Alice In Wonderland - What's the Difference?

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a unique coming of age story about a young girl coming to terms with her oncoming adulthood and changing identity, but it’s also about following a white rabbit around a crazy world, with occasional appearances by a striped cat. The film is similar, but different, taking cues from the book even as it chooses to go its own way. Gather up your magic mushrooms, we’re going to follow the white rabbit and find all the differences we can!

Did you Read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Have you seen the Disney animated film recently? What did you think of the more recent live-action Alice in Wonderland; and are you looking forward to the upcoming sequel, Through the Looking Glass?

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[ejay]

The white roses to red is not a "puberty" reference. It is in fact a reference to the War of the Roses. Find Martin Gardner's "Annotated Alice In Wonderland" where he takes both books and manages to explain all the jokes and references without ruining them.

[PyroGothNerd]

You forgot some things:
1. The Duchesses abusive tendencies towards her baby. Alice was actually trying to help the baby escape.
2. Supposedly, Time thought Hatter had tried to kill him
3. According to The Mock Turtle and THe Griffin, the Queen had never actually executed anyone. There's even a part where the King pardoned everyone she had sentenced during the croquet match.

[michaelandersen]

Lewis Carroll was a mathematician during the time when mathematics and physics were splitting into two distinct disciplines. He wrote Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass as critiques of the new trend of divorcing mathematics from real world phenomena, and its increasing abstraction.

He thought that math and logic without context were nonsense, while the newer generation of mathematicians thought that math could not properly advance until mathematicians were free to study math for the sake of math, just like how writers are able to write fiction.

Many of the strange things in the books were written to make fun of contemporary mathematicians. For example, when the queen in Through the Looking Glass tells Alice that they are running to stay in the same place, and to move anywhere they have to run even faster, Carroll is making fun of the Cantor Diagonalization argument, that proves that there are different sizes of infinity.

[Jillybean]

Still disappointed they didn't put in my favorite quote from the book:
*“But I don’t want to go among mad people, ” Alice remarked.*
*“Oh, you can’t help that, ” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”*
*“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.*
*“You must be, ” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”* - Chapter 6
But then again, its a bit existential for a kid's movie.

[legoC]

First time I ever realized Alice in Wonderland has a moral. Logic and reasoning have a purpose in the world? Now the whole novel makes so much more sense!

[eliseweusthuis]

Actually not all depressed people feel sorrow, some just have some feeling of emptiness and pointlessness although they probably wouldn't cry as much as the mock turtle does.

[chloemarsh]

"she floats gently down, giving someone below a very nice view"

She's generally regarded as about 7 years old. Someone has gotten a little *too* into Lewis Carroll. Like, damn dude.

[bmerio]

"Giving someone down below a very nice view." She's like 10, isn't she? o_O

[QuetzalOvejasElectricas]

Loved the Looking Glass ending where you don't really know who was dreaming Wonderland.

[thegoodlydragon]

"Giving somebody below a very nice view."
Dude, she supposed to be eight years old.

[PieOfEpicness]

"Giving someone a very nice view" SHE'S A CHILD

[RikXtreme]

the book's artwork is nightmare fuel..

[EcchiBANZAII-desu]

Make more Disney comparisons.
Stories Disney adapts used to be dark before being "Disney'ed"

[goodgordon]

Don't forget that in the rabbit house scene, in the book, Alice threatens the lizard and the white rabbit that if they burn the house, she'll set her cat on them both.

[LibraGamesUnlimited]

I'd love to see one about the difference between the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the Judy Garland movie "The Wizard of Oz".

I can get things started with the following: In the book the storm is called a cyclone not a tornado, in the book the shoes are silver not ruby and the whole "it was only a dream" ending and the actors doubling as characters didn't happen either.

I also don't think Dorthy had a run in with a mean old lady or the Wizard of Oz as a carnival worker (since the book didn't have that "it's only a dream" ending).

[morrisl]

I've read the HOW DO I NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS!!!!???

[LucianoThePig]

You should do How To Train Your Dragon. It's amazing how different the movie is to the book

[QuikVidGuy]

The more I hear about the original book, the more I can understand it as a parody of theoretical mathematics

[rorystockley]

Hey, this is great! I've been wishing for a channel like this for years, but never have I found one - until now.

[sampeacaml]

Pardon me, but that comment about the nice view as Alice falls was inappropriate. She is a kid, you know.