http://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/73/51/36/PDF/bourgain_antoine.pdf
Quotes from the guardian article
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/alice-in-wonderland-tim-burton-105-mins-pg-1917295.html
Fantastic visuals fail to make up for the worst kind of Disneyesque revisionism in this largely charmless chunter through Wonderland
Purists beware: this is not a straight adaptation but a sort of Return to Wonderland, in which a grown-up Alice revisits the haunt of her childhood dreams.
Instead of the sedate bucolic Alice of tradition, this version is seemingly set in Hell. Johnny Depp's Hatter now installs his tea-table in a Dali wasteland, he and his guests not so much mad as profoundly traumatised.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/feb/25/alice-in-wonderland-film-review
http://benoitlambert.hubpages.com/hub/Alice-in-Wonderland-Book-review
D’un côté, on trouve l’œuvre originale et ses atouts concernant l’absurde et une logique d’un monde totalement nouveau à travers une écriture sans failles. D’un autre, Walt Disney offre une version psychédélique très pop art qui apporte un intérêt d’abord visuel. Et finalement, plus d’un siècle plus tard, l’originale est reprise par un réalisateur proposant une réinterprétation totale qui reste d’ailleurs la dernière adaptation connue à ce jour.
http://www.worldmag.com/2010/03/alice_returns
ut while his Hatter is certainly mad, he is also much more. Depp gives a depth and sensitivity to the Hatter that while unexpected never feels contrived.
Lewis Carroll's classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have always stood out from other children's works for their dark, disorienting undertones, and Burton doesn't shy away from these qualities. On her return, Alice still encounters creatures full of jagged teeth and monarchs eager for her head, and the caterpillar still blows smoke from his hookah into her pretty face. In addition to these customary menaces, the now 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) must also avoid the advances of the oily Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover).
« It seems that whenever Hollywood wants to show women displaying strength, it does so with what are traditionally considered masculine qualities. »
http://www.esu.edu/~jhotz/viewpoints/f10papers/F10-5-Soder.pdf
find some quotes in here: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/the-new-alice-says-this-wonderland-is-more-like-a-sequel-than-a-remake/ http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/tim-burton-talk/
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