an unnecessary deep dive on wicked's wildly controversial hat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- I made a half-joking short about this topic and folks had a LOT to say!
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Chapters:
history of the witch hat 0:50
the hat in the book 1:29
the hat in the musical vs the movie 2:37
what is the hat scene? 4:12
theory 1 5:29
theory 2 6:35
theory 3 7:43
Seriously you guys all of these theories are so smart and interesting, thanks for weighing in! It seriously makes me want to do an updated video lol
I just noticed that the hat in the movie, upside down it looks like a stylized tornado.
Omg it does! 😮
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One thing people are not noticing about the hat is how Glinda likes it or at least has some attachment to it. Like why would she bring that ugly piece with her to Shiz in the middle of all the pieces of clothing she meticulously picked of a perfect pink pallette?
When her friends found her hat, she seemed to stop a bit to think of an excuse for having it, in order to still seem perceived as "good" to them. And she even seemed a little hesitant of giving Elphaba the hat, only giving her once she saw her sorcery books.
Maybe the hat really is from her granny and it's a sentimental gift to her, but due to social pressure and jealousy, she gives it to Elphie.
Also I think the students don't like the hat only because it's Elphaba wearing it and it's not something usually worn or in style in Oz.
Yesss I just made a comment about this too!! I’m glad I’m not the only one
she has no attachment to this hat and she doens't even like it. If she did she would not immediatly give it to a sranger whom she LOATHES. Common now
@@stonegreen972 She could only give it to someone who she specifically loathes because her friends pressured her to do so. She wanted to prove to them that she did dislike the hat and that she would only give it away to her most hated person, and so they all thought of Elphaba, so she had to follow through with that. Also, she was certain that everyone would make fun of her with that hat, so it's another win for her. Get her friends' approval and humiliate her enemy.
@@stonegreen972i think you missed the whole point of OP’s comment… the whole point is she probably DID like it. but social acceptance and popularity is way too important for her that she has to sacrifice her own principles and act like she didnt like the hat
I see where you’re coming from, but tbh I feel like Glinda as a character wouldn’t do that. From every moment after that, we see that she’s a rlly is a good, compassionate person deep down, more than most. Ofc, she still bullies elphaba for a bit, but to give away a family heirloom for that is a whole other thing. At the same time, I don’t even see what she had to gain from doing that. It’s not like bullying her at the school dance would get her into sorcery class. Only jealousy, and giving away a family heirloom just cause ur a bit jealous at school is a level of messed up that Glinda simply would never do. And I believe if she did do it, it’d throw a bit of a wrench in the story bc it changes her fundamentally. But that’s just how I see it!
My head canon is partially that it’s an out-of-style hat but additionally that they laugh specifically because it’s Elphaba wearing it. If we saw someone walking around town in disco clothing today, we probably wouldn’t think twice about it, though it might draw our eye. Now imagine you’re at a college party and the person everyone absolutely despises on campus dares to show their face at this social event. And not only that, but they’re dressed up like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. I think this disdain towards her is what prompts everyone to stop, stare, and laugh at someone so out-of-touch they wore something that was fashionable half a century ago.
Yes I think so too! Because everyone in the Ozdust is dressed strangely anyway. They were being racist!
Yes I agree completely with this.
You also missed the opportunity to call it "hat canon"
5:06 actually, Elphaba is suspicious of Galinda setting up her sister. What changes her mind is specifically that Galinda gifts her the hat and invites her to the Ozdust. Elphaba perceives this act as kindness and inclusion, and she then decides that she will repay Galinda by convincing Madame Morrible to give her a chance. So this is directly tied to the hat, which I think Elphaba doesn’t even recognize as “out of fashion” or “ugly.” In her mind, it fits her just right because it’s so “other,” like her.
What if Glinda's grandmother was a disgraced witch ? Not for being evil but maybe she just sucked at magic and brought shame to her family. The hat would be the Oz equivalent of a dunce cap. That would explain why Morrible was so certain that Glinda couldn't become a witch.
