Either one is worth a watch. Spoiler-free, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is tremendous. I actually like it better than Pinocchio, but Pinocchio is absolutely brilliant, too. The two movies are indicative of the lasting impact of The Walt Disney Company over many decades.
When Alice says “Why, in my world, EVERYTHING would be nonsense,” that’s a prediction/foreshadowing. And, then, the rest of the movie is an object lesson in the statement: “Be careful what you ask for; you might get it.”
My absolute favorite Disney movie, no contest. I was 3 or 4 the first time I saw this, probably one of my earliest memories. It's been with me my whole life. It's hard to imagine what I'd think of it if I saw it for the first time as an adult. The creativity the animators poured into every frame is so inspiring.
The one with the lisp just talks that way because the voice actor Ed Wynn had a bit of a lisp too. He plays the character of the laughing uncle in Mary Poppins who keeps floating off the ground when he starts laughing. The character of Turbo in Wreck It Ralph is also visually inspired by his Ed Wynn's appearance too, and the voice actor is doing something of a Ed Wynn impression/impersonation for that role.
Ed Wynn was a huge star in vaudeville (starting in 1903!), on Broadway, in early radio, and later on television, where he hosted one of the first network comedy-variey shows. He even received an Academy Award nomination for his appearance in *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959).
The term Mad as a Hatter comes from the olden days, 1800s and earlier when people who made hats used Mercury which drove them insane, and this movie also inspired different rock groups Beatles and Jefferson Airplane
As a child this was closest to my own imaginary world. Many kids have dark thoughts and imaginings. As adults we need to realise children have all the spectrum of mental journeys adults do. That’s why as adults we need to carefully help them navigate it all.
Back when the book was written the Mad Hatter was based off the fact that hatters made hats by covering them in lead, they also had to wear those hats for some parts of their development. Causing the hatters to go slowly mad.
The Cheshire Cat is one of my most favorite characters in any version. He's a neutral character who sometimes causes a bit of mischief, but mostly helps those who need it. However, the scene where he laughed and disappeared while singing scared the willies out of me. Even gave me some nightmares. The Matrix movies are based on Lewis Carroll's famous stories. The character Morpheus is based on the Cheshire Cat.
Hey ... I can completely understand having nightmares about that cat! And I actually had no idea about the 'Matrix' connection ... but now that you mention it, that's actually very cool! 😆
@@latenightswithsammy The Matrix is a real must see. They're gonna release the fourth movie very soon. There's even this theory that we're all in the matrix.
@@dinodisneylover1I have to admit the only moment where I was a little scared by him as a little girl was when he disappears the last time. Despite that he's (with the caterpillar) the only character who really listen Alice and helps her
The animatirs took footage if Ed Wynn doing The Mad Hatter for animation reference points. His live performance was so over the top, the animators couldn't stop laughing. This movie also has more songs than any other Disney animated feature.
Alice In Wonderland, as a book and taken together, is named Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass. They are two stories/books compiled together. It was first published in 1865. The Wizard Of Oz, as a book, was published as The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz in 1900.
Hiya Sammy! I love Alice in Wonderland. Voice acting: The Queen of Hearts is Verna Felton, who also voiced Flora in SB, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, and Aunt Sarah in Lady & the Tramp. The White Rabbit is Bill Thompson, who is also King Hubert in SB, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, and Jock the Scottish terrier in Lady & the Tramp (he's also the voice of Mr. Slade in The Flintstones). Sterling Halloway played the Cheshire Cat, and is also the titular character of Winnie the Pooh (I'LL NEVER RIDE THE POOH ATTRACTION AT THE PARKS, @BigGator knows why, LOL) and Kaa in The Jungle Book. Ed Wynn was the Mad Hatter and he was also in Mary Poppins, Babes in Toyland, and That Darn Cat (and also in one of the all-time best eps of The Twilight Zone). And Alice was Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Wendy in Peter Pan. Once again, Silver Age Disney showing us just how much the company revered their finest voice actors over multiple films. They were truly epic voice actors and defined so many characters from our childhood. I'm loving watching Sammy discover these for the first time.
IT IS SUCH A GOOD FILM ... stacked from edge to edge with such amazing talent ... and my friend, I am enjoying these so much 😊 each film is a treasure in itself ... they just keep on giving! 😊
The villains in Alice In Wonderland are creative and fairly low-key. I have always thought of The Cheshire Cat as a light villain. He is a weird tease of what Alice wants but always falls back on a mocking nonsense.
Beautiful movie. Alice isn't a princess. At least, I don't think she is one. Alice seems rich (or upper middle class), but clearly not royalty in any way. Fun Fact: In the "Walrus And The Carpenter" sequence, the R in the word "March" on the mother oyster's calendar flashes. This alludes to the old adage about only eating oysters in a month with an R in its name. That is because those months without an R (May, June, July, August) are the summer months in England, when oysters would not keep due to the heat, in the days before refrigeration.
