the jabberwacky thing

[The Real jewelb]

I need to ask did any one read the book. the jabberwacky or walky was A POEM not a monster why do all movies do that ? question question neutral neutral

[ThePossessedPuppet]

i though it was a nice touch to the movie

[Chocolate Ex-lax]

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I'm not entirely sure.
I know the jabberwocky was used in the 1985 version.
Mayhaps that's where he got the idea from?
After all, both use a dragon creature.
>.>

All the bad creatures were only mentioned, never interacted with in the books, though.
The bandersnatch, the jabberwocky, and the jubjub bird.

~*~ We're all mad here. I'm mad; you're mad.~*~

[Synful Nocturne]

I can say I've read the books. It's simply a matter of creative licensing. However, I have read something about Lewis Carroll having considered the idea of the Jabberwocky being a monster, or basing the poem off of a monster. Directors simply take his idea to a new level.

[Le Secretaire Comtesse]

If you've read the poem, it describes a monster called the Jabberwock, which was the monster. In the poem, the Jabberwock was slain similar to how it was in the movie. It was a very nice touch.

And the fact Christopher Lee did its voice made it that much better.

[Mort Calypso]

I thought that was really cool though.

[Spiritual Machine]

Actually quite a few story elements and characters in the film where from the same poem...a poem from Through the Looking Glass...

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

[Veiled Oz]

The Jabberwock is a monster a boy fights in the poem, I think Tim Burton was mainly inspired by the poem. It was in the 1871/1872 "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There"

[Hana-Ouran-Hostess]

ThePossessedPuppet

i though it was a nice touch to the movie

It really was, it gave a key conflict besides her not knowing if she was "the" alice, and it provided action and a little gore that added to the dementia of the movie, i loved it and currently own two posters and a mad hatter hat I bought fro mSpencers, I love the Jabberwocky, it added action :3

[bloo sharpie]

i thought that it was suppose to be a phoenix with a turtle shell or something

[Spiritual Machine]

The Jabberwock by John Tenniel

[Dark Prince L]

I'm a huge fan of the books and the many different movies, and I would just like to say that the Jabberwocky is originally in a poem that Alice reads in "Through the looking-glass" then it comes to life through Alice's fears. The bandersnatch and the gubgub bird are mentioned in the poem but don't actually show up.

[Raukkie213]

I found out that some people don't know that the first stanza of The Jabberwocky is sung by the Cheshire Cat in the 1950's Disney Alice In Wonderland. Did anyone notice that the 1950's Cheshire Cat sounds alot like Winny the Pooh?

[I Deuce of Clubs I]

Raukkie213

I found out that some people don't know that the first stanza of The Jabberwocky is sung by the Cheshire Cat in the 1950's Disney Alice In Wonderland. Did anyone notice that the 1950's Cheshire Cat sounds alot like Winny the Pooh?

yes

[-l- S t a r r y -l-_daysu]

I read the book