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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Thread starter allfoak
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I never get tired of the film.
The Scarecrow always using his brains and thinking of ideas before he got his diploma of Thinkology.
The Cowardly Lion rushing out and protecting his friends in trouble with massive acts of Bravery before he got his medal.
And the Tin Man always crying throughout the film so that he needs to be constantly oiled all the time before he got his heart in the end.
And Dorothy who longed for home so much essentially never left when she woke up after clicking her heels to find her beloved companions by her bed worried about her. She never left home in the film as it was in Oz as well as her own state of Kansas with the moral being home is where the heart is.
The Scarecrow always using his brains and thinking of ideas before he got his diploma of Thinkology.
The Cowardly Lion rushing out and protecting his friends in trouble with massive acts of Bravery before he got his medal.
And the Tin Man always crying throughout the film so that he needs to be constantly oiled all the time before he got his heart in the end.
And Dorothy who longed for home so much essentially never left when she woke up after clicking her heels to find her beloved companions by her bed worried about her. She never left home in the film as it was in Oz as well as her own state of Kansas with the moral being home is where the heart is.
Did you know if you watch the movie with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, it goes color right when you hear the change machine at the beginning of the song Money.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It's almost like she had a mushroom trip.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That tornado is just what they tell the kids Dorothy rode to Oz on.Even Christmas stories. How do you think Santa and his reindeer fly? Fly Amanita Muscaria.
Hippies know better, lol.
"Did you notice"? How could you miss it?
Also last few minutes after Dorothy woke up were in black and white again. Kansas is still in black-and-white, by the way.
I liked the part where they've entered the castle of Oz, being pulled around in a horse and carriage, and someone makes some comment using the idiom "that's a horse of a different color". Then the next couple of shots show the horses are all different colors.
I would have said the same thing. But when my son was a kid he had a video of it (both his mother and I had copies of it), and he watched it constantly for at least a couple of years. He sang the songs and danced the dances, and wore Scarecrow and Tin Man Halloween costumes all year long. Some days I would have shot Judy Garland if she had danced in through the door.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That would be quite a scene. *Grin*
allfoak
Alchemist
They are all the same actor in life as well.
allfoak
Alchemist
The cute little snacks of the Wicked Witches of the east and west?
Whilst I have a deep admiration of the movie (and I do in fact own it on DVD, the collector's edition no less) If I want something simple but elegant I'll watch it. Which isn't often, admittedly. I prefer the much darker and more flawed "sequel" Disney did in the 80s. Return to Oz.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I did miss one!!!!!
the actor played the carriage driver.....
he had the horse of a different color!
Actually, the yellow brick road is a metaphor for the gold standard, which leads to the Emerald City (paper money - green, since it's American), where everything looks impressive but is just a hollow facade run by the Wizard of Oz (oz... as in ounces of gold), who himself turns out to be a fraud.
Dorothy - who represents the American common people - is eventually saved by her silver shoes (changed to ruby slippers for the movie), representing a changed to a mixed gold/silver standard, after having met along the way the scarecrow (the American farmers), the tin man (the American manufacturing workers) and the cowardly lion (William Jennings Bryant).
I can't remember who the witches are supposed to represent, but they're allegories to 1890s American politics, too.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I saw only two domains....
Munchkin Land
and the Emerald City
the witches would be 'off the grid'?