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I disagree that it was Glinda that Gave Dorothy the slippers, I think that the slippers going to Dorothy was a choice of the shoes themselves. Dorothy was physically the closest to them when the witch of the East died, so that's who they defaulted to.
@@juliebaker6969 It's not really made clear in the movie as to how the shoes ended up on Dorothy's feet, but obviously Glinda knew that Dorothy should stay in them for her own protection. In the book, of course, the Good Witch of the North (who was not Glinda) did pick up the silver shoes and, after cleaning the dust out of them, handed them to Dorothy.
@@MaskedMan66 Yeah, and the shoes in the book were silver not ruby. I just read the first 2 books in the series last weekend. That's why this particular video caught my eye. 😉
@@MaskedMan66 38? There's only 14 books in the Oz series. The others may be written by L. Frank Baum but they aren't in the Oz series. And I already have all 14 downloaded and ready to read. Though to be honest, it's not my first time through the series.
What I always felt was so heart warming and I'm sure has been mentioned a million times...is that the Scarecrow didn't have a brain yet he did all of the 'thinking' on their journey...the Tinman didn't have a heart yet he was the most emotional one crying all the time...and the Lion who lacked courage is the one who had the strength to lead everyone to rescuing Dorothy from the witch's castle. They all had within them what they were searching for...they just needed the confidence to believe in themselves...just as Dorothy always had the power to return home!
I was a smart brat three-year-old when I first saw the Wizard of Oz on television, and I noticed that the Wizard didn't give anybody anything that they didn't already have. As the inept Wizard drifted off, I wondered "what good is that man?" It took a while for me to learn what part the Wizard played and the power of a reputation. The Wicked Witch of the West never dared to confront the mighty Wizard of Oz.
@@alancranford3398 The Wicked Witches were terrified of him! The book talks about when, as a young man, the Wizard did travel to the land of the Winkies to challenge the Wicked Witch of the West, but was forced to flee from the Winged Monkeys. But even then, she thought she'd had a narrow escape and was just as afraid of him. And it's worth mentioning that he eventually came back to Oz and learned real magic from Ozma and Glinda, and became a real Wizard. 🙂
20:41 I’m not a neurologist but I have a great imagination. Glinda’s real world counterpart is Dorothy’s subconscious and it is trying to get Dorothy to wake up. Glinda tells Dorothy that the yellow brick road is the way home and that the Emerald City is where the “wizard”. The Emerald City being the part of her brain that is unconscious and the Wizard is the part that needs to be rebooted in order for Dorothy to wake up. The Scarecrow, The Tin-man and the Lion are all other parts that need to be rebooted as well. That’s why she wizard hands out those trinkets. Once she gets all that completed Glinda then tells Dorothy to click her heels together signaling that it’s time for her to wake up. (I hope that makes sense, it did in my head)
It sounds really interesting. I don't know, had the red road been in the book, but, if it was and your theory is right, maybe it leads to coma or even death. At least, the red color in a number of fantasy sometimes means danger, even deadly danger. And characters told Dorothy to follow only the yellow road, skipping the explanation, where the red one leads
I always figured the bucket had something that only looked like water in it. After all, it was the witch’s place to do magic, and magic includes alchemy.
It's well thought out, or possibly overthought out. ;-) However, I'm sure that none of the screenwriters were even thinking along those lines. Nobody needed any "rebooting," because they always had what they thought they needed.
I think most house dresses then had pockets. We got all of my great aunt's clothes and she saved a few of her dresses from the depression and the pockets were stained with dirt. The dresses were clean but the pockets looked like gardens ... and that's what they were used for. Gathering eggs and garden veggies.
No pockets and pitiful pockets is relatively new. Even when they weren't sewn in, throughout history women have had pockets. And big old pockets too (sigh - at least they are making a slow comeback).
I have been whinging about the lack of pockets since 1978. My theory is they just expect a woman to have a matching hand bag with her at all times. I refuse a hand bag, and men's clothes always have more than two pockets, so they carry my stuff. If alone I suffer carrying car keys, phone and money, I will never give into the hand bag cult ever.
One thing I always found interesting is the fact that despite playing enemies Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton were very close during the shooting. Bolger and Hamilton actually became very good friends in real life and remained so until Hamilton's death in 1983. It was Bolger who delivered eulogy at Hamilton's funeral, which turned out to be his final public appearance before his own death in 1987.
@@sunnyscott4876 Tubers don't enter into it; Baum called them Winged Monkeys. To paraphrase a certain pasty-faced android, "One is their name. The other is not. "😉
In Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Laverne, the older gargoyle calls out to the Pigeons in the Burning Paris Scene near the end in a Parody of the Wicked Witch "FLY" scene. She says "FLY MY PRETTIES! FLY! FLY!" So it can be mistaken for the Wizard of Oz scene bc the Voice Actor did a decent job of parodying the scene.
Ray Bolger gave the Scarecrow a unique vocal tick. In this line, he actually said, "Some people without brains do a nawful lot of talking, don't they?" And in later scenes, he said, "Beautiful! What a necho!" and "Can't budge her a ninch!" 🙂
The mentioning of having vivid dreams brought up a memory: i used nicotine patches to (successfully) try quitting smoking. They have a kinda warning on the box saying something along the lines of you might have sleep disturbances in the form of vivid dreams. They weren't kidding, either. I'm talking about vivid, powerful, and memorable dreams. Not nightmares necessarily, that would've been awful, but dreams that i can recall even now many years later. It was awesome...
Glinda's "Good witch or bad witch?" question to Dorothy always bugged me, as though a person's morality is instantly linked to their appearance, which naturally isn't always the case.
I'm thinking u meant morality rather than mortality. If that is correct then I concur with the poster above that you would very much appreciate "Wicked" it was a very fun stage adaptation of a an even greater(imo) book. The guy who wrote it also wrote some great books including "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister " which turned the Cinderella story on its head. His name is Gregory Maguire I think. Check it out. I think you will enjoy ❤
Fun fact about Judy Garland: that’s not her real name - it’s a stage name. Her real name is Frances Ethel Gumm. MGM found her when she was a part of a singing troupe with her sisters.
Correct! She was named after her father Francis and her mother Ethel. You want to know something else? Frank Morgan's real name was Francis Phillip Wupperman!
As a matter of fact, it was! But it had nothing to do with this movie; in the 1900 book, Dorothy's surname was never mentioned; it was in the 1902 stage version of "Wizard" that she was given the surname Gale by L. Frank Baum himself, as a deliberate pun. He loved puns, as a reading of any of his Oz books would show. 🙂 He used the name for her from the second book onward, but funnily enough, never made it clear which of Dorothy's guardians was her blood relative.
@@williampetersen9915 You're welcome! 🙂 On a more poignant note, it is worth mentioning that Dorothy's Christian name came from Baum's wife's niece, who died in infancy; her last name was Gage.
15:06 This is why they shouldn’t have combined the Good Witch of the North with Glinda. Originally, it was the Good Witch of the North who sent Dorothy to see the Wizard, and it was North who told her to try Glinda, the Good Witch of the South after the Wizard’s hot air balloon departed. And of course, it was Glinda who told her to click the heels three times.
@@MaskedMan66 It’s pretty well known that they combined the two Good Witches. Had they flipped the roles, then both would have appeared. You do know what combined means, right? Glinda was made the Good Witch of the North instead of the south and given the same role that both witches played in the book, while Tattypoo/Locasta/the Good Witch of the North was excluded.
@@MaskedMan66 Of course she wasn’t, but by saying flip-flopped, you make it as if both witches were in the film when they weren’t. (Using the name Baum gave her) Locasta’s role in the narrative was given to Glinda, conflating the two witches together.
@@donei132 No, it simply meant that Glinda was now from the North, while Tattypoo was now in the South. Audiences of the time still knew the books, so they would have likely made that conclusion.
Theory: Glinda couldn't have kept the ruby slippers because the power would've corrupted her (not unlike Galadriel & the One Ring in LOTR). Dorothy's innocence made her the perfect wearer. It also explains why the witch melted -- it wasn't the water but who threw it. The witch's wails say as much ("A good little girl like you could destroy my wickedness.") As for Glinda's counterpart being Dorothy's late mother, that tracks. It supports her sending her confused child on a path to learn lessons (& having her back via snow flurries, etc...). ALSO: Uncle Henry's surname is Gale, same as Dorothy's (mentioned a few times in the film). That would make him her father's brother, yes? The name was created by author Baum in a 1902 Broadway extravaganza, then became canon in his 2nd sequel, "Ozma of Oz" (where Dorothy returned ).
I believe that since the Wicked Witch Of The West died in Oz, I believe that means Mrs Gulch somehow died during the twister in Kansas. Hence why she didn’t come back for Toto.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
Fun list. If I can brag on myself, as a little boy, I immediately noticed that the coachman, the guard, the wizard, and the professor were all one and the same - the implication clear that he was a benevolent con man. As far as Dorothy’s farm dress having pockets, that would not be unusual in the 1930s. Similarly styled work dresses, particularly in rural communities, have been common even in my lifetime and I’m only in my 50s. On the farm in the 1930s, women didn’t typically wear pants or jeans, but needed their work attire to be practical and useful (i.e. pockets) and were often handmade at home.
When Uncle Henry is talking to Miss Gulch, you can see the name on the mailbox is Gale, so he is the brother of Dorothy's father. Also the Witch is only allergic to water, so she could wash in isopropyl alcohol for instance.
Baum never said which of Dorothy's guardians is her blood relative; in the movie _Return to Oz,_ Henry's surname is Blue (possibly a nod to his Australian ancestry), and Em is Dorothy's relative. The Wicked Witch had no blood, so she didn't sweat, so she didn't need to bathe; the water oversaturated her.
For the torches in the parapets to be doused at daybreak, a function carried out by slaves. She may not be able to touch the stuff herself, but evil as she is, she knows that her slaves can't last without water; besides which, you don't wonder why she keeps a castle right next to a river?
"Very well! I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way-- just try! I'll get you, my pretty-- and your little *dog,* too!"
At 4:41 there is a long billed bird in the witches castle- looks like it’s carved from wood or tin. This could be a throwback to when she cared about the animals losing their identity in Wicked
The Red Brick Road is the main connecting road for the Munchkin Village in Munchkinland. It goes to the Lollypop Guild's place, the Lullaby League's place, the Coroner's office, and everywhere else in the Munchkin village. (The Marvelous Map of Oz)
Considering most of us old fogeys saw "Oz" in black and white on TV for years, The "Horse of a Different Color" schtick went over our little heads, as did the magical sepia-to-color scene in the Gale's house doorway. Mom explained the situation to me, having seen it in the theater as a kid herself in glorious Technicolor! 🎠
In the film, after the Wicked Witch leaves Munchkinland through the fiery trap door, Glinda can be heard saying "Oh what a smell of sulfur" I always wondered if it was actually in the script or was it an adlib line. Stage pyrotechnics can often have a rotten egg or sulfur smell to them. Also, Margaret Hamilton was severely burned in that scene.