I love this theory
doesn’t Elphaba’s wearing of the hat make it a witch hat? I thought The Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz created the concept of the pointy hat for witches?
@@thegoldchild We don't know the origin of the pointy hat for witches. I'm not very familiar with the Wizard of Oz and Wicked so I don't know if this hat became a symbol of evil witches for the people of Oz in the second part. It's possible for a symbol to change meaning over time and context, so I imagined why in the Wicked movie the students had such a bad reaction seeing the hat before it could be associated with the wicked witch of the west.
@@andreadrussel2716in the original oz book the witch has no hat. The hat is only in the wicked book because she has a hat in the 1939 movie. The same with green skin. No green in the OG book.
I get a felt sense in the movie that Munchkinland is kind of the backwater of Oz. There's something fish-out-of-water about Boq, Nessa, and Elphaba when they're among their urbane classmates, which feels a little like classism--but then two of them are the governor's daughters, so they aren't exactly poor. So maybe the hat has implications like, say, a mullet.
Maybe it’s just me but the scene in the movie when her friends find the hat, it feels like Glinda bought the hat and liked it but it never went with something she’d wear. There is something about the look Ariana gives when they pull out the hat and make fun of it, she seemed almost offended at first and then it is like she has to quickly come up with a lie.
The problem with the "historical connotation" theory is that if everyone in the room sees a problem with the hat, that includes Munchkins, i.e. people with a similar background to Elphaba. If there's something objective about it that everyone recognizes immediately, Elphaba should know it too.
I think the simplest explanation is really the best: Ozians are weird, they have weird tastes, and to them this hat is unspeakably ugly, but Elphaba has no taste in fashion.
ooh yeah that’s a good point! like not participating in fashion trends and completely living under a rock are two different things
I thought she didn’t want to wear it for its own sake. She wanted to wear it to make Galindo feel uncomfortable and guilty about it. So she probably didn’t like the hat very much.
1) galinda tried to "sell" the idea to elphaba that the hat was in trend, if true coming from an ozian socialite, this would be an amazing gift
2) the joke is that it was generally seen as ugly, but elphaba doesnt have a good frame of reference for style, even though she comes from a high-status family (father is a governor)
3) in the musical, the hat initially had a black flower attached to it, then removed when elphaba started wearing it, implying that even she knew it was ugly to begin with, but galinda gave her a gift, something she probably never gotten before by anyone.
4) it was explained in the bts that the movie hat was designed to function with a popup spring mechanic and to also look like an obscure mountain from the opening scene of the film.
5) in the musical, one of the early concepts was that her style journey into becoming the 1939 wicked witch would develop throughout the show. she begins the story greenskin; she gains the hat; the goat professor dies and she wears a black dress to the funeral(scrapped section); she touches a broom that ends up reacting to her flight spell; glinda gives her a cloak for comfort because elphaba is shivering;
then she gains the full outfit
I didn't know that about the black dress! In the final version, she just winds up wearing a black dress for reasons unspecified. Maybe because it goes with the hat?
@ its a messy plot detail in the final version, but she just happens to be wearing black.
the goat funeral would have been more depressing and traumatizing for elphaba, seeing that her Animal friend died in protest for the social injustice. then she would have taken his stance in memory to speak to the wizard about it.
but theres only so much you can cram into a stage show
So, in the Oz books, the houses in Oz are all described as having rounded roofs and structures, so most buildings follow the aesthetic of rounder, cylindrical shapes. Dorothy's house is actually seen as weird by the Munchkins because it has an angular roof. So enter Glinda's granny, who in some way or another acquires this weird not circular hat and gifts it to Glinda because she's into fashion. Definitely a stretch, but maybe people in this universe just really do not vibe with triangular shapes for aesthetics as a callback to the source material
Regarding the “the wickedest witch there ever was” line and how the hat could be referring to another witch, in Maguire’s novel there’s a lot of emphasis on the semi-mythical figure of the “kumbric witch” who is this ancient witch goddess type figure. There is a description in the book of a manuscript with an illustration her wearing a conical hat, so it could be that the pointed hat refers to the kumbric witch.
