Do you think that Avatar or even the new Alice in Wonderland movie will ever be seen by kids in the future with the same amount of morbid curiosity that we see this?
"Recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years. Music: ‘Jill in the Box’, composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks."
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I don't believe that films like "Avatar" will even be known by kids 100 years from now. Having not seen the movie yet, I can't say much, but from what I've heard and seen in previews it just looks like another special effects driven film lacking plot and character development. I'm sure the visuals are amazing in the film, but in 100 years, every film will have the same outstanding visual effects. The story and characters is what makes a movie live on. "Alice in Wonderland" is still talked about today, and obviously, being remade and re-adapted because it's a great story with great characters. It will continue to live on even 100 years from now.
Ok, this movie was a cartoon as the blog says over 100 years ago and it seems to be that the plot and the fantasy side of the movie makes it what it still became today. The film that took its place today was quite the same but added a certain spruce of new life by adding three dimensional technology and advanced techniques. these techniques have been added due t the past 100 years of developing better ways to view movies. Although I personally thought this movie was greatly retold, this blog talks about this movie and how children will view it. As a person who loved the origional better than the retiooled version, I think that the movie would not be as magicall as the origional but I do think children would love this version as a veiwing sence much better. They would likely be because technology has advanced with all children entertainment so there more likely to watch something that is three dimensional than the original cartoon. I also think even-though this is true, children wont be stricken with more curiosity because of the interaction with technology and it being a distraction to the actual magical side to the movie. I think that is what is wrong with technology and children because I fear that it is not allowing children to have much imagination in there lives. So in answer to this blog, I do believe children will enjoy it much better but do not think they will get out of it what they used to in the same film.
I watched the new Alice in Wonderland over the weekend and I was not all the impressed. I have seen my fair share of 3-D movies and have thought they were neat, but those glasses. I know everyone has a problem wearing those glasses. To top it all the picture in Alice in Wonderland was so dark it was hard to make out what was happening throughout the film. I found myself squinting. Now to get to the real question about children viewing this in the future. I believe that in a 100 years technology will be so advanced that they will have another means of watching 3-D without the glasses. I believe that 3-D movies like Alice in Wonderland will either a classic or long forgotten. Since i was not all that impressed i would predict it will be long forgotten. A hundred years is a very long time. Who knows if any of our current technology will exists. After the VCR is pretty much extinct and i remember watching VCR tapes like ten years ago.
I do not think kids in the future will have the same curiosity as we do now. Just think about movies like Toy Story or even The Matrix the younger generation watching these movies now do not see the special effects done as something new. I'm sure in the future technology will be even greater with a new form of curiosity. Think about how TV sets are coming out with 3D capability. When I was growing up just a small TV set was sufficient enough for me to be curious about new movies coming out. I agree with Patrick in that this particular Alice In Wonderland will not be a classic or keep interest in the next 50 years.
I think the same way as how my friends think. I don't think Alice Wonderland or Avatar will have the same interest as we do now. Over time everything changes and they come up with a more developed technology. So, I am pretty sure that movies or the technology will be more developed. I also believe that now we have more interest the movie Alice Wonderland because we all watched the old version of the movie when we were all young. I personally will see this movie because of it. It is not because of the specialty of 3D.
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