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Mar 18, 2022 · 'Alice' writer-director Krystin Ver Linden speaks with Script about how she created this world and characters based on true events, character development, and world-building through the eye of the lens, her filmmaking influences, and why she writes to direct.
Mar 18, 2022 · Ver Linden was in the middle of writing the second draft of Alice's script around the time after George Floyd's murder when people across America, and in many countries around the...
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Mar 18, 2022 · Alice, which first premiered at Sundance and is out in theaters on March 18, tells the story of an enslaved woman who escapes from the plantation on which she’s held only to find it’s not the...
Mar 21, 2022 · Alice (Keke Palmer) is enslaved woman who escapes from the plantation, where she believes it’s the 1800s. When she makes her escape, she finds out the current year is 1973, and the world has progressively changed because of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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- Mr. Paul: The Owner
- Alice Finally Attains Freedom
- The Zippo Lighter
- ‘Alice’ Ending Explained: Is Her Revenge Justified?
It is 1973, and Paul Bennet (Jonny Lee Miller) has kept a number of enslaved people at his house. One day, lovers Alice (Keke Palmer) and Joseph (Gaius Charles), both enslaved domestics, decide to flee. But unfortunately, Joseph is shot and is apparently dead, whereas Alice’s outburst and attack make Paul tie her to a stake on the ground outside th...
Mr. Paul plays an important role in establishing not just Alice’s character but the presence of slavery and the unjust treatment that the black people of America received during the second half of the 20th century. Paul knows that Joseph and Alice love each other. This is something he clearly doesn’t like, and he does what’s in his power to keep th...
She isn’t free when Frank takes her to the hospital. She isn’t free when Frank brings her to his grandma’s place. Alice is free when she finds out what it means to be enslaved. All this time, she had no idea that she was enslaved or that she could be free. She didn’t even know what “slave” meant. She has been merely a domestic all her life. When sh...
The lighter that Joseph discovered in the grave is the same lighter that Alice uses to burn down the jungle. This lighter, in all probability, symbolizes freedom. The man Joseph’s grandfather came across, who gifted him the lighter, was apparently killed by Paul and buried nearby. This symbolizes how Joseph’s grandfather was kept from the “fire” of...
We know that Alice, along with her family, lover, and others, was tortured by Paul and his family. He also kept them all in the dark about the fact that they were legally free, and nobody had the right to keep them as “domestics.” Thus, when she escapes and finds out about slavery and its abolishment, she decides to take revenge on Paul and free he...
Mar 14, 2022 · Ver Linden explains that the depiction of the plantation in “Alice” needed the intentional use of desaturation to instill a grim, ominous, and lonely feeling. This is to contrast the glorified portrayals of plantations in early cinema as lush, idyllic landscapes with a vibrant color palette.
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In her feature debut, writer-director Krystin Ver Linden captures the story of an enslaved woman (Keke Palmer) on a Georgia plantation who escapes after a violent confrontation with the plantation owner.
