fiction.wikisort.org - MovieAlice through the Looking Glass is a 1998 British fantasy television film, based on Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and starring Kate Beckinsale.
For other productions, see Through the Looking Glass (disambiguation).
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Based on | Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll |
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Screenplay by | Nick Vivian[1] |
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Directed by | John Henderson[2] |
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Starring | Kate Beckinsale Ian Holm Siân Phillips Geoffrey Palmer |
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Theme music composer | Dominik Scherrer[1] |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
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Original language | English |
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Producers | Trevor Eve,[3] Simon Johnson, and Paul Frift[1] |
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Cinematography | John Ignatius[1] |
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Editor | David Yardley[1] |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
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Production companies |
- Projector Productions
- Channel 4
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Original network | Channel 4 |
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Original release |
- 26 December 1998 (1998-12-26)
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The film was released on DVD in 2005.[4]
Plot
The film opens with a mother (Kate Beckinsale) reading Through the Looking Glass to her daughter Alice (Charlotte Curley). The mother then finds herself travelling through the bedroom mirror into Looking-Glass Land and becoming Alice, but remains an adult.[2]
Alice finds a book containing "Jabberwocky", in mirror writing, and sees chess pieces coming to life. She goes out into a garden with talking flowers. There, she meets the Red Queen from the chess board (Sian Phillips), who shows her that the landscape is laid out like a gigantic chessboard. She will make Alice a queen if she can get as far as the eighth row. Alice becomes one of the White Queen's pawns, and gets into a train that takes her directly to the fourth row. In a wood, the Gnat (Steve Coogan) teaches her about the looking-glass insects. In crossing the wood where things have no names, she forgets her own name, but it comes back on the other side. Next she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Gary Olsen and Marc Warren), who recite the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", with the Red King (Michael Medwin) asleep under a tree. The brothers get ready to fight but run away, frightened by a giant crow.
The White Queen (Penelope Wilton) arrives and shows her powers of precognition. With her, Alice goes forward into the fifth row by crossing a stream in a rowing boat, but the Queen is then turned into the Sheep.
Alice enters the sixth row of the chess board by crossing another stream and meets Humpty Dumpty (Desmond Barrit) on his unbirthday, who teaches Alice about portmanteau words before falling off his wall. The White King (Geoffrey Palmer), the king's horses, and the king's men try to help Humpty.
Alice, still a white pawn, crosses yet another stream to enter the seventh row and finds herself in the land of the Red Knight (Greg Wise), who tries to capture her, but the White Knight (Ian Holm) fights him off and leads her through a forest to the last stream, falling off his horse and reciting the poem Haddocks' Eyes. This stream is not much more than a ditch, and Alice can step across it into the eighth row, when a queen's crown appears on her head. She is joined by both the Red and White Queens, who use word play to baffle her. They issue invitations to a coronation party to be hosted by Alice, but the party is chaotic, and Alice finds herself shaking the Red Queen to calm her down.
Alice wakes up safe at home with her daughter, little Alice.
Cast
Production
Apart from the innovation that Alice is played by an adult (she answers “seven and a half” when asked her age), the screenplay follows the text of the book closely, preserving Carroll's dialogue almost word for word. However, in another new element, Alice's hair style and her dress change throughout the film.[4]
Unusually, the "Wasp in a Wig" episode, which Carroll wrote but did not leave in the book as published, is included in the film, with the Wasp played by Ian Richardson.[4][6]
Reception
Critics Jaques and Giddens commented that "The genial rendition overall makes for a pleasant film aimed at children, with a strong sense that Alice has a fun time in her adventure."[2] Film scholar Thomas Leitch, comparing John Tenniel's influence on popular images of Alice with Carroll's own, comments that "The stars who least resemble Tenniel's Alice are Kate Beckinsale, ... and dark-haired, plump-faced Tina Majorino in Nick Willing's 1999 adaptation for NBC television."[7]
References
- Opening and Closing Credits in film, viewed on YouTube 26 March 2020
- Zoe Jaques, Eugene Giddens, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History (Routledge, 2016), p. 257
- Judith Jones, Beatrix Campbell, Annie Castledine, And All the Children Cried (Oberon, 2002), p. 5
- Lance Weldy, Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children's Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), p. 120
- Knight Letter, Issues 71-77 (Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2003), p. 49
- Lewis Carroll, Selwyn Hugh Goodacre, The Wasp in a Wig: A Suppressed Episode from Through the Looking Glass (Inky Parrot Press, 2015), p. 19
- Thomas Leitch, Film Adaptation and its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (JHU Press, 2007), p. 316, footnote
External links
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking-Glass
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Universe |
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Characters | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
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Through the Looking-Glass | |
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Locations and events |
- Wonderland
- Looking-glass world
- Unbirthday
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Poems |
- "All in the golden afternoon..."
