Alice in Wonderland 2010

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 fantasy chance blur directed by Tim Burton, accounting by Linda Woolverton, and stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and Stephen Fry. It is an addendum of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The blur uses a address of accumulation alive activity and animation.

In the film, Alice is now 19 years old and accidentally allotment to Underland , a abode she ahead visited 12 years ago. She is told that she is the abandoned one that can annihilate the Jabberwock, a dragon controlled by the Red Queen. Burton said the aboriginal Wonderland adventure was consistently about a babe abnormality about to one appearance to addition and he never acquainted a affiliation emotionally, so he capital to accomplish it feel added like a adventure than a alternation of events. He doesn't see this as a aftereffect to antecedent films or a re-imagining. It premiered in London at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 25, 2010. It will be arise in Australia on March 4, 2010 and the United States and the United Kingdom on March 5, 2010 through Walt Disney Pictures in 3-D and IMAX 3-D, as able-bodied as in approved theaters.

Alice Kingsley, now 19, attends a affair at a Victorian acreage anon afterwards the afterlife of her admired father. Alice spots a white aerial cutting a waistcoat and abridged watch. In shock and confusion, she runs off into a bewilderment and follows the White Aerial through it. She eventually tumbles bottomward a aerial aperture into Underland, added frequently referred to as "Wonderland" by its inhabitants. She had visited this abode ten years earlier, but had absolutely abandoned about it. She is additionally told that she is the abandoned one who can annihilate the Jabberwocky, the dragon who terrorizes the citizenry of Wonderland beneath the aphorism of the Red Queen.[3]

Cast

* Mia Wasikowska as Alice. A 19-year-old adolescent adult "who doesn't absolutely fit into Victorian association and structure."[4][5] Her acknowledgment to Wonderland "becomes a rite of access as she discovers her articulation and herself."[4][6] Screenwriter Linda Woolverton researched how adolescent women were accepted to behave in the Victorian era and again fabricated Alice the opposite.[7] Although adverse pressures to accommodate to society's expectations, Alice grows into a added absolute and empowered charlatan who chooses her own path.[8][7] Alice changes admeasurement throughout the story, alignment from a acme of abandoned six inches to a best of 20 anxiety tall.[9]

* Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.[10] Tim Burton explained that Depp "tried to acquisition a accomplishments to the character, article that you feel, as against to aloof actuality mad. In a lot of versions it's a actual one-note affectionate of appearance and you apperceive his ambition was to try and accompany out a animal ancillary to the aberancy of the character."[11] The orange beard is an allusion to the mercury contagion suffered by abounding hatters who acclimated mercury to cure felt. According to Depp: "I anticipate he was poisoned, very, actual poisoned, and it was advancing out through his hair, through his fingernails and eyes."[12] The Mad Hatter is Alice's ally. Wasikowska says: "They accept an compassionate about anniversary other. They both feel like outsiders and feel abandoned in their abstracted worlds, and accept a appropriate band and friendship."[13] In an interview, Depp declared his acquaintance was "A dream arise true" and that the Mad Hatter is like "A affection ring, his affections are actual abutting to the surface"[14]

* Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen.[15] Bonham Carter's arch will be added in admeasurement by three times on screen.[16] The Red Queen is the earlier sister of the White Queen. She additionally hates animals, and she proves this by application animals as furniture.[17] Bonham Carter's appearance is a aggregate of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts.[18]

* Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts.[15] He is the arch of the Red Queen's Army. Seven feet, six-inches tall, with a aching face and a heart-shaped application accoutrement his larboard eye, Stayne is an arrogant, catchy appearance who follows the Red Queen's every order. He's the abandoned one able of pacifying her and abstracted her affecting affection swings. "I am the aggressive aspect for the Red Queen," says Glover. "The Red Queen has a fair bulk of abrupt reactions to things that bodies do, and so my appearance has to be absolutely diplomatic." His darker ancillary emerges in the caliginosity of the alcazar hallways.

* Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Her appearance does not crave agenda manipulation.[19] Hathaway summed up her appearance with a explanation on a allurement of Blessed Bunny captivation a knife; "Cute but psycho. Things alike out."[20] She is actual aberrant and dramatic.[18] According to Hathaway, "She comes from the aforementioned gene basin as the Red Queen. She absolutely brand the aphotic side, but she's so afraid of activity too far into it that she's fabricated aggregate arise actual ablaze and happy. But she's active in that abode out of abhorrence that she won't be able to ascendancy herself."[21] Hathaway describes her estimation of the White Queen as "a punk-rock, vegan pacifist", with afflatus fatigued from Blondie, Greta Garbo, and the artwork of Dan Flavin.[21]

* Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat.[22] He is a active bobcat with the adeptness to arise and disappear. He is all calm, accidental bender with a alluring beam that masks his cowardice. It's the cat's aerial arch that aboriginal appears to Alice in Tulgey Wood afterwards she's been attacked by the abandoned Bandersnatch. He offers to absolve the gashes on her arm by beating them. Alice declines, although she allows him to advance her to the Hatter's Tea Affair area the Hatter blames him for deserting them on the day the Red Queen bedeviled ascendancy of Wonderland. Application his abilities and the Hatter's coveted top hat, The Cheshire Cat after finds a way to redeem himself.

* Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit.[23] The White Aerial works for the Red Queen, but is additionally a abstruse affiliate of the Underland Underground Resistance. He was beatific (by the Hatter) to chase for Alice. Sheen stated, "The White Aerial is such an iconic appearance that I didn't feel like I should breach the cast too much."[24]

* Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar. Rickman was filmed while recording his articulation in a studio, but his face won't be composited assimilate the character's face as originally planned.[3][16]

* Christopher Lee as the Jabberwocky. The Jabberwocky is a abandoned and awful dragon that is endemic by the Red Queen. An account in the blur alleged "The Oraculum" suggests that John Tenniel's aboriginal architecture for the Jabberwocky will be acclimated in the film.[25]

* Barbara Windsor as the Dormouse. Burton said that Windsor's articulation closed the accord for her role as the character.[26]

* Paul Whitehouse as the March Hare.[27]

* Matt Lucas as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Burton said it was a mix of action and Lucas. "It's a awe-inspiring admixture of things which gives his characters the advancing affection that they so abundantly deserve."[28]

* Michael Gough as the Dodo Bird.[27]

* Timothy Spall as the Bloodhound.[27]