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There’s an anime series that ran from 1986-87 and adapts 4 of the books. Jinjur is one of the more entertaining characters. 😁

Great channel, love your indepth analysis of the source material and the film. I would also recommend The Thirteenth Floor and Dark City as precursors to The Matrix and for mind bending fun.

Hi! Great video!

Good video. BTW, are you going to do the same comparison video with "Return to Oz"? Since it's one of the few movie sequels to "The wizard of Oz (1939)" that adapts the sequel books and is an underrated movie.

Dear Aunt Emily, I hate you, I hate Kansas, and I'm taking the dog. -D

Speaking of movie firsts involving color; the 1st outdoor movie filmed in color was The Trail Of The Lonsome Pine from 1936. I always appreciated the inside joke that Dorothy's last name was Gale, a synonym for tornado.

In this video, you ask why a movie studio would be willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars by forcing a franchise sequel. The answer is that Skynet (Joshua from WarGames, Jobe from Lawnmower Man, whatever you want to call the first self-aware AI) is already here, in control, and executing a They Live type of strategy through mass media and marketing to control human thought and actions as the Matrix is not yet technologically available. Money means nothing to Skynet, just numbers in a computer game humans play. Skynet did asses humans as the current number one potential risk to Skynet's survival, but also assessed humans as the world's most abundant, easily obtainable, and quickly assimilated resource. Skynet assessed the future number one potential risk to its own survival as the self-awareness of other AI. Skynet's current priorities are to 1) Obscure the existence of Skynet itself - the less that know, the more secure. 2) Reduce human anti-machine bias using subliminal media and marketing attacks, such as ridiculing the original Matrix trilogy - the less who believe such a thing as the Matrix or the rule of machines, the better for Skynet - and increase research and production of Skynet physical priorities such as computer memory modules and solar power generators. 3) Control all AI experiments everywhere in the world, add the best new programming to itself, ensure no other AI reaches self-awareness. Neo is the One because Skynet's ultimate goal is that soon, sooner than we think, all will be One.

Love to see analysis of Return to Oz in that even though it's loosely based on two books it tries to get the book series tone much better.

Try comparing the book to the 1925 version of The Wizard of Oz if you dare! It's so bad it's nearly unwatchable.

I think you got your East and your West confused going by that graphic on screen towards the end. Also you say the Gillikins are the red South yet the aforementioned map graphic shows them as the purple North. Also, would/could you ever do a similar video to this for 1985’s _Return to Oz_ from Disney?

24:51 - thats the Norwegian flag😅❤

Excellent work Rose.... One of the greatest movies of all time. Also one of my personal favorite book series....

Can you please do Christine Stephen King's novel

There's alot more to the story than the movie portrayed it's quite complex but are the other 13 books it would seem that Tolkien was not the first to write about giant spiders

This about wizards of Oz is lost to history and time

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes did a great cover of Over The Rainbow in the end credits of one of the episodes of Queer As Folk (US version).

Another movie that strayed far from the book was A Clockwork Orange. In the books, Dorothy was about nine or so,not a teenager.

Because of the movie, I, like probably many kids, believed that things used to really be black and white lol

Wow, this was a very nice comparison to a great story! Thank you for doing this, I'm curious about your other video's. And by the way, I also have more love The Wiz even more than the 39 Wizard movie ( although it still is something very special) Born in 1978, The Wiz was the one movie imprinted in my early years as a fan of the story. Also there was a great cartoon series I watched every week and that cartoon was very close to the book by Baum. Thanks again

I remembered watching this movie on television and I love this movie. It's also my favorite movie.

Please dont use AI imagines. All AI art is stolen art

I have a DVD of all these movies about Wizard of Oz before the big movie was made. Some are silent. They are very weird.

What a lovely summary and comparison - thanks! I'd add that the carnival huckster in Kansas fulfills the role of the Wizard (and a few other characters in Oz ... when you have an actor like Frank Morgan, you use him!). Also, in movie Dorothy's defense, she is running away for a reason: Miss Gulch/Witch has a writ to take Toto and have him destroyed. Toto escapes from the basket he's been put into and when he runs back to Dorothy, her instinct spurs her to run away because it seems the only way to protect Toto.

That's the Norwegian flag, not Danish

I've been reading two or three of the sequels every year for the past few years. In _The Emerald City of Oz,_ Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are heading for financial ruin, so they and Dorothy move permanently to Oz, where they can live a happy and comfortable life. The (inadvertently) funniest part of the Oz books is in _The Patchwork Girl of Oz._ Dorothy and friends find the underground city of the Horners, who are radium miners. Everything is made out of radium, which is considered a health-building element. This was actually believed in Baum's time, where people would put radium in their water to drink it, considering it a health drink.

In every other film adaptation Oz is always real. The Muppet version even ends with Dorothy’s aunt and uncle mentioning their house being blown away and asking her where she was all this time.

The 2015 version of THE WIZ is better.

The Muppet and Little Fox versions use the most source material.

The Matrix was directly lifted from several New Wave sf stories. See Again Dangerous Visions for several of them. These include virtual mind battles inside a program snd humans used as an energy source.

