Mad Tea Party Scene from Dreamchild (1985)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama directed by Gavin Millar. It's a fictionalized account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The story is told from the point of view of the elderly Alice as she travels to the United States to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth.
The film evolves from the factual to the hallucinatory as Alice revisits her memories of the Reverend Charles Dodgson while in her immediate present in the unruly wonderland of Depression-era New York.
In this scene, when Alice is left alone in her hotel room, she begins to hallucinate and sees Mr. Dodgson [played by Ian Holm], and then, later, the Mad Hatter and March Hare. Joining them for their insane tea party, they berate her for being so old and forgetful.
This is just one of four scenes in the movie that feature amazing creature effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
This gave me chills, the first of anything Alice related to actually scare me.
"You stupid half-wit, ugly old hag, you should be dead, dead, dead." the cadaverous Hatter whispers to the increasingly terrified Alice before another violent outburst. It causes one to wonder if Wonderland had grown more threatening with age, or if Alice was too young to see it for what it really was all those years ago.
Freddyfan951 it’s actually a very threatening and scary place if you think about it. Many tempestuous and moody people with tempers who could snap at any moment. Very dangerous if you ask me
Well yeah no shit because the writer was a pedo. Thats the whole point. Its sick disgusting trash pedo fantasy.
I remember this on HBO when i was 4 back in 86 and one of my intros with Jim Henson with Fraggles, Muppets, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth (saw this at the movies in St Louis when it came out), Muppet Babies and more
The hatter looks terrifying
What do you expect from the guys behind Dark Crystal and Labyrinth?
I believe that was the point!
I Agree Nathan
All of the Wonderland characters were designed to be creepy. They represent how corrupted Alice's memories have become. She's no long delighted by Wonderland, she's haunted by it.
@Brandon Brooks No no. Henson Associates had nothing to do with Return To Oz. Granted, many artists and designers who worked on The Dark Crystal left to work on Return To Oz, because Jim Henson's Creature Shop was yet to be established.
R.I.P. Ian Holm.
The dormouse looks adorable!!^^
The March Hare needs a serious fur groom! O_o
He’s definitely much prettier than the other two!
~ spoliers
This is a amazing movie. Alice is trying to figure out why her family made her stop being friends with Lewis Carroll so she feels it must of been something inappropriate. As she discovers with the audience it was nothing like that. The movie shows her losing her mind a little bit from age and stress. And also shows how she is treated like a celebrity in USA from the book being loved by children.
thanks for putting this up - elderly Alice is in delerium and tormented by versions of the stories told to her in childhood - the hints of paedophilia are deliberate
The best rendition of Alice in wonderland
Why do I get the feeling that's not tea the Hatter's drinking out of that cup?
5 grams of mushrooms.
Why do they look like there going to eat me when I fall asleep
Sometimes I feel the way these ghoulish characters are on the inside except for the door mouse
I saw this on tv 21 years ago and it’s haunted me so much ever since that today was the first time i tried to make sire it wasn’t a fever dream
The look just like they did in the book! Bavo, Jim Henson!
Lyle Conway also deserves credit. He had previously worked on Henson's "The Dark Crystal", building the Skekses, Urkskeks, and Aughra. He would later work for Frank Oz (who co-directed "The Dark Crystal") building Audrey II for Oz's' film adaptation of "Little Shop of Horrors".
Lyle also did Return to oz and The Blob 1988
@@yosefdemby8792 is it just me or is American Mcgee’s Alice inspired by this?
the real Alice was a brunette,... Alice Lindell was base on Alive in the book,..
The mad hatter looks terrifying. I love it
This gave me nightmares as a kid.
...This gave me nightmares as an adult!
It's one of the strangest creepiest adaptations that I have seen. Then again since it is Alice we're talking about, that's saying a lot. 😉😎When has it ever bwen normal?
Terrifying!!! I love it
Holy flapping disco shits wtf happened to the hatter?!
This movie fucked me up for a long time and I still sometimes think of it and freak out a bit. So freaky….
How is a raven like a writing desk.... be cause Poe wrote on them both.
gets one thinking
Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is NEVAR put with the wrong end in front!
can anyonw explain to me why this alice is so... gruesome?
@Nightmare1398 The illustrations were done by John Tenniel.
It’s not technically Alice in wonderland. This is sort of a sequel. Dreamchild follows the grown up “Alice” (the woman who the book was based on) who hates being associated with Alice in Wonderland and is suffering dementia in her old age.
It’s not exactly certain if wonderland has grown darker and scarier to her in her old age, or if it was always like this and she now sees it for how creepy it always was. As a kid it was stories told to her and she enjoyed them, but Thompson wasn’t…. All there. He was kind of off through the whole thing.
(Pretty sure IRL he’s a pedo, but here it’s just sort of implied if you’re looking for it) she’s haunted by his memory, for damn sure.
Fuckin creepy
Creepy.
Is Hoggle no different?
WHAT DAY OF THE MONTH IS IT?! Line please!
Still creepy 😳
What do you expect from the Jim Henson company?
@@Johnlindsey289 That's just it: Jim Henson could do creepy stuff, _and_ cute stuff, as well as funny stuff!
@@yosefdemby8792
This, Dark Crystal franchise, Ninja Turtles, Labyrinth, Dinosaurs, Storyteller, and more are from Creature shop which are different than muppets
@@Johnlindsey289 I know that.
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