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Sigourney Weaver was originally cast in the film, but had to drop out due to a conflicting schedule.
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Much of the scenes in the film were directly copied from the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, the original "Alice in Wonderland" artist.
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The Cheshire Cat was created using a mix of puppetry and CGI. The Cat's body was puppetry, but its face had Whoopi Goldberg's face digitally scanned and composed on it.
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Part of the series features events from Lewis Carroll's second Wonderland book "Through the Looking-Glass." These events include Alice stepping through a mirror and the appearances of the White Knight, Tiger Lily and the talking flowers, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Red King.
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Most of the Wonderland residents appear at the start/end of the series as guests at a party. This double casting, as well as reinforcing Alice's dream-like perception, is a homage to writer Lewis Carroll having based his characters upon people he personally knew.
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Alice offers up "lions and unicorns" as a possible password for Wonderland. "The Lion and the Unicorn" was a rhyme that appeared in "Through the Looking-Glass."
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This is, chronologically speaking, the 12th adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
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The Executioner in the film is, appropriately for a card-based character, the ace of spades.
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In Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice in Wonderland book, and most other movie adaptations, the Mock Turtle is a cow in a turtle's shell. This was because mock turtle soup (for those who couldn't afford to have real turtle soup) was generally made from veal. In this version the Mock Turtle is portrayed as a man in a turtle's shell, rendering the name meaningless.
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Three versions of the White Rabbit's house were built: a pop-up cardboard model which unfolded from the book, a life-size set, and a miniature set for when a gigantic Alice gets stuck inside.
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The scene where Alice finds herself growing bigger as she walks down a corridor was shot on a corridor that was constructed to get smaller, which reinforced the illusion on camera.
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Martin Short's head was digitally enlarged to three times its normal size, so to better replicate the Mad Hatter in Sir John Tenniel's illustrations.
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