'Alice in Wonderland' Looks Scary

Lewis Carroll's original book was a heavy mind trip, a journey into a world both linked to precise mathematical orders and driven by illogical existential mayhem.  Much like our own.  Tim Burton seems to have kept his film on the same track, with special consideration given to the 'mayhem' part.  Recently released pictures of his Wonderland and its exquisitely demented inhabitants reinforce the preconception that the filmmaker is making one freaky flick, and I for one wouldn't have it any other way.  Carroll's novel was designed to shake you out of your own mind, to make you see things differently by looking at a world that seems to work so differently and yet works so much the same as this one.  Such a narrative methodology is inherently terrifying.

At the very least, Johnny Depp should make a badass Mad Hatter (pictured).  Burton has just the kind of artistic eye and tilt of imagination to bring the story to life in a way cartoons never could.  Hell, technology couldn't do it until recently.  I'm looking forward to this one.   They just don't make scary children's films like they used to (Disney is still the all-time master), and it would seem a shame for our overprotected youth to be spared the same old-school literary torment that made me into the perfectly adjusted person I am today.

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