It was in the script, and anyway, that shot was probably done well after the whole pyrotechnic bit, possibly even on a different day. The Munchkinland sequence took a month to film. Miss Hamilton was burned on the fourth take of her exit; the one in the movie is actually the first take.
About the bucket of water: In the book (at least the shortened one my daughter has) Because Dorothy has the mark of the good witch of the north, the witch of the west cannot hurt Dorothy, so she makes her a slave and forces her to scrub the floors. the witch kicks Toto out of the way and that's why Dorothy tosses the bucket of water.
What always stood out to me was the slight but noticeable gap between when the witch says, “Give them back to me or I’ll….” And when Glinda starts to say, “It’s too late!” To me, the director should have had Glinda jump in sooner or the witch should have continued her threat until she was truly interrupted. Just a little thing, but I always noticed that.
It's canon in the books. They insisted the wizard grant their wishes, so he basically gave Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow placebos that made them think they were changed and leave him happy. It was Dorothy he tried to give the real wish to.
There was a board game based on the the film that came out around the same time. And apparently the red brick road just leads to houses in munchkinland
I think it's kinda silly to nitpick every little thing in a movie but since I'm down here in the rabbit hole, I think maybe Ms.Gultch didn't come back right away because a tornado just went through, just because there wasn't much damage to Auntie Em's farm doesn't mean there wasn't damage somewhere else and maybe Glinda is a teacher Dorothy knows always trying to teach her something
Uncle Henry's farm, you mean. According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff. And really, most of the people Dorothy met in Oz didn't have Kansas counterparts.
@@JasonC1969 Yes, it does, since you've asked. 🙂 When in the book "The Emerald City of Oz," the bank threatened to foreclose on the farm, it was Henry they spoke to. In fact, the chapter in which this happens is entitled, "How Uncle Henry Got Into Trouble."
@@MaskedMan66 this is kinda silly nitpicky discussion but since I'm down here in the rabbit hole anyways aren't Uncle Henry and Auntie Em married, so again I'll ask does it matter?
I first saw the Wizard of Oz in 1960 when I was three on a black and white tv--but I remember telling someone that the Wizard hadn't given Scarecrow, Tinman or Lion anything that they didn't already have--just like Glinda didn't give Dorothy anything. After I learned geometry and thought about what Scarecrow said about "isosceles triangles" (I had seen reruns several times on television by then--still only black and white), getting the joke validated my three-year-old's impression that the Wizard never gave anybody anything that they didn't already have. That's Item #21 for you--the Wizard of Oz didn't give anybody anything that they didn't already possess. There's more--it took me two decades to remember that the Wicked Witch of the West was a fire mage and to learn what that meant. Fire is one means for good hygiene even if there may be a smokey smell from incomplete combustion. I never did figure out why the Witch permitted the maid to mop the place using soapy water. Perhaps the soap had something to do with the melting, too? Ash dissolves in water. In the Munchkin Village there were pools and fountains--the Wicked Witch of the West endangered herself by dropping in. At age three, many parts of the movie were perplexing and some terrifying. The castle scenes were spookier than the Haunted Forest or when Dorothy and company met the Cowardly Lion--and of course, the audience with the Wizard. After I learned to read, I checked out the Wizard of Oz book from the school library and felt cheated when I read about silver slippers--did I get the wrong book? The MGM 1939 "the Wizard of Oz" has been part of my life since my earliest memories. As I grew up, I noticed more and more things--such as Buddy Ebsen's singing voice in the scene where Scarecrow and Dorothy join to travel down the yellow brick road. At age three, "who is Buddy Ebsen?" At age eight it was "Jed Clampett!" I didn't know Buddy Ebsen had been in the Wizard of Oz until the 1980's. It wasn't until the Eighties that I learned "the Wizard of Oz" was actually a box-office failure when it first ran in 1939 because of war breaking out in Europe and the lingering effects of the Great Depression that success came nearly two decades afterwards with being shown on television and then re-released to movie theaters.
@@MaskedMan66 never worried about him. probably blended with the Wizard as the absentee figure you had to be concerned with but was never close at hand. but when I was old enough to see the three farm hands as the companions in Oz, it struck me that Glinda was absentee mom. her dad wasn't my concern.
Yes, either the memory of her mother, or, since this is Dorothy's dream, the way her subconscious thinks of her mother: beautiful and benevolently watching over her from afar.
I didn’t really think about the pocket in the dress (I’m male) but I would think as a farm girl, she would need practical clothing to carry tools like scissors or other things, like getting eggs. It would come in handy for times when she might not have an apron.
@@ann-mariemeyers9978 My condolences on your loss; good on him, though, for a good long life. We lost my Dad a couple of years ago, and to be sure, he and Mom were both born in 1933, so they'd have been six when the movie came out. Neither of them saw it at the time, though.
I love Oz, and probably know too much about it. It is assumed (if not widely, at least by my family) that Mrs. Gultch died in the tornado. We see her on her bike up inside the cyclone, then she transformes into the witch. Growing up i always thought this was the witch of the east. She gets flattened by Dorothy's house. Much later in life I realized Gultch does not come back at the end because (technically) Dorothy melted her. The red brick road. It is never explained. The only time I ever say anything done with the read road was in a very old children's book from the 60's or 70's. Where the red brick road leads to the witche's castle. I have only found this book once in the library of my grammar school. That was about 40 years ago. As you make know the film itself went through many iterations and had several different directors. Multiple seens were shot, and re-shot, and then shot again. Which accounts for Dorothy's hair to have different lengths from one scene to the next. It also accounts for why Dorothy tells the Scarecrow she will miss him most of all. One.of the earliest iterations of the film had put a love intrest into the story between Dorthy and one of the farm hands.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff. Dorothy was already dreaming when she saw the inside of the cyclone. The red road stops at a little hill. The movie only really had two directors, and that had nothing to do with Judy's wigs. ONE person out of the twenty or so who worked on the script devised a romance between a 19 year-old Dorothy and a twentysomething Hunk, but producer Mervyn LeRoy 86ed the idea pretty quick and made Dorothy a 12 year-old, so nothing of that idea made it into the final script except for Dorothy's parting words to the Scarecrow.
The one thing that really stood out to me as an adult watching this movie is that the Tinman is carrying a revolver when they go after the wicked witch.
The Scarecrow has a revolver, the Cowardly Lion has a big net and a spray can full of Witch Remover, and the Tin Woodman, in addition to his trusty axe, also carries a pipe wrench. They're on a mission to kill the WWW, so quite sensibly, they have armed themselves.
Well I was like 5 years old when I asked my mum where did the red brick road leads... and kept asking that for years until I finally realised I would never know.... And I did tell mum "that sounds like Snow White" when I was very little as well Dad used to love explaining "horse of a different colour" whenever he had the chance while watching the movie I always thought Dorothy's parents are not alive anymore hence her living with her aunt and uncle About the Wicked Witch I also used to think if she bathed or not...or if she just took her smell and dirt by magic or if she had a spell to never get dirty... but I did think about that all the time I also noticed Marvel being the door guard, the driver, the second guard and the Wizard from a very ypung age The idea of Miss Gulch coming back for Toto terrified me all the time as well because I "knew" she would until Mum told me she would not since she was taken away by the cyclon so she wasn't around anymore The silver shoes was obvious since I read the books at a very young age and my parents used to read me the book before I could read it by myself but I love the ruby slippers (don't we all?) I thought Glinda was Dorothy's mother taking care of her from beyond and teaching her lessons her mother would if she were there and I always thought it was obvious The water was there for the torches when it was daylight and weren't needed or wasn't that obvious as well? There is no way I was the only kid who did realise all that (or even more) since I was young... no way.
The red road ends at a little hill. The book says on the first page that Dorothy was an orphan. The Wicked Witch had no blood, so she didn't sweat. Miss Gulch got a broken leg from a falling telegraph pole, so while she was healing, the Gales settled things with the Sheriff. I don't get why people think of Dorothy's mother and not her father; that's just weird. Well spotted about the torches!
The flying monkeys always scared me. I can't wait for "Wicked", 11/22. It's up there with "LesMiz" and "Hamilton" as my favorite musical. I finally get to hear Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) singing and dancing.
