In the long time, this wonderful adventure has been well-known to the world with the presentation of more than 50 languages, multiple dramas and film and television dramas. Now that it has been adapted into a movie again, in addition to special effects and 3D gimmicks, there should always be something special.
So we have reason to expect Tim Burton, a director known for his whimsy and gloomy style, to perform magic and give us a different kind of wonderland adventure story.
But we were wrong.
The movie "Alice in Wonderland" paints an almost perfect picture of dreamland, brilliant and colorful, weird and wonderful. Taking advantage of "Avatar", a 3D movie was specially produced, and the effect is naturally good. Computer special effects are not breathtaking, but they are exquisite and appropriate enough to serve the story well.
Of course, if there is a story.
From the moment Alice entered the tree hole, the plot of the film has been developing completely out of control, and it has spread wantonly without convincing dramatic tension and character conflicts, making people look at it without thinking. Because of the guidance of a so-called "imperial calendar", the original leisurely and comfortable roaming turned into a hurried journey guided by fatalism, and ended with an inexplicable business plan.
The story of the film can be said to be a mess, empty and nothing, ruining Depp and Helena's hard performance.
Bolton really messed up this time! Didn't he even plan to tell a good story? !
the answer is negative. From the film, it is still not difficult to see his deep and distinctive personal style. The grotesque and charming characters, the eerie and weird atmosphere, the quirky character, and the most important point: there is no simple and straightforward distinction between good and evil.
The nominal villain of the movie is the most eye-catching Queen of Hearts. The big-headed doll's shape and serious expression are impressive, but she has never succeeded in killing anyone by shouting and beheading throughout the story. Instead, she can be easily killed. The prisoner persuaded; likes to warm his feet with pig belly, loves sour plum snacks, leisure activities are just playing hedgehog golf with birds as clubs; what he does is just because he is born big and he wants to be loved by others, but in the end he is loved by others. betray.
When she found out that she was deceived and betrayed by her subordinates and cronies, the words she said to her lover can be the most straightforward expression of her character connotation: "Terror is more useful than cute." On the
other hand, the white queen should be a positive figure. , White hair is like snow, delicate skin is frosty, she should have been icy and clean, she just painted black lipstick, suggesting that her heart is not as pure as fame and appearance; pretending to be pretentious, pretending to be a lady and noble; making magic The materials used in the potion, such as fingers, spit, and urine, are the same as those of the evil old witch; using beauty and cuteness as the capital and using all available creatures, in the name of goodness, it is the reality of seizing imperial power.
When she learned from a dog that Alice was in the danger of the Queen of Hearts, instead of showing the slightest worry, she said, "She can go there just to find the Buddha Pan Sword." She revealed her true face without concealment.
As for Alice, she thinks that I am the master of my dreams. As a result, the lessons repeatedly reminded her that there are no dreams, no peach blossoms, and some only reality in this world. In this dreamlike but incomparably real world, she has no chance to make a decision alone. From being hunted down at the beginning to slaying a dragon with a sword, everything seems to be her own choice, but in fact, she was driven by a duck to the shelves. In the simplest example, she didn’t even know what the Queen of Hearts did. Everyone just instilled in her the idea of “The Queen of Hearts is evil and must be defeated”, just as she didn’t understand the White Queen at all but was ignorant. It's like starting to work hard for it. Choosing to kill the dragon was also threatened by the White Queen's hypocritical unwillingness to kill? Not to mention that the end of the story has long been predicted by the "Imperial Calendar", and Alice is just a puppet without a thread.
The various strange performances and lines of the Mad Hatter all indicate that he has had a unique experience and a richer inner world, but the film’s portrayal of this character is always superficial, making it appear to be "crazy", really nothing What else.
It can be seen that the director Bolton had an idea. He originally wanted to adapt the film into a story of two unscrupulous and impure women who are unscrupulous and unscrupulously fighting for power. If every character takes this tone as the starting point to plump up and deduce a not-so-beautiful intrigue that takes place in a wonderful wonderland, Alice will gradually return to her own opinion and standpoint from the beginning of her headlessness, breaking the "imperial calendar". With the established prophecies and the true establishment of inner beliefs, this film will definitely be more interesting than it is now.
So why did the film become so unbearable?
Let’s take a look at Tim Burton’s resume to see why:
“Tim Burton was born in Bambo City, California, USA in 1958. After graduating from high school, he went to the California Academy of Art, which was a Disney company painting at the time. An important source of the teacher. After graduation, Bolton also naturally went to Disney to become an animator and participated in the production of some traditional cartoons. Disney appreciated his talent and asked him to create an animated short film. "Vincent" (1982) depicts the world of a 7-year-old boy. This film was well received by critics, but it was considered by Disney to be too dark and unsuitable for children to watch, so it was not allowed to be released. Later, he created it again. "Frankenweenie" (1984), a 29-minute live-action short film based on the legend of Frankenstein was also not released because it was deemed unsuitable for children."
After that, most of the films shot by Bolton were Warner. Investment, some of them are made by Fox, but they have nothing to do with Disney, a company that can't even tolerate "jesus christ" in its lines.
Until this "Alice in Wonderland".
Disney did not allow Bolton to be dark, and now Disney has no reason to let him do whatever he wants, especially for such a fairy tale that is widely circulated around the world. You can adapt it, but you can never subvert it.
As a result, even though Bolton tried his best to stick to his ideas in the film, he finally compromised under Disney’s “surveillance” and concealed the essence of the film, and gave almost a share to the fans who were looking forward to it. It is a defective product of the draft.
Who can we blame?
Just like the white queen and the red queen in the movie. Disney insists on its "purity", but what it really wants is the box office. Bolton insisted on his "darkness," but he was no match for the investor's skills.
Because of the excellent box office performance of "Avatar" in mainland China, the ending of "Alice" was bluntly added with a plot of flattery to China, nakedly asking the people of the motherland for the box office. As of March 25, the film’s global box office of nearly $600 million should be enough to make some people celebrate.
This is the world we live in. There is no wonderland that can be fulfilled, and some are just reality.
Allow me to end this review with the end of the novel "Alice in Wonderland".
"Even though she knew that she was just relived an old dream, everything would return to reality: the wormwood just rang in the wind, and the ripples of the pool water swayed the reeds. The clash of the teacup was actually the sound of bells on the neck of the sheep, and the queen's scream It originated from the eating and drinking of the shepherd boy. The sneeze of the pig boy, the scream of the griffin and all kinds of strange noises were originally just various noises in the busy season in the countryside. The groaning of the cattle in the distance, in the dream Turned into the weeping of a soft-shelled turtle."
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