Warm Regards wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 2:07 pmWalt tried to alter the storyline to fit the cartoon needs, at one time expanding the role of the White Knight as hero-rescuer. But he was intimidated by the threats of Lewis Carroll purists, and he returned to the original story. During storyboard sessions, Walt tried to maintain his normal enthusiasm, but it was difficult. Animation was as tedious as the story development. Walt kept asking his animators why the drawing was taking so much time. The unspoken answer was that the animators weren’t enjoying it. The animators sometimes arrived at brilliant invention, but it was punishing work. Everyone felt relief when Alice in Wonderland was finished. Especially Walt. He vowed never again to undertake a tamperproof classic.
We now have another credible source reporting on Walt's frustration with Alice and not wanting to adapt classic literature.
Walt was delighted that Mary Poppins had become a hit — grossing about $30 million — but still was angry that, years earlier, he’d been talked into making Alice in Wonderland. “Idiots think whimsy can be easily translated to the screen,” he groused. He resented being pressured to finance a movie based on Don Quixote, sensing that “we’d be crucified if that doesn’t turn out perfectly.” Walt complained that “we’ll do better with The Ugly Dachshund than trying to make classics.”
I'm glad he made Alice in Wonderland though, even if it is a little boring. I think most people when they think of Wonderland, they think of Alice and the Queen of Hearts similar to the way they look in the Disney animated film even if they're not necessarily attached to that film itself.
I think a film with a White Knight love interest would have been very interesting, I almost wish he'd went through with it. It would've had a bittersweet ending when she had to "wake up."
Listening to most often lately:
Taylor Swift ~ ~ "The Fate of Ophelia"
Taylor Swift ~ "Eldest Daughter"
Taylor Swift ~ "CANCELLED!"