She isn't a princess. She is based on a real girl (as well as others) named Alice Liddle (Meant to rhyme with Fiddle) who was not a princess. However-In the second Alice Book, Alice becomes a chess Piece QUEEN.
I'm over 60 and my favorite book of all time is an annotated collection of the 2 Alice books. This film is nothing like them, Disney cherry picked scenes from both books, leaving out a lot. You need to read them, they're aren't very long and what I like best is the logic puzzles and puns. Alice can't have any more tea because she hasn't had any; no, she can only have more, she can't have less. It's like a math problem. And the Mad Hatter's excuse for failing to fix the watch, "It was the very BEST butter," is illogical because even the best butter won't fix a watch. I have collected 17 different film versions of this story, the weirdest is a live action version with some stop-motion from the Czech Republic by Jan Svankmajer. I think it's the White Rabbit that goes around with a pair of scissors and cuts the heads off of playing cards when ordered to. Much darker than some children's versions. Of note is the 1966 BBC Gothic version with luminaries such as Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Sir Michael Redgrave, Alan Bennett, Sir John Gielgud and Leo McKern. Also the 1933 Hollywood version with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W. C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton (Fracture Fairy Tales), Edna May Oliver and May Robson.
Lewis Carroll published his ‘Alice’ stories in 1865. That’s 35 years before L. Frank Baum started publishing his ‘Oz’ books. I don’t know what if any influence Carroll’s book had on Baum, but the storylines are so similar, it is fun to think about.
First off only one book was published then. Secondly, Baum admitted he made The Oz books as an American version of Alice in Wonderland and fairytales in General.
The actor who is the voice of The Mad Hatter is Ed Wynn(pronounced ‘Win.’ ). Thirteen years later, he played Uncle Albert, the laughing old man floating near the ceiling in Mary Poppins.
"these portrayals of such strong characters" say it louder for the people who say they are damsels waiting for a man to save them. thank you for seeing them for what they really are "the queen of hearts, awesume" me: and the king
YES! They are most definitely NOT damsels in distress ... quite the contrary! They are smart, independent, considerate young adults who grow further confident in their own identity as they are thrown into unfamiliar territories ... nothing more motivational to see them succeed 😊
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 he was talking in the beginning about the other princesses movies he has seen so far, like cinderella...and god knows cinderella, aurora and snow get the most shit for being "useless" anyone can get
I recommend the 1990’s version with whoppi Goldberg and Gene Wilder. I do love this so much too. It’s basically just navigating the transition between childhood and adulthood
I see some people already shared some fact about the film, but here are some I would like to add and some are repeats, but more organized. Also no I didn’t type it all out just on here, I copy and pasted my previous comment so I can put it here: Some Facts regarding Alice in Wonderland -it basically is a kind of roadtrip movie meet someone have an encounter or move onto something else and there isn’t really a connecting thread other than Alice and she is a blank slate for the audience to view everything strange through her and having her be the normal one to work off of all of the weird and abnormal things in Wonderland and this film does what other adaptations of the story fail to do it knows it has to be a film first so it is easier for the audience to follow whereas others either stick to close to the source material or stray too far for it to make sense to follow -when Alice is lost and sings the song “Very Good Advice” originally it was supposed to be a scene where she encounters one of the characters being the Knight and was supposed to help her learn the lesson, but Walt thought it would be better if she learned the lesson herself, -the whole thing regarding “Raven like a writing desk” Lewis Carrol never had intended for the riddle to have an answer, but after receiving so many letters he wrote this in reply: in the preface in a latter edition of the book: “Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter’s Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is NEVAR put with the wrong end in front! This, however, is merely an afterthought; the riddle as originally invented, had no answer at all.” -to this day it is the Disney film with the most songs in it even if some are each only a few seconds long, -the number on the Hatter’s hat is the price tag which stands for 10 Shillings and a sixpence, -this was one of the books in the background in the opening of Pinocchio along with Peter Pan as Walt had wanted to make film adaptations of both as early as the 1930’s, but could never have them work right and wouldn’t be until the 50’s they came to be. -while this film did okay at the box office and with critics it wasn’t a smash hit the studio wanted, but in the late 60’s was when both Alice and the film Fantasia would find their audiences with college campuses with kids high watching the trippy films, -the voice of Alice Katherine Beaumont would only work for Disney twice in this and the next film Peter Pan as the voice of Wendy, however, she would reprise the role of Alice in the first Kingdom Hearts game in 2001, -I’m only bringing this up because you seemed confused as the woman with Alice in the beginning and end of the film is her sister, not mother or teacher and would also be in Peter Pan as the mother of Wendy, -every character in the film can be found in the books, but one which was made exclusively for this film that being the doorknob, -this film is where many actors and actresses that worked for Disney again and again can be heard in the following films, not including short cartoons or television work: Verna Felton who is the Queen of Hearts in this also was the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella and can be heard in the following Disney films: the matriarchal elephant in Dumbo, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, Flora