This is what I can't here to say!
Me and my sister wondered why they were so disgusted by the hat too, since the Ozians make some... Bold outfit choices too. but maybe that's the point. We thought that maybe, in this world where bright colors are everywhere, the idea of showing up to a party in black is a terrible faux pas. Like wearing yellow to a funeral or something.
🎵 "Catherine was a MASSIVE C--"
to me, it has always been more the person than the outfit. Elphaba was always an outcast, and the movie only further plays it up with extra emphasis on her arrival to shiz. the ballroom mirrors her arrival, with the entire crowd brought to shock by the outcast boldly showing up to a social environment, galinda is convinced by her courage, and the crowd is pacified by the approval of the most popular girl on campus. The hat is just... a strange fashion choice that further isolates elphaba while showing a trust in galinda that is what convinces her to help in the first place.
i think that it’s not just that they hate her and the hat, i think it’s that she wears the hat with pride. and the audacity that someone would feel comfortable in their own right wearing something ugly and being ugly but still dating to take up space is what’s so offensive to the ozians. similar to how they say animals should be seen and not heard. while yes, they dislike the existence of animals, it’s when they try to use their voice that the ozians are sooooo offended
Your last theory makes me think that perhaps the stereotype might have been about witches who failed rather than ones who are "wicked", which would be a humiliating association
7:05 Great video and not to nitpick but the movie line does go on to say “It’s my granny. She always makes me the most hiddiodeous hats”
I also would like to draw attention to that around the time Elphaba starts wearing the hat, she also stops wearing the glasses. And I think it's interesting that she has always had an additional accessory that marks her as unique and it spiritually transitions to the hat.
Fun fact that maybe no one pointed out yet: in the San Francisco tryout of Wicked in May/June 2003, we see Galinda receive the hatbox in the mail and the lines Galinda says about the hat are as follows:
“It’s from Granny! ‘I made this myself.’ Oh I hope it’s fudge, and not another… ugh! Oh dear! Oh, this is the ugliest one yet! I didn’t know one hat could be so ugly.”
"who invited [morrible]?" girl elphie did
Uhm... No, she didn't? She just asked her to take up Glinda as her student, but I doubt she specifically said, "Would you tutor Glinda as well? She's at the Ozdust right now. Maybe you could come and tell her there." Like, nope... The reason she was there is because the plot demanded it.
@@Whatever94-i4uMorrible did say that Elphaba demanded she tell Galinda that very night or she would quit. Surely with such a demand, Elphaba wouldn’t leave out the super important detail of the unusual place Galinda had gone. Kind of defeats the purpose of the ultimatum, no?
I thought elphie knew it was a back-handed gift, but I was wrong.
I do recall her telling the lady to come though, for sure
@@Whatever94-i4u Uhm... Yes, she did? She asked her to take Glinda up as her student, but I doubt you heard Morrible when she specifically said, "Miss Elphaba has requested that I include you in our sorcery seminar, and insisted that I tell you this very night or she would quit." Like, yup... The reason she was there is because Elphaba demanded it.
She was going to go to the Ozdust ANYWAY, all the students came in and ruined her night
This is a fun thought experiment, and I applaud you for putting so much thought into it! For me, sadly, the answer is something much less enjoyable: the ballroom is reacting to Elphaba, not the hat. The hat gave her an excuse to step out into wider society, and the ballroom is a reflection of how society outside of Shiz--which ironically is probably *more* used to her than the world of Oz at large--would react to her if she dared to leave the confines of school and/or home. That's why Galinda's reaction hits me right in the feels; she's not just trying to make up for a mean joke, she's making a genuine public statement: I accept you, even if the rest of the world doesn't.
7:36 It sounds like Grandma’s road of good intentions led where such roads always lead.
