contemplating things which begin with the letter M

[deadlightsgirl]

 I doubt my ranting about the Burton Alice is anything new to anyone, but I will put it under a cut anyway.


He clearly wanted to make The Golden Compass and visit Narnia at the same time.  And seriously, Tim, read the books a little more closely - Carroll gives an answer to the Hatter's riddle, and everyone knows that.  And you can't take a poem as well-known as Jabberwocky (and "Jabberwocky" is the name of the POEM, not the ANIMAL - every time they called it the Jabberwocky I wanted to throw things) and recite it upside down and rearranged, even if it IS Johnny Depp reciting it.  I did enjoy him very much (that man is a freak, gonna read as 29 til the day he dies, same with HBC), and I choose to believe the Hatter was regimental under his kilt (channeling a violent Scotsman and muttering about fezes.  Hee).  I also kind of enjoyed that annoying and Glindish as the White Queen was, that she was a necromancer and really liked playing with dead things.  I loved the cat and the caterpillar (those voices, who could NOT?), thought Alice was bland and uninteresting, and the whole thing was visually beautiful but dragged and would have been better as a music video.  Also (and melebeth , I wished you there), some of us just know too much about that world for Burton to screw with it.  They released the Jubjub, and all I could think was "but the way you kill a Jubjub is to do math at it and disprove its existence!  Everyone knows that!"  I do realise that really, not everyone knows that.  But dammit, Burton should've done.

The most fun part was before and after the movie, playing with little kids.  All the old faire instincts come rushing back, and you immediately find assumption triggers, your same 3 lines that always work, your voice, everything.  I proclaimed anyone wearing red to be my supporter, expressed disdain for all the princesses shown in the Disney Store ("why no queens?!"), and advised little girls to curtsey while they're thinking what to say, it saves time.  I miss that shit.  I really do.

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etiquette=vamping

[plainandbonny.livejournal.com]

but isn't any curtsey or hand-kissing, etc, just stalling until one can think of something witty to say? how generous of you to bestow such wisdom on the very young - surely they will be accomplishing several impossible things per day, simply by having the grace to drop a few curtsies while realizing that it is *everyone's* unbirthday someday.

wish i could have been there! xoxo

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[tomincloset.livejournal.com]

That was another thing I had obnoxious fun doing - mentally proving that Alice's six empowering impossible things were all quite possible. "There is a drink that makes you shrink" - it's called Slim-Fast. "There is a cake that makes you grow" - they all do, it's called weight gain. And so on.

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[harpiegirl4.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!! Oh, man! I SO wish I could have witnessed you doing this. :) There is little in this world more entertaining than watching you improvise!

Re: etiquette=vamping

[plainandbonny.livejournal.com]

btw, how do I put stuff under a cut? I am still in Remedial LiveJournal 101. Maybe within the next month I'll move up to Basic LiveJournal 110 or something.