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"One person's crazyness is another person's reality.", the thought of a man who has made of "crazy" stories and characters his own career and prestige. When I first read this quote of Tim Burton I immediately thought it would had been best start to talking about American director's new work, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". In that sentence there's not only the pure heart of Jack Skellington's dad: I think there's that of Carrol's character too.
It's said that Burton's genius' new movie will be ready for American audience in 2010 but the film had seemed from the very begin to be born to met all the high expectations of director's past works; but why should this movie be so different from the others already made about Carrol's blondie little girl? Know that Tim Burton is at the direction is quite enough to me, in addition it's clear how all the typical features of Burton's characters are in Alice's original one too.
The all story has the taste of surreal, the magic poetry of fantasy and even the philosophical aspect of the unknown; we can't give a universal meaning nor a unique, conventional explanation to Alice's journey, we all have our own interpretation and our difficulties too in understanding an ancient tale which is not supposed to be explainable because sometimes the pragmatic meanings of reality make fade away the genuine childish beauty and the greatness of what sense cannot explain.
Lewis Carroll's masterpiece is one of those stories which seem to be wrote for children but that finally adults find out to love even more.
Burton has promised to respect Alice's true essence and always seemed very excited about the project; talking about the cast, once again we find Burton's muse and friend, Johnny Depp (guess his role? Yeah, of course the Mad Hatter) with the Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (in Alice's shoes) and the well known Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. The adaptation is set in Alice's future, she's a young woman and she's got no more memories by now of her old adventure, unaware that what is in the past sometimes can reach you again in your present or future life. Wasikowska said about that protagonist's return to Wonderland "becomes a rite of passage as she discovers her voice and herself.", preparing us to the evolution of character's personality and behaviour. The setting and the atmosphere too will be in true Burtonian style: pics of both cast and places reveal the usual care and beauty of director's others films with a sort of new fantasy halo which reminds a great but renewed elegance faithful to the first drawings retracting the young girl and her fellows; the make up, the costumes are so well finished as much as gorgeous. Surely everyone who recognize himself in reported Burton's quote will fall in love with his ultimate cinematic tell; Alice's life seems to be really meant to be closed to this great director's spirit and mind and this is exactly why, first of all, this movie has soon become a proclaimed success.