I have lots of good and bad things to say about this subject! First of all... I HATE IT! Haha Okay, that sounds all bad, but I also have good memories of it.
When I was a kid I watched the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland and it absolutely terrified me. It felt like when she escaped, she didn't really physically escape but escaped into her mind. Essentially it was a mind-warp where maybe Wonderland was the real place and England was all in her head. How very existentialist of my young self to be, but that is actually what scared me the most. And because of all the weird creepy things. I suppose by this logic The Wizard of Oz should've scared me too, and it did a little, but not for the same reasons(mostly for the flying monkeys.)
Then when I was in grade school I saw the LBCC theater group perform it.. I don't really remember much about it. Recently I've gotten over the fear, and evolved to exhaustion over the subject. Alice in Wonderland is the hipster of the Disney movies. That and all the Tim Burton movies.. Which I even kind of like the Tim Burton movies, but (and maybe this makes me a hipster..) I don't like how everyone obsesses over them so much. I just don't understand why there is like 15 different versions of Alice in Wonderland.. And they are still coming! My favorite show is Once Upon a Time and even the producers of that are planning a spin-off: Once upon a Wonderland or something like that (which I will probably still watch devotedly because I am a very avid fan of all things Once).
Anyway that is the part that I don't like, but like I said there is good in me too! When Jeanie and I were in Albany we went to the library all the time and we checked out these Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/beyond the looking glass books that had pictures and basically summarized the actual book by Lewis Carrol and gave insight into why he wrote the things he did, and that was very interesting! Those were pretty cool books...
Also in High School I was in the musical Alice in Wonderland playing the body of the Chesire Cat. I actually have really great memories from this, because I was really able to get out of my shell and express myself because of that opportunity. I'm really glad that I didn't chicken out or anything. So that's a positive thing!
Then the thing which actually triggered this rant on AiW was that last night for Young Women's we watched the High School musical version of AiW. One of our young women was in the play, so it was basically me and the other girl watching her haha. She played the Daisy and the Baby. You know- the baby that is actually a pig who lives with the Duchess. It was interesting how the two plays varied so much, this one was actually more accurate to what happened in the book. But it was also... interesting. Haha, it is so fun to watch young people doing something they love! It makes me want to go back and relive things so I could do more activities, but it also makes me glad that I'm not in HS anymore. I'm a very conflicted person you see ;).
These are some things I really enjoyed about it:
The Caterpillar! His costume was AWESOME! He was wearing a purple sleeping bag with stuffed gloves sewed onto the sides for extra arms. I laughed really hard at that.
The Duchess! Her costume was great too, she had this snazzy purple dress and crazy-huge headdress that look very heavy.
Just the atmosphere in general. Of course the acting wasn't top-notch but it was fun to watch and see them try their hardest!
And that is my Hate-like relationship with Alice.
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