I released a book this summer entitled Jabberwocky that is inspired by and adheres to Lewis Carroll's poem precisely, so I was very excited to see SyFy tackle the same topic.
I have the movie on DVR but won't be able to watch it until Wednesday, but I'm dying to know -- Did they stay true to Lewis Carroll's poem?
Thanks for helping to ease my mind for the next 4 days,
Daniel Coleman
I've never read the poem, but I doubt very much that they were true to it. The poem is recited a couple of times by the characters.
If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf.
within the context of the movie, the poem is an ancient rhyme, a bedtime story to scare children. i had one of the characters deliver it one stanza at a time at various points within the film, when appropriate. that was my way of paying homage to the original work. hope you enjoyed it!
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No borogroves. No jubjub bird. Nothing but the Jabberwock. Which flew. Other than that, it sort-of burbled, and did look a 'bit' like the Tenniel illustration, but it did not have the rabbit teeth, or even 6 distinct limbs like a true dragon rather than a wyvern.
There were no trees, tum-tum or otherwise, thought under.
*SPOILER* About halfway through you realise Frances' father is not going to welcome his beamish boy back, because he is dead.
*SPOILER* The hero did have a vorpal sword, and he did chop off its head (but it was hardly with a snack, let alone a snicker), and he did not galumph back.
Poor effort,. They just pinched the name and nodded to the poem a few times, in apology, i think.
But at least they called it Jaberwock, implying it was not the saga of the beast, but the beast itself.
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You're the bees knees, Atlantean. Your review had me cracking up.
I know the writer, so I found myself down the rabbit-hole onto our fair IMDB, and what did I spy, but the best Carrollian review upon which I'd ever laid eyes. Well done, indeed.