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The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming's Technicolor Masterpiece, a film that, while originally a flop at it's domestic box office, made history through its revolutionary use of colour and practical effects. This is a deep dive into the intentions behind filmmaker Victor Fleming, reflecting his societal beliefs and values seen throughout his film.
If you want to learn more about the The Wizard Of Oz, I highly recommend watching the film for yourself, it still holds up and hasn't aged a day since its original release.
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Toto means “in total, all together; Latin in toto”. Notice how Toto was not scared of the Great Wizard’s theatrics, yet he was so small in size compared to the Wizard, no-one seemed to notice him. The smoke, flames and hologram images were designed to frighten people into doing as the Great Wizard of Oz commanded. Toto simply went over, looked behind the curtain saw it was a scam, and started barking until others paid attention to him and came to see what all the barking was about.
It was just an ordinary person controlling the levers that created the illusions of the Great Wizard’s power and authority. The veil hiding the corporate legal fiction and its false courts was removed. The Wizards game was up. It’s too bad that people don’t realize just how loud a bark from a little dog is.
Toto means young boy, in this context, but I agree with your interpretation otherwise, however it is the "young boy" who is small and humble enough to see under the curtain, to see that the religious authority was just another man made scam.
That's why the wicked witch neighbor threatened to kill toto
@@Grayraven777 The Wizard was not a "religious authority," he was a king.
@@MaskedMan66 that's your interpretation, I see Ceasar aka the Vicar of Christ aka the Pope, the Kings are under his control, that is why world leaders line up to kiss his ring.
@@Grayraven777 No, that's how the book tells it. Nobody worshiped the Wizard. Conversely, the Pope is not a king, nor does he command kings.
What people absolutely fail to notice is that this movie is all about death, the afterlife, past lives, and future lives. It literally proves that there is life after death, which is why I watch this movie religiously at least once or twice a week. It's that powerful, and it enthralls the masses because of its grip on the human unconscious. The tornado symbolizes the act of death and the turbulence associated with it. When Dorothy gets hit with the windows, the death process begins. We see within the tornado all the people who mean the most to her, both her family and her main enemy (the Wicked Witch). This is called visioning, which happens during the dying process, and you actually see what's to come (symbolized by the changing of Ms. Gulch to the Witch), and meanwhile, the ones she loves just take different forms in the next life but are the same at their core.
It's also extremely important to know that L. Frank Baum was a theosophist. What is theosophy? "Theosophy holds a monist position that there exists a single divine Absolute and articulates an emanationist cosmology in which the universe is perceived as outward reflections from this Absolute. The purpose of human life is spiritual emancipation and the human soul undergoes reincarnation upon bodily death according to a process of karma." Furthermore, the slogan for theosophy is "There is no religion higher than truth." ----- "There is no place like home."
NEED I SAY MORE? Absolutely not. I just nailed the exact interpretation of this movie according to L. Frank Baum. You're welcome!!! Hopefully, my revelation here causes millions of people to see this movie in a brand new light.
eh, i think this is a REACH.
@@bradybrady7893 not at all. Those who think so are incapable of comprehending it. Not my problem :)
@@realdealastrology9 well that’s quite a pretentious thing to say. Everybody gains different things out of movies and sees their own symbolism. I just felt that the movie didn’t really show anything pointing towards your analysis. The thing you said about the tornado can make sense but tbh lots of things can be made to symbolize death. It could just be a tornado not meant to symbolize anything. If you really want to prove your point you could go more in depth. you really only discussed the tornado sequence and the parallel characters in oz. However, there’s still a whole movie. for example, What does the whole journey in oz symbolize in the “death process”? what does the ending symbolize? you seem very full of yourself so i’d love to hear your response. I could very well be wrong i only said I THINK your opinion is a reach so i would love for you to change my mind.
@@bradybrady7893 im not here to change your mind. 4 other people obviously agree with me based on their likes. That’s 4 up on you (1). Therefore, further discussing this just to convince you is totally a waste of energy. Thanks for your input.
