Alice Through the Looking Glass
Barnholtz Entertainment version.
The story starts out with a very tired mother reading the story of the looking glass house to her daughter. It turns out to be a wonderfully delightful telling of the story, ranking, at least for me, as one of the very best movies about Alice ever done.
The daughter gets her mother to look at the mirror and believe and, when she does, she sees a different room. The mother in the mirror is wearing a different dress.
Suddenly Alice, the mother, is now on the other side of the looking glass. (It has already been established that Alice was sleepy, though, so it's obvious that she fell asleep and is dreaming this.)
Alice is now dressed in the traditional Alice outfit.
The White Queen and the White King are moving along the rug together.
The movie sticks with the traditional story where Alice helps the White Queen up to the table to be with the pawn baby.
Alice finds a book about the Jabberwocky.
Alice goes outside the house. The photography in this movie is excellent, the color very rich. Alice, by the way, has suddenly sprouted wings, explaining how she can fly.
Tiger Lily, the flower.
Some of the flowers. I can already tell I will like this movie a lot. They are using the basic story, which is good, but interpreting it artistically in a way that is beautiful and sensible, both.
Alice meets the red Queen.
Alice gets to see the chessboard layout of the land.
Train tracks and a tunnel. Another example of just how good the photography is in the film.
Another thing that the movie is doing well is making use of portals, allowing Alice to get from point A to point B in a logical manner without just suddenly having her change locations like most films do.
The first view of the train car. Again, beautiful photography. In a moment, though, there will be lots of other beings there.
An invisible wasp talks to her while she's on the train. Then something happens and she's off the train, but the wasp is still with her.
The wasp suddenly becomes human.
The rocking-horse fly.
A snapdragon fly.
A bread-and-butterfly. Again, the movie is making a very logical move as the wasp is having Alice name insects she knows, and he then points out corresponding insects that live there.
The Tweedles. Notice that their names are spelled backwards which makes sense considering writing from our side appears as backwards writing on theirs. Also, Alice suddenly has a lot of purple ribbons entwined in her hair.
The Tweedles are not reciting The Walrus and the Carpenter. The scenery changes to fit the poem. The film is also using a mix of actors and stop-motion animation.
The oysters. Another thing that is so interesting that, instead of telling the story in obvious poetic form, the Tweedles are talking to each other like normal.
The Walrus, the Carpenter, and the oysters.
The Red King snoring.
Later Alice enters a house to get away from a crow.
She meets the White Queen.
The place has its own newspaper. Alice, by the way, thinks shes seven-and-a-half years old.
In the sheep/White Queen's store. Notice the ornaments in Alice's hair keep changing. I wonder if the longer she stays in that place the more she loses her self of her real self? At least that would explain why she thinks she's so young.
Another portal opens.
Humpty Dumpty. Now that's a wall!
Humpty Dumpty explains the Jabberwocky poem.
A bunch of soldiers suddenly appear. These were obviously the ones that were on their way to fix Humpty Dumpty who has fallen from his wall. Alice ends up going through another portal and here is a problem, as she has gone through a bunch of them but most of them seem to end up with her in the same place, just a little further on.
The White King says he's sent his soldiers to fix the egg.
The Hare messenger.
The Red Knight.
Then the White Knight arrives.
A poem the White Knight relates is told in the form of a black-and-white film.
They are including The Wasp portion of the story which is sometimes left out.
The Wasp in human form.
Alice gets her crown.
The leg of mutton at the feast.
Alice meets the pudding.
The party for Queen Alice.
Alice wakes up in her daughter's bedroom.
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