in Sleeping Beauty, and Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book, Bill Thompson who is the White Rabbit and the Dodo in this also is most famous as the original voice of Droopy outside Disney, but can be heard as Mr. Smee and several other pirates in Peter Pan, Jock, Bull the bulldog, Dachsie, Joe the Italian, cook, and the policeman in the zoo in Lady and the Tramp, King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty, Uncle Waldo in The AristoCats, J Pat O’Malley who is Tweedle Dee and Dum as well as the Walrus, the Carpenter, and Mother Oyster in this can also be heard as Cyril Proudbottom, Mr. Winkie, and a couple others in Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Taod, Jasper and Colonel in 101 Dalmatians, but was not in Sword in the Stone as you has thought, Colonel Haiti and one of the Vultures in The Jungle Book, Otto the dog in Robin Hood, Sterling Holloway who is one of my absolute favorites is the Cheshire Cat in this, but can also be heard as the Stork in Dumbo, Adult Flower in Bambi, the Narrator in Three Caballeros, Narrator in Make Mine Music, Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort in The AristoCats, And my childhood With Winnie the Pooh in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Ed Wynn while this being his only animated role for Disney was in several live action films for the studio including, The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Babes in Toyland, Mary Poppins, That Darn Cat, The Gnome Mobile and he always had the lisp to him, Richard Haydn who was the caterpillar was Uncle Max in The Sound of Music, This would be the first Disney film to have end credits to it which wouldn’t happen again until 1985 with The Black Cauldron, To help animators have a look down they would have the actors playing the roles dress up as their characters and act out the scenes for reference footage I bring this up because for the tea party scene Ed Wynn who plays the Mad Hatter was improvising dialogue with the scene of the rabbit’s watch, but when it was time to do the script dialogue for the scene they found it wasn’t as funny as what he improvised so they used the audio from the reference footage of him,
Brought to you by Disney starring Alice. A girl with an active imagination and falls down a rabbit hole to a magical world. There was a live-action version of this movie directed by Tim Burton which earned over a billion dollars in the boxoffice
I recommend watching a 1985 TV movie of Alice In Wonderland. It’s actually available on TH-cam, it’s a musical, and frankly in two parts. Walt Disney made a fine product, but I always feel like that 1985 version has more overall teeth.
@@latenightswithsammy great!! It doesn’t feature necessarily Name actors now, but they were huge in the time. A couple of the most enduring names in that production are Sammy Davis, Jr. and Pat Morita. It’s also a live action movie with pretty good faithfulness to the Lewis Carroll stories.
Have you ever been to Disneyland ? I’m addition to a regular story telling ride of this movie they have the mad (hatters) tea party (tea cups that spin). This is really a fun movie.
When I was 5 my school played the story of " Alice in Wonderland " : my class was the caterpillar and the cards (with another class) and one of my classmates was Alice. Even if the Cheshire Cat is kind of weird, he's (with the caterpillar) the only character who really listen Alice and helps her find her way. After that, you should see the movies of Tim Burton " Alice in Wonderland " and " Alice Through the Looking Glass " who are like sequels of the animated version.
fun fact the actress for alice voiced wendy in peter pan. if your familiar with the kingdom hearts series she reprised both roles for the first game and voiced kairis grandmother in birth by sleep
Fun reaction. Very interesting that you mention the movie”Seconds”. That is not a well known film. I saw it but don’t remember it. This is a fun version of Alice in Wonderland. The do a great job of making it feel like a dream. Have three interesting films you may like. AlteredStates 1981, The Other 1972 and The Day of the Locust 1975. No one else has reacted to them but I think they would be great ones for all to see.
Hey Sammy. I noticed you’ve been watching a mix of fantasy and horror. If you want to see a movie that has a mix of both, I have Disney recommendation for you. A childhood favorite of mine called RETURN TO OZ from 1985 staring Fairuza Balk. Set 6 months after the tornado that first transported her to Oz, Dorothy has been having trouble sleeping and is sent to a doctor for help. A mysterious girl helps her escape and she ends up back in Oz but things aren’t as she remembers and two new villains have taken over Oz and the Emerald City and it’s up to Dorothy with a set of new comrades to help restore the Emerald City and rescue her old friends from the wicked new rulers. Great special effects for its time and a great score, it also features the dark side of Oz that we know from the books but is rarely captured in film. I have a feeling you’d appreciate it. That and also Labyrinth (1986 starting David Bowie)
This movie is relentless nonstop keeps going , Always something one after another sometimes to the point of hard to follow.. Still very enjoyable just for the weirdness.. I actually just watched it a few days ago and for the last time I watched it was probably in the 80s and I didn't watch it all the way through I was "pretty easily distracted as a kid playing with my toys while watching TV
Completely dark and adult but oh, so wonderfully weird is a live action movie called MULHOLLAND DRIVE. That would be cool to see you react to that and get your thoughts on it
It's the guy who played in " Night in the museum " isn't he ? I ask because I'm french. In France, his voice actor was for Disney, what Mel Blanc was for cartoons
You bet. In the books, you have the Queen of Hearts in the first story and the Red Queen in the sequel. Nowadays, the two queens, who are very different to each other, are mixed together to become one queen in the movies that uses lines from both queens which also makes it a bit difficult for some people to tell them apart. If you should pick the worst and most evil of the two, it's definitely the Queen of Hearts.
