Oct 28 2009Extended 'Alice in Wonderland' Trailer: Now with Moments of New Footage

The term mad as a hatter actualy comes from the fact that hatters used to have to work with very strong glues all day, the fumes from which could turn you loopy.

Actually, that's not true, #1, the felts that hat makers use to work with contained heavy traces of mercury, and people who wore said mercury toppers then suffered from mercury poisoning, which, among other things that killed you, deteriorated your brain and never tissue, thus rendering you "mad."

OMG! Who cares the point is they went crazy, I just can't wait till this movie comes out =)

Actually, it wasn't the people who wore the hat's #2, it was the hat makers. They worked with mercurous nitrate to roughen the hair fibers in rabbits fur. Through all the steaming and ironing, the mercurous nitrate fumes got into the air of the poorly ventilated rooms and caused the hat makers to develop kidney and brain damage.

Who cares about the hat. The movie looks as good as Charlie and the Factory, which means it looks like shit.

Actually, it was because hat makers, realizing that they had indeed taken up the profession of hat manufacturing, wondered where their lives had gone off course, and would consequently become schizophrenic.

What was that? An additional....what...7 seconds of new footage?

I'm with five and six!

I'm also with Mark!

Actually, the hatters were, in fact, already mad before hand. The only means of living for such people was therefore, producing hats. It is sometimes erroneously believed that the job itself turned the hatters mad.

The mad as a hatter thing........ I think IWatchStuff writer was being ironic, guys...

I CANT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE

CeeCee must be Alanis Morrissette, because she too has no grasp over the word ironic.

Why can't I go full screen? Why do some sites do this? WHAT'S THE POINT? So annoying.

Actually, it was the fact that hatter's have to use imperial system of measures instead of the metric system that drove them mad.

Yet again, trailer builds up Johnny Depp as the main character. I physically cringed at the 'terribly late, you know' line. He needs to be isolated from his posse of yes-men, because this shit just isn't funny anymore.

hatters went "mad" due to chemical reactions to mercury used to create felt from beaver pelts in the days of mounten men during manifest destiny.

the effects of mercury fumes on the brain were then unknown and beaver pelts required alot of it in order to be turned to felt.

it was a very widespread and sudden condition as there was a massive boom in beaver felt hats during the time and the mountain men trappers nearly hunted the beavers to extinction in roughly a decades time.

...they didnt do a good job killing them however as we have more than enough beavers here in new england to cause issue

uh, actually, mad as a hatter is a play on words where mad meant angry and then hatter meant hater, which is what he used as a metaphor against the politics he was against. the insanity of the mad hatting job came after the phrase was coined, largely because of lewis carol's depiction of the hatting field, and they became very angry (ie. mad), but didn't want to admit it so they blamed it on the mercury. a side note is at first they blamed it on the mercury from the fish they ate, but once the savvy lawyers disproved this, they started rubbing it into their beavers.

"they started rubbing it into their beavers."

HAHAHHAHAHAH

FTW

this is nothing new all the footage is old and the only difference is that they put the end right in the beginning before starting the trailer

Actually, the we were mad because YOU PEOPLE WOULDN'T SHUT THE PHUCK UP SPEWING YOUR BULLCHIT TRIVIA!!!

Great - I get to see Johnny Depp do his Hunter S. Thompson routine again.

Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, how predictable.

They'll change the simple nonsensical story around by adding "evil" to the plot and double entendre to the characters' lines and actions...

Of course, the original was written by a guy whose hobby was taking naked photos of 8 year old girls...

To the first person who says "Mad as a hatter" is about glues, you're wrong.

In fact, the people use to clean the top hats with mercery, and when cleaned enough, the mercery would soak into the head, effecting the brain, therefore, the term "mad as a hatter" REALLY came.

