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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."
... 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...
... it'll be triple X, and you know where this is going, so I'll shut the smurf up.
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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"
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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?
Disney never believed that...
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Alice in Wonderland - British
Mary Poppins - British
Lion King - Africa
Mulan - China
Disney - American company
Spielburg and Cruise will be ruining War of the Worlds. Luckily, a recent British adaptation of the movie was just released, and available on DVD in America now.
Americans can't relate to things that happen to people who aren't American in countries that aren't the US.
Very true. This is why "Casablanca" did so poorly, and why nobody goes to James Bond movies in the US. Or Harry Potter movies.
Also, "Titanic" might not have lost so much money if Rose was American. Too bad, that film looked like it had a chance to make a few bucks.
I could go on all day rattling off failures like "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", and "The Passion of the Christ." If only they had American main characters, they might have made money in US theaters.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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.
"Americans can't relate to things that happen to people who aren't American in countries that aren't the US."
Just remember that whatever country you're from has ugly ill-based stereotypes, too.
"Derp de derp."
Here's hoping American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake will make it to the big screen soon, too.
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It will join such classics as Resident Evil the movie , The Mario brothers movie , Alien VS predator(comic as well but still fits in here) , Tomb Raider.... Oh wait they were all pretty much terrible .
It will need a miracle to make this conversion anything beyond awful , the best of which being Tomb raider and it was fairly poor.
Game to movie conversions have for some strange reason (perhaps its the total disregard for the plot (Mario) or the shoddy acting and poor scripts (most of them))
I am not getting any hopes up here , lets hope for a pleasant surprise though
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
"Just remember that whatever country you're from has ugly ill-based stereotypes, too."
I resent the flamebait moderation for my post. Some people spout off like their shit don't stink. I was pointing out that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't be so quick to cast stones.
Ever since the US invaded Iraq, there's been a green light to wrap up 300 million people in vague stereotypes. We're fat, we're self obsessed, we're wasteful, we're ignorant. Insightful, Interesting, Informative. Then we turn around and pat ourselves on the back for wanting to work for the greater good of humanity. It's about America, so it's not okay for me to point out the less than civil behaviour going on here?
America sucks, mod me up.
"Derp de derp."
Disney may not have believed it, but the marketing droids do. And much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, they have the focus group studies to prove it. Keep in mind that Alice in Wonderland and Mary Poppins were made in the 60's, before the marketing droids took over. Lion King and Mulan are essentially Americans in Africa and China.
You also wouldn't believe the number of movies made with English, Australian, or New Zealand accents that are 'dubbed' into American. I've often found myself watching a movie and realizing that the whole cast is British or from down under, and wondering what the hell happened to their accents. It is believed that the British accents are too hard for Americans to understand. Likewise, sad endings can often destroy a movie at the box office--which is why many movies have multiple endings shot, and the happiest ending is almost always used after showing it to a test audience. The final product that ships to the theatres often sickens almost everyone involved in it. In some cases, the original tragic ending was the whole point of the movie. Some potentially great movies have had their guts slashed out and left on the cutting room floor (David Lynch's Dune is one that comes to mind--even Frank Herbert loved the original, but the studio hated it.)
So yeah, you're getting crap dished to you. As P.T. Barnum put it, nobody ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American public. That statement has become the motto of the marketer. Lucky us.
"The Passion of the Christ." If only they had American main characters, they might have made money in US theaters.
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Wait! Wasn't Jesus American? I mean, I know he wasn't Jew...