The Wizard of Oz

[sojourner]

The Wheelers.

scary


I love the original, have done since I was a kid. For once in my life, I don't over-analyse it, I simply sit back and let the loveliness and humour wash over me. I fucking LOVE the cowardly lion, he's ace

I always really wanted those particular shoes, which was well strange, cos it's...me! Why would I want those girly shoes? But I do

 

[moonsi til]

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.

Very well put.... I'm not sure how long it actually is but I remember feeling like it lasted for ages when I first watched it...which was ace. I also recall feeling that it was very special film.

 

[citygirl]

scary


I love the original, have done since I was a kid. For once in my life, I don't over-analyse it, I simply sit back and let the loveliness and humour wash over me. I fucking LOVE the cowardly lion, he's ace

I always really wanted those particular shoes, which was well strange, cos it's...me! Why would I want those girly shoes? But I do

This could've been a post by me

 

[DotCommunist]

I suppose Return to Oz could be seen as a sort of death-and-rebirth of the american dream. The wheelers would be evil socialists.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Mad, scary, colourful, sinister, moral, monkeys with wings, midgets...

sugar coated amrican gothic at it's very best.

A classic.

 

[8den]

No the witch who removes her heads and keeps them in that hallway in glass cases.



ha!

More the Dorothy getting electroshock treatment to cure her "hallucinogens" Oz.

Fairuza Balk plays Dorothy in Return to Oz. You'll remember her from such movies as "The Craft", "American History X" and "Almost Famous"

Return to Oz was directed by Walter Murch, a quadruple Oscar winning film editor and a infamous fucking bore.

 

[krtek a houby]

More the Dorothy getting electroshock treatment to cure her "hallucinogens" Oz.

Fairuza Balk plays Dorothy in Return to Oz. You'll remember her from such movies as "The Craft", "American History X" and "Almost Famous"

Return to Oz was directed by Walter Murch, a quadruple Oscar winning film editor and a infamous fucking bore.

And look at Lady Di in the background! Spooky!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Return to Oz was based on two of the L Frank Baum books combined, I think, Ozma of Oz and The Land of Oz.

I hadn't realised until the other year when I looked at his wiki entry, but L Frank Baum was actually something of a hideous racist towards the native americans...

 

[krtek a houby]

Despite all the awful stories that have since come out about the production etc, it's still a favourite. The sets and beauty of Emerald City ...

Which is why was surprised that Judy Garland's stunt double - Caren Marsh Doll - is still with us at the age of 105!