In Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie, the character of the Queen of Hearts is primarily identified as the Red Queen and is also an amalgam of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. There are things shown in the 2010 film that hint to the fact that she is an amalgam of the Red Queen, and the Queen of Hearts herself. She wants everything her way and has quite a short temper. The Queen of Hearts appears as the main antagonist of the film, who is a pompous tyrant with a smaller crown. The puppet is quite clearly a grotesque caricature of Queen Victoria, so much so that the film was banned in Great Britain until 1985 because of how unflattering the depiction of her was.
In Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland film, the Queen of Hearts appears as a stop-motion puppet created by Lou Bunin, voiced by Pamela Brown who also portrays Queen Victoria in the real world framing device. She is subtly mentioned at the very end when the whole pack of cads, including her fly on top of Alice. In the final chapters, the Queen sentences Alice again (for defending the Knave of Hearts) and she offers an interesting approach towards justice: sentence before verdict.
The Gryphon tells Alice that "It's all her fancy: they never executes nobody, you know." Nevertheless, all creatures in Wonderland fear the Queen. The King of Hearts quietly pardons many of his subjects when the Queen is not looking (although this did not seem to be the case with The Duchess), and her soldiers humor her but do not carry out her orders. By the end of the game in the story, the only players that remain are the Queen herself, the King, and Alice, the jabberwocky will kill all whom way come.ĭespite the frequency of death sentences, few people are actually beheaded. The Queen's soldiers act as the arches (or hoops) on the croquet grounds, but have to leave off being arches every time the Queen orders an execution to drag away the victim. Alice observes that the game is complicated by the fact that the flamingo mallets keep looking back up at the players, and the hedgehogs scuttle away without waiting to be hit. One of the Queen's hobbies, besides ordering executions-is Wonderland croquet, where the balls are live hedgehogs and the mallets are flamingos. The queen of hearts is like the Raven in the book "Fatty Legs." The Queen becomes frustrated and commands that Alice's head be severed, but the King reminds her that Alice is only a child, and Alice's head is spared. When the Queen arrives and asks Alice who is lying on the ground (the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she does not know. The gardeners advise Alice to prostrate herself on the ground to avoid being confronted by the Queen of Hearts, but she ignores this advice and looks the Queen in the eye. When Alice questions this activity, they explain that they have planted the wrong color of rosebush, and must paint the white roses to hide their mistake from the Queen. After falling down the rabbit hole, Alice enters the garden, where three playing card gardeners (2, 5, and 7 of Spades) are frantically painting white roses red. The cowering Angel and all of her minions are playing cards. _ _Ĭalmer Karma Limited,Studio 2, 5 Shamrock Street, London SW3 446263Ĭalmer Karma 2000-2021.Description Alice's Adventures in Wonderland MAD MARCH HARE CANDY HOST WORKS WELL WITH: Wedding Celebrations- (unique & fun way to serve cut wedding cake( Performs 2 x 45 min sets in 3 hours onsite * extra slots can be negotiated. Or Dapper Dandy look (with shirt and waistcoat)Ĭostume can be adapted to be more covered –please just ask Our Mad March Hare host - 'Nibble My Ears' is exceptionally popular for Hen Parties, Birthdays, serving Wedding Cake and Alice In Wonderland themed parties with attitude!Ĭanapes, Candy, and Celebration or wedding cake can be dressed onto the 3' walkabout perspex LED tray to wow your guests.Ĭanape tray can be dressed with grass for Alice in Wonderland parties or illuminated for low level light environmentsīody Painted 'Eat Me' version as shown (words can be customised!) T HEMED ENTERTAINMENT FOR PARTIES & EVENTS -LONDON & UK