alice in wonderlandd???

Question

okay. ive heard so many myths about this cartoon
that its drug related and that when alice eats the candy and she grows like really big or something, that shes really high. and alot of stuff like that. ive also heard things like this about other disney cartoons.

can someone clear this up for me?

Answer 1

That is all after the fact stuff placed onto it in the 60s.

One could even argue that it really is a metaphor for sexual awakening. You can make anything up

Answer 2

First, get it clear that any "drug references" in Alice come from the original source, not Disney. Some of this is just due to the nature of Lewis Carroll's imagination, but many scenes from Alice's Adventure and Through the Looking Glass can definitely be READ as being drug-related. The hookah smoking caterpillar is definitely something that clearly references drugs, but also, many "mad hatters" existed due to heavy metal poisoning from their work. L.C. was writing a children's book (and one of the best, earliest, mass-marketed "non-moralizing" book that really appealed to children) in which he addressed many issues of the day on a level that children could understand.

Answer 3

Disney's Alice is strange, to be sure, but drug references, odd symbolism, no--they're only myths.
Most of what's in the film was taken (somewhat broadly) from Lewis Carroll's fantasy, which in turn, was adapted from a story that Carroll made up one day to amuse three young friends--the story's dreamlike, episodic, and incorporates some of the quirky wordplay that Carroll was fond of.
The Disney animators and story-men did what they could to turn this classic into a feature film, but the dream-like nature of the story made it hard going--finally, the film was patched together with a bare-bones storyline, and ends. as the original story did, with Alice waking from a dream.
Don't expect much logic or sense, just sit back and enjoy the magic that's there on the screen.

Answer 4

Yes...the guy wrote the book after trippin on shrooms. Amanita muscaria mushrooms are in the book and alot of fairy tales....and there legal to buy and can give a good strong trip. The red poka dot ones. They can put u in a ldeep lucid dream state

Answer 5

well it's an old "once upon a time" story that shouldn't be meant for kids, but Disney recreated the story in a more happier way! so it might be drug related..

Answer 6

it was about alice tripping on acid

Answer 7

and the caterpillar smoking the hookah...ahh