Maxfield Parrish Revived in Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has many scenes of jaw-dropping beauty, and my favorite was an homage to Maxfield Parrish's Daybreak, a painting that changes color depending on the time of day at which you see it.

I found it fascinating that Burton's adventurous Alice becomes a Joan of Arc figure and a dragon slayer, who flees marriage to set sail on the high seas.

Larry Rohter quotes the screenwriter in a film review for the NYT:

Linda Woolverton . . . said that when she began her script...