Full Alice in Wonderland Trailer Hits: Potty But Pretty
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Chris Laverty – December 16, 2009
A fully long and weird trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has landed in cyberspace. The costumes are magnifico.
Check out the HQ trailer HERE
Rather than kick Lewis Carroll’s famous novel off from scratch, Tim Burton has chosen to return Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) to Wonderland after a hopeless marriage proposal. Judging by this trailer, Burton’s Wonderland will be a place of colourful vistas, colourful characters and with Johnny Depp’s bright orange Mad Hatter barnet, colourful hair. A lot of colour then, basically.
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Live and Let Die: Jane Seymour’s Maxi Dresses
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Chris Laverty – September 1, 2009
Jane Seymour was just 22 years old when she played white witch Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973). Her wardrobe was a mixture of uniform (as tarot reader), casual (escaping the poppy fields, New Orleans airport) and sexualised (sacrificial peasant dress, various chemises).
Most illustrative of her kooky characterisation however are the maxi-dresses. There is something intrinsically spiritual about a maxi dress; the way it flows and veils the body. It gels with the divine aspect of Solitaire and later, with a rapidly decreasing neckline, epitomises her sexual awakening by Roger Moore’s randy new 007.
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