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Glossary of Terms For Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 11:50 am by: Brendon ConnellyLinda Woolverton’s screenplay for Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland has very successfully been kept under lock and key. This has led to a certain amount of confusion or even misinformation springing up and circling reports of the film. Thankfully, having been shown a full copy I can now report that all of the early information I was given by sources close to the film seems to be completely true.
The big surprise for most people, I think, will be that this is at once an adaptation of and sequel to the Lewis Carroll books. This is thanks to a plot wrangle at least as clever as that in Abrams’ Star Trek. Essentially, Wonderland is both a real place and a recurring dream of Alice’s. In this film she’s dreaming of it at a somewhat later part of her life than in the books, so certain things are different. This is just one clever element of a truly charming and surprising screenplay that I’m now really very sure will become a true humdinger of a movie.
To fully understand the script immediately one would need a glossary of terms. Thankfully, Woolverton prepared one and it was circulated to cast and crew. I’ve had it explained to me, so I’m going to pass on what I know to you after the break.
Here in alphabetical order are the various terms you’d need to fully understand the screenplay. While a handful come from the books, most of them appear to be brand new.
* Bandersnatch, The: evil creature under the control of the Red Queen.
* Brillig: 4 o’clock in the afternoon. When one begins broiling things for dinner.
* Crims: The central area of Underland.
* Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid: Down with the Red Queen, the slogan of the Resistance.
* Ezel: High, go higher, go up.
* Fairfarren: Farewell. May you travel far under fair skies.
* Frabjous day: The day Alice slays the Jabberwocky and frees Underland from the oppression of the Red Queen.
* Frumious: Dirty and smelly.
* Futterwacken: The Underlanders’ dance of unbridled joy.
* Gallymoggers: Crazy.
* Gribling: The day Alice will return to Underland.
* Guddler’s scut: Thief’s butt.
* Gummer Slough: Dangerous swamp of thick viscous mud.
* Horunvendush Day: The day the Red Queen took control of Underland.
* Jabberwocky: A deadly creature employed as the Red Queen’s ultimate weapon.
* Jubjub Bird: A Bird under the control of the Red Queen.
* Kiotchyn: ‘Heads’ up or ‘pay attention’.
* Naught for usal: It’s no use trying.
* Noge: Go low down.
* Nunz: Wait or ‘Don’t go, not now’.
* Oraculum: The Calender of all the days of Ulnderland. Each day has its own title and illustration.
* Orgal: To the left.
* Outlands: The untamed land to the west of Witzend.
* Outlandish: The old language spoken only in the Outlands and used by the Underland resistance as a secret code in the revolution against the Red Queen.
* Pishsalver: A potion that makes one shrink.
* Queast: A land to the east, but ‘not in the least’.
* Quillian: The following day after Alice returns.
* Saganistute: A wise person of poetry and vision.
* Salazen Grum: A port city where the Red Queen lives.
* Shukrn: Faeces. Ewww.
* Sloth: Slowly
* Stang: To the right.
* Slurvish: Selfish or self-centered.
* Snud: A region in the south of Underland.
* Tulgey Wood: Where Alice meets the Jabberwocky.
* Underland: The real name for the place Alice calls Wonderland.
* Upelkuchen: A cake that makes one grow.
* Slurking urpal slackush scrum: rude or dirty words of the most foul meaning.
* Witzend: The western land where the Mad Hatter and March Hare were born.
* Yadder: Far away. Way yadder beyond the Crossling in Snud.
* Zounder: A warning to ‘look out behind you!’
From chachacheenie first posted at JDZ
Taken in 3D from "Total Film"
From the University Observer
The Reluctant Villain
Submitted by Zelda Cunningham, Deputy Editor on Tuesday, 28 April 200910 Comments
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Zelda Cunningham speaks to legendary actor, Alan Rickman about Severus Snape, Sense and Sensibility and great big smoking caterpillars.RickmanIt seems to be with this mantra in tow that Rickman chose his next role – a caterpillar. Rickman explains that he has joined the macabre circus that is Tim Burton’s distorted adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s fantastical tale, Alice in Wonderland, having worked with the eccentric director in the grisly musical, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Rickman explains that, as seems to be the norm with Burton, production for this work is nothing short of surreal. “Well, I believe what is going to happen is it will be my head on an animated caterpillar. I mean, Tim Burton just has a mind like a fairground. I aim to do everything he ever does. I am a crawling sycophant to him!”
Alice in Wonderland is set to be released in 2010, but Rickman relays the difficulties of working on a child’s film by saying, “Well, we’re fighting with Disney at the moment… They are worried about having a character [the caterpillar] that smokes,” he adds, dramatically rolling his eyes to heaven.
Article found by Gilbert's Girl, Image found by emma - both from Johnny Depp Zone
Total Film June 2009Special 3D edition includes 3 D glasses !
Alice In Wonderland ETA 2010On Set and through the looking glass with Burton and Depp
Who better than Tim Burton to bring Lewis Carroll's nightmarish Alice's Adventures In Wonderland to the screen? And if you thought Johnny Depp's Willy wonka was :censored: feaky, wait until you get a load of his Mad Hatter ( see pic to the right) ( Its the one we all saw before)
Anyway, back to Burton, who readily admits to not especially liking any of the previous Alice adaptions. "It's always been about a passive little girl wandering around a series of adventures with weird characters," he sighs, taking time on the LA set. "There's never any gravity to them. What we've tried to do is make her a real person in that she's going through this."
Burton's new take incorporates characters and situations from both Alice's Adventures and its literary sequel, Through The Loooking Glass, but the plot is escentially a new one and his Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is older too, a girl on the precipice of womanhood.She tumbles down the rabbit hole to encounter a "slightly huanted" wonderland populated by Carroll's iconic characters brought to life through a combination of motion capture, CG creatures and real actors - Burton regulars Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the Red Queeen, are joined by Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Crispin glover is the Knave of Hearts. And all in glorious 3D.
We'd like to tell you more but we've promised silence. For now. Let's just say that it's every bit as bonkers as you could have hoped. "All the human characters except Alice will have something that kind of blends them into the world," Burton teases." I don't want to say too much, but it looks pretty weird." Naturally.the other pic is of a tree very much like the tree from SH and a flight of steps onto a grass covered bridge with Alice on it, since its not how we have seen Alice I assume its part of the concept art for the film. Its all been fuzzed so you can use the 3D glasses to look at it.
Here's two more images captured by Kazren from the Total Film Video preview of their 3-D Magazine
