I personally like it but it is funny because I was showing a friend of mine over the internet some photos from this and she was like "I see a child in a bad wig" hahhaa
I like her hair,,, and I like the fact that they made her dress orange/peach versus blue
I must agree with your friend there. That wig is absolutley hideous, it's entirely unnatural. I would think with the time and effort they put into costume design and makeup they could produce a better wig!
shareShe's wearing a wig?! I had no idea!! I guess they did a better job than you say. Gosh, I really thought that was her natural blond hair. It's so beautiful.
Your chains are still mine, you belong to me! - The Phantom Of The Opera
Yeah, that is one pretty nasty wig... but for some reason, it works. It makes her look very proper and sweet-little-English-girl... Only part I can't stand is that she gets all wet when she's swimming in her own tears, and the hair goes curly. The mouse sings the song (in the book, I think the singing of a song and dancing, with Alice included, was what dried them all off), and then Alice runs off, still having wavy hair. Next time you see her, all the hair is in its perfect straightness, with no hair out of place. Where did she get to shampoo and a hair dryer while walking around a forest in Wonderland?
I really liked that they stepped away from the typical idea of Alice, in the blue dress and pinafore, put out by Disney. Since Disney decapitated the story while making their movie, I liked that this version didn't try to align itself to the cartoon.
I believe that was the whole idea of costuming Alice in a peach-coloured dress, instead of the blue worn by the Disney version of the heroine (and indeed Dorothy's blue-checked pinafore in "Wizard of Oz").
Next time you watch this version, keep an eye on Natalie's wig...it delivers it's very own performance...!
Off topic (the mention of Dorothy reminded me)...
I read a one-act-play years ago, and I WISH I could find it again, that was REALLY a cool concept. It was a support group meeting for young adults who, in their childhoods, somehow were transported to an imaginary land and went through all kinds of odd adventures. There was a woman named Susan, who had a lifelong phobia of dark enclosed spaces after being transported to a land called Narnia from a seemingly innocent wardrobe, a girl named Dorothy who had fallen in love with an inhabitent of her "fantasy" world, but she has to wind his heart every few weeks (the TinMan) and Alice, who has a suicidal draw towards empty elevator shafts (falling into a seemingly endless hole). They try to clarify and fit their experiences into one outline so they can better explain it and get help, and the only conclusion they can find (as far as I can remember) was that all the fantasy lands had a cat of some kind (Aslan, the Cowardly Lion, and the Cheshire Cat)...
Anyay.... thought it was funny.
Cheezyspam there is a similar idea to what you mentioned in the short DysEnchanted (www.imdb.com/title/tt0366393/). Is this the same thing you were thinking of?
shareWhere did she get to shampoo and a hair dryer while walking around a forest in Wonderland?
yeah I always noticed the part where she is in the water then out, and it is wavy, then after her hair dried it is perfect again
I will have to watch her wig more closely!
ha speaking of wigs
is Ann Jillian wearing one? I don't think that is her real hair What about Carol Channing? I think Carol's hair like that is natural
Ann Jillian was a blonde, though earlier in her career she was a redhead. But she is definitely wearing a very good wig.
shareI always thought Ann Jillian looked better in the Red Queen wig!
And I agree about Alice's hair being really funny when it changes from wet to dry and back again, then really big, and finally in perfect shape!
Yes, I've always preferred Ann as a redhead. If you can, try to track down "The Ann Jillian Story" on video. It's fabulous.
shareI've seen Ann Jillian in two movies in my life: this Alice in Wonderland, and Babes in Toyland when she was, like, 12 or 13 or something. Then, she had dark blonde hair.
shareI like Ann as the older Dainty June/Baby June in the Rosalind Russell movie Gypsy!
she sings If Mamma Was Married with Natalie Wood!!!
You know, I don't mind that her dress isn't blue, but I can't stand that orange color...why not green or maybe a lavender...but I guess that's just too picky. But the wig was pretty horrid..if they changed the color of her dress, why not make her a brunette...because that wig...so distracting!
sharei didn't think it was a wig. i know carol channing wears wigs. i read that in her bio.
sharewhat made Alice's hair-do distinctive was the
fact that she wore it pulled back and tied with a ribbon
it's in all the Teneil drawings..
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I don't get why they made Natalie wear a wig, because 1) Alice's hair in the original story was brunette and 2) Natalie is naturally a brunette.
Also, I don't know if this true or not, but supposedly, I heard that the reason Natalie's wig had a ribbon in it was because when she first tried the wig on, it kept falling off everytime she ran. So therefore, the put a ribbon inside of it to get the wig to stick to her head.