@@realdealastrology9 oh i wasn’t really looking for you to “convince” me. you were just so full of yourself and confident in your opinion i thought you might want to elaborate. especially because your argument is REALLY weak with what little you have said. but i suppose your right. your massive 4 likes really validate your opinion!!
I didn't care for the socioeconomic take on this one. I believe the film is a introspective spiritual journey.
Well, you’re wrong. Oz came from ounce. The wizard of oz is code for the banking system. There’s a ton of extremely deep messaging in this story.
@@of_the_Word please elaborate for me
If only life were that simple
Can u elaborate?
It can be both. Not only is it about money, currency, and an awakening. “When you realize you have everything thing you need inside you.”
ITS A FILM FGS!!!! JUST WATCH IT TO ENJOY IT... DON'T PSYCHOANALIZE IT!!!!! 🙄😒😤
It was a book first, then a stage play, and then several movies.
What an incredible analysis of this legendary film! This really covers the historical context of the film which I felt was overlooked in other reviews. The rise of fascism and the class disparity are subliminal in the film, but are consistently there nonetheless. The context of the poverty is quite powerful: the setup of Dorothy being an orphan in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression is heart wrenching & you can see how that would fuel her imagination & desire to travel. I believe there to be some occult & alchemy symbolism within the story as well. Great video! Subscribed!
Dorothy lived in 1900, so the Great Depression was of no account.
@@MaskedMan66 The film is different from the book, smartass. It was made late in the Great Depression and is inarguably meant to appeal to a Depression-era audience. People like my grandparents who raised me who loved the movie for those reasons. The time period context in which a movie is made has at least as much relevance as the time period in which the movie is set. The same has been said about "Gone with the Wind", which came out the same year in 1939. Both movies are very much about the Depression despite being set earlier.
@@MaskedMan66 Yes, and the costumes and technology on the Kansas farm are also clearly from around 1900, not 1939.
@@Venejan Exactly; in fact, if the old story is true, the frock coat that Frank Morgan wore as Professor Marvel is from that period, and belonged to L. Frank Baum himself.
@@MaskedMan66 5:36
Interesting interpretation. I came to a different one. It's about NPD within a family dynamic and societal one as well. The abuse leads to CPTSD in good little Dorthy. expressing itself in D.I.D. the Lion, scarecrow,and tinman. With Dorthy as the host personality. The tornado was the fracturing of her mind into multiple personalities. The house crashing down on one of the bad witch represented the real life act Dorthy committed. A death. the Wizard represents her father, The wicked witch of the west is an Aunt, mother, or older sibling in representation. the munchkins represent those in the world who see the truth since they watch it from a 3rd person point of view. they see the narcissist attack their victim, but stand aside and do nothing but sooth after the attack is over. flying monkeys are the beta personality types that become the army of the narcissistic leader. In the end, putting out the fire is what destroys the narcissist. putting out the fire the narcissist spreads.
That's just as pants as the video. And the avian simians are called Winged Monkeys.
The book was written in the gilded age. So how is the story about WW II? It is about adding the silver standard to our economy
No, that is not what it is about. It is about a little girl who is whisked away to a magical land and goes on an adventure.
Dorothy’s slippers were silver in the book! (Only changed to ruby to showcase Technicolor film)
Yellow brick road is gold standard.
The 3 characters represent farmers industry workers and politicians (cowards) marching on DC (emerald city)
THE POPULIST MOVEMENT basically
@@1312Johnny The silver shoes weren't slippers. And you're wrong about all the rest.
What are you on about, mate?
How is this Quality Content FREE?!?!
It’s not. You owe me £10
6:34 never mind the neighbor lady Mrs Gulch inherited all her value from a man. Probably a man she helped delete with her toxicity.
There's nothing to even imply that. She's a spinster.
