Alice In Darklands

Alice In Wonderland has always been an obsession for people in the media arts basically because of the beautiful and artistic world called Wonderland that Lewis Carroll had imagined. Now even though Wonderland is a one of the most artistic places ever imagined and Alice's adventure being one of the greatest adventures ever written in the literary arts, I've never been able to imagine why Alice In Wonderland has always been inclined to the darker side. I've never actually read Alice In Wonderland (and I hope to read it soon), but the first time I came in contact with Alice's adventure when a game called American McGee's Alice came out in 2000. Now this game is one of the most twisted games that I have ever played and American McGee (the person responsible for the design of this game) has said that this game is how he actually looked at the world of Wonderland and a lot of people applauded it actually agreed to his perspective of the book saying that the underlining feel of the book was actually as dark as American McGee had portrayed in his game.

The main reason why I chose to write this article is because of the airing of "Alice" on The Syfy Channel and the 2010 movie release of Tim Burton's take on "Alice In Wonderland". There's so much hype created at the moment about Alice In Wonderland and everybody has been cashing in on the hype. I know this isn't the time to bash Tim Burton but there's something about him that I don't like. No doubt, his movies are great but sometimes he just goes overboard and people appreciate his total stupidity to be really really artistic, for example "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory".

But we're just going off topic here. But my main questions were,

1) What is the current obsession with Alice In Wonderland? Is it like a ticket to get yourself recognized as having an artistic mind? What's artistic about reusing an idea written in the 19th century over and over again?

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2) Why does Alice In Wonderland give me the creeps?! No, seriously. I'm sure its supposed to be a kids story and all but there is just something really creepy going on in there. The Grinning Cat, The Mad Hatter, The Chess Kingdom etc etc. Its just scary.