Some of Walt Disney's earliest silent shorts were based on the Alice character and were a mix of a live-action little girl against an animated backdrop.
Like his contemporaries Lewis Carroll used opium. This may have fuelled his imagination. There may be a connection between the drug culture and Alice’s consuming foodstuffs that alter her body.
Yeah Oz had good and bad things, Wonderland 100% sucked lol. I mean I certainly had fun watching it, but it would be both terrifying and infuriating to be in Alice’s position. XD
Next week: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) or Pinocchio (1940)? Leaning more towards the latter 😆
Pinocchio has my vote. However either one will be welcomed.
Pinocchio 🤥💜, although both are very good 👍
Either one is worth a watch. Spoiler-free, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is tremendous. I actually like it better than Pinocchio, but Pinocchio is absolutely brilliant, too. The two movies are indicative of the lasting impact of The Walt Disney Company over many decades.
Why not do both? One, and then the other. Both are well worth it
Bradley Elsken ...He is asking for next week. This isn't a zero sum game.
When Alice says “Why, in my world, EVERYTHING would be nonsense,” that’s a prediction/foreshadowing. And, then, the rest of the movie is an object lesson in the statement: “Be careful what you ask for; you might get it.”
YUP! A very good reminder for what we wish/hope for ... coming true! 😆
So true on what's already happening
My absolute favorite Disney movie, no contest. I was 3 or 4 the first time I saw this, probably one of my earliest memories. It's been with me my whole life. It's hard to imagine what I'd think of it if I saw it for the first time as an adult. The creativity the animators poured into every frame is so inspiring.
What a GREAT film to have as your top Disney film ... it is amazing, and I 100% agree with you, every frame is a masterpiece 😊
A wonderful movie
This movie is funny half the time
The one with the lisp just talks that way because the voice actor Ed Wynn had a bit of a lisp too.
He plays the character of the laughing uncle in Mary Poppins who keeps floating off the ground when he starts laughing.
The character of Turbo in Wreck It Ralph is also visually inspired by his Ed Wynn's appearance too, and the voice actor is doing something of a Ed Wynn impression/impersonation for that role.
Ahhh ... that's very interesting! And also to have a nod to the actor in a more "recent" film ... that's awesome 😆
Ed Wynn was a huge star in vaudeville (starting in 1903!), on Broadway, in early radio, and later on television, where he hosted one of the first network comedy-variey shows. He even received an Academy Award nomination for his appearance in *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959).
The term Mad as a Hatter comes from the olden days, 1800s and earlier when people who made hats used Mercury which drove them insane, and this movie also inspired different rock groups Beatles and Jefferson Airplane
...and Mad as a March Hare stems from the fact that March is when Rabbits are in heat\Horny, so they act Mad.
Ahhh very interesting + unfortunate ... But cool to know nonetheless 😆
As a child this was closest to my own imaginary world. Many kids have dark thoughts and imaginings. As adults we need to realise children have all the spectrum of mental journeys adults do. That’s why as adults we need to carefully help them navigate it all.
So true! I'm glad you were able to relate to this film for its many portrayals of childhood and the importance of imagination 😊
You gotta love a child’s imagination. Alice created a very unique world in her head. Very trippy indeed, but tons of fun. 😄 Love it!
AGREE!
Back when the book was written the Mad Hatter was based off the fact that hatters made hats by covering them in lead, they also had to wear those hats for some parts of their development. Causing the hatters to go slowly mad.
No way?! That's very interesting and unfortunate at the same time 😅
The Cheshire Cat is one of my most favorite characters in any version. He's a neutral character who sometimes causes a bit of mischief, but mostly helps those who need it. However, the scene where he laughed and disappeared while singing scared the willies out of me. Even gave me some nightmares.
The Matrix movies are based on Lewis Carroll's famous stories. The character Morpheus is based on the Cheshire Cat.
Hey ... I can completely understand having nightmares about that cat! And I actually had no idea about the 'Matrix' connection ... but now that you mention it, that's actually very cool! 😆
@@latenightswithsammy The Matrix is a real must see. They're gonna release the fourth movie very soon.
There's even this theory that we're all in the matrix.
@@dinodisneylover1I have to admit the only moment where I was a little scared by him as a little girl was when he disappears the last time.
Despite that he's (with the caterpillar) the only character who really listen Alice and helps her
The animatirs took footage if Ed Wynn doing The Mad Hatter for animation reference points. His live performance was so over the top, the animators couldn't stop laughing. This movie also has more songs than any other Disney animated feature.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this Andy :)
Alice In Wonderland, as a book and taken together, is named Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass. They are two stories/books compiled together. It was first published in 1865. The Wizard Of Oz, as a book, was published as The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz in 1900.
