Alice in Wonderland

The weird thing about those two pictures right above where I'm writing is the fact that the man by himself on the left is Sir. Robert Helpmann the actor. The woman and man to the right are Lovely and Mr. Howell. That woman looks like Sir. Robert Helpmann. He was in a version of Alice in Wonderland that I watched last night. I am going to compare it the Tim Burton version a little later. The version I saw last night was called- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was directed by . The story is different then the Lewis Carroll story in some ways. They start out with a boat ride which is ironically, the assumption of how Lewis Carroll aka Lewis Dodgeson came up with the idea for Alice. As history tells it,

This is a small biography written in blog form by myself Jessica.

Lewis Carroll was born with the Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832. He was a very shy, solitary, and talented man as we all know. Lewis was an English author and mathematician.

Lewis completed his education at Christ Church Oxford and received a lectureship which he held for most his life. Lewis found his happiest moments in the company of children and he sought their attention and company.

A boating picnic with the Liddell sisters lead to the book Alice in Wonderland 1865.

History tells that the story was to entertain the three girls but then lead into, the real Alice, but then lead into the literary creation of Alice's Adventures Underground, with his own illustrations. With urging from friends, the story was polished and then with John Tenniel's illustrations with the present title. The reception of the book caused Carroll to write a sequel, Through the looking Glass, and what Alice found 1872.

The story of Alice is Carroll's most recognized work, but he also published a serious and pedantic works on logic and mathematics.

Although in this 1972 movie when Alice played by (Fiona Fullerton) was talking to the Caterpillar (Ralph Richardson) she did argue with him over the nursery rhyme that she spoke but he did not go into the poem himself. She kept singing because this movie is a musical.

That I want to add, is my personal opinion of the 1960s and 1970s. The people of that generation had to sing so that their clothes would make sense. Then they all got depressed and started to use drugs. That would also explain their clothes and wall paper choices. Anyway in this movie, the part where Alice comes out of her own tears, only to dance to get dry is much different. The song they sing is different then the one in the actual novel written by Lewis Carroll, and I might want add that as she fell through the rabbit hole, she did NOT get any Orange Marmalade. Moving on blah blah I saw Tim Burton's cover of the story the night it came out in theaters.

Oh yes I had to and I even made an attempt to have dinner out. I did the usual Jessica thing that I do when I get the money to go out and eat.

1. I ate alone.

2. I had an alcoholic drink.

This time it was designed by me. I ask them to put Absolute Vanilla Vodka with strawberries, Bananas, whip cream, and ice.

3. I ordered desert first, and then took my meal home for later.

4. I left a tip.

5. That night I did not sit at one of the tables with crayons so that was a first. I usually scribble all over the place. NO JOKE.

Then I went and sat with a room full of people to see what Tim Burton had in store for us all. He did keep up with the book to a certain level but he made it his own and it was a little different then the actual book. The cat is out of the bag and so its not like I'm giving it away for you by talking about it now. Ann Hathaway played the white Queen. It was like waiting on Glenda the good witch to pass the bong. I don't believe in doing drugs but she walked around like she was floating and wanted to break out in song. I swear I'm not lying. I am not saying that Ann Hathaway does DRUGS. NO SHE DOES NOT. I am saying that the way she carried herself was like that lady from the Progressive commercials that goes by Flow or fay. The one who is always ditsy and weird. You just feel like she is going to break out in song like some lame 1970's movie. No I'm NOT saying the lady fay or flow from the Progressive commercials does drugs either.

The only musical that I have ever seen that did not make me want to bark, was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I had to interject that. Okay back at it-
Then the best part was they finally showed off what that Red Queen did with all her severed heads from her subjects that she did not like. They put them in the water stream outside the castle. Alice had to walk over them. That was cool. Carter is one of my favorite actresses because she makes a face that is just igniting and no I'M NOT IN LOVE and NO I DO NOT WANT HER BODY. I swear I deal with morons. They have a two minute memory and honestly, have no idea what that crap sounds like when they mouth it. This is just my opinion. Although without the given that I'll sound narcissistic or self righteous- I think my opinion is special and not in a blue light red helmet kind of way. I like saying it how it is.

Let me tell you what I do not like- When you pick up a magazine and it says that there is a movie that is the must see of the year. Then you go see it only to be shown what should be the lamest attempt at giving people jobs so it looks like they do something for their money. You're bored and the only funny part of the movie is when you think about how lame it is. Then you think of ten ways to degrade it.

Oh and Avail Leven or whatever her name is. Did she ever figure out who the Ramones are? Yeah I heard on GMA that she was going to put out a special line of fashion for the Alice in Wonderland movie at Macey's or whatever. Does she even like Alice in Wonderland or is this one of those jump on the trains and hope to make a buck off it because most of her fans did not get their allowances yet and so royalties have not been coming in as fast? Was that a run on sentence? Okay well, my point is this- There are a lot of oh look a new whats in, and then you get everyone saying oh did you see me in it? Yeah we saw and still don't care. I am not saying don't better yourself. I am saying- DON'T FAKE IT. Oh I have always wanted to say this about that girl Avail. I picked up one of her CD's once (Yes I'm admitting it.) Well, it sucked. On her first album there is a song that gets played on the radio called Fake it or something like that. Ironically, there is a country song that is just like it. No joke. Its called complicated by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. I guess that is where Avail got her song. haha well I wouldn't know. That is an opinion. Country music is not that bad, its okay. There are a few good songs. That is not one of them. I am just saying. Okay well, I am going to upload some of my Alice stuff. I'm showing off now. I had a shitty day due to this weird EMO stalker that I have. He will not let me go and let a LOT of people see pictures he took of me without my permission.

Moving on-

Okay well I also picked up a book that for the first time in the history of my 30 years on this damn planet, I will not finish. It is called Alice in Sunderland. Bryan Talbot wrote a comic type book, that is Lewis Carroll going through the history of Sunderland the theater. I get it and its cool in a sense, but I do not care about Sunderland the theater. The coolest part of the book is the fact that Dark Horse published it. They put out the Hell Boy, and Emily the Strange comics. Other then that, we will not talk about it. The graphics in the book are respectable but I just don't care at to know about Sunderland.

The reason I have always loved Alice in Wonderland so much is probably because there is this similarity between my life and that story. The demanding red queen reminded me of my mother, and every little girl wants a white rabbit. Going through everything in life can be draining and it always seems like you are being stopped and questioned. No one said life was fair, but at times life comes off like it is one big obstacle. So the story just felt right as a child. It seemed like a true story when I was four years old. Now its the irony of my day. I loved picking flowers out of peoples yards when I was a little girl. I got into trouble for it so much. I would always go back and do it again. In the book of Alice in Wonderland she does love flowers and she talks about her cat as though it is a person. When you have a cat, they do seem like family. It is hard not to talk to them and expect them to do what you say. Cats do what they want, and it gets annoying. I do love the story of Alice in Wonderland and any time I find a version of it, even if I don't agree with it, I will pick it up and check it out. :)