Film Puzzler #3

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 5:31pm

In THE WIZARD OF OZ (MGM, 1939) there is a continuity problem with one of the principle characters. Which one is it and what's the problem?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 5:35pm

That's so gay. As the original Bulldog said, "Why does everything have to be gay gay gay all the time?" (Not you Jose, the original Bulldog.) But who else but a gay man would know about Judy's ever-changing pig tail lengths? Short, long, medium, long, short. Gay gay gay.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 6:15pm

is it the length of dorothy's hair that changes from short to long after the emerald city back to short?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 6:18pm

"Am I invisible? Do I have a voice? I had that idea [40 minutes] ago." -- Jan Brady, A Very Brady Sequel.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 8:11pm

there's a lot of continuity mistakes throughout the film which one are you talking about?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 8:18pm

hmmmm, is it a coincidence that right after namo says "gay" three times that robertactor mentions length? i think not!

once again finding a way to turn every thread into one long, thick, pulsing sexual innuendo!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 8:22pm

papa, honey, your icon is undermining the zing of your innuendo.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 4/4/04 at 10:44pm

When Dorothy et al are in the Witches forest, The Wicked Witch of the West tells the Leader of the Wonged monkeys, "I've sent a little insect to take the fight out of them so they won't be any trouble" (or something like that)..this was to lead into the cut "Jitterbug" number.

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 7:37am

the "Wonged" monkeys??? that little typo made my day!! i don't know why... maybe because i've been at work since 530 this morning...

i... need... COFFEE!!!! Updated On: 4/5/04 at 07:37 AM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 8:24am

Oh...honey! I know what you mean, joe! Kawfeee...kawfee...Just for you, I'll leave my typo in!

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 8:34am

thanks! i'm surprised the grammar police hadn't caught that... it gave me my first laugh of the day!

[magruder]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 9:02am

Here are a couple of other continuity problems or little details in Wizard of Oz you might not have noticed:

- When Dorothy is running to oil the Tin Man, the oil can falls out of her basket. In the next shot, the oil can is back in the basket.

- You'll notice a three shot of Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man after the Witch has threatened them, that has a slightly fuzzy quality. The Scarecrow and the Tin Man were on the opposite sides of Dorothy in the shot, following the abandoned "beehive" sequence, and so for continuity when that scene was cut or never filmed, the image had to be reversed.

- The purple "horse of a different color" can't stop licking himself. (Can't remember if I heard they used food coloring or jello to color the horses.)

- Judy Garland trips on the lion's carpet/robe during the "If I Were King of the Forest" processional, and she barely stifles a laugh.

- At one point prior to the Witch sending off the Flying Monkeys, the head monkey (his name escapes me, but he has a name), hands the Witch a gold piece of fabric, which she throws down. The line where she had asked him to bring the object was cut. As it stands now, he hands her an item that you've never heard her request.

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 9:04am

isn't the head monkey named Christery??? I'M KIDDING!!! i'm kidding...

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 9:53am

i went back and forth yesterday over whether to comment on those monkey's wongs.

[magruder]

Posted: 4/5/04 at 9:58am

Found the name...the head monkey's name is Nikko.