I have always loved macabre imagery and its application to children's stories. I always found something very interesting about dark twists and connotations in folk tales and children's stories, in a way it makes the stories appeal to a wider and more mature audience. In popular culture currently there is a trend in films being made or remade to be more macabre and to have a much darker ambiance, for example the new Superman movie (Man Of Steel 2013) and The Dark Knight trilogy both of which were made a lot darker than their predecessors. Below are a few images of a dark Alice In Wonderland which I came across in my research, this kind of imagery is the kind I would like to use in my interpretation of this classic children's tale.
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| Two versions of a dark Alice (above). |
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The Dark Knight's version of The Joker (above) compared to the original film
version of The Joker (below). |
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