She falls to the floor and discovers she is in a small, round room-a dingy and decaying room, subtly ominous-and tries each of the doors that ring it. She lands upside-down on a ceiling, her hair standing on end. The seemingly-endless falling is well-executed, as Alice dodges various objects, including a grand piano. Fleeing him, and pursuing a white rabbit, Alice kneels at the base of a tree and peers down an immense hole. Now Alice, almost 20, is attending a garden party where the unappealing son of a local lord intends to propose marriage. Instead, Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton have moved the action forward 13 years. Though the title is the same, director Tim Burton did not film a new version of the classic novels by British clergyman and logician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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