The voice of the mad hatter is the actor who marry Poppins visits with the childern and Bert the one who goes in the air when happy
Brilliant movie connections 😊
Hiya Sammy! I love Alice in Wonderland. Voice acting: The Queen of Hearts is Verna Felton, who also voiced Flora in SB, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, and Aunt Sarah in Lady & the Tramp. The White Rabbit is Bill Thompson, who is also King Hubert in SB, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, and Jock the Scottish terrier in Lady & the Tramp (he's also the voice of Mr. Slade in The Flintstones). Sterling Halloway played the Cheshire Cat, and is also the titular character of Winnie the Pooh (I'LL NEVER RIDE THE POOH ATTRACTION AT THE PARKS, @BigGator knows why, LOL) and Kaa in The Jungle Book. Ed Wynn was the Mad Hatter and he was also in Mary Poppins, Babes in Toyland, and That Darn Cat (and also in one of the all-time best eps of The Twilight Zone). And Alice was Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Wendy in Peter Pan.
Once again, Silver Age Disney showing us just how much the company revered their finest voice actors over multiple films. They were truly epic voice actors and defined so many characters from our childhood. I'm loving watching Sammy discover these for the first time.
IT IS SUCH A GOOD FILM ... stacked from edge to edge with such amazing talent ... and my friend, I am enjoying these so much 😊 each film is a treasure in itself ... they just keep on giving! 😊
The villains in Alice In Wonderland are creative and fairly low-key. I have always thought of The Cheshire Cat as a light villain. He is a weird tease of what Alice wants but always falls back on a mocking nonsense.
YES! He seemed to be an antihero in the film ... a VERY interesting and scary antihero 🤣
@@latenightswithsammy yes he always scared me as a kid, now I just love him ❤
Beautiful movie. Alice isn't a princess. At least, I don't think she is one. Alice seems rich (or upper middle class), but clearly not royalty in any way.
Fun Fact: In the "Walrus And The Carpenter" sequence, the R in the word "March" on the mother oyster's calendar flashes. This alludes to the old adage about only eating oysters in a month with an R in its name. That is because those months without an R (May, June, July, August) are the summer months in England, when oysters would not keep due to the heat, in the days before refrigeration.
She isn't a princess. She is based on a real girl (as well as others) named Alice Liddle (Meant to rhyme with Fiddle) who was not a princess. However-In the second Alice Book, Alice becomes a chess Piece QUEEN.
MrParkerman6 ...I stand corrected. 👍
Uh, not really since you were fairly correct.
MrParkerman6 ...And you're right that Alice (in the books) becomes a Queen. I had forgotten about that fact.
*Liddell
I spelt her last name wrong, for some reason even though I knew it.
7:25 When I saw it for the first time I was about 7 years old and I remember that I was very saddened by this scene.
I understand. Missing out on freshly harvested oysters is a big deal.
YES! Very sad for the oysters ... they were so innocent ...
The White Rabbit was late to his Meeting with The Queen by the way. It is explained more in the first book.
Gotcha!
Fun Fact: Eat Me-Drink Me is a Reference to taking Communion at Church (Eat and drinking Jesus-Wine/Grape juice & Communion Wafers)
Ahhh ... beautiful reference!
I'm over 60 and my favorite book of all time is an annotated collection of the 2 Alice books. This film is nothing like them, Disney cherry picked scenes from both books, leaving out a lot. You need to read them, they're aren't very long and what I like best is the logic puzzles and puns. Alice can't have any more tea because she hasn't had any; no, she can only have more, she can't have less. It's like a math problem. And the Mad Hatter's excuse for failing to fix the watch, "It was the very BEST butter," is illogical because even the best butter won't fix a watch.
I have collected 17 different film versions of this story, the weirdest is a live action version with some stop-motion from the Czech Republic by Jan Svankmajer. I think it's the White Rabbit that goes around with a pair of scissors and cuts the heads off of playing cards when ordered to. Much darker than some children's versions.
Of note is the 1966 BBC Gothic version with luminaries such as Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Sir Michael Redgrave, Alan Bennett, Sir John Gielgud and Leo McKern.
Also the 1933 Hollywood version with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W. C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton (Fracture Fairy Tales), Edna May Oliver and May Robson.
Ahh ... gotcha! Now I'm actually really hyped to read this book! Thank you so much for writing in and sharing your experience with the film 😊
Lewis Carroll published his ‘Alice’ stories in 1865. That’s 35 years before L. Frank Baum started publishing his ‘Oz’ books. I don’t know what if any influence Carroll’s book had on Baum, but the storylines are so similar, it is fun to think about.
Yes, I always wondered how Alice and Dorothy would get along.
First off only one book was published then. Secondly, Baum admitted he made The Oz books as an American version of Alice in Wonderland and fairytales in General.
@@MrParkerman6 I’ve always liked the ‘Oz’ franchise better.
