Comments on: Curiouser and Curiouser: Alice on Film http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/curiouser-and-curiouser-alice-on-film/ From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Krasnoff http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/curiouser-and-curiouser-alice-on-film/comment-page-1/#comment-14256 Barbara Krasnoff Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:00:03 +0000 http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/?p=8331#comment-14256 Great list. But one major Alice film that you left out is Dreamchild, written by Dennis Potter. Based on a true incident (but completely fictionalized), it's about the elderly Alice (formerly Liddle) who travels to America to help celebrate the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth. In the beginning, she rejects her role in the mythos surrounding the tales, but at the end she comes to term with the tale and her relationship to "Carroll." It's a fabulous film, in both senses of the word; there are wonderful flashbacks to her childhood and how she is doted upon by and then (as an adolescent) rejects Dodgson, and fantasy sequences of scenes from the books that are creepy in a way that Potter always did so well. A scene near the end where the elderly Alice talks (in her mind?) with the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle always makes me sniffle. Great list. But one major Alice film that you left out is Dreamchild, written by Dennis Potter. Based on a true incident (but completely fictionalized), it’s about the elderly Alice (formerly Liddle) who travels to America to help celebrate the centenary of Lewis Carroll’s birth. In the beginning, she rejects her role in the mythos surrounding the tales, but at the end she comes to term with the tale and her relationship to “Carroll.” It’s a fabulous film, in both senses of the word; there are wonderful flashbacks to her childhood and how she is doted upon by and then (as an adolescent) rejects Dodgson, and fantasy sequences of scenes from the books that are creepy in a way that Potter always did so well.

A scene near the end where the elderly Alice talks (in her mind?) with the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle always makes me sniffle.

]]>