Tim Burton's Depiction Of The Film 'Alice In Wonderland'

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The movie Alice in Wonderland, released in 2010, brought freshness to the storyline and came out with even deeper meaning, visually keeping the classic story of Alice in Wonderland by the director Tim Burton. This film is a wondrous piece of escapism. Tim Burton re-imagines the esteemed and treasured story in the genuine good judgment of recreation. This is by giving Alice an added and established background, in addition to a romantic subplot involving Alice and the Mad Hatter.

In this paragraph, I will be writing about five techniques that Tim Burton used to Emphasise Alice ‘real world’. Tim Burton uses costumes to emphasise Alice bland, Ridged and depleted ‘real’ world. Alice starts by wearing a long blue dress. Her blue dresses reflect an innocent colour. In the real world, the costumes are mostly white, cream, grey and pale blue. Tim Burton uses makeup to emphasise Alice bland, Ridged and depleted ‘real’ world.
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An example of this Is when Alice walks into wonderland the first time. There was a beautiful landscape, stairs and surroundings of grassland. The colour tone was blue and bright which suggested that Alice has walked into a beautiful world of imagination. Burton uses soundscape, an example of this is when Alice first walks into Wonderland there was this magical, mystical soundscape which is non-diegetic. We first hear the magical music when the rabbit appears in the ‘real world’. Tim burton uses motif to support the mystical of wonderland. For example, in the beginning of the scene, we can see grass that has been cut as animals, for example, we saw a giraffe, rabbit and an emu. Costumes is another way to present Alice is now fitting in wonderland, for example, Alice costume change in wonderland suggest that she is another stage of her journey. She shrunk into wearing her underwear and you notice is that her dress is slightly off her shoulder, which got an element of

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