I’ve only seen this movie 2-3 times and it’s been a while since I last watched it but I do remember the times I’ve watched it I’ve wondered where the red brick road goes to
Every time I see anything wit The Wizard of Oz I think of Judy Garland and how she was treated so horribly by Hollywood/People.. how she was drugged to keep her awake and how that lead to a life of Drug Addiction that ended in an “Overdose” 🤦🏻♂️and how she was extremely controlled to keep her weight.. and that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg on how she was treated.. Poor Judy Garland RIP❤
Okay, she wasn't "drugged to keep her awake." She wasn't drugged at all. She was already awake, because they filmed in the daytime, when people tend to be awake already. Besides, she only worked for four hours a day, in accordance with California child labor laws. Her addictions came in adulthood and were brought about more by personal pressures than professional ones. "Poor Judy Garland" in truth had a great time making _Wizard._
@@MaskedMan66 I’ve seen in many places where the studio would give her pills 💊 as a young girl to keep her working for long hours and well as giving her pills 💊 to keep her weight controlled.. you’re talking about the time when females weren’t “well respected” they even had her do Black Face 🤷🏻♂️ just that will show you how “people’s rights” were looked at.. even now we have people like Diddy wit allegations of mistreating people like Usher and Justin Bieber.. you believe those things never happen? Not saying Garland and Usher and Bieber stories are 100 percent true.. just saying that for money 💵 people in this industry and studios would do fucken anything to anyone…
Maybe I’m in the minority here but I first saw this movie when I was 4yrs old and noticed or considered almost all of these by the time I was 12yrs old. In fact, literally the only thing on your list I was not aware of is the cameo of Sawhorse. I’m shocked I missed him. To address some of these “only adult” thoughts: Dorothy is an orphan. Her parents are dead. Her mother was Henry’s sister (this is revealed in the book series). In the original film script Henry says during the incubator scene “poor little orphan and her Miss Gulch troubles--she aught to have someone to play with.” Meaning that Miss Gulch has it out for this little girl and they know it. Then Aunt Em replies “we all got to work out our own problems, Henry.” The pig pen scene: Dorothy is balancing on the rails and falls into the pen. Her foot is caught in the barbed wire/chicken wire that is being used to keep the pigs from testing the fence. Before she falls, the pig pen is shown several times. It is a clean pen. No mud. She’s not going to get dirty in a dry pen. Just dusty. Which you see as she struggles while entangled in the wire. Also, she was in more danger from the wire and the hogs than she was from getting her frock dirty. That’s why Zeke leaps into action to get her out. It’s a dream: Book it’s a real place and Dorothy loses the Silver Slippers when she flies over the Deadly Desert that surrounds Oz on her way back to Kansas, curtesy of Glinda. Original script it’s a real place. The original last shot of the film was supposed to be of the Ruby Slippers, either on her feet under the blanket or in her closet on the floor. This idea was scrapped completely by the final cut of the film which makes it appear that Dorothy did dream it all. And there are several moments that bolster that version. House damage: In the book, the entire house is taken away by the twister. In the film, same thing happens. So how is Dorothy back in her own room inside the same farm house when she returns to Kansas? Because in the film it was a dream. Otherwise, they would be in a different house. Unless you factor in Glinda. Though she never shows it, Glinda definitely would have the power to not only return Dorothy but also the Gale farmhouse to Kansas. Miss Gulch: She doesn’t exist in the book. In the original script, one of the drafts made it a point to mention that the twister killed her. However, that was not in the final shooting script. So we just don’t know if she did or did not survive. We do know both Sylvester and Professor Marvel survived and they were on a wagon! It’s a dream theory: Everyone in Kansas shows up in Oz except Uncle Henry and Aunt Em because they are her reward. She wants to get back to them. They are the familiar, the safe. She’s not safe in Oz so they aren’t there. The Wicked Witch of the West is not Dorothy’s dark side or whatever. It’s how she sees Miss Gulch. She literally says it during the scene when Gulch takes Toto away from Dorothy. “You wicked old witch! Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, don’t let her take Toto! Please!” And yes Glinda represents Dorothy’s dead mother. She’s there in spirit throughout the whole journey. She’s a guiding force who brings Dorothy back to her safe place. She protects from afar as well-snow in the poppy field, her magical protection kiss. Good Witch or Bad Witch: Okay, this one is a bit complicated. First off, Glinda is not the one who refers to Dorothy as a witch, the munchkins do. She says to Dorothy “The munchkins called me because a new witch has just dropped a house on the old witch of the East--and there’s the house and here you are. So the munchkin’s want to know are you a good witch or a bad witch?” Next, when Dorothy denies being the witch Glinda asks if the dog is the witch. This isn’t weird because in Oz animals have magical abilities. Glinda’s line that “only bad witches are ugly” is complex. She states two things: only bad witches are ugly means that good witches cannot be ugly ever, but bad witches can be ugly or beautiful. Glinda is “a little muddled” aka confused because she knows she is looking at a little girl and the only witches she knows are adults. Also, Dorothy has already stated she is not a witch. Glinda takes her at her word. Lastly, this is never addressed in the film but Dorothy’s blue gingham frock is a huge part of why the munchkin’s befriend her and think she is a witch. She is wearing the color of the good witches-white-mixed with the color of Munchkinland-blue. (Glinda in pink is a film only thing. In the novel all good witches wear white.) This is why Glinda thinks Dorothy is a good witch and is confused when she denies it. Wicked Witch of the West’s obsession with the Ruby Slippers: West doesn’t care about East’s death. She is only interested in the shoes. Which is why Glinda places them on Dorothy’s feet and later gives Dorothy her protection kiss, which makes it impossible for the shoes to be taken from her by force. As is shown at West’s castle when she can’t touch Dorothy’s feet.
@@MaskedMan66 It kind of is though. All inference of course, but still fairly clear. In Emerald City of Oz Uncle Henry thinks something like “his little niece had been a dreamer since birth, same as her dead mother had been.” This implies that Henry had a close lifetime-long relationship with Dorothy’s mother. Since Dorothy refers to him as Uncle Henry and he refers to her as his little niece, what else can be understood than Henry is the brother of Dorothy’s mother? And in Ozma of Oz Uncle Henry is taking Dorothy to Australia to visit his relatives that she has never met. Any time someone is related to Aunt Em in the series, the reader is told so outright. But Henry’s side of the family is pretty vaguely mentioned. Please understand, I am in no way saying my interpretation is correct. I’m just offering the conclusion I and many more have come to believe based on the legit factoids presented by Baum himself. The truth is, unless there is some undiscovered manuscript hidden away somewhere waiting to be found that states Baum’s intentions in exact wording, we readers will simply never know.
@@kailyns8159 Good points all (and it's always a pleasure to meet someone who knows the books!), but Dorothy also calls Em Aunt Em, and Em calls Dorothy her niece as well. But you make a very convincing case. I do find it interesting that in the movie _Return to Oz,_ Henry's surname is Blue, which I always figured was indicative of his Aussie roots. 🙂 I've determined that if I ever get to play Henry on stage, I'm going to do it with a Strine accent.
@@MaskedMan66 I have equal love for the books and the MGM film. Baum inspired my love of writing fantasy and made it okay for me to write the same way I speak- with mature, sophisticated humor and witty intelligence. I’m kinda like The Woggle Bug, the glass cat, Toto, and the Wizard all rolled into one mind. He made it safe for me to nurture my unique perception of the world. And his imagination brought a story and characters into this world that invited me to a literary landscape of security and laughter during a time when I was too young to realize I was falling apart. The film I adore because it gave life and longevity to his fantasy world after Baum was no longer around to champion his work. Plus, it introduced me to the exceptional Judy Garland, which I’ll forever be thankful for. I have mixed feelings about Return to Oz, if you’re referring to the Fairuza Balk movie. I’ve seen it maybe twice. It’s okay. But it’s such a Frankenstein’s monster of Baum’s original ideas that I kind of hate it. Still, it did bring some fascinating book moments to life in a pretty visually dynamic way. So I kind of love those elements too.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
Frank L Baum never made the Wizard the one who declared the witches as good or evil. That’s all that matters. It is annoying that some people take established stories and creates new cannon. It’s not-only unless it is created by the original author
The detail I didn’t notice until I was an adult was the significance of the scene where Zeke (Bert Lahr) rescues Dorothy from the pig stye. He acts without hesitation, but then has a panic attack afterwards. That delayed reaction is something that’s true to life and has been observed with soldiers in combat. For example, years ago I saw a documentary about bomber crews during World War II and the fear from what they went through didn’t show itself until the mission was over. *EDIT* didn’t, not did.
When the lion starts crying, Judy can't stop laughing. The take they left in the movie, Judy is still snickering for a few seconds. Once you catch it, you can't unsee it.
Frank Morgan was originally only meant to play Wizard and was cast as such. However, producers soon realized that, since he was by far the biggest star at the time in the film, he would require a larger role. Role of Wizard is relatively small, therefore they needed to come up with solution to give Morgan more on screen time as Wizard would only appear in one or two scenes. Therefore, brand new characters of Professor Marvel and carriage driver were created, while he was also given two guard roles who do appear in the book in respective scenes. Not counting, of course, the rumors that Morgan also played the giant head of Wizard in the throne room, but this was never officially confirmed.
Well, _The Sound of Music_ was made about three decades later than the other two, but I dig. 🙂 In fact, two of my childhood crushes come from two of those movies: Judy Garland in _Wizard_ and Angela Cartwright in _Sound._
Dorothy says "I will miss you most of all" to Scarecrow because, in early versions of the script, Dorothy and Scarecrow's counterpart Hank were planned to have a hint on romantic connection going between two of them. In the final version of the script this connection was removed, but the phrase, which underlined it, was kept.
100% didnt realize how old the movie was growing up (born in 95) and honestly didnt think much of the sepia toned beginning of the movie. I thought it was just dark and dreary because a storm was coming in, so there wasnt a lot of sun, thought that all of my childhood in fact. I got a VHS copy of it for my 6 birthday, and also thought it was a brand new movie coming out at the time, and wasnt until I was in my teens that I realized the movie was 70 years old, and had gone from sepia to technicolor during the movie lol
You're spot on. The book makes a big deal about how Kansas is dusty and everything is weathered to grey. The illustrations in that chapter are printed in grey. Then when Dorothy arrives in Munchkin land, the illustrations are printed in blue. They're green in the Emerald City chapters, yellow in the chapters about looking for the Wicked Witch of the West in Winkie Country, and red when they journey to Quadling Country to see Glinda. "The Wizard of Oz" doesn't have any scenes in purple Gillikin Country. Subsequent books don't use the same color scheme for the illustrations.
Was there anything in the book which said that the dress should be blue? If not was Technicolor still wanting to show off how their 3 colour process could reproduce accurate blues, as they did in some earlier films? Most older colour processes were 2 colour and could not reproduce blues accurately so these colours were avoided in costumes and sets. Also, where did the idea that Alice, as in Wonderland, wore a blue dress come from? The original illustrations in those books were black and white engravings, so the dress would have been grey in them. Was it just that blue dresses were fashionable at that time? When I was a little boy, about four, which would have been in about 1961, I really liked the Alice books. I hadn’t learned to read then, but my mother would read them to me and I would look at the pictures. I also insisted on wanting to wear an Alice dress, and as luck would have it a friend of mine had one which she used to let me wear. I don’t think I ever heard anybody say that as a boy I shouldn’t wear a dress. A couple of years later as a big grown up six year old I wouldn’t have been seen dead wearing a dress!
@@srfurley The book is online; you should 'ave a read. 🙂From Chapter 3, "How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow": "Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock." And later, after she's met a wealthy Munchkin whose family puts her and Toto up for the night, they have this exchange: "When Boq saw her silver shoes he said, 'You must be a great sorceress.' 'Why?' asked the girl. 'Because you wear silver shoes and have killed the Wicked Witch. Besides, you have white in your frock, and only witches and sorceresses wear white.' 'My dress is blue and white checked,' said Dorothy, smoothing out the wrinkles in it. 'It is kind of you to wear that,” said Boq. “Blue is the color of the Munchkins, and white is the witch color. So we know you are a friendly witch.' Dorothy did not know what to say to this, for all the people seemed to think her a witch, and she knew very well she was only an ordinary little girl who had come by the chance of a cyclone into a strange land. "
@@srfurley From the book, Chapter 3, "How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow": "Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock."
