Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:53 pm
Disneykid, I read some of your review, will read more later, but I have to comment on some things now:
Actually, it's really just the idea that Wonderland should be bright and colorful. Remember way back, when I said Mary Blair put a lot of gray and dark colors in her Alice artwork to make Wonderland look underground? I still haven't read far enough into The Art and Flair of Mary Blair to find out if it is true or not, but until then, I must say I think that just makes sense and I think that would make Wonderland a mix of bright and dark, vivid and dim.
Also, the drabber colors also feel right to me in the way that I think of England, especially Victorian England, as dull and gray. And I think you know Woncerland's connections to and satire of Victorian England. The droll ways of the English also make me feel it just fits their sensibilities. And even further, somehow the duller, grayer colors remind me of, well, a book with black & white illustrations, like the original books were illustrated in black and white.
But above all, the reason Wonderland perhaps should be darker is because it matches how the world makes Alice feel and how she feels. Alice is trapped in a world that seems fun and is what she thought she wanted, but it actually turns out to be a scary place, that even makes her sad and lost. A, well, dark place. Hence, dark colors. Also, the idea it's in her mind, in the dark recesses of her foggy mind, "gray matter", that fuzzy grayness in our mind, etc.
So, I'm really just offering a possible argument for the darker, duller, grayer colors to be a good/right thing, for your consideration.
Oh, and one more thing, I caught the part about you saying it didn't make so much sense to find the White Rabbit when more interesting things she wanted were around her. But I think she thought, as I did as a child and I guess others do, that the Rabbit was going to something important, perhaps even held the one thing she always dreamed of that was better than the other things around her. She didn't want to miss whatever it was he had that the other things didn't have. And when children get fixated on something, they want to stick with it till they get it. She does enjoy the other things, too, but when not preoccupied with them, the White Rabbit is the goal she never yet reached. And it turns out he does lead her to the most extraordinary, exciting part of Wonderland. The ruling heart of the land, a queen, a castle, an upper class game, a courtroom, and the climax.
Actually, it's really just the idea that Wonderland should be bright and colorful. Remember way back, when I said Mary Blair put a lot of gray and dark colors in her Alice artwork to make Wonderland look underground? I still haven't read far enough into The Art and Flair of Mary Blair to find out if it is true or not, but until then, I must say I think that just makes sense and I think that would make Wonderland a mix of bright and dark, vivid and dim.
Also, the drabber colors also feel right to me in the way that I think of England, especially Victorian England, as dull and gray. And I think you know Woncerland's connections to and satire of Victorian England. The droll ways of the English also make me feel it just fits their sensibilities. And even further, somehow the duller, grayer colors remind me of, well, a book with black & white illustrations, like the original books were illustrated in black and white.
But above all, the reason Wonderland perhaps should be darker is because it matches how the world makes Alice feel and how she feels. Alice is trapped in a world that seems fun and is what she thought she wanted, but it actually turns out to be a scary place, that even makes her sad and lost. A, well, dark place. Hence, dark colors. Also, the idea it's in her mind, in the dark recesses of her foggy mind, "gray matter", that fuzzy grayness in our mind, etc.
So, I'm really just offering a possible argument for the darker, duller, grayer colors to be a good/right thing, for your consideration.
Oh, and one more thing, I caught the part about you saying it didn't make so much sense to find the White Rabbit when more interesting things she wanted were around her. But I think she thought, as I did as a child and I guess others do, that the Rabbit was going to something important, perhaps even held the one thing she always dreamed of that was better than the other things around her. She didn't want to miss whatever it was he had that the other things didn't have. And when children get fixated on something, they want to stick with it till they get it. She does enjoy the other things, too, but when not preoccupied with them, the White Rabbit is the goal she never yet reached. And it turns out he does lead her to the most extraordinary, exciting part of Wonderland. The ruling heart of the land, a queen, a castle, an upper class game, a courtroom, and the climax.
No one's hair should be as golden as Aurora's! Aurora is supposed to have magically beautiful hair that has the "gold of sunshine" in it from Flora's Gift of Beauty! As for how Wonderland should look, see what I wrote above.Victurtle wrote:hahahaha. The older one makes the movie sooooo dark which I never understood as Alice in Wonderland is all about a bright and colorful, albeit twisted, world. Finally Alice's hair is as golden as Aurora's!
Anyhow seeing as the fairies are now extinct, I don't think their magic is all it's made up to be. They even admit that themselves, that their powers weren't as strong as maleficent's.
