Each and everyone is, as with the more straightforwardly human characters, a masterpiece of design and performance.
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But the design of the Disney versions and the voice artistes add extra dimensions.ĭisney Creatures: Many of the characters Alice meets in Wonderland are anthropomorphised characters - sometimes to the extent of wearing clothes and behaving exactly like humans (such as the March Hare, the Walrus and the Dodo) or sometimes merely being talking versions of the 'normal' animals(such as the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar). Each one is a memorable creation and that is, of course, mainly due to the talents of Lewis Carrol as a writer creating these bizarre people in the first place. There are, however, many comedy characters such as the Mad Hatter, the Carpenter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the various playing cards (particularly the ones who are painting the roses red). Dinah, Alice's cat, is the closest Alice gets to a sidekick and she appears only in the first and last scenes of the story. There are recurring characters, most obviously the White Rabbit, but for the majority of the film Alice moves alone from one encounter to the next. In a way, though, the Queen is as 'mad' as everyone else in Wonderland and the topsy-turvy world would seem to be in constant chaos, so I'm not entirely sure we can believe the Queen of Hearts actually has any sort of control over anyone.ĭisney Sidekicks: For the duration of the film, Alice doesn't really have a 'sidekick' as such. The Queen still rules Wonderland and is free, it would seem, to continue abusing her subjects. All Alice manages to do is to escape Wonderland and the Queen's desire for Alice to lose her head. She rules Wonderland with fear and at the end of the film hasn't been 'defeated' by Alice. Interestingly, the Queen is one of the few villains who is actually a 'winner'. The comical edge to her character is what, I think, leaves her a little outside of the usual collection of villains (Malificent, Ursula, Scar, Hook, the Evil Queen, Jafar etc) and also the fact that her ambitions seem quite small scale a game of croquet where she wins. The Queen of Hearts is a proper scenery-chewing character with her catchphrase of 'Off with their head!' and her larger than life personality and appearance. There is no magic character arriving to give her a hand and no hero to carry her off into the sunset.ĭisney Villain: Alice in Wonderland gives the Disney canon one of its most enduring villains, although one who is often sidelined when other villains are around. Alice is a character who solves her own problems.
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It puts the focus solely on Alice and it's refreshing, in a way, to have a female character who isn't looking for love, or rescued by a handsome prince at the close of the story.
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There are some male characters, although these are few and far between and are, more often than not, non-human. The way she stands up to the Queen of Hearts makes her unique - up to this point as none of our other Disney heroines have ever actually confronted the villain of their film - indeed an actual hero/villain confrontation is rare across all the films, although that is partly because some of the films don't have a definite villain in the way we've become used to in Disney films.ĭisney Hero: If Alice is an atypical villain, then Alice in Wonderland is also atypical in that it doesn't have any sort of hero character. Her increasing frustrations with the various characters she encounters make her very sympathetic, culminating in her almost giving up in the Tulgey Wood.
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Curiosity is Alice's downfall, but her adventures in Wonderland show her to be determined, brave and no-nonsense. But here, finally, is Alice in WonderlandĪ Disney Tale: A young girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a strange land filled with bizarre characters.ĭisney Heroine: Alice is an extremely likeable character who continues a tradition of female-led movies and after the much stronger Cinderella, Alice manages to continue on a positive path. It's been a while since I posted a review of a Disney film as part of my ongoing blog/website.