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->''"Alice thought to herself 'Now you will see a film... made for children... perhaps...' But, I nearly forgot... you must... close your eyes... otherwise... you won't see anything."''
''Něco z Alenky'' is a film, part live-action and part animation, made by [[UsefulNotes/TheCzechRepublic Czech]] stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic.
This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both [[{{Grimmification}} grimmificationed]] and [[{{Disneyfication}} disneyfied]] Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category. It also has quite frightening, but amazing imagery, which has made it a CultClassic. Creator/TerryGilliam said: "Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was ''Alice'', and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life."
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!!''Alice'' provides examples of:
* AllJustADream: Just like in the novel Alice has dreamt all the events.
* AmbiguousEnding: Like the novel, the film ends with Alice waking back up in the real world (in this case, in her room). However, [[spoiler:Alice notices the glass case that the White Rabbit ripped itself from is broken and the Rabbit is gone. This makes it unclear if the dream is over or if Alice is still in Wonderland]].
* AnimateInanimateObject: Stuffed animals, skeletons, playing cards, socks all come to life.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Alice frequently gets places by going through what look on the outside like regular-sized drawers.
* BodyHorror: The White Rabbit has stuffing coming out of its belly.
* ButtMonkey: Alice tends to get beat up quite a lot by the creatures, not to mention being set on fire at least once.
* CreepyDoll: Alice becomes one of these whenever she shrinks.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The designs are more macabre, UncannyValley is often invoked, and the White Rabbit is now the royal executioner.
* DerangedAnimation: A lot of the stop-motion features rather frightening imagery, with a stuffed rabbit being able to walk around on two feet as a prime example. Several animal skeletons are also walking and crawling around. Even socks, with teeth (!).
* DownTheRabbitHole: ''Alice'' is a most [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs deranged and incomprehensible]] adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', with its stop-motion animation and mostly silent script.
* EatTheCamera: Closeups of Alice's mouth are shown when she speaks.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Various things (puppets, stuffed animals, animal skeletons and even socks) are trying to catch Alice.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: This is how Alice's journey begins. She notices how a stuffed rabbit starts to move from its henges and walks around, then decides to follow it.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Unlike most of her adaptations, this Queen of Hearts actually beheads her subjects.
* GrotesqueGallery: All the creatures Alice meets are extremely disstressing.
* HairRaisingHare: The White Rabbit is a stuffed animal that literally comes alive. Near the end of the film it turns out he is the Queen's executioner.
* LosingYourHead: Near the end, the White Rabbit beheads both the Hatter and the March Hare. They just swap heads and continue playing cards.
* NightmareFace: Many close-ups of these stop-motion creatures apply. Even Oancitizen in his ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' review admitted being frightened at times.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film lacks any background music, aside from a piece of music played over the end credits. If anything, the sound effects (such as Alice sucking her finger or scraping knives) are exaggerated and sound quite loud.
* RunningGag: Alice has really bad luck with drawers. Whenever she tries to open one, she ends up pulling the knob out.
* ScaryTeeth: Socks have teeth in this movie.
* SelfSurgery: The Rabbit has to do this on himself every time he gets a new set of cuts.
* SilenceIsGolden: Long stretches of the film have no dialogue. When it does occur, it is usually in short bursts.
* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Definitely more focused on the visual side; dialogue is sparse and only spoken by one person, while the stop-motion animation and other surreal images are often the main focus.
* StopMotion: Most of the animation is stop-motion.
* SurrealHorror: The source material was already surreal, but the animation and special effects add an extra layer of horridness to it.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The live animals. Considering how every other character than Alice and her mother are stop-motion puppets, the sudden appearance of animals is bound to catch viewers off guard.]]
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->''"Alice thought to herself 'Now you will see a film... made for children... perhaps...' But, I nearly forgot... you must... close your eyes... otherwise... you won't see anything."''
''Něco z Alenky'' is a film, part live-action and part animation, made by [[UsefulNotes/TheCzechRepublic Czech]] stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic.
This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both [[{{Grimmification}} grimmificationed]] and [[{{Disneyfication}} disneyfied]] Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category. It also has quite frightening, but amazing imagery, which has made it a CultClassic. Creator/TerryGilliam said: "Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was ''Alice'', and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life."
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!!''Alice'' provides examples of:
* AllJustADream: Just like in the novel Alice has dreamt all the events.
* AmbiguousEnding: Like the novel, the film ends with Alice waking back up in the real world (in this case, in her room). However, [[spoiler:Alice notices the glass case that the White Rabbit ripped itself from is broken and the Rabbit is gone. This makes it unclear if the dream is over or if Alice is still in Wonderland]].
* AnimateInanimateObject: Stuffed animals, skeletons, playing cards, socks all come to life.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Alice frequently gets places by going through what look on the outside like regular-sized drawers.
* BodyHorror: The White Rabbit has stuffing coming out of its belly.
* ButtMonkey: Alice tends to get beat up quite a lot by the creatures, not to mention being set on fire at least once.
