Alice in Wonderland

Film V.

Characters

Dorothy Gale - Judy Garland

Professor Marvel/The Wizard of Oz - Frank Morgan

Auntie Em - Clara

Uncle Henry - Charley

Hunk/The Scarecrow - Ray Bolger

Hickory/The Tinman -Jack Haley

Zeke/The Lion - Bert Lahr

Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West - Margaret Hamilton

Glinda, the Good Witch of the North - Billie Burke

Toto – Toto

Music by: Songs: Harold Arlen (music), E. Y. Harburg (lyrics)

Cinematography: Harold Rosson

Editing by: Blanche Sewell

Critics about this film: At least in the United States, The Wizard of Oz is probably the most widely known and recognized movie in the history of the cinema. It is shown every year on national television, and it is often the first movie that every generation of new parents show their young children. The songs within the movie may be as familiar to most people as anything by the Beatles or Beethoven, and word for word, there are probably as many famous and universally recognized lines as any play by Shakespeare. Beyond all this, it has become one of the most loved films ever made, by both children and adults.

Awards:

· 1939 Nominated Golden Palm

· 1940 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Score

· 1985 Jackie Coogan Award

· 1989 National Film Registry

· 2005 Won Satellite Award Outstanding Classic DVD

· 2006 Won Saturn Award Best Classic Film DVD Release

· Best Cinematography, Color

· Best Music, Original Song -For the song "Over the Rainbow"

In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The Wizard of Oz was acknowledged as the best film in the fantasy genre.

Useful vocabulary:

· squawks

“To squawk” is to make a loud, high crying sound, the way birds do.

· coward

A critical word for a person who is always scared, or has no courage.

· jabbering

“To jabber” is to talk quickly and unclearly.

· Shiftless, farmhands

“Shiftless” is an interesting word for lazy, and “farmhands”

are people who work, obviously, on a farm.

· Tinkering, contraption, wagon

“To tinker” is a nice little verb meaning to try and fix something, often when you don’t really know what you’re doing. A “contraption” is a machine that looks unfamiliar or confusing.

Lead-in

1. Do you remember the story about a little girl travelling to the Emerald city?

2. Do you know this story in Russian? Can you name the characters?

3. What will happen if the child must leave home before he or she has grown up?

4. Will the child be able to meet the challenges? Will he or she ever be able to find the way back home?

5. What about relationships with grownups?

6. What do children do when adults ignore or cannot respond to their pleas for help?

While-stage

Task I.

Say who or what in the film:

1. was 12-year-old?

2. were responsible for a little girl after her parents’ death?

3. was the place of the family’s resistance?

4. was the best friend of Dorothy?

5. was bitten by Dorothy's dog, Toto?

6. caught up the house and transferred it to Munchkinland?

7. met Dorothy in a village of unearthly beauty?

8. was killed by falling house?

9. did Dorothy receive from the Good Witch of the North?

10. accompanied Dorothy to the Emerald City?

Task II.

Answer the questions.

1. Did Oz really happen or was it just Dorothy's dream?

2. Why the land of Oz was green?

3. How do you think Dorothy felt when she woke up from the tornado and found that the farm and Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were gone and that everything was different?

4. How did Dorothy make it through all those dangerous situations in Oz?

5. How did the Wizard come to power in the city of Oz and become renowned as a great and powerful wizard?

6. Why was Dorothy so happy to return home to a drab existence in Kansas when the land of Oz was so beautiful and colorful?

7. Was the Scarecrow any smarter after he got his diploma [or did he just think he was]?

8. Was the Lion any more courageous after he received his medal [or did he just think he was]?

Task III.

Complete the sentences by implication:

1. After a cyclone Dorothy finds herself in…

2. … arrives magically via bubble.

3. Glinda informs Dorothy that she…

4. …appears claiming the powerful ruby slippers.

5. Glinda advises Dorothy to seek the help of the mysterious… in the…

6. Glinda explains that Dorothy can find Emerald City by following….

7. On her way to the city, Dorothy meets…

8. Wizard of Oz promised to grant their wishes if they can bring him…

9. On their way to the witch's castle, they are attacked by a gang of…

10. the witch sets the… on fire.

11. The wizard Oz promises to deliver Dorothy home by…

12. Dorothy returned home by….

Task IV.

