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Alice (Adventure) In Wonderland : Book VS Cartoon VS Movie

Let's fall down the rabbit hole with me! TO THE WONDERLAND, where we are all bonkers, The place where the impossible is possible and before we start the journey, let's imagine "6 impossible things" before reading :P (beware of the Alice in Wonderland reference).

There is so many version of Alice In wonderland. However, I choose just only 3 version to discuss here. First, The original book version by Lewis Carroll. Have you ever notice that Alice actually exist? You should be by now because she does exist. Most of the character in Alice in Wonderland based on the real people that surrounded Lewis Carroll. For example, Alice is Lewis Carroll's childhood friend. After the book was released, it gave Alice a real big frame that has changed her life forever. Mad Hatter was based on the time inventor and some other characters were based on his family members. Second, The Disney film version, 1951. It became reputable and become one of the classic Disney films. Third, Alice in Wonderland the movie. Directed by Tim Burton.

The only different between the cartoon and the book version are some little details and some scenes. The message is still the same except for that the book version give a little more anxious due to it's picture(As you can see, comparing to other version of Alice). For example, When Alice falls down the rabbit hole. In the book, Alice wasn't sure that the whole was extremely deep or she was just falling very slow that it gave her a lot of time to wonder about everything. However, in the cartoon, it is clearly shown that Alice falls down the rabbit whole very slow because her dress resists the wind, making she fall the rabbit whole I slow motion. Another scene that has a huge different in book and cartoon version is the pool of tears chapter. In the book, she enrages by touching the fan that the white rabbit has dropped, there is no sign of cake.When she was drowning in her own ocean of tears, the dormouse rescue her, but in the cartoon version, She eats the cake to enrage her body size and she shrinks by drinking the "Drink Me" water and floats out of the room along with the water. Tweedledum and Tweedledee appear in both movie and cartoon version, but never in the book version until Alice Through the Looking Glass book. Speaking of the movie, the movie version has the huge different from other two because it is the story about the second time that Alice has returned to the wonderland and the Red Queen had already taken the empire. Alice isn't just a curious little girl anymore, she's now a woman, who was about to (almost) engage. And Wonderland had fallen.

Personally, I like the cartoon version since this version had become the classic Alice that everyone well known when we talk About "Alice in Wonderland." Anyway, I love all of them. I love all the Alice, every version. What I like most about Alice is the theme. That's why I love them so much. "Wonderland," even the name itself tell that is a land of Wonder. It's a land full of wonder, where all of our imagination can become true. Even the bad one, it makes Alice cried multiple times. Admit it, we are all have been Alice once or more. Over time we are curious or wondering, we fall down " The Wonderland." We might cry or might laugh, And that is the charisma of wonderland, where the impossible. Once the situation is out of control, just tell yourself. "It's all in your head, Alice."

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