I did Wicked Witches' "Jitterbug" monologue for one of my drama class assignments. We weren't supposed to chose a monologue from a movie but since it didn't make the final cut, my teacher let it slide.
Considering the fact that there was just a tornado and Miss Gulch was riding that bike, probably determined to get to whoever was going to kill Toto, I prefer to think that the tornado did Dorothy a solid for making her bump her head.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
Dorothea stepping out into Oz was an impossible visual effect at the time, they couldn't show B&W and color at the same time. For that shot the entire room was painted in sepia. A body double wearing a sepia dress opened the door, then stepped off camera, then Garland in a color dress steps in.
Despite her youthful appearance, Billie Burke who played Glinda was actually 55 at the time and would fit into the character by age for sure. However, maybe her youthful appearance was what cost her double roles.
I always assumed that the studio changed the book to a “dream” because censors would not have approved of giving children the idea that “magical” places were real.
Dorothy dreamed it; the movie makes it clear. Why in the world do you think they'd bring in five characters who aren't in the book to be the templates for some of the characters she meets in Oz?
@@Beth_Alice_Kaplan It was nothing to do with censors. But all the same, the suits didn't want the fantasy to be real... never mind that audiences had no problem with the fantasy in _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ being real just two years before.
@@MaskedMan66 1. That's how the book ended. In the book there was no question of it being a dream. The end of the movie was changed from the book to put out a bit of propaganda to the women of the time that had left the home to work in factories during WW2. The end was a metaphoric message that their adventure was about to end and they neede4d to be ready to go home. 2 Again, the human brain can not dream of colors it has never seen. That's neurological fact. The colors is Oz did not exist in Kansas. Her dress is proof of that. She was physiologically incapable of dreaming of what the movie studio showed us. Thus, she didn't.
The wizard of Oz was my momma's favorite movie. Now she's gone. I miss her everyday. I saw wicked yesterday 11-6-24 It was nothing compared to the original movie. I love the references they made though . ❤️🥺💯. My mom would love 💞 see people are still in original movies 😞🍿🎥
I feel like Dorothy’s surname is so cool . The reason I think this is because gale means a strong gust of wind and wind is a very associated phenomenon in the film
In Disney's "Hunchback," one of the gargoyles says, "Fly my pretties, fly," during the climax. The Mandela Effect could have started there. Just a thought.
My headcanon is that Dorothy's teacher is the real world equivalent of Glinda. Let's call her Miss Good. Dorothy goes to an old fashioned one room schoolhouse where Miss Good teaches Dorothy and her agemates history and geography while teaching younger kids their ABC's. She often encourages Dorothy to learn things for herself by thinking things through. When Miss Gulch comes in to scold Dorothy for something Toto did, Miss Good tells Miss Gulch that she has no business barging in and ordering her students about. After Miss Gulch left, Miss Good had to calm down some frightened small children like Glinda does with the Munchkins. I read another headcanon somewhere that after Dorothy began her journey, Glinda went somewhere she could do research on the Ruby Slippers to find out just what they were capable of. Like the Wicked Witch, she also had a crystal ball to keep tabs of Dorothy and her friends. They seemed to have a handle on things until they got to the poppy field, in which case Glinda sent some snow to help out.
I don't do headcanons, and I would point out that most of the characters Dorothy meets in Oz don't have Kansas counterparts. Only her three companions, the two Wicked Witches, the Wizard, the Cabbie, the Guardian of the Gates, and Omby Amby are inspired by people she knows or has met; everyone else-- Glinda, the Winkie Captain, and the hundreds of Munchkins, Winkies, trees, and other Ozites are exclusive to her dream.
In 1997 I talked to two “munchkins” at the MGM Grand in Vegas doing a book signing. One of them told me she hated how MGM treated Judy Garland on and off the set. I’ve since found out that Louis Meyer fed her coffee and amphetamines to keep her thin. This led to Judy Garlands drug problems and early death
As a child, the Wicked Witch of the West scared the bejeezus out of me, but as an adult, I understand her a bit more. Her sister has died, her ruby slippers stolen, and she wants revenge. But more than that, she wants the one sacred thing that belonged to her sister. I would feel the same way if one of my siblings died, and I didn't have some memento. In the book, Wicked, there is an explanation for how Elphaba stays clean. She cleanses herself in oil, and wipes it off. Glynda is a more evil character than Elphaba. The power to go home made a lot more sense, and Glynda totally pissed off the entire audience.
Scarecrow's theorem blunder was actually a neccessity. Ray Bolger legitimately couldn't get it right in multiple attempts so they just used the best shot they had and moved on.
Oh my effing God. He said SOME. SOME of the of square roots of any two sides, etc. A right triangle *can* be an isosceles triangle. It's kind of a wonky way to say it, but he's not completely wrong either. Also, in the books, the red brick road goes to Quadling Country, the next district of Oz as you head south and west (more south or west depending on where you are in Munchkinland). In the movie, it just goes into little cul-de-sacs around Munchkin City.
The guy who helped Dorothy while on the run def sent her to oz so it helps her relize that there is no place like home. So i actually think he sid protect her from the twister.
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I disagree that it was Glinda that Gave Dorothy the slippers, I think that the slippers going to Dorothy was a choice of the shoes themselves. Dorothy was physically the closest to them when the witch of the East died, so that's who they defaulted to.
@@juliebaker6969 It's not really made clear in the movie as to how the shoes ended up on Dorothy's feet, but obviously Glinda knew that Dorothy should stay in them for her own protection. In the book, of course, the Good Witch of the North (who was not Glinda) did pick up the silver shoes and, after cleaning the dust out of them, handed them to Dorothy.
@@MaskedMan66 Yeah, and the shoes in the book were silver not ruby. I just read the first 2 books in the series last weekend. That's why this particular video caught my eye. 😉
@@juliebaker6969 You only have 38 to go! 🙂
@@MaskedMan66 38? There's only 14 books in the Oz series. The others may be written by L. Frank Baum but they aren't in the Oz series. And I already have all 14 downloaded and ready to read. Though to be honest, it's not my first time through the series.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot talking." Love that line!
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In the 1930s and almost 100 years later this is so perfectly accurate!
That line can be used to describe KH.
@@SelfAcceptingSarah It's been true throughout all of human history.
@@ladyjustice1474 I don't understand, except for Sora, that doesn't really make sence in Kingdom Hearts.
What I always felt was so heart warming and I'm sure has been mentioned a million times...is that the Scarecrow didn't have a brain yet he did all of the 'thinking' on their journey...the Tinman didn't have a heart yet he was the most emotional one crying all the time...and the Lion who lacked courage is the one who had the strength to lead everyone to rescuing Dorothy from the witch's castle. They all had within them what they were searching for...they just needed the confidence to believe in themselves...just as Dorothy always had the power to return home!
That all comes from the book.
I was a smart brat three-year-old when I first saw the Wizard of Oz on television, and I noticed that the Wizard didn't give anybody anything that they didn't already have. As the inept Wizard drifted off, I wondered "what good is that man?" It took a while for me to learn what part the Wizard played and the power of a reputation. The Wicked Witch of the West never dared to confront the mighty Wizard of Oz.
@@alancranford3398 The Wicked Witches were terrified of him! The book talks about when, as a young man, the Wizard did travel to the land of the Winkies to challenge the Wicked Witch of the West, but was forced to flee from the Winged Monkeys. But even then, she thought she'd had a narrow escape and was just as afraid of him.
And it's worth mentioning that he eventually came back to Oz and learned real magic from Ozma and Glinda, and became a real Wizard. 🙂
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My favorite line was "hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
There was a recent Oz movie which erroneously attributed that line to Baum. lol
I think I first saw this movie around 30 years ago. I still thought the sepia-to-Technicolor transition was mind blowing.
My dad would say because real life was dreary and her fantasy was all color
20:41 I’m not a neurologist but I have a great imagination.
Glinda’s real world counterpart is Dorothy’s subconscious and it is trying to get Dorothy to wake up.
Glinda tells Dorothy that the yellow brick road is the way home and that the Emerald City is where the “wizard”.
The Emerald City being the part of her brain that is unconscious and the Wizard is the part that needs to be rebooted in order for Dorothy to wake up. The Scarecrow, The Tin-man and the Lion are all other parts that need to be rebooted as well. That’s why she wizard hands out those trinkets.
Once she gets all that completed Glinda then tells Dorothy to click her heels together signaling that it’s time for her to wake up.
(I hope that makes sense, it did in my head)
It sounds really interesting. I don't know, had the red road been in the book, but, if it was and your theory is right, maybe it leads to coma or even death. At least, the red color in a number of fantasy sometimes means danger, even deadly danger. And characters told Dorothy to follow only the yellow road, skipping the explanation, where the red one leads
Wow when i think about it, it does make sense I actually never knew that
I always figured the bucket had something that only looked like water in it. After all, it was the witch’s place to do magic, and magic includes alchemy.
Maybe? My dreams are never that linear, though.
It's well thought out, or possibly overthought out. ;-) However, I'm sure that none of the screenwriters were even thinking along those lines. Nobody needed any "rebooting," because they always had what they thought they needed.
I think most house dresses then had pockets. We got all of my great aunt's clothes and she saved a few of her dresses from the depression and the pockets were stained with dirt. The dresses were clean but the pockets looked like gardens ... and that's what they were used for. Gathering eggs and garden veggies.
Right, I didn’t think this was a big enough deal to be mentioned.
No pockets and pitiful pockets is relatively new. Even when they weren't sewn in, throughout history women have had pockets. And big old pockets too (sigh - at least they are making a slow comeback).
I have been whinging about the lack of pockets since 1978. My theory is they just expect a woman to have a matching hand bag with her at all times. I refuse a hand bag, and men's clothes always have more than two pockets, so they carry my stuff. If alone I suffer carrying car keys, phone and money, I will never give into the hand bag cult ever.
One thing I always found interesting is the fact that despite playing enemies Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton were very close during the shooting. Bolger and Hamilton actually became very good friends in real life and remained so until Hamilton's death in 1983. It was Bolger who delivered eulogy at Hamilton's funeral, which turned out to be his final public appearance before his own death in 1987.
I have a bumper sticker that says, "Don't Make Me Release the Flying Monkeys."
I love it.
It should say "Winged Monkeys."
@@MaskedMan66 You say potato, I say potahto....it's still funny. C'mon.
@@sunnyscott4876 Tubers don't come into it; Baum called them Winged Monkeys.;-)
@@sunnyscott4876 Tubers don't enter into it; Baum called them Winged Monkeys. To paraphrase a certain pasty-faced android, "One is their name. The other is not. "😉
@@sunnyscott4876 Baum named 'em what he named ''em. To paraphrase a certain pasty-faced android, "One is their name. The other is not."
In Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Laverne, the older gargoyle calls out to the Pigeons in the Burning Paris Scene near the end in a Parody of the Wicked Witch "FLY" scene. She says "FLY MY PRETTIES! FLY! FLY!" So it can be mistaken for the Wizard of Oz scene bc the Voice Actor did a decent job of parodying the scene.
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It can't be mistaken for it because there's no resemblance. However, it is obviously inspired by it.
The ‘some people without brains do a awful lot of talking’ is still true in today’s modern society
really how?
It's been true throughout all of human history.
Ray Bolger gave the Scarecrow a unique vocal tick. In this line, he actually said, "Some people without brains do a nawful lot of talking, don't they?" And in later scenes, he said, "Beautiful! What a necho!" and "Can't budge her a ninch!" 🙂
Well at least Scarecrow goofing up the theorem gave us "That's a right triangle, you idiot!"
Ozite maths work differently than they do on our side of the Desert. 🙂
"D'oh!"
Oh, Homer.
@@chaysefox Ozite maths work differently than they do on our side of the Desert. 🙂
The mentioning of having vivid dreams brought up a memory: i used nicotine patches to (successfully) try quitting smoking. They have a kinda warning on the box saying something along the lines of you might have sleep disturbances in the form of vivid dreams. They weren't kidding, either. I'm talking about vivid, powerful, and memorable dreams. Not nightmares necessarily, that would've been awful, but dreams that i can recall even now many years later. It was awesome...
Glinda's "Good witch or bad witch?" question to Dorothy always bugged me, as though a person's morality is instantly linked to their appearance, which naturally isn't always the case.
It is in Oz.
@JuanEnriqueFloresJr No, it wasn't.
You would love Wicked.
@pikabununify yes she would! Spot on
I'm thinking u meant morality rather than mortality. If that is correct then I concur with the poster above that you would very much appreciate "Wicked" it was a very fun stage adaptation of a an even greater(imo) book. The guy who wrote it also wrote some great books including "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister " which turned the Cinderella story on its head. His name is Gregory Maguire I think. Check it out. I think you will enjoy ❤
The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie.
Same. My favorite character is The Tin Man.
@@isaiahwilliams7150 Cool. My favorite is the Scarecrow, as you can see.
@@TheDustinExperience Mine's the Cowardly Lion; I've had the pleasure and honor of playing him on stage. 🦁
@@MaskedMan66 Cool.
For the last 30 years, I watched it annually. It's the best movie ever
Fun fact about Judy Garland: that’s not her real name - it’s a stage name. Her real name is Frances Ethel Gumm. MGM found her when she was a part of a singing troupe with her sisters.
Correct! She was named after her father Francis and her mother Ethel. You want to know something else? Frank Morgan's real name was Francis Phillip Wupperman!
I knew this one. She was also known as the least attractive one I think. But I always thought she was beautiful.
I've always wondered if it was an inside joke that Dorothy's last name was Gale, which is a synonym for tornado.
As a matter of fact, it was! But it had nothing to do with this movie; in the 1900 book, Dorothy's surname was never mentioned; it was in the 1902 stage version of "Wizard" that she was given the surname Gale by L. Frank Baum himself, as a deliberate pun. He loved puns, as a reading of any of his Oz books would show. 🙂 He used the name for her from the second book onward, but funnily enough, never made it clear which of Dorothy's guardians was her blood relative.
@@MaskedMan66 Excellent information. Thank you for posting and confirming
@@williampetersen9915 You're welcome! 🙂 On a more poignant note, it is worth mentioning that Dorothy's Christian name came from Baum's wife's niece, who died in infancy; her last name was Gage.
It's still my favorite movie ❤ i have never stopped loving it. A truly special movie
It's timeless
15:06 This is why they shouldn’t have combined the Good Witch of the North with Glinda. Originally, it was the Good Witch of the North who sent Dorothy to see the Wizard, and it was North who told her to try Glinda, the Good Witch of the South after the Wizard’s hot air balloon departed. And of course, it was Glinda who told her to click the heels three times.
Glinda never said "click." And they didn't combine the Good Witches, they just flip-flopped them; Tattypoo isn't in the movie at all.
@@MaskedMan66 It’s pretty well known that they combined the two Good Witches. Had they flipped the roles, then both would have appeared. You do know what combined means, right?
Glinda was made the Good Witch of the North instead of the south and given the same role that both witches played in the book, while Tattypoo/Locasta/the Good Witch of the North was excluded.
@@donei132 No need for snark. Glinda in the film was nothing like Tattypoo.
@@MaskedMan66 Of course she wasn’t, but by saying flip-flopped, you make it as if both witches were in the film when they weren’t. (Using the name Baum gave her) Locasta’s role in the narrative was given to Glinda, conflating the two witches together.
@@donei132 No, it simply meant that Glinda was now from the North, while Tattypoo was now in the South. Audiences of the time still knew the books, so they would have likely made that conclusion.
Theory: Glinda couldn't have kept the ruby slippers because the power would've corrupted her (not unlike Galadriel & the One Ring in LOTR). Dorothy's innocence made her the perfect wearer. It also explains why the witch melted -- it wasn't the water but who threw it. The witch's wails say as much ("A good little girl like you could destroy my wickedness.") As for Glinda's counterpart being Dorothy's late mother, that tracks. It supports her sending her confused child on a path to learn lessons (& having her back via snow flurries, etc...). ALSO: Uncle Henry's surname is Gale, same as Dorothy's (mentioned a few times in the film). That would make him her father's brother, yes? The name was created by author Baum in a 1902 Broadway extravaganza, then became canon in his 2nd sequel, "Ozma of Oz" (where Dorothy returned ).
I believe that since the Wicked Witch Of The West died in Oz, I believe that means Mrs Gulch somehow died during the twister in Kansas. Hence why she didn’t come back for Toto.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
@@CyberstarChuck
That's actually a very brilliant explanation
Fun list. If I can brag on myself, as a little boy, I immediately noticed that the coachman, the guard, the wizard, and the professor were all one and the same - the implication clear that he was a benevolent con man.
As far as Dorothy’s farm dress having pockets, that would not be unusual in the 1930s. Similarly styled work dresses, particularly in rural communities, have been common even in my lifetime and I’m only in my 50s. On the farm in the 1930s, women didn’t typically wear pants or jeans, but needed their work attire to be practical and useful (i.e. pockets) and were often handmade at home.
My headcannon is that Ms. Gulch died in the twister.
That's helpful and works I'm actually going to put that in my FanFiction when I eventually get around to making it😅
That's what I always presumed as well. We see her on her bicycle in the twister....not a healthy place to be!
No, she got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
@@carolynhotchkiss4760 Dorothy was dreaming by that point.
Good one, friend.
When Uncle Henry is talking to Miss Gulch, you can see the name on the mailbox is Gale, so he is the brother of Dorothy's father. Also the Witch is only allergic to water, so she could wash in isopropyl alcohol for instance.
Baum never said which of Dorothy's guardians is her blood relative; in the movie _Return to Oz,_ Henry's surname is Blue (possibly a nod to his Australian ancestry), and Em is Dorothy's relative. The Wicked Witch had no blood, so she didn't sweat, so she didn't need to bathe; the water oversaturated her.
you missed the fact that the carriage in the horse of a different color scene once belonged to Abraham Lincoln.
In the Wicked book we learn that the witch (Elphaba) uses oil to clean herself.
There's no connection between that dreck and this movie.
13:24 I always wondered why the witch had a full bucket of water just laying around, lol.
For the torches in the parapets to be doused at daybreak, a function carried out by slaves. She may not be able to touch the stuff herself, but evil as she is, she knows that her slaves can't last without water; besides which, you don't wonder why she keeps a castle right next to a river?
If you watch "Tom and Jerry and The Wizard of Oz", you'll know how it got there…
@@ericgjovaag7958 No, not really.
Glinda said the "munchkins" wanted to know what kind of witch Dorothy is. Glinda might already know.
She does.
*"Be gone, before somebody drops a house on YOU!"*
"Very well! I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way-- just try! I'll get you, my pretty-- and your little *dog,* too!"
At 4:41 there is a long billed bird in the witches castle- looks like it’s carved from wood or tin. This could be a throwback to when she cared about the animals losing their identity in Wicked
The Red Brick Road is the main connecting road for the Munchkin Village in Munchkinland. It goes to the Lollypop Guild's place, the Lullaby League's place, the Coroner's office, and everywhere else in the Munchkin village. (The Marvelous Map of Oz)
It stops at a little hill.
Leela Turanga: There's no place like, I wanna be a witch!
???
It’s a reference to Futurama
Considering most of us old fogeys saw "Oz" in black and white on TV for years, The "Horse of a Different Color" schtick went over our little heads, as did the magical sepia-to-color scene in the Gale's house doorway. Mom explained the situation to me, having seen it in the theater as a kid herself in glorious Technicolor! 🎠
I love the Wizard of Oz and the characters -all the amazing real-life people!😅
In the film, after the Wicked Witch leaves Munchkinland through the fiery trap door, Glinda can be heard saying "Oh what a smell of sulfur" I always wondered if it was actually in the script or was it an adlib line. Stage pyrotechnics can often have a rotten egg or sulfur smell to them. Also, Margaret Hamilton was severely burned in that scene.
It was in the script, and anyway, that shot was probably done well after the whole pyrotechnic bit, possibly even on a different day. The Munchkinland sequence took a month to film. Miss Hamilton was burned on the fourth take of her exit; the one in the movie is actually the first take.
P.S.: It was an elevator, not a trap door. 🙂
About the bucket of water: In the book (at least the shortened one my daughter has) Because Dorothy has the mark of the good witch of the north, the witch of the west cannot hurt Dorothy, so she makes her a slave and forces her to scrub the floors. the witch kicks Toto out of the way and that's why Dorothy tosses the bucket of water.
No, the Wicked Witch managed to grab one of the silver shoes and put it on; that's why Dorothy throws the water.
@@MaskedMan66 i did say in the book my daughter has thats what happened.
@@Lady_dromeda Sorry, missed that part. 😅 I'm a bit surprised that a modern kid's book would show even a villain mistreating an animal.
@@MaskedMan66 yeah, it straight up says she made the others her slaves
My younger sister has that book but it’s the lion if I remember correctly
What always stood out to me was the slight but noticeable gap between when the witch says, “Give them back to me or I’ll….” And when Glinda starts to say, “It’s too late!” To me, the director should have had Glinda jump in sooner or the witch should have continued her threat until she was truly interrupted. Just a little thing, but I always noticed that.