So please, before you try and sound educated, make sure your facts are correct.

uh, actually, mad as a hatter is a play on words where mad meant angry and then hatter meant hater, which is what he used as a metaphor against the politics he was against. the insanity of the mad hatting job came after the phrase was coined, largely because of lewis carol's depiction of the hatting field, and they became very angry (ie. mad), but didn't want to admit it so they blamed it on the mercury. a side note is at first they blamed it on the mercury from the fish they ate, but once the savvy lawyers disproved this, they started rubbing it into their beavers.

the clove smoking fourteen year old goth in me is way psyched for this movie.

...I'm sorry, what were we talking about? I got lost in the Hatter conversation....

Mercury poisoning is known as mad hatters disease..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning

...but

the mad hatter's character was probably based on a furniture sales man and this debate is a dead and buried one:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/articles/PMC1550196/?tool=pmcentrez

i'm with 27!!!

Since when did the Mad Hatter become the main character? I guess since Johnny Depp plays him...

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat . *presto!*
(it's the killer rabbit from Monty Python...come to jack u idiots UP!)

What the hell? There's nothing new about that one.....

I get the feeling most of the people discussing the origins of 'mad hatter' are actually the same person.

Dear Tim Burton,

Please stop making movies.

Thanks,

DB4D

good

Whom ever said mercury is the right one. But regardless I can wait another few months till it goes DVD.

DB4D is always right.

Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter: If Elijah Wood and Carrot Top screwed each other.

Oh wonderful - now we get to watch Depp slur and put on his 'loopy'
shtick wile doing the talk show circuit promoting this crap.

Tim has gone to the well about four too many times with his goth schmaltz. If it weren't for Batman, Batman Returns, and The Nightmare Before Christmas (producer, I know), I wouldn't think much of him.

Okay, shit. Ed Wood is damn great, too.

The mercury was actually used in the brim in order to keep it stiff, so it was absorbed through the forehead.

CGI version of Alice in Wonderland - 50 million dollars
The discussion thread talking about an obscure phrase rather than the movie - Priceless.

Well, coincidentally, every single person that wrote about the phrase "Mad as a Hatter" is positively undoubtedly correct on some term or level, therefore my observation is that the "Mad as a Hatter" phrase was coined, when dealing with people who were the mercery suppliers, because they would also give the makers a little nip of cocaine, or heroin when they would stop by for incentive, and thus the withdrawal symptoms displayed by the hatters was so irrational, the phrase was coined.

Wow! I really didn't read any of the stuff so I really don't know what to say in this comment. I only didn't read it because it looked sort of BORING!!!! So yea. You guys should read the one about the giant tree house. It is on this website anyway so why not? Yea go check it out it is really kool and big and all of that. I posted a comment on that one but I didn't use the same name I am using to write this comment. I just realized this comment is too long so I'm going to stop now.

This girl is 2009's answer to Martha Plimpton. She would definitely be in a Goonie's or Parenthood remake.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) was an amateur photographer but he did not go around taking naked pictures of 8 year old girls. Actually, the most famous picture of Alice that he took was of her dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood. Saying he was a perv is like saying Walt Disney was antisemitic. It's a rumor that just isn't true and has, in fact, been PROVEN false. Get your facts strait before you accuse a guy you don't know about.

I am sooo glad I found this great site for nerd wannabe's like myself. YAY!

The movie isn't supposed to be an remake of the cartoon or even of the original stories. The film is supposed to be 19 years after the events in alice in wonderland. So for all we know the mad hatter might be a major character in this new story. so yeah...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)

@53 I'd like to see your proof?

I have proof in the fact his family (after his death) purposely destroyed parts of his personal diary, that in the bits beforehand he was friends with Alice's family and that after he wasn't. That it was constantly rumoured that his relationship with the girls was untoward and that he may have even proposed to Alice's older sister. (Who was still very young.)
Rumours are rumours because they haven't definitively been proven wrong.

@30 the ncbi ref wins it. indeed you are a thorough researcher and i can sleep knowing the hatter sold furniture.