The BBC broadcast a coded warning every single day for 40 years. It's explained in a video called Hidden Meaning of Test Card F
I can’t do his voice at all. Next !😂
This is the REAL meaning of it all:
"Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
"Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as 'historical' in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer 'wonder tales' in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
"Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
"L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900"
Fantastic perspective and insight on the source of inspiration for the film. Very true that the original source text's sequels as well most derivative works speak a lot on the points you mentioned, morality becomes introduced quickly throughout the later books in the series, with a heavy emphasis on innocence and coming to grips with the fact that wonderland cannot exist without the inherent duality between good and bad.
However, as mentioned throughout the video, several factors were changed from the original source text when being translated to film. Victor Fleming intentionally removed, added and changed multiple scenes, perspectives and ideologies around in order to better suit the time at which the film was released in.
Baum's vision was definitely altered and to an extent, diminished by the release of the film, which instantly and lastingly eclipsed the popularity of the original novel, particularly with the explicit references to the political climate at the time, which, ironically is shielded from the innocent due to it requiring analysis, as well as pre-existing knowledge of historical context to unveil, as if the evils of the world only come to those who seek knowledge of their events.
"Obstacles make a better picture"
-Victor Fleming, 1940, Bel Air CA
@@poostin8771 Victor Fleming had nothing to do with the script, which was the result of twenty-odd minds, including those of Bert Lahr and Jack Haley, who added bits of their own dialogue as filming progressed.
There were no explicit references to the political climate of 1938 and 1939 since no mention was even made of politics, and because of the fact that the story was set in 1900.
The Tin Man with no heart is an obvious reference to industrialization, while the Scarecrow with no brain appears to represent agriculture, and the Cowardly Lion seems to represent political leaders that are all talk and no action. In my mind, society (Dorothy) moves forward when all of these work towards a common goal using resources such as gold and silver (the yellow brick road and silver slippers) to aid them. Ultimately, Dorothy finds that happiness and fulfillment can be found within herself and her family rather than in the utopian Emerald City of Oz.
@@jburger84 All that kak was invented by a college professor in the 1960's in order to make his boring classes interesting by appealing to pop culture. L. Frank Baum's reasons, which I already quoted, are clear. The Tin Woodman-- who, as anyone knows who knows the story, already has a heart-- had his origin was in Baum's love of tin toys.
The Scarecrow-- who, as anyone knows who knows the story, already has a brain-- came from a recurring nightmare that Baum had in childhood.
The Cowardly Lion-- who, as anyone knows who knows the story, already has courage-- was simply a walking paradox, which appealed to Baum.
Baum wrote fourteen Oz books in all-- did you know that?-- and eventually, Dorothy did make her home in the Emerald City, having Princess Ozma wish Uncle Henry and Aunt Em there with her.
@@jburger84 Scarecrow is a man made of Straw=Strawman its a legal fiction, the song even states he'd unravel every riddle if he only had a brain. Paper Strawmen don't have brains and we are deceived via that status on paper. This whole movie is a reference to the gold heist, the Bricks are yellow bricks (Gold bricks) they are the stolen bricks leading to the Emerald City Emerald being Green the color of what we know as the dollar bill or federal reserve note is also Green, the Wizard of Ounces OZ is depicted to weight of gold. for paper certificates. The original book she wore Silver Slippers because silver was the hope of reclaiming what was lost to the Fed. Now they are Ruby Red depicting Blood. This movie does have a real set meaning and its very detailed and wicked when you understand it. It involves how we were all enslaved under the "Privately owned Federal Reserve Banks" This happened in Kansas as it was considered "The Heart of America" and this was a strike to the Heart of the country. This was all to clear to the older generations whom lived through what happened in the great depression a calculated event that was carried out to steal the gold reserves of America making the currency worthless.
A fantastic analysis. Very logically and concisely produced. I look forward to your future works.
It's rubbish.
I remember watching this movie with my grandma
The scarecrow tin man and lion represent thought emotion and action or mind spirit and body. Hence if I only had a brain heart and nerve. When your thoughts emotions and actions are aligned you are bound to accomplish what you set out to do. This is also the trinities in all of religion! The Father the Holy Spirit and the son.