* CreepyDoll: Alice becomes one of these whenever she shrinks.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The designs are more macabre, UncannyValley is often invoked, and the White Rabbit is now the royal executioner.
* DerangedAnimation: A lot of the stop-motion features rather frightening imagery, with a stuffed rabbit being able to walk around on two feet as a prime example. Several animal skeletons are also walking and crawling around. Even socks, with teeth (!).
* DownTheRabbitHole: ''Alice'' is a most [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs deranged and incomprehensible]] adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', with its stop-motion animation and mostly silent script.
* EatTheCamera: Closeups of Alice's mouth are shown when she speaks.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Various things (puppets, stuffed animals, animal skeletons and even socks) are trying to catch Alice.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: This is how Alice's journey begins. She notices how a stuffed rabbit starts to move from its henges and walks around, then decides to follow it.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Unlike most of her adaptations, this Queen of Hearts actually beheads her subjects.
* GrotesqueGallery: All the creatures Alice meets are extremely disstressing.
* HairRaisingHare: The White Rabbit is a stuffed animal that literally comes alive. Near the end of the film it turns out he is the Queen's executioner.
* LosingYourHead: Near the end, the White Rabbit beheads both the Hatter and the March Hare. They just swap heads and continue playing cards.
* NightmareFace: Many close-ups of these stop-motion creatures apply. Even Oancitizen in his ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' review admitted being frightened at times.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film lacks any background music, aside from a piece of music played over the end credits. If anything, the sound effects (such as Alice sucking her finger or scraping knives) are exaggerated and sound quite loud.
* RunningGag: Alice has really bad luck with drawers. Whenever she tries to open one, she ends up pulling the knob out.
* ScaryTeeth: Socks have teeth in this movie.
* SelfSurgery: The Rabbit has to do this on himself every time he gets a new set of cuts.
* SilenceIsGolden: Long stretches of the film have no dialogue. When it does occur, it is usually in short bursts.
* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Definitely more focused on the visual side; dialogue is sparse and only spoken by one person, while the stop-motion animation and other surreal images are often the main focus.
* StopMotion: Most of the animation is stop-motion.
* SurrealHorror: The source material was already surreal, but the animation and special effects add an extra layer of horridness to it.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The live animals. Considering how every other character than Alice and her mother are stop-motion puppets, the sudden appearance of animals is bound to catch viewers off guard.]]
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->''"Alice thought to herself 'Now you will see a film... made for children... perhaps...' But, I nearly forgot... you must... close your eyes... otherwise... you won't see anything."''
''Něco z Alenky'' is a film, part live-action and part animation, made by [[UsefulNotes/TheCzechRepublic Czech]] stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic.
This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both [[{{Grimmification}} grimmificationed]] and [[{{Disneyfication}} disneyfied]] Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category. It also has quite frightening, but amazing imagery, which has made it a CultClassic. Creator/TerryGilliam said: "Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was ''Alice'', and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life."
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!!''Alice'' provides examples of:
* AllJustADream: Just like in the novel Alice has dreamt all the events.
* AmbiguousEnding: Like the novel, the film ends with Alice waking back up in the real world (in this case, in her room). However, [[spoiler:Alice notices the glass case that the White Rabbit ripped itself from is broken and the Rabbit is gone. This makes it unclear if the dream is over or if Alice is still in Wonderland]].
* AnimateInanimateObject: Stuffed animals, skeletons, playing cards, socks all come to life.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Alice frequently gets places by going through what look on the outside like regular-sized drawers.
* BodyHorror: The White Rabbit has stuffing coming out of its belly.
* ButtMonkey: Alice tends to get beat up quite a lot by the creatures, not to mention being set on fire at least once.
* CreepyDoll: Alice becomes one of these whenever she shrinks.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The designs are more macabre, UncannyValley is often invoked, and the White Rabbit is now the royal executioner.
* DerangedAnimation: A lot of the stop-motion features rather frightening imagery, with a stuffed rabbit being able to walk around on two feet as a prime example. Several animal skeletons are also walking and crawling around. Even socks, with teeth (!).
* DownTheRabbitHole: ''Alice'' is a most [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs deranged and incomprehensible]] adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', with its stop-motion animation and mostly silent script.
* EatTheCamera: Closeups of Alice's mouth are shown when she speaks.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Various things (puppets, stuffed animals, animal skeletons and even socks) are trying to catch Alice.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: This is how Alice's journey begins. She notices how a stuffed rabbit starts to move from its henges and walks around, then decides to follow it.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Unlike most of her adaptations, this Queen of Hearts actually beheads her subjects.
* GrotesqueGallery: All the creatures Alice meets are extremely disstressing.
* HairRaisingHare: The White Rabbit is a stuffed animal that literally comes alive. Near the end of the film it turns out he is the Queen's executioner.
* LosingYourHead: Near the end, the White Rabbit beheads both the Hatter and the March Hare. They just swap heads and continue playing cards.
