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Wonderland's Joan of Arc Screenwriter Linda Woolverton and Burton made two big changes to the text. One was to transform Carroll's episodic tale into an epic quest, based on the poem "Jabberwocky." Alice must seize the vorpal sword and slay the fearsome Jabberwock. In assuming this challenge, she becomes a female Frodo, Wonderland's Joan of Arc. This twist legitimizes the feature-length running time but also risks turning this jovially anarchic enterprise into your standard action-adventure. The film is better at reveling in eccentricity than at replaying Excalibur. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...While Woolverton joined the Owl and Hasty Pudding Club, he came "in some maturity to question those clubs...
...really didn't know the older veterans very well," Woolverton remembers. "I only knew three or four people...who were married...
...There was a beginning of opening up that has resulted in the acceptance of minority groups with a real purpose behind the policy," Woolverton says...
...while Woolverton says he believes the post-war flood of veterans helped to make the diversified Harvard of today, the influx undeniably altered the College and its undergraduates in the post-war period. And even 50 years later, the undergraduate enrollment of the Class of 1950 stands as the high water mark for the College, proving the sheer force of numbers would be the impetus for change...