The Wizard of Oz
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a perverts dream
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Somewhere over the rainbow.
great music, rubbish story
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Within an enchanting morality play of americana style there is a deeper meaning about stripping away the curtain the Wizard that serves as a metaphor for the yankee myth of egalitarian society. Which means Glinda is basically Lady Liberty.
/psueds
e2a
note also that Glinda as Liberty is powerless to protect herself, but must be 'saved' by an immigrant. The main characters are all seekers after something. It's a metaphor for the american dream
/psueds
e2a
note also that Glinda as Liberty is powerless to protect herself, but must be 'saved' by an immigrant. The main characters are all seekers after something. It's a metaphor for the american dream
You could do better, I suppose.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
love it, spesh now it's been revamped and look marvellous, went to the nft to see the new print recently and it's mindblowing. story lags a bit in the end, but i love the movie.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
srsly?
it's a bloody good story: good and evil, scary flying monkeys, peril and rescue, a quest...
The "my parents don't understand me" theme is universal and speaks directly to kids, the sepia-to-technicolour aspect is as startling a 'special effects' depiction of another world as has ever been achieved on film...
Films for kids now tend to have a little inbuilt cynicism and injokery for the grown-ups and this film is light on that (although the bureacracy of Oz and the 'man behind the curtain stuff' delivers a little) but mostly it's a film for children. Trying to assess its entertainment value as an adult is missing the point somewhat.
Oh and "Somewhere over the rainbow" is an absolute stonker of a ballad, requiring quite breathtaking technical skill to sing.
it's a bloody good story: good and evil, scary flying monkeys, peril and rescue, a quest...
The "my parents don't understand me" theme is universal and speaks directly to kids, the sepia-to-technicolour aspect is as startling a 'special effects' depiction of another world as has ever been achieved on film...
Films for kids now tend to have a little inbuilt cynicism and injokery for the grown-ups and this film is light on that (although the bureacracy of Oz and the 'man behind the curtain stuff' delivers a little) but mostly it's a film for children. Trying to assess its entertainment value as an adult is missing the point somewhat.
Oh and "Somewhere over the rainbow" is an absolute stonker of a ballad, requiring quite breathtaking technical skill to sing.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Didn't see it until I was about 18 or 19, so it was all a bit 'Yeah, well made film for the period, can see how it might scare the kiddies' etc, no really strong feelings on it otherwise.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Love it, and all of the spin offs. Return to Oz, The Wiz
seen 'Wicked'? I was highly sceptical, but got free tickets and was utterly blown away. I recommend.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i often started my jungle sets by playing judy garland singing somewhere over the rainbow at 45 instead of 33
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
how do you burn the celluloid already? 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The books are worth a look as well. Not seen the stage production but the books are ace
bi0boy
Power User
how do you burn the celluloid already?
The most favourable state of being is one where all copies of the film have already been destroyed.
e2a preferably before I was born.
how do you burn the celluloid already?
Oy
zenie
>^^<
no would love to but never have a spare 80 quid for tickets.
I didn't find Wizard of Oz scary, Return to Oz scared the shit out of me aged 6.
I prefer Return To Oz 
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
how can you not find the wicked witch of the west scary?!no would love to but never have a spare 80 quid for tickets.
I didn't find Wizard of Oz scary, Return to Oz scared the shit out of me aged 6.
she still makes me feeling well-spooked...
Return to Oz is actually closer to the original books.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
My kids movie that did this was Watership Down.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Love that film. RTE used to show it every xmas. American cinema at it's best.
There's a wonderful version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Check it out.
There's a wonderful version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Check it out.
zenie
>^^<
The Wheelers.
No the witch who removes her heads and keeps them in that hallway in glass cases.
how can you not find the wicked witch of the west scary?!
she still makes me feeling well-spooked...
ha!
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