I think the hat resembles a horn, and the only creatures that had horns on that world were Animals... and as they were discriminated, who in a sane mind would want to wear something that might make them look like an Animal?
along with resembling a horn, someone pointed out that upside down, it looks like a tornado!
I was also thinking something very similar. Could it also be connected to the Wizard's hat, which became established as the only *proper* type of hat to be worn (as it also doesn't resemble an animal's hat/horn)?
Also, the elderly GRANDMA may have historically known that this type of hat USED to be the normal and acceptable? Until things changed under the Wizard?
@@br52685Love this edition to the theory omg
I wear a witch hat in real life, and it is homemade, but I live in Portland so I'm always getting compliments on it.
Women who brewed beer wore these had cauldrons and cats ... Eventually they made too much money and were accused of witchcraft
I’m sorry but the hat Glinda gives her in the novel is not supposed to be the pointy witch hat, it’s just a short regular style hat. Elphaba wears the pointy black hat with the wide brimmed later on in the story but it’s not given much focus, it’s just a hat she wears to both conceal her identity and protect her from wind and rain.
yes! i was about to write this
6:56 actually in the movie, she does say "she's always making me these hideoidious hats"
whoops my bad lol good catch!
Don't give Cynthia Erivo an Oscar, give the Oscars a Cynthia Erivo. They need her more than she needs them.
My theory is that, as that type of hat is associated with people in our world that were persecuted, perhaps it is the same in Oz. This kind of hat might be associated with persecuted groups, being sort of taboo to wear, thus Ozians are shocked to see Elphaba in this hat, not just because it's out of style but also due to its taboo nature. Perhaps not even because of a particularly wicked witch before Elphaba, but another group of persecuted individuals?
I think the idea that the hat is hidodous works in the book when it is described as having clashing colors and fabrics. But when it was adapted, they wanted to keep the scene even though it didn't make much sense with the new prop. The only way the scene makes sense now is as a meta joke referencing the 1939 movie.
1930s
@ oops, you are correct. Fixing it.
I do think it is probably the out-of-style thing, coupled with Elphaba's own unpopularity, just all drawn to a ridiculous extent.
But I do find the idea of the hat having some stereotyped connotations interesting. In the original oz books, from the early 1900s, thos type of hat (usually with the addition of bells) was the traditional garb of the Munchkins. When Dorothy first meets the good witch of the North (Locasta, not Glinda), she's wearing such a hat in sign of her solidarity with the Munchkins, while she wasn't powerful enough to fight the wicked witch of the East herself. But that doesn't seem like a style associated with Munchkinland in the Wicked movie, so it can’t really be that here…
Occam’s razor: it’s disgusting/hilarious because Elphaba is wearing it and they hate her.
The last theory is fun, but if the hat represents something or someone mean (a previous witch), people in the Emerald City should´ve had the same reaction when she arrived there...
I can't imagine this was ever a thought in a writer's mind with this movie (or the musical or book either probably) but it's interesting to think that maybe there could be a wicked witch association with that style of hat specifically because of the Wizard. He did come from our world after all, and there's been witch associations with pointy hats for a long time as you said. Maybe he told stories of wicked witches in pointy hats that traveled far enough culturally to make people see that style of hat in a negative light.
It reminds me of the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter movies. Dumbledore, Gandalf and Merlin have all been depicted wearing similarly shaped hats. It really is just a version of the classic black witch's hat from the Wizard of Oz movie, the stage production of Wicked and from history as you pointed out at the very beginning. A style of hat that has had a negative association when women where it.
Just an FYI: "sharp" is also a slang word for stylish, well put together (like an outfit), cutting edge of fashion, trend setting etc. I think it was especially prevalent in the 90s which tracks as that's when the musical was first in pre production.
i think it's probably the oz equivalent of gen z hating on sideparts and skinny jeans. they're not that crazy or bad. they're just considered out of fashion
The book’s hat is based on the illustrations of the witch from the Original wizard of Oz book.
No one understands that..glinda didnt like it! She gave it to elphaba because she WANTED to embarrass her, and then she felt bad at the dance so she danced with her out of empathy. Even tho its HER fault.