@@Bfdidc YES!!
@@nickperkins8477 Interesting! Imagine a 'crossover' ... probably would be super cool ... or not 😆
Impressively the actress playing Alice is still alive in 2023 and still playing the character.
That's awesome! Thank you for sharing this Alice 😆
@@latenightswithsammyshe was also the model and the vouce of Wendy from " Peter Pan "
The actor who is the voice of The Mad Hatter is Ed Wynn(pronounced ‘Win.’ ). Thirteen years later, he played Uncle Albert, the laughing old man floating near the ceiling in Mary Poppins.
"these portrayals of such strong characters" say it louder for the people who say they are damsels waiting for a man to save them. thank you for seeing them for what they really are
"the queen of hearts, awesume"
me: and the king
YES! They are most definitely NOT damsels in distress ... quite the contrary! They are smart, independent, considerate young adults who grow further confident in their own identity as they are thrown into unfamiliar territories ... nothing more motivational to see them succeed 😊
Nobody has ever said in the history of mankind that Alice was a damsel in distress
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 he was talking in the beginning about the other princesses movies he has seen so far, like cinderella...and god knows cinderella, aurora and snow get the most shit for being "useless" anyone can get
The Caterpillar smokes through a hookah
Graphic!
my first disney movie every saw i love this movie
What a first film to see ... just amazing on all fronts 👌
Unbirthdays are every day that is not your birthday and I think it’s ridiculously silly you didn’t know lol
It seems so obvious on retrospect 😅
"It's interesting that there's no villain...."
Oh my....If only he saw HER coming
🤣🤣 - INDEED! Little did I know!
I love Disney's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. So imaginative, creative and beautifully animated. Great to watch your reaction
Completely agree! And thank you for tuning in :)
I recommend the 1990’s version with whoppi Goldberg and Gene Wilder. I do love this so much too.
It’s basically just navigating the transition between childhood and adulthood
Ohh ... thanks for the recommendation!
Such a beautiful way to show the transition 😊
I see some people already shared some fact about the film, but here are some I would like to add and some are repeats, but more organized. Also no I didn’t type it all out just on here, I copy and pasted my previous comment so I can put it here:
Some Facts regarding Alice in Wonderland
-it basically is a kind of roadtrip movie meet someone have an encounter or move onto something else and there isn’t really a connecting thread other than Alice and she is a blank slate for the audience to view everything strange through her and having her be the normal one to work off of all of the weird and abnormal things in Wonderland and this film does what other adaptations of the story fail to do it knows it has to be a film first so it is easier for the audience to follow whereas others either stick to close to the source material or stray too far for it to make sense to follow
-when Alice is lost and sings the song “Very Good Advice” originally it was supposed to be a scene where she encounters one of the characters being the Knight and was supposed to help her learn the lesson, but Walt thought it would be better if she learned the lesson herself,
-the whole thing regarding “Raven like a writing desk” Lewis Carrol never had intended for the riddle to have an answer, but after receiving so many letters he wrote this in reply: in the preface in a latter edition of the book: “Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter’s Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is NEVAR put with the wrong end in front! This, however, is merely an afterthought; the riddle as originally invented, had no answer at all.”
-to this day it is the Disney film with the most songs in it even if some are each only a few seconds long,
-the number on the Hatter’s hat is the price tag which stands for 10 Shillings and a sixpence,
-this was one of the books in the background in the opening of Pinocchio along with Peter Pan as Walt had wanted to make film adaptations of both as early as the 1930’s, but could never have them work right and wouldn’t be until the 50’s they came to be.
