Alice in Wonderland
She’s getting smaller. Alice SHRINKS to two feet high.
HER POV The doors loom above her. She takes a step, 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.
ALICE (cont.) I did mt leave the key on
the table I
She runs back to the glass table and looks up. She can see the
golden key through the glass.
ALICE (cont.) Alice! You are not using your
head!
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ON ALICE – THROUGH A KEYHOLE We hear VOICES as they watch Alice through a keyhole.
THE DODO (O.S.)
No, she most certainly is not.
THE DORMOUSE (O.S.)
You’d think she would remember all
this from the first time.
THE PLATYPUS (0.5.)
Eggsactually.
THE DORMOUSE (O.S.)
You’ve brought us the wrong Alice.
WHITE RABBIT She’s the right one. I’m certain
of it.
DODO (O.S.) Watch to see what she does.
INT. THE ROUND HALL – CONT.
Alice attempts to climb the glass table leg. But she gets
tangled in her too-big clothes and keeps sliding off. She sits
frustrated and now she notices a little box under the table.
She opens it. Inside, there’s a cake with the words “EAT ME”
written out in ornate icing letters.
ALICE If the drink made me shrink,
then the cake should make me
grow. But then, dreams are
never that logical.
She takes a tiny taste of the cake. Not bad. She takes another
bite. There’s a beat and WHOOSH! Alice shoots up toward the
ceiling. He clothes fit her again, but she keeps growing.
Buttons pop, seams are strained and her skirt gets shorter.
The ceiling gets closer…too close! She squeezes her eyes shut
and stops growing just as her head grazes the ceiling. She
bends down and takes the golden key. Crouching low, she makes
her way to the little door and fits the key in the lock.
ON ALICE – THEIR POV
THE DORMOUSE (0.5.)
She’s the wrong Alice.
PLATYPUS (O.S.) Eggsactually.
WHITE RABBIT (0.5.) You haven’t given her a chance.
DODO (0.5.) If she manages to get through the
door, then we’ll know she’s the
right one.
INT. THE ROUND FLAIL
Alice laughs.
ALICE Where’s my head?
She goes back to the table and picks up the little bottle.
ALICE (cont.) Hope there’s enough left.
She takes another drink, shivers from the bad taste and waits.
In a second, she starts to shrink.
ALICE (cont.) Down again.
Alice shrinks to two feet high, drags her clothes behind
again, runs to the door, puts the key in the lock, opens it
and steps into…
EXT. A GARDEN IN UNDERLAND – DAY
…a fantastical world. tjnderland 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. A LIZARD/BADGER with a corkscrew nose pokes it
into a log in a search for food. SHABBY, THIN BIRDS walk on
stalk legs past a bench where a fat DUCHESS sits rocking a PIG
like a baby. DRAGONFLIES, HORSEFLIES and ENORMOUS GNATS do
fierce battle in the sky above. Alice is transfixed, not by
fear, but fascination.
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, a female DORMOUSE in breeches; a DUCKBILLED PLATYPUS,
the WHITE RABBIT and two round BOYS with their arms thrown
over each others shoulders. They all study her critically.
THE DORMOUSE
I’m not convinced.
The White Rabbit throws up his hands.
WHITE RABBIT Well, that’s gratitude for you! You
cannot know how difficult it was to
find her. Trailing one Alice after
the next for weeks on end…not to
mention almost being eaten by large
drooling creatures waving meat
cleavers at me. And you would not
