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As much as she enjoyed hosting tea parties, Maddie knew she would never feel as comfortable anywhere else in the entirety of Wonderland than she did in her citadel.

(Apart from bringing her to live with the ex-Hatter, and giving her the name Madeline, gifting her with this citadel was the only nice thing the Queen had ever done for her.)

She knew every inch of the darkened citadel like the back of her hand, every nook, corner and cranny.

As soon as they’d gone through the Looking Glass after making their ultimatum to the White Rabbit, Maddie had headed inside to change (and warm up a little, but no one needed to know that part).

The outfit she wore was heavier now, less easy to move in, but she enjoyed how wearing it made her feel immensely. Her outfits, her costumes, her hats, they were all a sort of armor for her.

Her plan was falling into place better than she could’ve ever dreamed, the thought made her dizzy with something akin to euphoria. After years of getting only halves, finally something in her life was going right.

“Morris, bring in the bait.” She said, unable to keep the smile off her face as she lightly touched his chest. If her outfit had allowed for more movement, she might’ve twirled. But since she couldn’t, she’d content herself with just thinking about how everything she’d ever wanted was finally within her grasp.

There were only a couple more obstacles in her way: Alice and the queen herself, and soon hopefully neither of them would ever be a problem for her again.

She stepped to the left as she sang and pondered how good it would feel to be rid of Alice. The woman she’d been compared to, and deemed lesser than, ever since she was a child.

The score she had to settle with Alice was twenty one years in the making. And the best way to do that was through Chloe. Hearing the tank coming her way, she snapped out of her fantasies.

“Last stop! End of the line!” She said. “We’ve arrived at the terminal phase of our trip, Chloe!” Bringing her hand-half closed into a fist-to her mouth to look like a microphone, she lowered it as she moved over to where Chloe was tied to the side of the tank, her feet resting on the grate along the side of the tank. “Did you enjoy the ride?” She asked, though in all honesty she really didn’t care whether Chloe had enjoyed the ride or not. It was no skin off her back either way.

To the kid’s credit, however, if she was scared she certainly wasn’t showing it. “I’m beginning to suspect you’re not a marriage counselor at all!”

Maddie ignored her and kept talking. “On behalf of our entire flight crew, welcome to your final destination-the citadel of Looking Glass Land, where the current temperature is a cold wind in August.”

“And objects in the mirror are grosser than they appear!” Morris added, and a genuine laugh bubbled from Maddie’s lips.

“For your own safety, please do not unfasten your seat belt until your head has come to a complete stop.” Maddie said as Morris untied her and set her on her feet.

“Well I’ll report you to your principal!” Chloe retorted, and Maddie admired her guts.

She knelt down to speak to Chloe. “There’s only one person above me in all of Wonderland, kiddo,” Maddie tapped on Chloe’s nose with each word. “And not for much longer.” Standing upright, she turned to Morris. “Take her to the tallest tower.” With a click and a beep, the tank was starting up again. “But! She is not to be harmed. At least not yet!” She said as Morris grabbed Chloe by the arm and started to tug her away.

“Oh, you’re looking at such a lawsuit!” Chloe responded, looking annoyed. Maddie really did admire the kid’s spunk. She went back to singing as she watched Chloe tugged away by Morris, before facing forward again.

“I’ll write the ending of your tragic fairytale!” She sang, knowing full well how true this was. They couldn’t both coexist. One of them had to fall.

And she was determined that it wouldn’t be her.

She’d fought for too long for that to be the case.

“Hatter!” The voice of one of her guards once again snapped her from her fantasies. “A group of five have broken through the mirror!”

It took her a couple of moments to tally up the math, but when she did, she knew she had the best joke ever. “That’s 35 years bad luck for them!” She said, laughing at her own joke as she walked over to him. “Was Alice from the realm of Queens among them?” She asked, closing her eyes as she waited to hear that was the case.

“Yes, but the others fought so fiercely that Alice and a very adorable rabbit were able to evade us.” He responded, and for a moment it felt like anger replaced the blood in her veins.

“Search every square of the land until she is found. And bring me the imbeciles you captured!” She snapped, waving her hand to dismiss him. As long as Alice was roaming about, she could still screw up Hatter’s plan.

And she couldn’t have that. Under any circumstances.

Her singing was much angrier now, much more impassioned. And when Morris and her guards brought Jack the White Knight, the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar in, she turned her head to look at them. “Poor Jack, laugh track, sad sack,” She faced forward again but looked at him once more. “fallen hero!” And again she looked away. “Bad news, you lose, light the fuse! See how the mighty stupid have fallen.” Maddie didn’t bother trying to hide the disdain in her voice as she turned to approach them. “Most of my prisoners get their brains turned into tapioca, but you three? I’ll reduce your collar size. By a good sixteen inches!”

“You don’t frighten us.” Jack, ever the brave knight, spoke up.

“Sure she does!” However, the Cheshire Cat disagreed.

“What is your problem, lady?!” And the Caterpillar didn’t seem to feel strongly one way or the other.

“Why do you have it in for Alice?” Jack interjected, barely even giving her time to formulate a response.

She didn’t owe him a response, not by a long shot. But she found herself answering anyway. “Before I laid it to ruin, the fields of this kingdom formed a chessboard.” She shrugged as she spoke again. “Where the rules state that two pieces,” She knelt down in front of Jack, focusing on him. “cannot occupy the same square at the same time. One of them must take the other.”

When she was a child, the ex-Hatter taught her how to play chess. He went over it with her multiple times so she knew the rules by heart, and he never let her win (not that she would’ve ever wanted him to do so). The first time she check-mated him, she was fifteen years old.

