The Metamorphosis of a Novel to a Movie-Exemplified with Alice in Wonderland

从《爱丽丝梦游仙境》看小说到电影的蜕变

The Significance of the Study

The main intention of this study is to explore the transition from verbal to visual nonsense in Tim Burdon#8217;s cinematic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.With the rapid and relentless advance of modern science and technology, the world today has long since entered the 'image age'. The image telling represented by film has created a popular culture communication style with a huge impact through the visual modal narration of sound, color, landscape and image.In spite of this, the outstanding paper classic literature inherited from history dose not disappear, but provides irreplaceable colorful and varied subjects, profound great thoughts, and artistic nourishment for contemporary image telling.

《Alice in wonderland》(1865)authored by Lewis Carroll(1832-1898),a British writer,since its publication, has always been the concern of the world,especially critics, and has become a time-honored and utterly literary classic.Sometimes,people can#8217;t help but wonder why does this fairy tale created for children enjoy such a long-lasting reputation?Firstly,its unique thinking pattern with endless aesthetics implication and literary merit have canonize the work.Meanwhile, the sustained attention of critics and diverse screen adaptions are important external conditions of maintaining its impregnable position in literature. The criticism made by critics and their discovery make this novel an inexhaustible supply of 'interpretation of wonders'.

People successively examine them from the perspectives of literature, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, semiotics and even medicine, and various theoretical expositions and discoveries emerge in an endless stream.As Martin Gardner commented,#8217;like Homer's epic poems, the Bible, and all the other great fantasies,this novel enables people to undertake any type of symbolic interpretation#8217;

Furthermore, the novel has also been to us all a copious fountain of screen adaptations and getting the narration done in some other way.Many writers and artists have had multitudinous literary interpretation and film reproduction through

imitation, adaptation, continuation,rewriting and other forms.Since the 20th century,

with the development of modern film and television technology, the film adaptation of #8217;Alice#8217; has gone through a hundred years of history from silent films, talkies, black-and-white films, color films to digital 3D blockbuster.

The Literature Review Based on an IMAX3-D Screening