Alice in Wonderland -- BBC 1966
March 17th 2010 14:53
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland gradually differs from the original Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll.
Yet, fans of the film starring Johnny Depp flock to the movie theaters keeping Burton’s film at the top of the box office.
Still, there is another, even more farfetched version than Carroll could ever fancy. Directed by Jonathan Miller, reveals a surreal, gothic version of the Carroll’s fantasy.
Miller’s masterpiece was filmed for the BBC in 1966 and stars acting legends Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Peter Cook and Leo McKern, with dreamlike music written and performed by Ravi Shankar.
In this Alice, an enigmatic young girl wanders through a Victorian landscape populated by the most bizarre and astonishing characters. Alice gently questions each one in turn, subtly mocking their middle-class English values. Packed with extras from the BBC vault, this Alice in Wonderland is something to behold and wonder at the imagination of Miller.
Before you pop the movie into the DVD player, make sure you tell your children that this is a completely different story than the one you’ve read to them or the one they’ve seen recently at the movie theaters. It’s very British and chatty – with a rather 1960’s attitude toward the middle-class. Alice as a British hippy, hmmm.
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