-while this film did okay at the box office and with critics it wasn’t a smash hit the studio wanted, but in the late 60’s was when both Alice and the film Fantasia would find their audiences with college campuses with kids high watching the trippy films,
-the voice of Alice Katherine Beaumont would only work for Disney twice in this and the next film Peter Pan as the voice of Wendy, however, she would reprise the role of Alice in the first Kingdom Hearts game in 2001,
-I’m only bringing this up because you seemed confused as the woman with Alice in the beginning and end of the film is her sister, not mother or teacher and would also be in Peter Pan as the mother of Wendy,
-every character in the film can be found in the books, but one which was made exclusively for this film that being the doorknob,
-this film is where many actors and actresses that worked for Disney again and again can be heard in the following films, not including short cartoons or television work:
Verna Felton who is the Queen of Hearts in this also was the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella and can be heard in the following Disney films: the matriarchal elephant in Dumbo, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, Flora in Sleeping Beauty, and Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book,
Bill Thompson who is the White Rabbit and the Dodo in this also is most famous as the original voice of Droopy outside Disney, but can be heard as Mr. Smee and several other pirates in Peter Pan,
Jock, Bull the bulldog, Dachsie, Joe the Italian, cook, and the policeman in the zoo in Lady and the Tramp,
King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty,
Uncle Waldo in The AristoCats,
J Pat O’Malley who is Tweedle Dee and Dum as well as the Walrus, the Carpenter, and Mother Oyster in this can also be heard as
Cyril Proudbottom, Mr. Winkie, and a couple others in Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Taod,
Jasper and Colonel in 101 Dalmatians, but was not in Sword in the Stone as you has thought,
Colonel Haiti and one of the Vultures in The Jungle Book,
Otto the dog in Robin Hood,
Sterling Holloway who is one of my absolute favorites is the Cheshire Cat in this, but can also be heard as the Stork in Dumbo,
Adult Flower in Bambi,
the Narrator in Three Caballeros,
Narrator in Make Mine Music,
Kaa in The Jungle Book,
Roquefort in The AristoCats,
And my childhood With Winnie the Pooh in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,
Ed Wynn while this being his only animated role for Disney was in several live action films for the studio including,
The Absent Minded Professor,
Son of Flubber,
Babes in Toyland,
Mary Poppins,
That Darn Cat,
The Gnome Mobile and he always had the lisp to him,
Richard Haydn who was the caterpillar was Uncle Max in The Sound of Music,
This would be the first Disney film to have end credits to it which wouldn’t happen again until 1985 with The Black Cauldron,
To help animators have a look down they would have the actors playing the roles dress up as their characters and act out the scenes for reference footage I bring this up because for the tea party scene Ed Wynn who plays the Mad Hatter was improvising dialogue with the scene of the rabbit’s watch, but when it was time to do the script dialogue for the scene they found it wasn’t as funny as what he improvised so they used the audio from the reference footage of him,
James! I am beyond grateful for all that you've written! This is awesome 😆 Reading through them now!
Brought to you by Disney starring Alice. A girl with an active imagination and falls down a rabbit hole to a magical world. There was a live-action version of this movie directed by Tim Burton which earned over a billion dollars in the boxoffice
Would love to see the Tim Burton version one day ☺️
If I may recommend a couple of Halloween comedies, "Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein", "Ghost and Mr. Chicken", and "Arsenic and Old Lace"
Awesome Chris! Thank you so much for these recommendations 😆
I recommend watching a 1985 TV movie of Alice In Wonderland. It’s actually available on TH-cam, it’s a musical, and frankly in two parts. Walt Disney made a fine product, but I always feel like that 1985 version has more overall teeth.
Interesting! I will definitely add it to the list then 👍
@@latenightswithsammy great!! It doesn’t feature necessarily Name actors now, but they were huge in the time. A couple of the most enduring names in that production are Sammy Davis, Jr. and Pat Morita. It’s also a live action movie with pretty good faithfulness to the Lewis Carroll stories.
@@nickperkins8477 I'M HYPED!
@@latenightswithsammy great!!
Such a good movie, just rewatched it a few weeks ago myself
AGREE! So advanced and imaginative 😊
Have you ever been to Disneyland ? I’m addition to a regular story telling ride of this movie they have the mad (hatters) tea party (tea cups that spin). This is really a fun movie.
Yes I have, in Japan! I think I rode on one of the tea cup rides ... so fun! 😆
I love your Disney classics reactions!
Thank you so much Georgi! I'm loving the discovery 😆
When I was 5 my school played the story of " Alice in Wonderland " : my class was the caterpillar and the cards (with another class) and one of my classmates was Alice.
Even if the Cheshire Cat is kind of weird, he's (with the caterpillar) the only character who really listen Alice and helps her find her way.
After that, you should see the movies of Tim Burton " Alice in Wonderland " and " Alice Through the Looking Glass " who are like sequels of the animated version.
fun fact the actress for alice voiced wendy in peter pan.
if your familiar with the kingdom hearts series she reprised both roles for the first game and voiced kairis grandmother in birth by sleep
NO way! That's awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this 😊
I had a great time watching you watch this, it's been a while since I've seen it myself. :) Totally wacky movie, just like the book. XD
Ahh ... thank you so much Rachel! 😊 It's been very interesting to slowly peel layers of this wonderfully enigmatic/gorgeous film 😆
Fun reaction. Very interesting that you mention the movie”Seconds”. That is not a well known film. I saw it but don’t remember it. This is a fun version of Alice in Wonderland. The do a great job of making it feel like a dream. Have three interesting films you may like. AlteredStates 1981, The Other 1972 and The Day of the Locust 1975. No one else has reacted to them but I think they would be great ones for all to see.
Thank you for the kind words and the awesome recommendations! I'm in complete agreement with you ... This film rocks 😬
The Mad Hatter who is a haberdasher and is voiced by Ed Wynn
Brilliant!