Re: Theory 3 -- "The wickedest witch that ever was" tells us that there WERE wicked witches before Elphaba, so this SUPPORTS the idea that this hat could be referencing one of those previous wicked witches who may have worn a hat like this.
I like this video because when I was sitting in the theater and the characters reacted to the hat, I did try to discern what was ugly about it.
Thanks, I’d been wondering this myself actually glad I’m not the only one!
One point from right at the end, within book lore it’s entirely possible for the hat to be referencing the Wicked Witch who didn’t exist yet
You are not the only person... I thought everyone watching was thinking "it's not even ugly" to be honest.
Also, the Ozdust Ballroom is "the most swankified place in town" , so it's definitely a ritzy, luxurious, fashionable place, not a run down hole-in-the-wall for poor people.
Her granny did make it in the movie
Quote:
"I know, it's my granny, she always makes me the most hideodious hats"
this just occurred to me: when elphaba walks into the ozdust ballroom and everyone stops to stare at her, do they actually comment about the hat? (they might, i can't recall - think i need to watch the movie a 3rd time haha)
if they don't specifically mention the hat, i wonder if they're just staring/pointing/whispering because they're shocked to see elphaba there. at this point nobody at shiz likes her yet, so maybe they just don't want her to be there and it has nothing to do with the hat itself.
assuming it's true that no one actually commented on the hat itself, the theory about the hat just being out of fashion and that being why galinda & friends don't like it could also be correct.
There's a murmur of voices when they're all staring at her, and one of them mentions the hat.
ah okay so it could be they were staring because of the hat then. although i still think it's possible that they were mostly just staring because of her rather than her hat, and maybe the hat comment was because of it being out of fashion as is suggested in this video. that's just my view however, as we don't know what the real reason was. thank you for mentioning that though! i couldn't remember what exactly was said in the scene :)
i was thinking that the hat was actually a sentimental peice for Glinda. you’re telling me of all those pink ruffles, a greyish black collaspable hat just hid itself? no i think this is symbolism of not only Glinda’s cruelty to other but also to herself. being so cruel as to give someone she hated an ugly hat but also to give away something that was probably soecail to her. as Elphiba later gives her something that is special to HER through asking for her to join the lesson. but Elphiba is doing if out of a kindness and is opening up her space to Glinda where as Glinda was doing it out of malice and further shutting her space in.
but upon seeing Elphiba be mocked she sees she was right about the hat, and the part of herself. and she goes to show Elphiba that is she was also right to open up, while Glinda rights her wrong.
in the second part of the story a song/creed i find interesting is “no good deed goes unpunished”
Glinda’s ‘good deed’ of sacrificing her hat and possible a sentimental peace yo up keep her look went punished by seeing the effect of her actions.
idk if this makes sense
"Unless there were some other disgraced wizard or witch that existed in Oz before Elphaba became the 'Wicked Witch of the West'."
There was Queen Lurline.
Their hatred of the hat represented their absolute slavishness to fashion as slavishness to conformity.
Basically the inhabitants of Oz are like teenagers from an 80s movie
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this is so nice thank you!
I appreciate you digging into this! I read the book but had never seen the broadway musical. So I also didn't get why the whole room stops when Elphaba walks in. I didn't "feel" whatever was supposed to be felt because it doesn't yet make sense to me. Unless they were new people (all dressed in mostly 20's themed garb, IMO), who still hadn't seen the green skin? But I don't get the hat. Although the dance was rather laughable IMO. Honestly I didn't feel that scene and especially not like others felt it.
It's the classic wicked witch hat idk if it's any deeper than that
But I'm here for any and all theorizing and exposition
While I initially thought the hat Galinda has her try on in the book has nothing to do with anything witchy at all (and basically just gets turned into a pink flower in the musical), now that I think about it, I wonder if it was a sly reference to the forgotten-in-adaptation Golden Cap in the original 1900 book. That's the only hat the Wicked Witch there wears, and it's one of her most powerful magical tools, giving her control of the Flying Monkeys. Of course, it has no powers in Wicked (book) and is never seen again, but much like Galinda's red shoes in the movie, it could be a reference.