* NightmareFace: Many close-ups of these stop-motion creatures apply. Even Oancitizen in his ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' review admitted being frightened at times.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film lacks any background music, aside from a piece of music played over the end credits. If anything, the sound effects (such as Alice sucking her finger or scraping knives) are exaggerated and sound quite loud.
* RunningGag: Alice has really bad luck with drawers. Whenever she tries to open one, she ends up pulling the knob out.
* ScaryTeeth: Socks have teeth in this movie.
* SelfSurgery: The Rabbit has to do this on himself every time he gets a new set of cuts.
* SilenceIsGolden: Long stretches of the film have no dialogue. When it does occur, it is usually in short bursts.
* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Definitely more focused on the visual side; dialogue is sparse and only spoken by one person, while the stop-motion animation and other surreal images are often the main focus.
* StopMotion: Most of the animation is stop-motion.
* SurrealHorror: The source material was already surreal, but the animation and special effects add an extra layer of horridness to it.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The live animals. Considering how every other character than Alice and her mother are stop-motion puppets, the sudden appearance of animals is bound to catch viewers off guard.]]
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Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both [[{{Grimmification}} grimmificationed]] and [[{{Disneyfication}} disneyfied]] Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category. It also has quite frightening, but amazing imagery, which has made it a CultClassic. Creator/TerryGilliam said: "Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was Alice, ''Alice'', and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life.""
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* AmbiguousEnding: Like the novel, the film ends with Alice waking back up in the real world (in this case, in her room). However, [[spoiler: Alice notices the glass case that the White Rabbit ripped itself from is broken and the Rabbit is gone. This makes it unclear if the dream is over or if Alice is still in Wonderland]].
* AmbiguousEnding: Like the novel, the film ends with Alice waking back up in the real world (in this case, in her room). However, [[spoiler: Alice notices the glass case that the White Rabbit ripped itself from is broken and the Rabbit is gone. This makes it unclear if the dream is over or if Alice is still in Wonderland]].
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* SelfSurgery: The Rabbit has to do this on himself every time he gets a new set of cuts.
* SilenceIsGolden: Long stretches of the film have no dialogue. When it does occur, it is usually in short bursts.
* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Definitely more focused on the visual side; dialogue is sparse and only spoken by one person, while the stop-motion animation and other surreal images are often the main focus.
* SilenceIsGolden: Long stretches of the film have no dialogue. When it does occur, it is usually in short bursts.
* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Definitely more focused on the visual side; dialogue is sparse and only spoken by one person, while the stop-motion animation and other surreal images are often the main focus.
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Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both [[{{Grimmification}} grimmificationed]] and [[{{Disneyfication}} disneyfied]] Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category. It also has quite frightening, but amazing imagery, which has made it a CultClassic. Creator/TerryGilliam said: "Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was Alice, and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life." Many see "Alice" as Creator/JanSvankmajer's MagnumOpus. "
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* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film lacks any background music, aside from a piece of music played over the end credits. If anything, the sound effects (such as Alice sucking her finger or scraping knives) are exaggerated and sound quite loud.
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* ScaryTeeth: Socks have teeth in this movie.
* StopMotion: Most of the animation is stop-motion.
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: The live animals. Considering how every other character than Alice and her mother are stop-motion puppets, the sudden appearance of animals is bound to catch viewers off guard.]]
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* SurrealHorror: The source material was already surreal, but the animation and special effects add an extra layer of horridness to it.
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A film made by Czech stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic. This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
A film made by Czech stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic. This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
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A film made by Czech stop-motion animator Creator/JanSvankmajer in 1988, called ''Alice'' outside of the Czech Republic. This surrealist adaptation of Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' is remarkably faithful to the original work, condensing most of the dialogue but painstakingly preserving much of the plot. Where it really deviates is in the strange appearance of the Wonderland creatures and in the dreary atmosphere it evokes. Švankmajer's Wonderland is populated by speaking skeletons, sawdust-filled animals, and animated objects. The film is devoid of music, and all creatures are voiced by Alice herself, in jarring cutaway closeups of her mouth as she narrates their lines, and her adventure seems to entirely take place inside of an impossible, poorly-lit and labyrinthian house.
Though well-received by critics, it is not a popular version of the story. This may have something to do with a saturation of both grimmificationed and disneyfied Alice adaptations, despite it not quite falling into either category.
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!!''Alice'' contains examples of:
* AllJustADream
* ButtMonkey: Alice tends to get beat up quite a lot by the creatures, not to mention being set on fire at least once.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The designs are more macabre, UncannyValley is often invoked, and the White Rabbit is now the royal executioner.
* DerangedAnimation.
* DownTheRabbitHole: ''Alice'' is a most [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs deranged and incomprehensible]] adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', with its stop-motion animation and mostly silent script.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Various things (puppets, stuffed animals, animal skeletons and even socks) are trying to catch Alice.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Unlike most of her adaptations, this Queen of Hearts actually beheads her subjects.
* HairRaisingHare: The White Rabbit is a stuffed animal that literally comes alive. Near the end of the film it turns out he is the Queen's executioner.
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