They didn't "represent" anything. They were just three interesting characters out of hundreds that Baum ultimately created.
Ha ha….. come on…. Worse analysis I’ve seen
I noticed none of this... Am I an idiot?
Yea
No, because none of this is valid.
No, because this is all a load of pretentious rubbish.
@@jeffw5392 Word!
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Whenever Poostin uploads, I stop whatever I'm doing and watch. Just how it goes
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I always hear about it but never seen the film 😢
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You're in a unique position, then! Read the book first, then watch the movie. Incidentally, the 1939 musical by MGM is the third big-screen version of the story.
A con
Pleat fabrication
it's your theory.
Can you supply a reference to an article or other writing contemporary with the release of the 1939 film that shows that it 'communicated' any of these social ideas to its audience?
No, because it's all nonsense.
That's a version. I've seen a perhaps more accurate version
Interesting! I like your perspectives. For me, my catch was spiritual 😮
It's all rubbish.
The first time i watched it as a kid,i always knew something was very strange about this movie,i just didn't know what.
How about a living scarecrow, a man made out of tin, a talking lion, witches, sentient trees, monkeys with wings, etc. etc. etc????
Interesting perspective. Yet the film is only a portion of what author Frank L Baum wrote. In many ways the film omits the complexity of the Wizard of Oz series of books.
There's a series?
@@angelafuller8746 There’s a series of books, “Return to Oz” etc. see more info at Wikipedia link
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books
What complexity? The books are just fun, exciting, pun-filled children's tales.
@@angelafuller8746 There are forty Oz books of which "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the first. L. Frank Baum wrote the first fourteen, then after he died, his widow gave permission for the series to continue. Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote a further nineteen, John R. Neill, who illustrated most of the books, wrote three, Jack Snow wrote two, Rachel Cosgrove wrote one, and the final Oz book, "Merry Go Round in Oz," was written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and her daughter Lauren.
great video!!! wow at the munchkin part. i had no idea.
It's all rubbish.
You’ve been sniffing too many bicycle seats 😂. Worst analysis of all time.
Oh shit mate.. nice try.. hahaaaa
What about the pitiful Cowardly Lion was always too frightened to stand up for himself. Of course, he was a bully and a big mouth when it came to picking on those smaller than he was. They act as if they have great courage, they really have none at all. All roar with no teeth of authority to back them up. When push came to shove, the Cowardly Lion always buckled under and whimpered when anyone of any size or stature challenged him. He wanted courage from the Grand Wizard, so he was awarded a medal of “official” recognition. Now, regardless of how much of a coward he still was, his official status made him a bully with officially recognized authority. He’s just like the attorneys who hide behind the Middle Courts of the Temple Bar. What about the trip through the field of poppies? They weren’t real people, so drugs had no effect on them.
Wow. Insightful. We could all gain so much from your fatuous observations. Seriously. Thank you.
Completely wrong. The Lion is cowardly, which means he's easily frightened, but he is no coward. If it's just him in danger, he'll run for his life (which is only sensible), but if someone else is in danger, he will fight to the death-- and that shows that he truly does have courage. All of the travelers already have whet they think they require, and that is the whole point of the story. "Middle Courts?" "Temple Bar?" What is all that?
Thank you
This is written by a consortium of dead writers including Harper Lee on it’s about everybody in the world moving to the Midwest and stop trying to look for dreams and other places no place like home Kansas Midwest
It was about the Crime of 1873
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10/10 review
But if it’s all a made up place in her head what was the point of making oz the great and powerful? If oz is a made up place in her head then that movie is worthless
it's an allegory of how the american people were enslaved when the US went off the gold standard. dollars were backed by people not gold. Toto means everything. The cowardly lion represents the american people, the straw and tin men represent the "person". Follow the yellow brick road means follow the gold. Our gold was stolen and we were enslaved by fear.
you see,
Our "forefathers" set us up: This is Section 1 of Virginia Declaration of Rights. It predates the Constitution for the United States:
"That all [flesh-and-blood] men [and women] are by nature [created by God] equally free and independent [personal sovereignty], and have certain inherent [natural, God-given] rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society [legal definition of society is a collective organization of corporations; ie fictitious entities; ie the matrix], they cannot, by any compact [contract] deprive or divest their posterity [of such rights, only themselves]; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."