😊 yea agreed 👍 lindafurman.6288.i would haved given it to witch 🧙♀️
Maybe the witch didn't have a plan
@@jennifer_m.8613 That's what I say; the delivery of both actresses works.
2:28 tin man’s misquote suggests the brain he was ‘awarded’ didn’t literally make him smarter, but confident in his intelligence
Agreed
I agree ☺️
It was the scarecrow that received the brain, not the tin man.
Scarecrow.
It's canon in the books. They insisted the wizard grant their wishes, so he basically gave Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow placebos that made them think they were changed and leave him happy. It was Dorothy he tried to give the real wish to.
There was a board game based on the the film that came out around the same time. And apparently the red brick road just leads to houses in munchkinland
If you look carefully when Dorothy first looks around the city, you'll see that the road stops at a little hill.
I think it's kinda silly to nitpick every little thing in a movie but since I'm down here in the rabbit hole, I think maybe Ms.Gultch didn't come back right away because a tornado just went through, just because there wasn't much damage to Auntie Em's farm doesn't mean there wasn't damage somewhere else and maybe Glinda is a teacher Dorothy knows always trying to teach her something
Uncle Henry's farm, you mean. According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff. And really, most of the people Dorothy met in Oz didn't have Kansas counterparts.
@@MaskedMan66 does it really matter who's farm it is, talk about nitpicky
@@JasonC1969 Yes, it does, since you've asked. 🙂 When in the book "The Emerald City of Oz," the bank threatened to foreclose on the farm, it was Henry they spoke to. In fact, the chapter in which this happens is entitled, "How Uncle Henry Got Into Trouble."
@@MaskedMan66 this is kinda silly nitpicky discussion but since I'm down here in the rabbit hole anyways aren't Uncle Henry and Auntie Em married, so again I'll ask does it matter?
@@JasonC1969 Read wot I already writ. 🙂
I first saw the Wizard of Oz in 1960 when I was three on a black and white tv--but I remember telling someone that the Wizard hadn't given Scarecrow, Tinman or Lion anything that they didn't already have--just like Glinda didn't give Dorothy anything. After I learned geometry and thought about what Scarecrow said about "isosceles triangles" (I had seen reruns several times on television by then--still only black and white), getting the joke validated my three-year-old's impression that the Wizard never gave anybody anything that they didn't already have. That's Item #21 for you--the Wizard of Oz didn't give anybody anything that they didn't already possess.
There's more--it took me two decades to remember that the Wicked Witch of the West was a fire mage and to learn what that meant. Fire is one means for good hygiene even if there may be a smokey smell from incomplete combustion. I never did figure out why the Witch permitted the maid to mop the place using soapy water. Perhaps the soap had something to do with the melting, too? Ash dissolves in water. In the Munchkin Village there were pools and fountains--the Wicked Witch of the West endangered herself by dropping in.
At age three, many parts of the movie were perplexing and some terrifying. The castle scenes were spookier than the Haunted Forest or when Dorothy and company met the Cowardly Lion--and of course, the audience with the Wizard.
After I learned to read, I checked out the Wizard of Oz book from the school library and felt cheated when I read about silver slippers--did I get the wrong book?
The MGM 1939 "the Wizard of Oz" has been part of my life since my earliest memories. As I grew up, I noticed more and more things--such as Buddy Ebsen's singing voice in the scene where Scarecrow and Dorothy join to travel down the yellow brick road. At age three, "who is Buddy Ebsen?" At age eight it was "Jed Clampett!" I didn't know Buddy Ebsen had been in the Wizard of Oz until the 1980's. It wasn't until the Eighties that I learned "the Wizard of Oz" was actually a box-office failure when it first ran in 1939 because of war breaking out in Europe and the lingering effects of the Great Depression that success came nearly two decades afterwards with being shown on television and then re-released to movie theaters.
I always thought Glinda was the memory of Dorothy's mother...
So where's her father?
@@MaskedMan66 never worried about him. probably blended with the Wizard as the absentee figure you had to be concerned with but was never close at hand. but when I was old enough to see the three farm hands as the companions in Oz, it struck me that Glinda was absentee mom. her dad wasn't my concern.
Yes, either the memory of her mother, or, since this is Dorothy's dream, the way her subconscious thinks of her mother: beautiful and benevolently watching over her from afar.
@@DanielOrme Why not her father?
@@hippomancy Oh, not "your concern!" Sounds a bit hoity-toity.
I didn’t really think about the pocket in the dress (I’m male) but I would think as a farm girl, she would need practical clothing to carry tools like scissors or other things, like getting eggs. It would come in handy for times when she might not have an apron.
She carried a handkerchief in the movie, and it had to be kept somewhere! lol
My dad told me about seeing it in the theater as a boy. He said all the kids were totally overcome when the scene switched to color.
Egad! How old is your dad?
@@MaskedMan66 He would have been 96 this year. He died in 2017.
@@ann-mariemeyers9978 My condolences on your loss; good on him, though, for a good long life. We lost my Dad a couple of years ago, and to be sure, he and Mom were both born in 1933, so they'd have been six when the movie came out. Neither of them saw it at the time, though.
You know they actually used the jitterbug song in 'Tom and Jerry return to Oz' movie if anyone's seen it
It's used in the stage version as well, but for some bizarre reason, it's recently been moved from the Haunted Forest to the Lion's forest.
@@MaskedMan66 yeah idk why
I love Oz, and probably know too much about it.
It is assumed (if not widely, at least by my family) that Mrs. Gultch died in the tornado. We see her on her bike up inside the cyclone, then she transformes into the witch. Growing up i always thought this was the witch of the east. She gets flattened by Dorothy's house. Much later in life I realized Gultch does not come back at the end because (technically) Dorothy melted her.
The red brick road. It is never explained. The only time I ever say anything done with the read road was in a very old children's book from the 60's or 70's. Where the red brick road leads to the witche's castle. I have only found this book once in the library of my grammar school. That was about 40 years ago.
As you make know the film itself went through many iterations and had several different directors. Multiple seens were shot, and re-shot, and then shot again. Which accounts for Dorothy's hair to have different lengths from one scene to the next. It also accounts for why Dorothy tells the Scarecrow she will miss him most of all. One.of the earliest iterations of the film had put a love intrest into the story between Dorthy and one of the farm hands.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff. Dorothy was already dreaming when she saw the inside of the cyclone. The red road stops at a little hill. The movie only really had two directors, and that had nothing to do with Judy's wigs. ONE person out of the twenty or so who worked on the script devised a romance between a 19 year-old Dorothy and a twentysomething Hunk, but producer Mervyn LeRoy 86ed the idea pretty quick and made Dorothy a 12 year-old, so nothing of that idea made it into the final script except for Dorothy's parting words to the Scarecrow.
The one thing that really stood out to me as an adult watching this movie is that the Tinman is carrying a revolver when they go after the wicked witch.
Scarecrow is. It’s because of a deleted scene when they were getting weapons.
@@goodkittyjuju There's no such scene.
The Scarecrow has a revolver, the Cowardly Lion has a big net and a spray can full of Witch Remover, and the Tin Woodman, in addition to his trusty axe, also carries a pipe wrench. They're on a mission to kill the WWW, so quite sensibly, they have armed themselves.
The scarecrow has the gun!
The book does say that Dorothy was an orphan. So you know her folks aren’t around anymore
Correct!
For 17, I saw in an Instagram post that the red brick road leads to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory (it’s a meme)
It stops at a hill.
The jitterbug song was soon added to "Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz."
Well I was like 5 years old when I asked my mum where did the red brick road leads... and kept asking that for years until I finally realised I would never know....
And I did tell mum "that sounds like Snow White" when I was very little as well
Dad used to love explaining "horse of a different colour" whenever he had the chance while watching the movie
I always thought Dorothy's parents are not alive anymore hence her living with her aunt and uncle
About the Wicked Witch I also used to think if she bathed or not...or if she just took her smell and dirt by magic or if she had a spell to never get dirty... but I did think about that all the time
I also noticed Marvel being the door guard, the driver, the second guard and the Wizard from a very ypung age
The idea of Miss Gulch coming back for Toto terrified me all the time as well because I "knew" she would until Mum told me she would not since she was taken away by the cyclon so she wasn't around anymore
The silver shoes was obvious since I read the books at a very young age and my parents used to read me the book before I could read it by myself but I love the ruby slippers (don't we all?)
I thought Glinda was Dorothy's mother taking care of her from beyond and teaching her lessons her mother would if she were there and I always thought it was obvious
The water was there for the torches when it was daylight and weren't needed or wasn't that obvious as well?
There is no way I was the only kid who did realise all that (or even more) since I was young... no way.
The red road ends at a little hill. The book says on the first page that Dorothy was an orphan. The Wicked Witch had no blood, so she didn't sweat. Miss Gulch got a broken leg from a falling telegraph pole, so while she was healing, the Gales settled things with the Sheriff. I don't get why people think of Dorothy's mother and not her father; that's just weird. Well spotted about the torches!
The flying monkeys always scared me.
I can't wait for "Wicked", 11/22. It's up there with "LesMiz" and "Hamilton" as my favorite musical. I finally get to hear Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) singing and dancing.
Winged Monkeys, and I always thought they were funny.
When Glinda asks Dorothy if she has a broomstick, I always thought, “isn’t there a broomstick in Dorothy’s house?”
Likely so, but it isn't a magic one.
I’ve only seen this movie 2-3 times and it’s been a while since I last watched it but I do remember the times I’ve watched it I’ve wondered where the red brick road goes to
Nowhere; it stops at a little hill.
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I've always noticed that at least one time, the Scarecrow says "I think", after establishing that he can't think.
Showing that he has a brain all along. 🙂
Every time I see anything wit The Wizard of Oz I think of Judy Garland and how she was treated so horribly by Hollywood/People.. how she was drugged to keep her awake and how that lead to a life of Drug Addiction that ended in an “Overdose” 🤦🏻♂️and how she was extremely controlled to keep her weight.. and that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg on how she was treated.. Poor Judy Garland RIP❤
Okay, she wasn't "drugged to keep her awake." She wasn't drugged at all. She was already awake, because they filmed in the daytime, when people tend to be awake already. Besides, she only worked for four hours a day, in accordance with California child labor laws. Her addictions came in adulthood and were brought about more by personal pressures than professional ones. "Poor Judy Garland" in truth had a great time making _Wizard._
Every Time I see Anything with the Wizard of Oz Paper Dolls by Shawn Daley plays in my head, on loop, for no reason, at all.