- "How Doth the Little Crocodile"
- "The Mouse's Tale"
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat"
- "You Are Old, Father William"
- "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster"
- "Jabberwocky"
- "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
- "Haddocks' Eyes"
- "The Mock Turtle's Song"
- The Hunting of the Snark
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Related |
- Alice Liddell
- Alice's Shop
- Illustrators
- Theophilus Carter
- The Annotated Alice
- Mischmasch
- Translations
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking-Glass
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Adaptations |
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Stage |
- Alice in Wonderland (1886 musical)
- Alice in Wonderland (1979 opera)
- But Never Jam Today (1979 musical)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008 opera)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2011 ballet)
- Wonderland (2011 musical)
- Peter and Alice (2013 play)
- Wonder.land (2015 musical)
- Alice's Adventures Under Ground (2016 opera)
- Alice by Heart (2019 musical)
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Film | |
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Television | |
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Music | |
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Video games |
- Through the Looking Glass (1984)
- Alice in Wonderland (1985)
- Märchen Maze (1988)
- Wonderland (1990)
- Alice: An Interactive Museum (1991)
- Alice no Paint Adventure (1995)
- Alice in Wonderland (2000)
- American McGee's Alice (2000)
- Alice in the Country of Hearts (2007)
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
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Sequels |
- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895)
- New Adventures of Alice (1917)
- Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984)
- Automated Alice (1996)
- Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)
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Retellings |
- The Nursery "Alice" (1890)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable (1905)
- American McGee's Alice (2000)
- Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)
- Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
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Parodies |
- The Westminster Alice (1902)
- Clara in Blunderland (1902)
- Lost in Blunderland (1903)
- John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904)
- Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)
- The Looking Glass Wars
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Imitations |
- Mopsa the Fairy (1869)
- Davy and the Goblin (1884)
- The Admiral's Caravan (1891)
- Gladys in Grammarland (1896)
- A New Wonderland (1898)
- Rollo in Emblemland (1902)
- Justnowland (1912)
- Alice in Orchestralia (1925)
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Literary |
- Alice in Borderland
- Alice in the Country of Hearts
- Alice in Murderland
- Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
- Pandora Hearts
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- Category
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Literary works |
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Rhyme? And Reason? (1869)
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
- "Jabberwocky"
- "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
- The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
- A Tangled Tale (1885)
- Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893)
- "The Mad Gardener's Song"
- The Nursery "Alice" (1890)
- "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (1895)
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Mathematical works |
- Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879)
- "The Alphabet Cipher" (1868)
- The Game of Logic (1887)
- Symbolic Logic (1896, 1977)
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Other |
- Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing
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Related |
- Charles Dodgson (father)
- Charles Dodgson (grandfather)
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На других языках
- [en] Alice through the Looking Glass (1998 film)
[ru] Алиса в Зазеркалье (фильм, 1998)
«Али́са в Зазерка́лье» (англ. Alice Through the Looking Glass) — телефильм в жанре фэнтези, снятый в 1998 году режиссёром Джоном Хендерсоном. В главной роли — Кейт Бекинсейл.
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