King of Hearts Quote from Alice in Wonderland

This week's Alice in Wonderland quote is a conversation between Alice and King of Hearts. 

Alice is called up as a witness in the trial where the judge, King of Hearts is trying to find out who stole the Queen's tarts.

But Alice is so very tall and big at this moment that she accidentally tips over the jury box with all the jurymen.

This makes the King of Hearts very annoyed and he decides to ask Alice to leave since she knows nothing about the stolen tarts anyway. But it doesn't go so well for King of Hearts:

King of Hearts: "Rule 42: All persons more than a mile high to leave the court."

Alice: "I am not a mile high. I shan't go at any rate. Besides, that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now."

King of Hearts: "It's the oldest rule in the book."

Alice: "Then it ought to be Number One!"

Alice wins this round and stays in court!

[Image credit: King of Hearts illustration by Upi Olin]

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The White Queen's Cheeky Quote To Alice in Wonderland

The White Queen has a cheeky offer for Alice and this is her quote:

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."

The White Queen promises Alice to pay her two pence a week and jam every other day if she was to become the Queen's maid. But of course this means that Alice would never get any jam, since today is always the 'No jam' day!

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Secret Alice in Wonderland Quote by the White Queen

Are you an Alice in Wonderland buff who knows most of the quotes in the Wonderland books? Do you know this one?
I will give you some clues and you can be the one to figure out what the quote is!

Alice meets the White Queen whose hair and clothing are a mess. Alice helps to entangle the Queen's hair and straightens her shawl. The White Queen is so impressed that she'd like to hire Alice as a lady's maid. She promises to pay Alice two pence a week and something else that has a rule attached to it. Now your turn is to figure out what that rule is!

"The rule is..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ."

-the White Queen

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Alice in Wonderland Quote by the Gryphon

This rather blunt quote by the Gryphon is one of my all time favorite Alice in Wonderland quotes!

Alice is having a conversation with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon by the beach. Alice has been mostly listening to the other two telling their stories and songs but then the Gryphon asks Alice to tell about her adventures as well.

When Alice begins her tale a little hesitantly the Mock Turtle wants her to explain it all. But the Gryphon is impatient and wants to hear only the exiting parts. This is what he says:

"The adventures first...explanations take such a dreadful time."

If you don't know what a "Gryphon" is true to a conventional view of a griffin it is part lion part eagle. It has the head, talons and wings of an eagle and the body and tail of a lion. Pretty cool, eh?

[Image credit: Gryphon illustration by Upi Olin]

Alice in Wonderland Quote by the Red Queen

This Alice in Wonderland quote comes from the Red Queen

Alice meets the Red Queen after talking to the flowers in the Queen's garden. They go for a walk and the Red Queen explains to Alice how the area is a giant chess game and how they move from a square to another. She even promises Alice that in the eight square Alice will become a Queen herself!

While doing this they begin running and the Red Queen just makes them run faster and faster. But the strange thing is that the surroundings don't change at all, and Alice feels that they are in the same place all the time, even though they run and run  for a long time.

 "Now here it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

- Red Queen 

The Queen doesn't think anything of it but instead says that Alice's country must be then a very slow sort of a country.

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Alice in Wonderland Quote by The White Queen - Best Quote

This Alice in Wonderland Quote comes from the White Queen. Alice is still in the woods and she has met the White Queen. They talk about many things; happiness, loneliness and beliefs. 

 When the White Queen tells Alice that she is one hundred and one years, and five months and a day old, Alice cannot believe her. When the White Queen suggests Alice to try and believe, Alice says that one can't believe impossible things. The White Queen disagrees and says:

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-White Queen

Alice In Wonderland Quote by Tweedledee

The famous two characters in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" (1871) are best recognized as Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

These two stout individuals, introduced by Carroll, bring to life a nursery rhyme in which they agree to engage in a battle but never actually follow through. Despite the rhyme's suggestion of conflict, the Tweedle brothers never contradict each other. Instead, they harmonize in their words and actions.

Even when faced with the threat of a menacing black crow, they choose flight over fight. This unity in their agreement and cooperation is reflected in John Tenniel's illustrations, which depict them as inseparable twins.

    Tweedledum and Tweedledee
        Agreed to have a battle;
    For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
        Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

    Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
        As black as a tar-barrel;
    Which frightened both the heroes so,
        They quite forgot their quarrel.

So anyways, Alice is  wondering in the woods and trying to get to the 8th square before dark. She meets two fat boys who look like identical school boys. 

They have their names embroidered on their collars: TWEEDLEDUM and TWEEDLEDEE. Only DUM and DEE are showing in front.

Alice is in a hurry, since she doesn't want to be in the woods after dark. But the funny little boys don't want to let her go so quickly:

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
- Tweedledee

The boys talk in a funny way saying 'contrariwise' time and again. They say they know what Alice is thinking and this quote is Tweedledee's answer to her thoughts.

But instead Alice says she was only thinking what is the best way out of the forest. Tweedledum and Tweedledee don't take any notice and begin repeating an extremely long piece of poetry for Alice.

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Alice In Wonderland Movie Wins Two Oscars In the 83rd Academy Awards

Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 in Hollywood

Alice In Wonderland movie was nominated in 3 categories in the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

The first nomination was for Achievement in Art Direction, against 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1', 'Inception', 'True Grit' and 'The King's Speech'.

Alice in Wonderland Movie was the winner of this category! Robert Stromberg (Production Design) and Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration) accepted the Oscar for Best Art Direction.

Robert Stromberg had one of the prop makers make a little Mad Hatter’s hat and he put the hat on top of his Oscar when he accepted the golden statue. 

He said: "I just thought it was a nice little punctuation to the end of the show."

The Second Oscar for Alice in Wonderland went to Colleen Atwood for her Outstanding Achievement  in costume design. She has won the Academy Award twice before; first time in 2003 for "Chicago" and the second time in 2006 for "Memoirs of a Geisha".

 

Carey Villegas was nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his work as visual effects supervisor on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The biggest competitor in this category was Inception.

“Inception” has some very good effects, Villegas said, but there were only 500-800 visual effects shots, as compared to 2,000 in “Alice.

The two movies both had won an award recently. “Alice In Wonderland” had won the Golden Satellite Award for visual effects in December 2010, and “Inception” won the British Academy Awards in February 2011.

So, the competition was tight but in the end it was Inception that won the Oscar in Visual Effects category.

 

Movie poster credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film).png

Will Alice In Wonderland Win A Spot In Oscar Nominations?

Alice in Wonderland is one of the seven films that remain in the makeup competition of the 83rd Academy Awards.

January 22, 2011 will be an important date for Alice in Wonderland Movie.

Members of the Academy's Makeup Branch will view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films. Following the screenings, they will vote to nominate three films for Oscar consideration.

The other titles competing for a nomination position are  

• The Fighter
• Barney's Version
• Jonah Hex
• True Grit
• The Way Back and 
• The Wolfman

The winners for the 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 25.

Let's all keep our fingers crossed for Alice!