@@MaskedMan66 I’ve seen in many places where the studio would give her pills 💊 as a young girl to keep her working for long hours and well as giving her pills 💊 to keep her weight controlled.. you’re talking about the time when females weren’t “well respected” they even had her do Black Face 🤷🏻♂️ just that will show you how “people’s rights” were looked at.. even now we have people like Diddy wit allegations of mistreating people like Usher and Justin Bieber.. you believe those things never happen? Not saying Garland and Usher and Bieber stories are 100 percent true.. just saying that for money 💵 people in this industry and studios would do fucken anything to anyone…
It was her mother that gave her uppers and downers while in vaudeville. It was already a cycle she was unfortunately in before WoO.
@@goodkittyjuju Wrong.
I always chose to believe that Miss Gulch really did get caught in the tornado and died, saving Toto.
She survived, but got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole.
In the book Wicked, it is stated she cleans herself with oil.
She had no blood, so she doesn't sweat, so she doesn't need to bathe.
Maybe I’m in the minority here but I first saw this movie when I was 4yrs old and noticed or considered almost all of these by the time I was 12yrs old. In fact, literally the only thing on your list I was not aware of is the cameo of Sawhorse. I’m shocked I missed him.
To address some of these “only adult” thoughts:
Dorothy is an orphan. Her parents are dead. Her mother was Henry’s sister (this is revealed in the book series). In the original film script Henry says during the incubator scene “poor little orphan and her Miss Gulch troubles--she aught to have someone to play with.” Meaning that Miss Gulch has it out for this little girl and they know it. Then Aunt Em replies “we all got to work out our own problems, Henry.”
The pig pen scene: Dorothy is balancing on the rails and falls into the pen. Her foot is caught in the barbed wire/chicken wire that is being used to keep the pigs from testing the fence. Before she falls, the pig pen is shown several times. It is a clean pen. No mud. She’s not going to get dirty in a dry pen. Just dusty. Which you see as she struggles while entangled in the wire. Also, she was in more danger from the wire and the hogs than she was from getting her frock dirty. That’s why Zeke leaps into action to get her out.
It’s a dream: Book it’s a real place and Dorothy loses the Silver Slippers when she flies over the Deadly Desert that surrounds Oz on her way back to Kansas, curtesy of Glinda. Original script it’s a real place. The original last shot of the film was supposed to be of the Ruby Slippers, either on her feet under the blanket or in her closet on the floor. This idea was scrapped completely by the final cut of the film which makes it appear that Dorothy did dream it all. And there are several moments that bolster that version.
House damage: In the book, the entire house is taken away by the twister. In the film, same thing happens. So how is Dorothy back in her own room inside the same farm house when she returns to Kansas? Because in the film it was a dream. Otherwise, they would be in a different house. Unless you factor in Glinda. Though she never shows it, Glinda definitely would have the power to not only return Dorothy but also the Gale farmhouse to Kansas.
Miss Gulch: She doesn’t exist in the book. In the original script, one of the drafts made it a point to mention that the twister killed her. However, that was not in the final shooting script. So we just don’t know if she did or did not survive. We do know both Sylvester and Professor Marvel survived and they were on a wagon!
It’s a dream theory: Everyone in Kansas shows up in Oz except Uncle Henry and Aunt Em because they are her reward. She wants to get back to them. They are the familiar, the safe. She’s not safe in Oz so they aren’t there. The Wicked Witch of the West is not Dorothy’s dark side or whatever. It’s how she sees Miss Gulch. She literally says it during the scene when Gulch takes Toto away from Dorothy. “You wicked old witch! Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, don’t let her take Toto! Please!” And yes Glinda represents Dorothy’s dead mother. She’s there in spirit throughout the whole journey. She’s a guiding force who brings Dorothy back to her safe place. She protects from afar as well-snow in the poppy field, her magical protection kiss.
Good Witch or Bad Witch: Okay, this one is a bit complicated. First off, Glinda is not the one who refers to Dorothy as a witch, the munchkins do. She says to Dorothy “The munchkins called me because a new witch has just dropped a house on the old witch of the East--and there’s the house and here you are. So the munchkin’s want to know are you a good witch or a bad witch?” Next, when Dorothy denies being the witch Glinda asks if the dog is the witch. This isn’t weird because in Oz animals have magical abilities. Glinda’s line that “only bad witches are ugly” is complex. She states two things: only bad witches are ugly means that good witches cannot be ugly ever, but bad witches can be ugly or beautiful. Glinda is “a little muddled” aka confused because she knows she is looking at a little girl and the only witches she knows are adults. Also, Dorothy has already stated she is not a witch. Glinda takes her at her word. Lastly, this is never addressed in the film but Dorothy’s blue gingham frock is a huge part of why the munchkin’s befriend her and think she is a witch. She is wearing the color of the good witches-white-mixed with the color of Munchkinland-blue. (Glinda in pink is a film only thing. In the novel all good witches wear white.) This is why Glinda thinks Dorothy is a good witch and is confused when she denies it.
Wicked Witch of the West’s obsession with the Ruby Slippers: West doesn’t care about East’s death. She is only interested in the shoes. Which is why Glinda places them on Dorothy’s feet and later gives Dorothy her protection kiss, which makes it impossible for the shoes to be taken from her by force. As is shown at West’s castle when she can’t touch Dorothy’s feet.
It's not said one way or the other in any of the books which of Dorothy's guardians is her blood relative.
@@MaskedMan66 It kind of is though. All inference of course, but still fairly clear. In Emerald City of Oz Uncle Henry thinks something like “his little niece had been a dreamer since birth, same as her dead mother had been.” This implies that Henry had a close lifetime-long relationship with Dorothy’s mother. Since Dorothy refers to him as Uncle Henry and he refers to her as his little niece, what else can be understood than Henry is the brother of Dorothy’s mother? And in Ozma of Oz Uncle Henry is taking Dorothy to Australia to visit his relatives that she has never met. Any time someone is related to Aunt Em in the series, the reader is told so outright. But Henry’s side of the family is pretty vaguely mentioned.
Please understand, I am in no way saying my interpretation is correct. I’m just offering the conclusion I and many more have come to believe based on the legit factoids presented by Baum himself. The truth is, unless there is some undiscovered manuscript hidden away somewhere waiting to be found that states Baum’s intentions in exact wording, we readers will simply never know.
@@kailyns8159 Good points all (and it's always a pleasure to meet someone who knows the books!), but Dorothy also calls Em Aunt Em, and Em calls Dorothy her niece as well. But you make a very convincing case. I do find it interesting that in the movie _Return to Oz,_ Henry's surname is Blue, which I always figured was indicative of his Aussie roots. 🙂 I've determined that if I ever get to play Henry on stage, I'm going to do it with a Strine accent.
Maybe ecase the saw horse was kinda hidden in the background.
@@MaskedMan66 I have equal love for the books and the MGM film. Baum inspired my love of writing fantasy and made it okay for me to write the same way I speak- with mature, sophisticated humor and witty intelligence. I’m kinda like The Woggle Bug, the glass cat, Toto, and the Wizard all rolled into one mind. He made it safe for me to nurture my unique perception of the world. And his imagination brought a story and characters into this world that invited me to a literary landscape of security and laughter during a time when I was too young to realize I was falling apart. The film I adore because it gave life and longevity to his fantasy world after Baum was no longer around to champion his work. Plus, it introduced me to the exceptional Judy Garland, which I’ll forever be thankful for.
I have mixed feelings about Return to Oz, if you’re referring to the Fairuza Balk movie. I’ve seen it maybe twice. It’s okay. But it’s such a Frankenstein’s monster of Baum’s original ideas that I kind of hate it. Still, it did bring some fascinating book moments to life in a pretty visually dynamic way. So I kind of love those elements too.
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why is no one talking about how dorothy's pigtails having her hair let down and that the movie came out the same year as snow white?
but i think everyone from the real world has their counterparts.
It came out two years after _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs._ And sorry, what was that about Dorothy's hair?
@@MaskedMan66 dude all i just said was why is dorothy''s hair from pigtails to her hair being down?
@@viviennemorgan7217 Remember the scene in the Wash & Brush-Up Shop in the Emerald City during "The Merry Old Land of Oz?"
@@MaskedMan66 oh yeah i remember that scene
Maybe Miss Gulch perished in the storm?
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
Frank L Baum never made the Wizard the one who declared the witches as good or evil. That’s all that matters. It is annoying that some people take established stories and creates new cannon. It’s not-only unless it is created by the original author
It's L. Frank Baum (his first name was Lyman-- and he hated it), and nor did MGM.
The detail I didn’t notice until I was an adult was the significance of the scene where Zeke (Bert Lahr) rescues Dorothy from the pig stye. He acts without hesitation, but then has a panic attack afterwards. That delayed reaction is something that’s true to life and has been observed with soldiers in combat. For example, years ago I saw a documentary about bomber crews during World War II and the fear from what they went through didn’t show itself until the mission was over.
*EDIT* didn’t, not did.
Those flying monkeys frightened me as a 6-year-old.
It's Winged Monkeys, and I always thought they were funny. 🙂
Me too! 😭
@@debbieschmidling8158 Even when Nikko applauded after the Wicked Witch was all melted?
When the lion starts crying, Judy can't stop laughing. The take they left in the movie, Judy is still snickering for a few seconds. Once you catch it, you can't unsee it.
Professor Marvel tricking Dorothy to go home was always obvious.
Not to everybody.
@@MaskedMan66 him going through her basket, describing Auntie Em, telling Dorothy shes sick so she'd go home, made it obvious to me.
@@annecox944 And me, but some people didn't quite catch on.
For the horses, They actually used this gelatin powder (Jello) to change the color to red, yellow and the rest
Frank Morgan was originally only meant to play Wizard and was cast as such. However, producers soon realized that, since he was by far the biggest star at the time in the film, he would require a larger role.
Role of Wizard is relatively small, therefore they needed to come up with solution to give Morgan more on screen time as Wizard would only appear in one or two scenes. Therefore, brand new characters of Professor Marvel and carriage driver were created, while he was also given two guard roles who do appear in the book in respective scenes.
Not counting, of course, the rumors that Morgan also played the giant head of Wizard in the throne room, but this was never officially confirmed.
Yes, the slippers were ruby to show that it's in color and some people think it was a black and white that was color used
My theory is the RED BRICK ROAD leads to the witch's castle
Maybe it leads to the Good Witch of the South?
It stops at a little hill.
Yea my thought is it led to where the cottage of where of the wicked witch of the east used to stay since she was the munchkins ruler
The Wizard of Oz; Snow White; the Sound of Music. When Hollywood made beautiful movies for families.
Well, _The Sound of Music_ was made about three decades later than the other two, but I dig. 🙂 In fact, two of my childhood crushes come from two of those movies: Judy Garland in _Wizard_ and Angela Cartwright in _Sound._
Dorothy says "I will miss you most of all" to Scarecrow because, in early versions of the script, Dorothy and Scarecrow's counterpart Hank were planned to have a hint on romantic connection going between two of them.
In the final version of the script this connection was removed, but the phrase, which underlined it, was kept.
100% didnt realize how old the movie was growing up (born in 95) and honestly didnt think much of the sepia toned beginning of the movie. I thought it was just dark and dreary because a storm was coming in, so there wasnt a lot of sun, thought that all of my childhood in fact. I got a VHS copy of it for my 6 birthday, and also thought it was a brand new movie coming out at the time, and wasnt until I was in my teens that I realized the movie was 70 years old, and had gone from sepia to technicolor during the movie lol
You're spot on. The book makes a big deal about how Kansas is dusty and everything is weathered to grey. The illustrations in that chapter are printed in grey. Then when Dorothy arrives in Munchkin land, the illustrations are printed in blue. They're green in the Emerald City chapters, yellow in the chapters about looking for the Wicked Witch of the West in Winkie Country, and red when they journey to Quadling Country to see Glinda. "The Wizard of Oz" doesn't have any scenes in purple Gillikin Country. Subsequent books don't use the same color scheme for the illustrations.
What about when the sun shines on Dorothy when she sings "Over the Rainbow?"
The Muppet version confirmed that Oz is real.
The BOOKS said so first.
@@MaskedMan66 I know but the Muppet version makes OZ more realistic.
So did the 1985 Disney film “Return to Oz…”
@@forrestdupre87 "More realistic" than what? That was also not the first adaptation to present Oz as real, so it's neither unique nor special.
@@Beth_Alice_Kaplan Most versions-- taking their cues from the BOOKS-- present Oz as a real place.
He was in fact a "dandy" lion
Nope.
21: this is a good aide for the concept THE HEROES JOURNEY!
Dorothy is wearing a pinafore dress, the white part of her dress is a separate blouse.
The blouse is actually a shade of pink.
@@pugs2189 In real life, yes, but for purposes of the movie, it's white.
Was there anything in the book which said that the dress should be blue? If not was Technicolor still wanting to show off how their 3 colour process could reproduce accurate blues, as they did in some earlier films? Most older colour processes were 2 colour and could not reproduce blues accurately so these colours were avoided in costumes and sets.
Also, where did the idea that Alice, as in Wonderland, wore a blue dress come from? The original illustrations in those books were black and white engravings, so the dress would have been grey in them. Was it just that blue dresses were fashionable at that time? When I was a little boy, about four, which would have been in about 1961, I really liked the Alice books. I hadn’t learned to read then, but my mother would read them to me and I would look at the pictures. I also insisted on wanting to wear an Alice dress, and as luck would have it a friend of mine had one which she used to let me wear. I don’t think I ever heard anybody say that as a boy I shouldn’t wear a dress. A couple of years later as a big grown up six year old I wouldn’t have been seen dead wearing a dress!
@@srfurley The book is online; you should 'ave a read. 🙂From Chapter 3, "How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow":
"Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock."
And later, after she's met a wealthy Munchkin whose family puts her and Toto up for the night, they have this exchange:
"When Boq saw her silver shoes he said, 'You must be a great sorceress.'
'Why?' asked the girl.
'Because you wear silver shoes and have killed the Wicked Witch. Besides, you have white in your frock, and only witches and sorceresses wear white.'
'My dress is blue and white checked,' said Dorothy, smoothing out the wrinkles in it.
'It is kind of you to wear that,” said Boq. “Blue is the color of the Munchkins, and white is the witch color. So we know you are a friendly witch.'
Dorothy did not know what to say to this, for all the people seemed to think her a witch, and she knew very well she was only an ordinary little girl who had come by the chance of a cyclone into a strange land. "
@@srfurley From the book, Chapter 3, "How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow":
"Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock."
I did Wicked Witches' "Jitterbug" monologue for one of my drama class assignments. We weren't supposed to chose a monologue from a movie but since it didn't make the final cut, my teacher let it slide.
Considering the fact that there was just a tornado and Miss Gulch was riding that bike, probably determined to get to whoever was going to kill Toto, I prefer to think that the tornado did Dorothy a solid for making her bump her head.
According to the stage version of the MGM musical, Almira got her leg broken by a falling telegraph pole. While she's on the mend, the Gales will settle things with the Sheriff.
Dorothea stepping out into Oz was an impossible visual effect at the time, they couldn't show B&W and color at the same time. For that shot the entire room was painted in sepia. A body double wearing a sepia dress opened the door, then stepped off camera, then Garland in a color dress steps in.
Despite her youthful appearance, Billie Burke who played Glinda was actually 55 at the time and would fit into the character by age for sure. However, maybe her youthful appearance was what cost her double roles.
Re: Numbah 15. You can not dream of colors you have never seen. Dorothy did NOT simply have a vivid dream. Oz is real.
I always assumed that the studio changed the book to a “dream” because censors would not have approved of giving children the idea that “magical” places were real.
Dorothy dreamed it; the movie makes it clear. Why in the world do you think they'd bring in five characters who aren't in the book to be the templates for some of the characters she meets in Oz?
@@Beth_Alice_Kaplan It was nothing to do with censors. But all the same, the suits didn't want the fantasy to be real... never mind that audiences had no problem with the fantasy in _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ being real just two years before.
@@MaskedMan66 I guess they thought animation was different?
@@MaskedMan66 1. That's how the book ended. In the book there was no question of it being a dream. The end of the movie was changed from the book to put out a bit of propaganda to the women of the time that had left the home to work in factories during WW2. The end was a metaphoric message that their adventure was about to end and they neede4d to be ready to go home.
2 Again, the human brain can not dream of colors it has never seen. That's neurological fact. The colors is Oz did not exist in Kansas. Her dress is proof of that. She was physiologically incapable of dreaming of what the movie studio showed us. Thus, she didn't.
Tbf, she didn't say ALL bad witches were ugly. Just that ONLY bad witches were ugly.
😊❤️ some witches 🧙♀️ are butiful. Love them 💕 like 👍
@@DerekDolcy ❤️😊
That's hair-splitting.
@@MaskedMan66 She never said bad Witches couldn't be pretty 🤷♀️
@@angelcat2865 It would only be an illusion.
The wizard of Oz was my momma's favorite movie. Now she's gone. I miss her everyday. I saw wicked yesterday 11-6-24 It was nothing compared to the original movie. I love the references they made though . ❤️🥺💯. My mom would love 💞 see people are still in original movies 😞🍿🎥
I’m early and I love scarecrow 🧡
I feel like Dorothy’s surname is so cool . The reason I think this is because gale means a strong gust of wind and wind is a very associated phenomenon in the film
I wanted to be Dorothy..but the monkeys always scared me to death...❤❤
I always thought they were funny.
The yellow brick road was plywood so whenever Dorothy had a walking or dancing scene her slippers had felt on the bouton to keep the noise down.
In Disney's "Hunchback," one of the gargoyles says, "Fly my pretties, fly," during the climax. The Mandela Effect could have started there. Just a thought.
You mean the misremembering.
My headcanon is that Dorothy's teacher is the real world equivalent of Glinda. Let's call her Miss Good. Dorothy goes to an old fashioned one room schoolhouse where Miss Good teaches Dorothy and her agemates history and geography while teaching younger kids their ABC's. She often encourages Dorothy to learn things for herself by thinking things through. When Miss Gulch comes in to scold Dorothy for something Toto did, Miss Good tells Miss Gulch that she has no business barging in and ordering her students about. After Miss Gulch left, Miss Good had to calm down some frightened small children like Glinda does with the Munchkins.
I read another headcanon somewhere that after Dorothy began her journey, Glinda went somewhere she could do research on the Ruby Slippers to find out just what they were capable of. Like the Wicked Witch, she also had a crystal ball to keep tabs of Dorothy and her friends. They seemed to have a handle on things until they got to the poppy field, in which case Glinda sent some snow to help out.
I don't do headcanons, and I would point out that most of the characters Dorothy meets in Oz don't have Kansas counterparts. Only her three companions, the two Wicked Witches, the Wizard, the Cabbie, the Guardian of the Gates, and Omby Amby are inspired by people she knows or has met; everyone else-- Glinda, the Winkie Captain, and the hundreds of Munchkins, Winkies, trees, and other Ozites are exclusive to her dream.
In 1997 I talked to two “munchkins” at the MGM Grand in Vegas doing a book signing. One of them told me she hated how MGM treated Judy Garland on and off the set. I’ve since found out that Louis Meyer fed her coffee and amphetamines to keep her thin. This led to Judy Garlands drug problems and early death
As a child, the Wicked Witch of the West scared the bejeezus out of me, but as an adult, I understand her a bit more. Her sister has died, her ruby slippers stolen, and she wants revenge. But more than that, she wants the one sacred thing that belonged to her sister. I would feel the same way if one of my siblings died, and I didn't have some memento.
In the book, Wicked, there is an explanation for how Elphaba stays clean. She cleanses herself in oil, and wipes it off.
Glynda is a more evil character than Elphaba. The power to go home made a lot more sense, and Glynda totally pissed off the entire audience.
Scarecrow's theorem blunder was actually a neccessity. Ray Bolger legitimately couldn't get it right in multiple attempts so they just used the best shot they had and moved on.
I will always love this movie ever since i was a kid now and forever ❤
Where's the witch of the South?
That was in the novel
In the books, Glinda is the Good Witch of the South; the Good Witch of the North is a sweet little old lady named Tattypoo.
@@MaskedMan66 yeah and they combined both witches for the movie turning them into one character Glinda
@@officialchase02 Or just flip-flopped them, making Tattypoo the unseen Good Witch of the South.
Oh my effing God. He said SOME. SOME of the of square roots of any two sides, etc. A right triangle *can* be an isosceles triangle. It's kind of a wonky way to say it, but he's not completely wrong either.
Also, in the books, the red brick road goes to Quadling Country, the next district of Oz as you head south and west (more south or west depending on where you are in Munchkinland). In the movie, it just goes into little cul-de-sacs around Munchkin City.
The guy who helped Dorothy while on the run def sent her to oz so it helps her relize that there is no place like home. So i actually think he sid protect her from the twister.