains the constant locus of a great deal of animation.” (Wells, 1998, pg. 5)

Conclusion

Since its publication in 1865, Alice has resonated with people worldwide for its timeless story and fun adventures with “mad” characters. It continues to inspire pop culture to this day, and is used for inspiration in movies, books, television shows and games worldwide.