She thought of that now. “You’ll come to me, Alice!” She said as she rose to her feet. “I’m holding a little pawn you dare not sacrifice.” She glanced at her three prisoners. “And your friends will not be alive to help you.” That out of the way, she looked at her guards and Morris. “Prepare the prison, for a festival of executions!” Maddie made no attempt to conceal how excited she was over this. Why should she? They were on her turf now. She called the shots here.

“Don’t go to no trouble for us!” The Cheshire Cat spoke again and, for someone who’d admitted outright that she frightened him, she had to admire the lack of fear in his voice.

“Yeah, we’ll just bench press weights in the gym!” The Caterpillar’s voice, however, had taken on a shaky tone.

Jack was standing now, no longer on his knees. “Cowards die many times, Hatter. The valiant die but once.”

She turned to look at him, and with each word she spoke, she walked towards him. “You’ll find, White Knight, that once will be enough.” She said when she was right in front of him. Maddie took great pride in the brief spark of fear that seemed to light up his eyes after she said that, before raising her hand and letting them be taken away.

Facing forward again, she let herself be drawn back into how good it would feel to rule over all of Wonderland once the Queen was dead.

“I am the ending of your tragic fairytale!” She sang loudly. “You die, I thrive, and so it goes: There is no way that I can fail! I will prevail!” Feeling triumphant and better than she had in years, she turned, swirling her coat behind her in the process and headed out of the citadel.

There were a few pieces that had yet to fall into place before she could revel fully in her success.

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Y1 Summer Work

Topic: Director Study.

I have chosen the director study as I always find specific Auteurs are effective for the resulting budget a film receives, for example, an audience hears that a classic psychological thriller is on, immediately their thoughts would go to the Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, as it was a great title film. I am very interested in the director called, Tim Burton, as when people immediately hear his name, they would imagine the dark fantasy theme which is clear in Alice In Wonderland (2010). Tim Burton is an example of a famous director who is connected to pieces of marketing that can produce to advertise a certain film, with a huge guarantee that the film will receive large profits. Tim Burton is typically known for gothic cinematography due to the dark tones, which gives a clear representation to the audience and will give them the conventions on what they expect to see in a Tim Burton film.

I hope to find out how directors receive their title in genres, and how they become well known to the audience about how they create a new world for the audience to be taken away to, as for me, I would think that’s an amazing and successful director, as films can be a stress reliever for audiences.

Focal films: Alice In Wonderland. Miss Peregrine. Edward Scissorhands.

I will be looking into the film 'Alice In Wonderland' (2010) 'Edward Scissorhands' (1990) and 'Dark Shadows' (2012). They are all similar as they have hybrid genres of fantasy and adventure, with aspects of horror and comedy, with Jonny Depp always having a leading role within the films.

Alice In Wonderland: References within the film:

Mad Hatter: Have I gone Mad.

[Alice checks Hatter’s temperature]

Alice Kingsley: I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are. (Tim Burton, 2010)

The tinted glasses favoured by both Burton and his best buddy Johnny Depp are missing, leaving the director's face open, benevolent even. -The Guardian, Saturday 6 March 2010 00.06 GMT. Alice in Wonderland interview.

Edward Scissorhands: References within the film.

Kim: Hold me.

Edward: I can’t. (Tim Burton,1990)

The fractured fairy tale, which surely did more for topiary landscaping than any other movie of the 1990s, went on to gross $56.3 million worldwide and remains a modern-day classic, in perennial repeats on cable and newly released in a 25th anniversary Blu-ray edition. -E News Mon, Dec 7, 2015 1:00 PM.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Emma Bloom: You don't have to make us feel safe... because you've made us feel brave. (Tim Burton, 2016)

Each film have a pattern involving the actors, Jonny Depp is an actor famous for his rather extravagant and creepy roles, it is almost certain that both Tim Burton and Jonny Depp agree on how the films are shown to the audience, hence the reason to why they are both involved in successful films. Due to the change of films, I am showing one film without Jonny Depp to reveal any change in viewers, for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, I am going to mention the fact that Tim Burton must have had an artistic choice by changes characters to what they were like from the book. Each of the films all have similar hybrid genres, involving:

Drama.

Fantasy.

Horror.

Comedy.

Adventure.

Alice In Wonderland is useful to my study as the film is a well-known title to the audience, this is what I want through the directors topic, as I want to create a film that is inspired by known directors which are know for their own names and not just the films. Alice In Wonderland clear states the dark fantasy world, through cinematography dues to the tonal lighting as it is very dark creating a mysterious theme.

Edward Scissorhands, even though it’s known to be a romance, it’s focus is still on the dark themes, due to how Edward, is clearly different through the use of Mise En Scene, as he is the character only in black and is wearing weapons, as Tim Burton wants to show a clear contrast on how the characters and the audience would immediately consider Edward to be a antagonist.

Dark Shadows, focuses more on horror, Tim Burton, yet he still wants the film to follow his extravagant quotes, which Jonny Depp, yet again says it in the most crazy and haunting way. Dark Shadows clearly states by just the name title, that the film is a dark fantasy, which would have the audience have the same feeling of eeriness. However, I have now changed this film to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, this is more of a film for a younger audience, as it creates the feel of a children’s nightmare.

I am inspired by Tim Burton, so I will be focusing on a specific character that is similar to Alice Kinsley from Alice In Wonderland, I want the film to have a leading role who is female, and shares the similar feeling of curiosity and show how they can get their characters into trouble. I will also be researching into SFX as Tim Burton is famous for special effects and creepy animations. I am also planning on having the film iconography to be placed in the forest as it creates a mysterious and mystic theme to the film.

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