Aldous Huxley’s version of the Disney “Alice” (2020)

As interesting as the surviving fragments of the Disney side of this project are, the greater loss

> Unfortunately, a massive fire in 1961 destroyed more than four thousand of Huxley’s annotated books and documents, including his involvement on the Alice project

came as news I was sad to hear for the first time.

I feel the same way. What a loss.

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Wow, it's terrible and hard to follow. The conflict seems to involve an academic quarrel with no obvious reason it would get resolved at the anti-climax. Is this a joke?

You’re reading someone’s summary of Huxley’s synopsis. I think it’s safe to assume that the full screenplay would have given more context.

It reads very much like an English comedy of manners / Oscar Wilde piece, where status and social structure set up the problems and comedy.

Indeed, thats why it ages so poorly. Compare that to something like Brave New World.