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Apparently Johnny Depp surprised everyone by appearing at Comic-Con. A much needed visit, because the trailer had been leaked yesterday and the panel’s awesomeness depended on how much you wanted to know about what Tim Burton was saying.

Really, people need to stop leaking things before the movie comes out.  Think of the eventual effect on the moviegoing experience. It takes away so much, even if it is exciting when you watch illegal videos.

That came out much worse than I intended. Here’s the trailer anyway.

Apparently that’s not the trailer they showed at Comic-Con. Errrrr. I’m gonna go look for that one. …My quest for the Alice in Wonderland trailer has led me to various videos of skinny white guys talking about how excited they are for the movie. I always feel ridiculous for those people who talk about trailers. I’d rather get the actual trailer, thank you, without your interference. No…the video is frozen on his excited face. And his Aeropostale shirt. Deeeaaaath. GAHHHHH. “I posted it on my blog so why don’t you go check it out?” NO. No I will not check it out on your blog. I’m not giving you traffic, person who won’t just post it on youtube.

Ah whatever. Find the trailer yourself, like I did. Something is off because I can’t find it anywhere.

But. I love this article from Fused Film.

“However many fans and screaming girls had a simultaneous orgasm when Johnny Depp walked out on stage to greet everybody.”

Allow me a moment to laugh my head off.

I’m not going to post any pictures of Johnny Depp’s appearance, because I want to save my upload space and it’s more celebrity news than movie news. Although I am excited and looking at every picture of it I can get my hands on.  

Apparently he whispered into the microphone, “Hey. Happy to be here.”

Here are some Tim Burton quotes for those who care about the thoughts that went into the film.

“All his material, the Jabberwocky poem, all the elements of Wonderland that had movement and emotion, weird dialogue and stuff, we tried to use the material so there would be a new and true look to the universe. This one felt good to me, a weird journey, thematic nature, Wonderland will be hard to top.”

“Actors always bring something to it. If an actor connects and feels passionate, you should get something meaningful that they grasp on to. I just felt that with the material and the medium, it was just a good mixture of elements.”

“It’s a mixture of things. One was the element where we didn’t really have 5 or 6 years to make it. Also, techniques that were usable gave me more freedom, depth and layering. For me, I couldn’t really see the difference. With what we were doing, this seemed the right approach.

It’s a much more pleasant experience. 3-D used to give you a head. Now you don’t walk out of the theater with a headache. It enhances and puts you in this world more. It just helps with the experience. I think the gimmick elements have fallen by the wayside. It’s more about an experience that puts you in it more. You feel things that you actually felt on the set which enhances the experience. You feel what you feel in real life.”

On Alice: “She’s just a young girl. We wanted to give her some gravity, someone who has an internal life and you can see the wheels turning. A simple life, not flamboyant. That’s why I picked Helena and she’s got a big head (laughs).”

On “Dark Shadows”: “Yes, if I ever finish this one. (laughs) That’s the plan.”

This is from thewrap.com:

“Next up was Burton, presenting the trailer from his “Alice,” which panel moderator Patton Oswalt prompted him to play twice.

“Looks like a freak show, doesn’t it?” Burton said, looking up at the images of the characters on screen.

“Johnny (Depp) and I had worked together many times, but he’d never done a character with orange hair, so we scalped Carrot Top and took his hair,” Burton joked — adding that Depp helped create his character’s wardrobe.

The director said he attempted to take the traditional fairytale and Jabberwocky poem and turn it into a moving story that was “not just a series of weird events.”

But with a green screen, Burton said “speed and energy” was important because the screen “can start to freak you out after a while, and you don’t know where you are or who you are.”

To the audience’s surprise, at the end of his Q&A segment, Burton brought out  Depp, who plays the Mad Hatter. The crowd erupted as Depp flashed his winning grin and waved for a few moments before departing the stage.”

There are also pictures of props taken at Comic-Con, but apparently people aren’t supposed to post them up yet, so I’ll put them up Friday. Because if I did right now I’d be a hypocrite for what I just wrote about leaks. But I can still describe them to you, can’t I? Ooh, an exercise in descriptive writing. But I’m lazy so I won’t really try.

There are a lot of tarts in the tea party. Gah, reminds me of the French Club banquet. That tart was very sour. Anyway, the tea party is very mix-and-match of silverware and plates but it’s neater than I imagined. Neater than it looks in the trailer to be sure. Maybe I’ll keep the picture and model my birthday after it. It’s two round tables and one long one connected, with white tablecloth and a huge green velvet wingback chair at the end. Lots of cake.

The hat. The hat looks beautiful, and of course you’ve all seen the hat from the pictures and trailers.

My descriptions couldn’t do these justice. The Mad Hatter’s suit is also on display. I hope they will be when it plays at the El Capitan theater like it was for PotC 3 because I want to see these for myself. I love the flower print of the bowtie. Again, same as posters.

The little door’s pretty nondescript. A wooden door kind of like the ones you’d see in missions. There’s this giant fake Alice head next to it to show the size difference, I guess. Also if the head wasn’t there it’d just be a door.

The eat me cake is yellow and squareish, in an old black box. Excuse me, glass with a brownish black frame. Again, these pictures are low quality. I’ll wait until Friday and see if there are better ones.