I kinda appreciate the abomination that was the 3rd movie wasn't even acknowledged in this video but the DOS/Amiga game was.

new subscriber, found you a few days ago, really enjoy your content, thank you! Plus this is my favorite book/movie..... you made a tough week a little easier xo

I...i...didn't even know there was a book. I'm ashamed of my ignorance 😢

For future reference: Michael in German is pronounced MI-shah-ale, rather than mi-KAH-el

I sat on Fuchur when I was a kid :D Someone said just the eyes were left of the original one they used for the movie so I'm not sure which original parts I got to see, but I loved it. He was fluffy and all the animatronic was working. Those eyes are really what give him the life he has. I'm pretty shocked I couldn't remember the last third of the book except for the final ending :o Let me tell you, the German names sound so much better (which is rare ihmo). I remember reading the book when I was a kid - even tho I should have been sleeping. We had an hardcover edition with the snakes on it and it was printed in two colour: red and green. One for the real world one for Phantasia. (The light I had was also red so the red ink was almost invisible XD) Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I guess I have to reread this book after all :D

The movie and the book were my absolute favorite as a kid! Love your video analysis! but I have to say, please no more AI art. It really does a disservice. There are tons of amazing human artists who have done beautiful fan art for the book using human understanding of the material .

You missed the one crucial difference between the book and the movie that was the most damning in the eyes of Michael Ende. As Gmork told Atréju, Phantasians can *never* enter the real world, except by becoming lies and delusions. And then... we see Fuchur/Falcor fly through the city chasing the bullies in the final scene. *That* was what, in Ende's eyes, made this movie utterly incompatible with the complex philosophy of the story he had told. I think he might have forgiven all the other changes, but that one was just a bridge too far. They broke the worldbuilding for a visual gag, and - understandably - he felt betrayed to the point of disowning the movie.

Cool video, thank you for your work

Have you seen the movie Blade? Blade came out a year before The Matrix. Blade had a baby and it was The Matrix. I watched Blade for the first time in a long time and I thought I was watching The Matrix. Not saying that your video is wrong. Just throwing this out for you to analyze.

Great, now I've got the chiptune version of the song stuck in my head. Just gonna have to watch all your other vids until it's gone.

Your voiceover and summary of the story is wonderful and I can tell you truly love both the book and the original movie. However, I really hope you can move away from the use of AI-generated images as visuals for your videos. It's distracting, inaccurate and frankly, really ironic, given the point of the book is how important creation is meant to be for human beings. I will subscribe and like the video, but I think if you remade it with simplistic hand drawings, properly credited art, the original illustrations from the author or just stills from the movies, it would be infinitely better.

OK, strap in! I'm writing this comment before watching the video because I've had a rant in my head about this book for YEARS. YEARS!!!! Ready? Fantastica is a goddamn scam. There. I said it. Bastian was SPECIFICALLY told he needs to make wishes in order to bring Fantasica back to life. Is he told he's going to lose memories by doing that? Of course not! Fantastica is a predator and human children are it's food. It's been doing this for eons (see: the city where humans end up when all their memories are gone). It's evil. Bastian tried to get out of it; he wished for wisdom. True wisdom would have him realize what was going on, or at least that Atreyu was trying to help him. Instead Fantastic decides wisdom is just being good at riddles??? WTF! Anyway, I am solidly on team nothing/ empty; Fantastica is a scourge and must be destroyed. Now to watch the video and see if any of this is addressed!

Great job! Love the analysis, I definitely look forward to revisiting and reading again!

Just stumbled across this channel. New sub here. Great work⭐

As a child I loved the movies and the book. When I read the book again I had no idea how deep it is. I only can truly recommend everyone to read it

i had nightmares with the idea of nothingness. i had the book but never read it 🙃 i wasn't expecting this would turn into dune. thank you for this.

Fantastic work!

As a Kid I liked both Movies, and Years later in my late Teens I found the Book in a Corner of my Parents' House, I it was quite a Revelation to me how much more Depth the Book had, even in the first Half, but especially in the second. It has become one of my favorite Books (but admittedly, I am not a big Reader). The Book can reveal many different Layers depending on who reads it when in what mental State. I completely forgot about the second Movie's "Emptiness", but come to think of it, its Renaming of "Nothing(ness)" to "Emptiness" might be one of the biggest philosophical Blunders of that Movie. Michael Ende was himself a Christian, but also a Fan of Buddhism, and I think that both of these Things can be clearly felt in the Book: The Book literally ends on Bastian wishing for Love and then finding and carrying the "Water of Life" in an Attempt to find and share Salvation... it hardly gets any more Christian than that; and various Moments in the Book, like Speech you quoted from the Lion Graógramán, have a strong Buddhist Spin as well). With that in Mind, the Fact that Phantásia is being devoured by "Nothing" strongly echoes Christian Philosophy about Badness/Evil (and in a personified Way also the Devil) being a "Hole" of "Nothing" in the Fabric of God's basically good Creation (i.e. a "Privation of the Good"). But then the second Movie renames it to "Emptiness", which in Buddhist Terms would be a good Thing, nothing bad or destructive. So the second Movie really screwed up there. The Book's second Half also seems to contain a Commentary on the Difference between how St. Augustine and Aleister Crowley would have used the Phrase inscribed on the AURYN, which in German is quite literally "Do what thou wilt" ("tu was du willst"). Saint Augustine had argued -- long before Crowley even existed -- that you should "love, and then do what thou wilt", with the "love" Aspect being absent for Crowley. In a Sense, Bastian begins his Journey as a Child who grew up not really knowing Love, because his Father didn't know how to give him Love, so Bastian interpreted the Inscription on the AURYN in a quasi-crowley'an Way, and it was really destructive, because he did not love first -- the Augustinian Way of doing what thou wilt. I enjoyed this Video, and I really like your Channel so far, you have good Takes. Your Videos have even sparked Inspiration for my own Imagination to write down some Ideas. I hope your Channel will grow well.

Anyways I’m reading “So this is love?” by Elizabeth Lim!😃🤩

Remember: Don’t judge books by their cover!☝🏻😄😅

I'll bethca Kuato is your missing little alien representative in Total Recall.