Alice Movie Off The Ground

After a long period of preproduction, the movie adaptation of American McGee's Alice is moving forward. Eurogamer has the news that 'Buffy' star Sarah Michelle Gellar will play the title role. From the article: "The movie will follow the plot of the game, which adds a twisted spin to Lewis Carroll's classic tales. Some years after her adventures in Wonderland, Alice's parents are killed in a house fire and, devastated by the loss, she winds up in a mental asylum."

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Dementation of already odd tales

[mister_llah]

... seems to be a trend in film and theater these days. Alice in an institution, the Wicked Witch being portrayed as the victim of Dorothy in "Wicked" (on broadway) ... http://www.wickedthemusical.com/ ... if you are the curious sort...

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I think it's all well and good to try and come up with new ideas, but in a way, I am starting to dislike the trend of taking childhood films and turning them into something not intended for children.

Next they'll have "The New Adventures of the Smurfs" ... it'll be triple X, and you know where this is going, so I'll shut the smurf up.

Re:Dementation of already odd tales

[Jerf]

Yes.

It may not be Hellraiser, but the term "Fairy Tale" has been pretty whitewashed since the Brothers Grimm chronicled them. If you go expecting stories about Jack jumping over the candlestick, you'll be surprised.

Modern times differs only in our ability to graphically depict gore without actually hurting anybody; the fascination isn't new.

Re:Dementation of already odd tales

[Elwood P Dowd]

It's rather educational. Definitely don't read it to your kids without preparing yourself and checking the whole story beforehand.

For example, one of Cinderella's stepsisters was doing fine with Prince Charming, until the fields whispered to him "Dude, check out her foot! Check out her foot!" and he looked and saw that she had severed her heel in order to fit into the glass slipper and she was bleeding everywhere.

Also for example, there is a story that's only one page long about Rose Red: This little boy disobeys his mother and goes out into the forest and meets Rose Red. Then, exactly one year later, the boy dies in his bed and his mother finds a red rose on the doorstep. No, it's not too upsetting, but that's the whole story.

Most of the stories are gory and weird. Yes, German people are twisted, but IMHO there is something to be said for telling your children about twisted shit. This is expounded upon in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, and he cites The Raven (By Coleridge, not Poe) as an excellent example.

ADDS a twisted spin?

[Gulthek]

You mean their wasn't twisted nature to that book already? Or does the submitter mean that the happy spin added by Disney is twisted back to the creepiness of the book with this movie?

wrong actress...

[Allison Geode]

should have gotten Christina Ricci for Alice. she already looks the part, at least, and i can see her doing the mentally unstable goth in a strange land better than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Re:wrong actress...

[ultramk]

I'm not sure you get the character very well. She's the epitome of the little-blond-good-girl, until her life is ripped apart and she becomes... twisted.

So you need a hollow-eyed blond waif who has her mind... corrupted innocence. SMG might actually work for this. Though I would prefer someone like Alicia Silverstone (too old now I guess).

Christina Ricci, on the other hand, seems like she was born that way. Remember her as Wednesday Addams?

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