Alice in Wonderland Online Movie
Let’s take a trip down the rabbit hole in the style of Tim Burton. Are you ready? Hold on to your hats as Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Disney have added a bizarre new chapter to the Lewis Carroll classic with their version of "Alice in Wonderland." Get reacquainted with Alice as the film presents this young woman who finds herself in the world of the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen. She is welcomed as a returning visitor -- but is she, in fact, the same Alice who roamed the trippy realm as a child? Time will tell. So begins the count down to the film's March 5 release. Today Burton describes his version of the Mad Hatter.
While the movie is called "Alice in Wonderland" the true star of this film is Johnny Depp, who is making his seventh appearance in a Tim Burton-directed film.
Depp has made an art form of covering his leading-man looks behind oddball disguises and the latest is google-eyed hatmaker who has completely lost it. He is also an exceptional dancer and a not-half-bad swordsman.
The shock of tangerine curls jutting from beneath his hat and his orange-rimmed eyeballs are hardly unnoticeable. These features point to a story lineage of his madness; orange-tinted mercury was used in the manufacture of felt in Victorian England and sometimes it would seep through the skin causing severe side effects.
"Hatters kind of went mad because they used certain chemicals in the hat process and little things like that really ground it for the performers and for the audience," Burton said. "Even though we don't go into all that about the poison, it creates a full picture that helps ground these characters. So they're not just random weirdos. Yes, they are weird, but there's more."
Depp got the idea for orange from the research he did but Burton had more personal reasons behind using the color. "There is something really scary about orange hair. Every performer in my childhood who had orange hair, it seemed to signify that they were not to be trusted and could be dangerous. Bozo, Carrot Top, Ralph Malph -- if you go there, it's frightening stuff."
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