The bill of rights only applies to people; men and women. The word "person" is defined as a corporation, when you are a member of society; i.e., person, individual, us citizen, driver, taxpayer, etc etc etc, it is the avatar that exists in society, avatars have privileges because only flesh-and-blood people can have natural rights. technically, we have no constitutional rights because the constitution merely Affirms natural rights, whatever "constitutional" rights there are have been statutized into privileges for the avatar.
When a baby is born, the bankrupt US Govt creates a corporation using the baby's name in all capital letters. it then uses the corporation as collateral to get a loan from the (private front company) federal reserve represented as federal reserve notes "dollars". People are the sureties for the "US citizen" corporation. Debt is transferred to people this way, police are revenue enforcers of the bankruptcy. This is the legal framework of our ensalvement since 1933. we went from the gold standard to the private faith and credit/future performance of the american people, that's why she called Neo "coppertop" in The Matrix --modern allegory of same thing, our energy is being stolen.
"The validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned."
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Section 4
also, when cops ask you something, ask them if they are making a request or demand. if a request, you can deny the request, if they are making a demand, there is a statute that gives the officer the authority to make such a demand. every crime is a commercial crime since it has value for the creditors of the bankrupt gov. attorneys ensure that debt gets transferred--"attorn" means "to transfer"! People in prison are collateral for municipal bonds.
Cops aren't taught, they are trained.
Rights are nothing mean nothing unless you assert them.
We don't have constitutional rights, we have natural rights.
People are flesh and blood men and women; persons are fictitious entities.
We are conditioned to believe lies while we are led to the slaughterhouse.
And don't forget, when Dorothy wakes up in her own bed, surrounded by syrupy characters, Miss Gultch is still alive, and has a sheriff's order to have Toto "destroyed."m. Happy ending? I think not...
It's only in the MGM movie that Dorothy dreams the whole adventure; in the books, Oz is real.
@@jeffw5392 Miss Gulch had her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole during the storm, so while she'd on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff, who, in all likelihood, only gave Miss G the order to get her out of his office.
Very well done. As a Christian this helped me! Great work.
New subscriber!
How in the world has this helped you as a Christian? Especially since it's all rubbish?
@@MaskedMan66 learning what the occult, Magick, and witchcraft is truly like. It’s evil and makes me grateful for the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did for us
@@SethMacLeod95 None of which has anything to do with Oz. It's all fantasy magic (not "magick," whatever that silly respelling is supposed to signify, if anything). As a Christian myself, it's never bothered me in the least-- and by the way, this video is full of nonsense.
@@MaskedMan66 “he who has ears to hear, let him hear” discernment my friend. As both believers in the Lord Jesus we should not be against each other. God bless you 🙏
@@SethMacLeod95 I'm not against you. I'm just saying that you don't need to be against this harmless little story that's been loved by generations for 124 years.
To put it simply, you lost me in the last 5 seconds of the essay, so I didn't really understand the whole meaning of it. Additionally the movie has been ruined for me. I give this analysis 1938/1940 it alright.
To put it simply, your Comment is irrational Horseshit
Nothing ever ruined the movie for Judy Garland; she loved it all her life.
@@MaskedMan66 Though the lack of residuals might have irked her some -- she never saw a dime from the annual national broadcasts.
@@jeffw5392 I don't recall ever hearing of her complaining about that; after all, nobody ever suspected that the movie would one day be the multigenerational phenomenon that it became.
@@MaskedMan66 Jack Paar: They show that movie every year -- that must cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Garland: Yeah? Where's the money?
Bahaha!!
Propaganda ?
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