What drug references are there in Alice and Wonderland?!
Question: i know there's the smoking cat or whatever, and when she eats the mushroom things and drinks from that glass...
i haven't seen the movie in years though.
what are some other drug references in the movie?
i'm just curious.
Answers: i know there's the smoking cat or whatever, and when she eats the mushroom things and drinks from that glass...
i haven't seen the movie in years though.
what are some other drug references in the movie?
i'm just curious.
These are not drug references, and it's getting very tiring seeing people saddle Lewis Carroll's works with this nastiness! Once more, I will gather material, declaring that no such thing is suggested! Do you realize that, back in that time, those drugs were not in use, at least none in Carroll/Dodgson's level of society!
From Wikipedia:
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass", as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
His facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from children to the literary elite, and beyond this his work has become embedded deeply in modern culture, directly influencing many artists. There are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world including North America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
NOTE: A drug-addled person would be incapable of creating the works~both fictional and non-fictional~that Dodgson/Carroll did!
From Wikipedia:
There has been much speculation that Dodgson used psychoactive drugs. However, there is no direct evidence that he ever did. It is true that the most common painkiller of the time~laudanum~was in fact a tincture of opium and could produce a "high" if used in a large enough dose. Most historians would admit Dodgson probably used it from time to time, since it was the standard domestic painkiller of its day and was to be found in numerous patent medicines of the time, but there is no evidence he ever abused it or that its effects had any impact on his work. There is no factual evidence to support a suggestion that he smoked cannabis. However, many people regard Alice's hallucinations in the Wonderland, when surrounded by teas, mushrooms and smoking insects, (though tea and mushrooms were quite common) as references to psychedelic substances. This suggestion of psychedelic drug use made him extremely popular to the counterculture of the 1960s and was a positive way of showing the mainstream that one of their most famous and highly regarded writers also used these forbidden substances. Grace Slick wrote a song, "White Rabbit," recorded with both The Great Society and Jefferson Airplane, which depicted Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a psychedelic drug trip. Cannabis was not a very popular drug at the time and the caterpillar has been speculated to have been smoking a range of different things.
PLEASE read this material and wake up to facts! "Alice in Wonderland" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DRUGS! This is extraordinarily insulting to the brilliant, learned, talented man who excelled in so many areas.
The Jefferson Airplane song is the ONLY thing that tries to link drugs to Carroll's imagery; face it, that was the Sixties, and the group was not exactly a reliable source. Don't count on "White Rabbit" as an explanation of a children's story!
I was an English major, studying in the Seventies. Believe me that a number of students tried to throw this junk into the interpretation and were slammed by the professors. If you have read anything about the man and his works, you wouldn't have asked this question! Besides, do you think Disney would include drug references in an animated film in the Fifties~1951?! Again, that's a lack of knowledge of the time period. No one would have understood such a thing, so why put it in an animated film meant especially for children? That makes no sense whatsoever. If you believe that, you do not know a thing about the Fifties, which is when I grew up.
doesnt the catipillar smoke pot or somethin and i think theres somethin in the tea if you know what i mean
yeah, the caterpillars hitting from a bong on a mushroom or something crazy like that
The caterpillar says "I am approximately 2 and one half inches high, but I frequently get much higher"
it's not like it's bad....back when Walt Disney made Alice in Wonderland, people didn't think it was bad to smoke pot or whatever...