Alice in Wonderland Page #3

ALICE (CONT’D)

Hello? Hello! Anyone there?

No answer. She moves around the hall. Every door locked.

She sees a three-legged glass table with a small key sitting

on top. She picks up the key and tries it in a door. It’s

too small for the lock.

She tries it in a few doors, too small. She comes upon a

curtain and pulls it aside to reveal a little door about two

feet high.

She tries the key in the door. It fits. She opens the

little door and bends down to look through to the other side.

THROUGH THE SMALL DOOR

She sees a garden with a fountain. She tries to fit through

the door, but her shoulders get stuck. She pulls back.

Stumped, she goes back to the table and replaces the key.

But now there’s a bottle on the table. She looks for the

person who put it there.

ALICE (CONT’D)

Is someone here?

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She looks at a label. “DRINK ME”. She sniffs the contents,

recoils, then shrugs.

ALICE (CONT’D)

It’s only a dream.

She takes a drink, shudders, gags and coughs from the taste.

In a moment, she notices that the table is getting larger.

ALICE (CONT’D)

That’s curious.

Alice SHRINKS to two feet high.

HER POV:

The doors loom above her. She takes a step and trips on her

now-oversized clothes. Dragging them behind, she tries to

open the door. But it’s still locked. She groans as she

realizes what she’s done. She goes back to the glass table

where she can see the gold key sitting on top.

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13 ON ALICE - THROUGH A KEYHOLE 13

We hear VOICES as they watch Alice through a keyhole.

DODO (O.S.)

You’d think she would remember this

from the first time.

THE DORMOUSE (O.S.)

You’ve brought the wrong Alice.

WHITE RABBIT (O.S.)

She’s the right one. I’m certain of

it.

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Alice attempts to climb the table leg, but gets tangled in

her too-big clothes and slides off. She notices a little box

under the table. She looks around for the unseen person.

ALICE:

If this is some sort of prank, I am

not amused!

She opens the box. It’s a cake with “EAT ME” written out in

ornate icing. She considers, looks up at the key high above

on the table.

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She takes a tiny taste of the cake. She takes another bite.

WHOOSH! She shoots upward rapidly. Her clothes fit again,

but she keeps growing. Buttons pop, seams are strained and

her skirt gets shorter. The ceiling gets closer...her head

grazes it! She stops. Relieved, she bends down and picks up

the gold key. Crouching, she goes to the little door and

fits the key in the lock.

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THE DORMOUSE (O.S.)

She’s the wrong Alice.

WHITE RABBIT (O.S.)

Give her a chance.

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She laughs at herself and goes back to the table. She picks

up the little bottle and takes another swallow, shivers at

the taste, then shrinks again to two feet high. Dragging her

too-big clothes, she runs to the door, puts the key in the

lock, opens it and steps through.

17 EXT. A GARDEN IN UNDERLAND — DAY 17

She enters a fantastical world. Underland is bizarre,

illogical, often dangerous, absurd, and strangely beautiful.

The garden is brown and tangled, its statues broken and

overgrown. The mossy fountain is silent. Alice hears a

bellow/sneezing sound as a GREEN PIG dashes past. The TALL

FLOWERS have gaunt, haunted HUMAN FACES. SHABBY, THIN BIRDS

walk on stalk legs. DRAGONFLIES, HORSEFLIES and ENORMOUS

GNATS do fierce battle in the sky above.

ALICE:

Curiouser and curiouser.

WHITE RABBIT:

I told you she's the right

Alice.

She turns to see a DODO BIRD with eye glasses and a walking

stick, the WHITE RABBIT, a young female DORMOUSE in breeches

and two round BOYS with their arms thrown over each others

shoulders, Dee and Dum are stitched on their collars.

THE DORMOUSE:

I am not convinced.

The White Rabbit throws up his hands.

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WHITE RABBIT:

How is that for gratitude? I've been

up there for weeks trailing one Alice

after the next! And I was almost eaten

by other animals! Can you imagine?

They go about entirely unclothed and

they do their...shukm in public. I had

to avert my eyes.

The FLOWERS WITH HUMAN FACES study Alice.

TALKING FLOWER:

She doesn't look anything like

herself.

THE DORMOUSE:

That's because she's the wrong Alice.

TWEEDLEDEE:

And if she was, she might be.

TWEEDLEDUM:

But if she isn't, she ain't.

TWEEDLEDEE:

But if she were so, she would be.

TWEEDLEDUM:

But she isn't. Nohow.

ALICE:

How can I be the "wrong Alice" when

it's my dream? And who are you, if I

may ask.

Dee shakes her hand, speaking very fast.

TWEEDLEDEE:

I'm Tweedleehe's Tweedledum.

TWEEDLEDUM:

Contrariwise. I'mTweedledum

he'sTweedledee.

DODO:

We should consult Absolem.

TALKING FLOWER:

Exactly. Absolem will know who she is.

Tweedledee puts out his arm to her.

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TWEEDLEDEE:

I'll escort you.

Dum pulls her away from Dee.

TWEEDLEDUM:

It's not being your turn.

They tug her between them.

TWEEDLEDEE:

Leave off!

TWEEDLEDUM:

Let go!

ALICE:

Are they always this way?

WHITE RABBIT:

Family trait.

(to Tweedles)

You can both escort her.

Dee takes one arm. Dum takes the other and ALICE, THE

TWEEDLES, THE DODO, WHITE RABBIT and DORMOUSE start off. The

HUMAN-FACED FLOWERS gossip about Alice as they pass.

TALKING FLOWERS:

It can't be her. She looks nothing

like Alice. She is not even wearing

the right dress.

ALICE:

Who is this Absolem?

WHITE RABBIT:

He's wise. He's absolute.

THE TWEEDLES:

He's Absolem.

18 EXT. THE MUSHROOM FOREST - DAY 18

They enter a forest of tall mushrooms surrounded by mist.

THE CATERPILLAR (O.S.)

Who are you?

Alice can see a form ahead where the mist rises in a steady

plume. It’s coming from a hookah.

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There’s a BLUE CATERPILLAR smoking it. The White Rabbit

pushes Alice toward him.

ALICE:

Absolem?

THE CATERPILLAR:

You’re not Absolem. I’m Absolem. The

question is...who are YOU?

He blows smoke rings in her face. She coughs.

ALICE:

Alice.

THE CATERPILLAR:

We shall see.

ALICE:

What do you mean by that? I ought to

know who I am!

THE CATERPILLAR:

Yes, you ought. Stupid girl. Unroll

the Oraculum.

The White Rabbit unrolls an ancient PARCHMENT lying on a

toadstool.

WHITE RABBIT:

“The Oraculum:
Being a Calendrical

Compendium of Underland.”

Alice looks. It’s a timeline depicting the major events of

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