You've thought about this hat exactly as much as I have. I found that scene so odd the first time I watched the movie that I could barely focus on the emotional impact. 😂
This was an interesting topic. Since you have the book (don’t know where mine is) I wonder if the Kumbric Witch of Oz’s history wore a hat?
I like to imagine her Grandma made it for Galinda because she thinks she is a spoiled little Witch.
With theory 2 the line in the movie does say her granny makes the hat.
You covered the most likely things, I think, but consider this:
While the hat is not Galinda's style, nor her friends, nor perhaps is it in style for any young person at Shiz, it is in fact a very grand, stately, formal hat, entirely unsuited to the occasion, showing how much Elphaba doesn't belong in this setting. It signals her outgroup status.
Alternately, it could be associated with animals in some way, and therefore carry the stigma of going against the grain of the other students.
I will say, the laughing makes a bit more sense in the stage production because Elphaba is also wearing a very unflattering frock, and the hat definitely doesnt go with it. So, ugly dress + weird hat + social outcast = cruel laughter that makes more sense. Shiz in the books is described as being very classist too (like many real Ivy League's), and so it not only makes sense for the students in the musical to make fun of Elphaba's bad fashion, but its even worse for her socially to also be some sort of nobility AND have a bad sense of style 😂 I think the movie kind of lost that though because all of Elphaba's outfits in the movie are quite intricate and work for her, and you can tell that she actually cares about her appearance and about fashion to some degree (even if in an alternative sense). Like, her ballroom outfit may be weird, but it matches the hat 😂 and she has microbraids for crying out loud! The only makeover Glinda would actually be giving this version of Elphaba would be like "Add some color, show some skin, and be less awkward!" Which doesn't hit the same, imo.
But noticed that no one outside of the ball has a problem. Because in the emerald city no one looks at her weird
Honestly I took it more as mob/group mentality, because group bullying is absolutely a thing. And because glinda and her friends made their distaste known, i feel like it was just popular to make fun of her. I don't really think it's about the hat so much as it is about Elphie herself showing up at the ball, who already is being mocked and bullied, and showing up in something that's widely considered ugly, and then because she wasn't expected to be there at all let alone in something ugly (aka: her feeling possibly confident in something ugly and because she's feeling openly confident but vulnerable still) people take that as an opportunity to make fun of her.
Sorry if that was rambly. just my thoughts (i'm about halfway thru the vid as of writing)
Hey! In the movie she actually does say her granny made the hat. After she says "I know. It's my Granny." She then says "She always makes me the most hideoteous hats."
yeah I goofed big time with that lol good catch!
@ still a great video !
@@TayBootsie thank you! :)
Okay so in a weird way this makes me peevish all over again about the choice to give Galinda a uniform pink palette- on stage she has other pastels, and even Elle Woods and actual Barbie wore some other colors. And if you have a Galinda with a mostly pastel palette but with maybe something white with black piping tossed in there, the hat makes much more sense as something that she brought on purpose and tried to save face over.
But why is it so especially ugly? I am going to shamelessly go back to a theme of the book which didn't make the cut into the musical and say it was popular several decades ago and associated with Lurelinism. Which could make the closest real-world version something like wearing the style of bonnet that is associated with Amish people to go clubbing, something that would likely be regarded as somewhere between odd and in bad taste but, with the right context, could be looked at as avant-garde.
