alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis

She is joined by both the Red and White Queens, who use word play to baffle her. This stream is not much more than a ditch, and Alice can step across it into the eighth row, when a queen's crown appears on her head. The White King ( Geoffrey Palmer), the king's horses, and the king's men try to help Humpty.Īlice, still a white pawn, crosses yet another stream to enter the seventh row and finds herself in the land of the Red Knight ( Greg Wise), who tries to capture her, but the White Knight ( Ian Holm) fights him off and leads her through a forest to the last stream, falling off his horse and reciting the poem Haddocks' Eyes. With her, Alice goes forward into the fifth row by crossing a stream in a rowing boat, but the Queen is then turned into the Sheep.Īlice enters the sixth row of the chess board by crossing another stream and meets Humpty Dumpty ( Desmond Barrit) on his unbirthday, who teaches Alice about portmanteau words before falling off his wall. The White Queen ( Penelope Wilton) arrives and shows her powers of precognition. The brothers get ready to fight but run away, frightened by a giant crow. Next she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( Gary Olsen and Marc Warren), who recite the poem ' The Walrus and the Carpenter', with the Red King ( Michael Medwin) asleep under a tree. In crossing the wood where things have no names, she forgets her own name, but it comes back on the other side.

In a wood, the Gnat ( Steve Coogan) teaches her about the looking-glass insects. Alice becomes one of the White Queen 's pawns, and gets into a train that takes her directly to the fourth row. She will make Alice a queen if she can get as far as the eighth row.

There, she meets the Red Queen from the chess board ( Sian Phillips), who shows her that the landscape is laid out like a gigantic chessboard. She goes out into a garden with talking flowers. Īlice finds a book containing ' Jabberwocky', in mirror writing, and sees chess pieces coming to life. The mother then finds herself travelling through the bedroom mirror into Looking-Glass Land and becoming Alice, but remains an adult. The film opens with a mother ( Kate Beckinsale) reading Through the Looking Glass to her daughter Alice (Charlotte Curley).

Alice through the Looking Glass is a 1998 British fantasy television film, based on Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and starring Kate Beckinsale.

Alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis