<P> The 1951 Walt Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland perpetuates the long - standing confusion between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts . In the film, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's statements, the most notable being based on her "all the ways about here belong to me". Both characters say this to suggest importance and possible arrogance, but in the Red Queen's case it has a double meaning since her status as a chess - queen means that she can move in any direction she desires . </P> <P> In both American McGee's Alice and Tim Burton's film adaptation of the books, the characters are also combined, leading to further popular misconception . Also, Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit" contains the lyric "and the Red Queen's off with her head", another instance of the two characters combined or mistaken for one another . However, American McGee's game implies that after Alice was put into the asylum the Queen of Hearts and Red Queen fused together . </P> <P> The 2010 live - action film Alice in Wonderland, fashioned as a sequel to the novel, features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen . Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen . Bonham Carter's character is a combination of the Red Queen, the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts . From the original Red Queen, this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen . Here the Red Queen is the older sister of the White Queen, and is jealous of her sister, whom her subjects genuinely love . From the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess, she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen . The White Queen theorizes that the movie's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain, explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour . Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts, including: </P> <Ul> <Li> A quickness to anger, including the famous phrase "Off with his / her / their / your head!" Her first name, Iracebeth, is a play on the word "irascible". In the movie, the queen's moat is full of heads from her many decapitations . Carter has said that she based her performance on her toddler - aged daughter . </Li> <Li> The use of animals as inanimate objects . Beside the flamingo mallets & hedgehog croquet balls from the original, this queen also uses them as furniture . </Li> <Li> Having tarts stolen, although in this adaptation it was a starving frog footman who stole the tarts rather than the Knave of Hearts . Here, the queen is madly in love with the Knave of Hearts, who leads her army, and has executed her husband the King for fear that he would leave her . </Li> <Li> Employment of a fish footman and the White Rabbit . </Li> <Li> Heart motifs throughout her palace & a 16th - century - style costume associated with the queen of hearts playing card & the original John Tenniel illustrations for the Queen of Hearts . </Li> </Ul>

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