Its not about the hat (though its clearly ugly), its that Elphaba is the one wearing it. They don't react like that to the ugly hat, its that Elphaba dared to try to fit in (dress up, come to the ballroom) where she obviously *doesn't* fit in, which is a worse crime than not fitting in in the first place. Elphaba doesn't fit in, isn't normal, thus the hat she wears in an attempt to be is unfashionable because her attempts will never be acceptable to the in-group, as fashion is a signal of being part of an in-group. Its symbolic. Everyone isn't aghast at an ugly hat, they're aghast that Elphaba didn't stay in her place (not coming) and tried to be normal, something she has no right to do and must be punished for attempting. People stop caring about the hat once Glinda signals that, actually Elphaba's part of the in-group now. The hat is also a key part of her visual identity as the wicked witch, a role she gains as a result of rejecting being part of the in-group (this time of Oz's power strcture, for the reason of refusing to be cruel to an out-group to secure her position in the in-group), for which she is immediately villainised on the same basis. The hat is symbolic of her, and of her being an outcast and othered. As the wicked witch Elphaba embraces this outcast, othered status, and one of the visual symbols of the wicked witch is the hat
Heyy, so I didn't read the book just watched both movies, if I could ask something, in the beginning, Dorothy appeared walking on the Yellow brick road, so the witch that she kills is Nessarosa? Did she became a "Wicked" witch just because of association with Elphaba? I'm sure there's much more context in the book but I'm a louser reader, but I did see that Glinda had the ruby shoes in the movie, did she gift it to Nessa? I know it's a lot of missed context but if you could just sumarize to me, because in the begining Elphaba died but Dorothy was just crossing the Yellow brick road, idk if they maybe just did it out of order on the movie, if you could just tell me a bit, I liked the video, I think the theory that Glinda's grandmother made it and it was actually unique never seen before design is a really interesting theory.
Nessa kind of just becomes wicked on her own, basically after defying gravity elphaba leaves nessa and everyone else behind for a few years and goes off on her own, meanwhile elphaba and nessas dad died when he saw what elphaba had done. After he died, Nessa became the new governor of munchkin land and took away the rights of the munchkins to keep boq with her and stop him from ever leaving munchkin land, this is what makes her the wicked witch of the east. Also the ruby slippers are a gift from the dad but they are silver in the musical instead of red. If you watch the second act of the musical it explains everything.
@@brycesusong6307Just to tack onto what you said, the slippers were originally silver in Baum’s novel, but ruby-red shoes stood out much better when they were recording in Technicolor back in the 30s. After the movie became a hit, those ruby shoes became iconic.
Wicked is staying true to the original work in that regard, but Galinda holding up some red shoes and clicking their heels three times is an homage to the 1939 version.
Havent seen the movie yet. It's *supposed* to be Ozian High Society. Seedy? In the book, that was the sex club and Elphaba, Galinda and Nessa never went there.
I was literally thinking about this earlier today omg
did that commenter in the beginning really tell you to find a hobby that isn’t “talking smack” about people? at the end of the entire paragraph they wrote talking smack about you? ijbol
Elphaba invite madam m. 😊 asked her (demanded her) to take a wand to Glinda
I love the hat
Isn’t it simply because they people don’t like black clothing? I only know the movie and in it Elphaba is very much the only Person that really wears black. All the other inhabitants of Oz stear very much clear of it and prefer actual colors or some white.
Part of the reaon the people overeact the way they do is beacuse Oz is just a very OtT universe, everyone there is OtT.
You say that you don't buy that it would 'elicit this much disgust', which it wouldn't in everyday people, but this isn't everyday people, it's Ozians. I Don't think it's about them being shallow, it's about them being dramatic.
This film is based off a stage play which is based off what is essentially a fairy tale, both forms of storytelling which sensationalise and upscale everything.
So that's what I think this is, Oz is a dramatic theatrical universe and the characters are reacting in a dramatic theatrical way.
It's the Harry Potter Hat... Not the Wicked Witch of the West 1939 one ! 😢
I'm a real one
...I went to a small rural highschool (283 students) Now, if the least popular girl in school would show up to a dance wearing that hat it probably would have played out the same way as it did at the Oz dust Ballroom. It rings true to me. If the most popular girl in school started dancing with her I don't think it would have changed a thing. People would assume she was mocking her. The kids in my highschool voted the most hated girl in highschool homecoming queen just to make fun of her.