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We are inside the hall waiting for our 3D movie to start.
What a crowd.
There must be at least 100 people for the midnight show of Alice in Wonderland 3D.
Besides Johnny Depp, the movie features Helena Bonham Carter et al.
Some of rhe reviews we’ve seen online are not flattering.
But since when have we let other reviews sway us.
We’ll have the review up in a few hours.
(Thanks to SI blog reader Gandhiji)
Sorry, folks. The video is in the Tamil language
Here’s the English version of the story.
Ever since we read the lengthy piece in last Sunday’s New York Times on the upcoming movie Alice in Wonderland, we’ve grown impatient at how slowly the days go by.
Directed by Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland is a 3D extravaganza, albeit not one on the Avatar scale.
Apparently, the movie was made using 2D cameras and later converted into 3D during post-production.
But this version is not your grandfather’s Alice in Wonderland.
Here’s an excerpt from the NYT piece on the movie:
INSTEAD of Wonderland, it’s Underland. Instead of Alice as a bored but clever child, we get Alice as a 19-year-old rebel and warrior, dispatching the monstrous Jabberwocky with a magic sword. Disney’s second rendering of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy, in other words, is a world apart from both its 1951 cartoon version and the original Victorian-era text.
Directed by Tim Burton, “Alice in Wonderland,” a 3-D blend of live action and animation that opens Friday, is meant as a contemporary, subversive take on a cherished story. With the 20-year-old Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, who had a breakout role in the first season of HBO’s “In Treatment,” as Alice, it begins with an unwanted marriage proposal before veering off into Underland, where Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen await. Continue reading »
Ram, the Hindu God beloved of a billion stupid Indians, seems to be in an angry mood.
So angry that the ‘God’ went on a RAMpage that took the lives of 65 of his devotees today in a stampede at the Ram Janaki temple in Kunda town of Pratapgarh district in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
The devotees, mostly poor folk from neighboring villages, had gathered at the temple to partake of the feast and freebies being handed out when a gate under construction collapsed.
The dead were mostly children and women.
Stampedes at Hindu temples in India are not uncommon and often cause many deaths.
Poverty in Incredible India is so acute that huge crowds gather upon news of free food, clothes and other goodies.
Maybe, the Hindu God Ram was being merciful in killing these 65 people and sparing them the daily suffering that is the lot of countless poor Indians.
Hey, what was that noise?
Must be the wails of the bereaved victims singing that dirge Mera Bharat Mahaan.
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