Hey Sammy. I noticed you’ve been watching a mix of fantasy and horror. If you want to see a movie that has a mix of both, I have Disney recommendation for you. A childhood favorite of mine called RETURN TO OZ from 1985 staring Fairuza Balk. Set 6 months after the tornado that first transported her to Oz, Dorothy has been having trouble sleeping and is sent to a doctor for help. A mysterious girl helps her escape and she ends up back in Oz but things aren’t as she remembers and two new villains have taken over Oz and the Emerald City and it’s up to Dorothy with a set of new comrades to help restore the Emerald City and rescue her old friends from the wicked new rulers. Great special effects for its time and a great score, it also features the dark side of Oz that we know from the books but is rarely captured in film. I have a feeling you’d appreciate it. That and also Labyrinth (1986 starting David Bowie)
You've officially got me pumped for both films! Adding them to the list as we speak 😃
This movie is relentless nonstop keeps going , Always something one after another sometimes to the point of hard to follow.. Still very enjoyable just for the weirdness.. I actually just watched it a few days ago and for the last time I watched it was probably in the 80s and I didn't watch it all the way through I was "pretty easily distracted as a kid playing with my toys while watching TV
Agree with you all the way! And I can only imagine watching this film as a kid, that alone with toys 😆
There is a good live action with Michael Crawford as white rabbit it's very good
Sweet, gotta check it out as well ☺️
Originally written by author J.M. Barrie who also wrote the story Peter Pan
Brilliant writer 👍
Yaaaaaaay so glad you liked it
Hard not to 😊 It is so charming!
This movie is my favorite, greetings from argentina
Great taste in movies! Thanks for sharing 😄
Have you ever seen The Great Mouse Detective? That’s a Disney movie that frightened me as a kid but it’s great.
Nope, never have ... would you recommend it?
Yes I would. If you ever have a chance. Thanks for replying to my comments.
@@amarquez517fun fact : in France, the Cheshire Cat and Bazil are voiced by the same guy
Great classic Disney movie. I even have Lewis Carroll's original novel along with the sequel. The movie is actually very close to the original story.
YES it is! And I think that is major props on the directors part for following closely to the original source material 😆
@@latenightswithsammy I also liked Tim Burton's version of the story.
Completely dark and adult but oh, so wonderfully weird is a live action movie called MULHOLLAND DRIVE. That would be cool to see you react to that and get your thoughts on it
Introducing the Cheshire Cat voiced by Mickey Rooney
Love the cat!
It's the guy who played in " Night in the museum " isn't he ? I ask because I'm french.
In France, his voice actor was for Disney, what Mel Blanc was for cartoons
Hi Sammy! Please consider watching Gwen stefanis music video for “what you waiting for” since it’s fashion / scenery is inspired by this movie.
Interesting, will check it out. Thank you for sharing 😄
There is a good live action with actress feona
Worth watching?
The live action is alright. Thats the FIRST time in my life I've ever fallen asleep at the movies 🤷
Oh my! 🤣 That certainly says a lot about the film!
@@latenightswithsammy I'm just not too fond of remakes, I'm a sucker for the classics
The closest thing to a true villain this movie has is The Queen of Hearts.
You bet. In the books, you have the Queen of Hearts in the first story and the Red Queen in the sequel. Nowadays, the two queens, who are very different to each other, are mixed together to become one queen in the movies that uses lines from both queens which also makes it a bit difficult for some people to tell them apart. If you should pick the worst and most evil of the two, it's definitely the Queen of Hearts.
Love the Queen of hearts ... and her 'Hearty' soldiers as well 😆
I was in Wizard of Oz as the Tin Man
That's just awesome!
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Actually, Alice needs to get back to London, England. Not Kansas, and yes- I know what you did there!
I always thought it was Oxford.
😆 - that was wishful thinking on my part hehe
Introducing the game Croquet
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Doorknob's not in the books, yu know!!!??
NO WAY!! ... Whose idea was it?
You should do a reaction to "Seconds"!
Ohhhh ... that would be AWESOME!
I can’t work out why this didn’t scare my as a kid
I guess it is more fantastical than scary ... nevertheless, a masterpiece 🙂
Most Kifs in the 50s knew the story of Alice.
Some of Walt Disney's earliest silent shorts were based on the Alice character and were a mix of a live-action little girl against an animated backdrop.
@@ejmythos8570 Brilliant!
You should Consider Reacting to Mickey Mouse's thru the Mirror, Short cartoon. Probably still on TH-cam.
AWESOME! Will look it up! Thank you so much for the shout out 😆
Have you seen Tom Petty's "Alice" music video? th-cam.com/video/h0JvF9vpqx8/w-d-xo.html
“Don’t Come Around Here No More “ is a great one.
Nope, haven't yet, but I will now! Thanks for the link 😊
Like his contemporaries Lewis Carroll used opium. This may have fuelled his imagination. There may be a connection between the drug culture and Alice’s consuming foodstuffs that alter her body.
Ohhh ... I didn't even consider that ... that's trippy! 😅
A classic, even if it's just nonsense 🤣 it's fun and pretty nonsense
An absolute banger!
🐰 we’re late! 🐰
🤣 - yes we are!
Is it your un-birthday?
Yes 🤣
Yeah Oz had good and bad things, Wonderland 100% sucked lol. I mean I certainly had fun watching it, but it would be both terrifying and infuriating to be in Alice’s position. XD