

Rickman was filmed while recording his voice in a studio, but his face was not composited onto the character's face as originally planned. Main article: Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)Īlan Rickman voices the Caterpillar, who in this adaptation is named Absolem. He reappears one final time during the ending chase, still in butterfly form but once again smoking on his hookah, and again ignoring Alice when she asks for his help escaping the Queen of Hearts. He briefly appears during the second caucus race. He also instructs her to eat a mushroom but does not say what it does thus putting her into possible danger. He then ignores her and turns into a butterfly and flutters away not caring whether or not Alice makes it out alive. He is a quite mean character providing little to no assistance to Alice and ends up confusing her more while she is trapped in Wonderland. He blows smoke in Alice's face and when she needs assistance he ignores her. He is seen as a very forthright character as he yells at Alice quite often during the scenes in which they both appear. The Caterpillar in the Disney film is a blue creature who, as in the original Tenniel illustration, smokes a hookah. Alice remarks in the original that the Caterpillar will one day turn into a butterfly, and in both the 1999 television film and Disney's 1951 version he does so in Alice's presence. In the Disney animated film, this line is visualised as exhalations of smoke in the shapes "O", "R" and "U". His memorable phrase is a breathy "Whooo . Main article: Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) The Caterpillar makes an appearance in many other works since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The original illustration by John Tenniel is something of a visual paradox, wherein the caterpillar's human face appears to be formed from the head and legs of a naturalistic caterpillar. Alice does not like the Caterpillar when they first meet, because he does not immediately talk to her and when he does, it is usually in short, rather rude sentences, or difficult questions. Introduced in Chapter Four ("Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill") and the main center of interest of Chapter V ("Advice from a Caterpillar"), the Caterpillar is a hookah-smoking caterpillar exactly 3 inches (7.6 cm) high (a height, the virtues of which, he defends against Alice's complaint). The Caterpillar (also known as the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar) is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The illustration is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and protruding chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with two "true" legs visible. The Caterpillar using a hookah an illustration by John Tenniel.
