IdahoRose
Well-Known Member
As you can probably tell, my major obsession right now is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. I feel like I need to vent really bad about this right now, so prepare for a novel-length post.
It all began on a bright, sunny day in February. Having developed a budding interest in Tim Burton/Johnny Depp films, I decided to watch the trailer for the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. I. Was blown. Away. I showed it to all my family members and my parents said it looked great and they wanted to see it. I kept watching the trailers over and over, and at least once a day I said, "Alice In Wonderland looks so awesome! I can't wait to see it!". On March 5th, opening day, my mom finally took me to see it. When it was over, she asked "Did you like it? Is it everything you dreamed of?" and I replied, "No, I didn't like it. I loved it." It's officially been over a month since I've seen it, but my passion for it is as strong as the day I first learned about it on that sunny February morning.
What is it that I love about Alice in Wonderland? The answer is, well, pretty much everything. I love the scenery, the costumes, the terminology and especially the characters. My mom keeps telling me how much I resemble Alice in both appearance and personality. Alice and I are even the same age and have similar names (mine's Alex). In my daydreams, I love to pretend that Alice and I are twin sisters. But that's a subject for a whole 'nother topic, which I'm planning on making later. My favorite character besides Alice is, of course, the Mad Hatter. My aunt complained that he seemed "too cartoony", but that's exactly why I love him. His moods are so mercurial - he can be sweet, scary or funny, but he is always entertaining. The Knave of Hearts is my 3rd favorite character. I have a crush on him. He's tall (7'6"), dark (evil nature, black hair & clothes) and handsome (Crispin Glover). The Red and White Queens were both very amusing. The Red Queen always made me laugh, and I found her to be more likeable than detestable. The White Queen is very sweet and reminded me of my mom. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were pretty funny. I didn't really care for the animals of Wonderland, because I'm honestly not that much of an animal lover.
But even though AiW has held a special place in my heart since the fateful day I first learned about it, I've actually kept my obsession a semi-secret until recently. A large part of that was self-denial. I didn't want to have a narrow, intense interest typical of aspies - I was trying to make myself have a variety of casual movie interests so that I could have an easier time striking up conversations and "passing" as NT. I even tried becoming obsessed with Johnny Depp himself so that I could have a celebrity crush like so many NT women have. I was able to fool myself into thinking that I had "normal" interests, until...
... One day on WrongPlanet, a topic was made and it was called "What is your #1 special interest?" My immediate reaction was to start gushing - not about Johnny Depp, not about movies in general - but about Alice in Wonderland. I finally had to come to terms with the fact that I was developing a stereotypical aspie obsession. The signs were pretty obvious: I kept reading the Wikipedia and TV Tropes pages for AiW over and over, I was memorizing all the weird terminology and characters' "real names" (for example the Hatter's real name is Tarrant Hightopp), and I made frequent trips to fanfiction.net and deviantart to look at other peoples' AiW themed artwork/stories. So from that day forward, I have learned to accept that I will always have a "thing" that I'm fixated on, and at this point in time, that thing is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
The end, thanks for letting me get that off my chest! Okay, now I want to hear what everybody else has to say about Alice in Wonderland. Or if you want, you can just tell me about your own movie obsessions.
It all began on a bright, sunny day in February. Having developed a budding interest in Tim Burton/Johnny Depp films, I decided to watch the trailer for the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. I. Was blown. Away. I showed it to all my family members and my parents said it looked great and they wanted to see it. I kept watching the trailers over and over, and at least once a day I said, "Alice In Wonderland looks so awesome! I can't wait to see it!". On March 5th, opening day, my mom finally took me to see it. When it was over, she asked "Did you like it? Is it everything you dreamed of?" and I replied, "No, I didn't like it. I loved it." It's officially been over a month since I've seen it, but my passion for it is as strong as the day I first learned about it on that sunny February morning.
What is it that I love about Alice in Wonderland? The answer is, well, pretty much everything. I love the scenery, the costumes, the terminology and especially the characters. My mom keeps telling me how much I resemble Alice in both appearance and personality. Alice and I are even the same age and have similar names (mine's Alex). In my daydreams, I love to pretend that Alice and I are twin sisters. But that's a subject for a whole 'nother topic, which I'm planning on making later. My favorite character besides Alice is, of course, the Mad Hatter. My aunt complained that he seemed "too cartoony", but that's exactly why I love him. His moods are so mercurial - he can be sweet, scary or funny, but he is always entertaining. The Knave of Hearts is my 3rd favorite character. I have a crush on him. He's tall (7'6"), dark (evil nature, black hair & clothes) and handsome (Crispin Glover). The Red and White Queens were both very amusing. The Red Queen always made me laugh, and I found her to be more likeable than detestable. The White Queen is very sweet and reminded me of my mom. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were pretty funny. I didn't really care for the animals of Wonderland, because I'm honestly not that much of an animal lover.
But even though AiW has held a special place in my heart since the fateful day I first learned about it, I've actually kept my obsession a semi-secret until recently. A large part of that was self-denial. I didn't want to have a narrow, intense interest typical of aspies - I was trying to make myself have a variety of casual movie interests so that I could have an easier time striking up conversations and "passing" as NT. I even tried becoming obsessed with Johnny Depp himself so that I could have a celebrity crush like so many NT women have. I was able to fool myself into thinking that I had "normal" interests, until...
... One day on WrongPlanet, a topic was made and it was called "What is your #1 special interest?" My immediate reaction was to start gushing - not about Johnny Depp, not about movies in general - but about Alice in Wonderland. I finally had to come to terms with the fact that I was developing a stereotypical aspie obsession. The signs were pretty obvious: I kept reading the Wikipedia and TV Tropes pages for AiW over and over, I was memorizing all the weird terminology and characters' "real names" (for example the Hatter's real name is Tarrant Hightopp), and I made frequent trips to fanfiction.net and deviantart to look at other peoples' AiW themed artwork/stories. So from that day forward, I have learned to accept that I will always have a "thing" that I'm fixated on, and at this point in time, that thing is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
The end, thanks for letting me get that off my chest! Okay, now I want to hear what everybody else has to say about Alice in Wonderland. Or if you want, you can just tell me about your own movie obsessions.
I usually like his collaborations with Burton, too.
