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lice is all grown up and about to be cheated into a Victorian wedding. During a party arranged by her mother and sister, the 19-year old woman is suddenly proposed to by a dull and arrogant aristocrat when she spots a white rabbit in a waistcoat and with a pocket watch. Confused and shocked, she runs into a maze and finds her way back to a land she visited ten years ago – the strange Wonderland. So begins Tim Burton’s long-awaited venture into the classic modern fairytale. First written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll, the original two books was about a girl’s journey through a dreamworld, where she comes to terms with growing older. In contrast, Tim Burton’s adventure is about Alice finding her voice and her own place in the world, with a little help from Wonderland’s bizarre citizens attempting to overthrow the now all-ruling Red Queen. Alice In Wonderland is Burton’s “long awaited” project not because it has been in development for a very long time. It was actually only revealed about a year ago, but this is certainly the movie every Burton fan wanted to see – no book and director could be better suited for each other. But this will not be a by-the-numbers retelling of the two novels. That would actually be rather silly, to borrow some of Alice’s words: the
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