Tell about these scenes:

1. Dorothy tried to save Toto from the punishment of Miss Almira Gulch.

2. The cyclone brings Dorothy to Munchkinland.

3. Dorothy meets her new friends.

4. The company appears in the Emerald city and meets The great Wizard of Oz

5. Encounter with flying monkeys.

6. Dorothy and her friends are under the hatches of the Wicked Witch.

7. Exposing of the Wizard of Oz

8. Return home.

Post-stage

1. How does Dorothy change through the course of the story told by this movie?

2. Why couldn't Dorothy use the ruby slippers to get home at the beginning of the film, right after they appeared on her feet?

3. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion were all very different. Did that stop them from being friends? Does this lesson apply to real life?

4. Can you see a benefit to yourself in having friends who are very different than you?

5. Why would people want to be friends with others who were different from themselves?

6. How is it important for a child to try to defeat the fears he/she has got?

7. As a child anyone used to create an imagined world for them to live in. do you think it is a useful experience or a silly thing?

Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske.

Written by: Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, William Cottrell, Dick Kelsey, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Del Connell, Tom Oreb, John Walbridge,

Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway,Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton, J. Pat O'Malley, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel,Joseph Kearns, Larry Grey, Queenie Leonard, Dink Trout, Doris Lloyd, James MacDonald, The Mellomen, Don Barclay.

Music by: Oliver Wallace

Editing by: Lloyd L. Richardson

Studio: Walt Disney Studios

All of these creative decisions were met with great criticism from fans of Lewis Carroll, as well as from British film and literary critics who accused Disney of "Americanizing" a great work of English literature. Disney was not surprised by the critical reception to Alice in Wonderland - his version of Alice was intended for large family audiences, not literary critics - but despite all the long years of thought and effort, the film met with a lukewarm response at the box office and was a sharp disappointment in its initial release. Walt surmised that the film failed because Alice lacked "heart" and was a difficult character for audiences to get behind and root for. In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin relates animator Ward Kimball felt the film failed because, "it suffered from too many cooks - directors. Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product." On the movie aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, the overall rating of the film is a "fresh" 79%.

Awards: This motion picture received an Academy Award nomination for: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (lost to An American in Paris)

Pre-stage

1. Have you read the book about Alice in Wonderland?

2. Do you find the story amusing/funny/silly/extraordinary/etc.?

3. What can you say about the language of the tale? Is it always easy to understand the meaning of the words? Why (not)?

4. Have you ever seen a cartoon or film based on the book? Was it in Russian or in English?

5. Did you dream about going to the Wonderland just like Alice? What did you want to see there?

While-stage

Task I.

Reproduce a succession of changing Alice’s size as it was in the film. Explain what exactly happens to her at this moments?

The Doorknob suggests Alice drink from a bottle marked "Drink me."

The Doorknob directs her to a cookie marked "Eat me."

Alice finishes the last drop of the fluid inside the bottle

Inside the house of the rabbit, Alice eats a cookie.

Alice eats a carrot from the garden

Alice breaks off two pieces of the mushroom she is sitting on

Alice eats the remaining portions of mushroom

Task II.

Do the crossword about the heroes of the film.

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Across:

1. An eerily grinning feline that can disappear and reappear at will.

2. Gives Alice a cryptic advice about the mushroom she is sitting on.

3. leads a group of animals in a futile caucus-race to get dry

4. Is sent by Dodo down the chimney to help Alice to get out of the house of Rabbit.

5. Celebrates an "unbirthday" of March Hare.

Down:

1. Celebrates an "unbirthday" of March Hare.

2. Suggests Alice drink from a bottle marked "Drink me."

3. Invites Alice to a strange game of croquet

4. The hero of the occasion at the party in his garden.

5. two fat brothers who recite "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

6. leads Alice into Wonderland.

Post-stage

Answer the questions:

1. Why did playing cards paint white roses red?

2. What did Alice and the Queen use playing croquet?

3. Why did the Queen order Alice’s execution?

4. How did Alice manage to escape?

5. What is the most unusual moment in this tale for you?

6. Do you find the story amusing/funny/silly/extraordinary/etc.?

7. What can you say about the language of the tale? Is it always easy to understand the meaning of the words? Why (not)?

8. Did you see the same story in translation? Are there any differences in the genuine and Russian version? What about the language?

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