Saturday morning satire for all my "Kid Lit" homies
This has been a big year for Hollywood turning classic children's literature into hit film. First there was Where The Wild Things Are, and now, Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.
To be entirely honest, from the trailers for Burton's Alice, I'm fairly sure "Alice" would easily qualify as a disturbing vision of what was intended to be quality children's entertainment.
*Note to Tim Burton. Sorry, Mr. Burton, I know you're brilliant, but weren't Edward Gorey, Steven Sondheim and Lewis Carroll perfect the way they were? Why change perfection?
In any event, today I thought I'd present a few hilarious examples of how not to turn children's literature into film courtesy via a hilarious post called Children's Book Cinema, from Something Awful.
... "If there's one thing Hollywood loves more than copying a successful idea, it's copying the successful idea of someone who was already appropriating someone else's material. So after the hit adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, studio execs are ready to rush other "edgy" interpretations of children's classics to the multiplexes. "
(personal fav.)
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