I'm interested how they are going to explain the green skin...
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They never really expained it it the Original film Diva, just was.
Not really looking forward to this. I think like Alice, it will be overly CGI and not very exciting. I have found no interest in the trailers I have seen.
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Well, in the original, she didn't start out white. The previews show Mila looking very pretty when the wizard is first introduced to her.
So, I was wondering what the explanation in this film was, for her turning green.
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I'm not surprised that it's Mila because Rachel Weisz is playing her sister. In both the popular MGM film and a hit 2003 Broadway musical, 'Wicked', the Wicked Witch of the East is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West.
I'm not surprised that it's Mila because Rachel Weisz is playing her sister. In a popular MGM film and a 2003 Broadway musical, the Wicked Witch of the East is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West.
What?
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^ I've corrected post, JerseyGirl2. What I meant to say was that in both the 1939 film, 'The Wizard of Oz' and the 2003 Broadway musical, 'Wicked', the green witch has a sister who is also known as the Wicked Witch of the East.
"Not really looking forward to this. I think like Alice, it will be overly CGI and not very exciting. I have found no interest in the trailers I have seen. "
That was my original problem, but for some reason, I trust Raimi more than I trust Burton with this kinda material. Also, while it seems like the last thing we need is ANOTHER Oz prequel (and as much as Wicked is a somewhat guilty pleasure of mine, I don't think it really jives, book or musical, with the Oz books I obsessed over as a kid *or* the 1939 movie), it still seems more smart than Burton's bizarre decision to re-imagine Alice as some convulated, epic "quest" fantasy, something the book certainly was not.
Why is this a spoiler though? I saw her last week on Ellen and they showed a clip and she mentioned she was the witch (the clip wa pre-witch, I think).
I'm confused by BeautyWicked's post... Unless you just mean that in the original Baum novel they weren't sisters (neither were the Good Witch of the North--who I don't think had any name, and Glenda the Good Witch of the South).
In the original novel, I think only Glinda the Good With of the North is named. There was a separate Witch of the South (who was good, I think) and then the Witches of the West and East, who were bad. I just realized that the Witch of the South isn't mentioned at all in the 1939 musical.
I don't know about them being sisters either. I need to pick up the book again.
I actually love Wicked, but I hate the way it ends. Don't even get me started on the Wicked musical.
Almost right: Glinda is the only named witch, and she's the witch of the south. And there's no mention of any of them being sisters. (And, for the record, no one is described as being green. Though the Witch of the West is depicted as having only one eye, though illustrators disagree as to whether she's blind in one of two or just has one in the middle.)
Right. For some reason as a kid, it drove me crazy that they combined the Witch of the North and Glinda of the South into one character (though, really, it makes sense to me now that they did). I think the bugged me more than anything else--except the dream ending...
I go by the original illustrations myself :P Denslow worked closely with Baum (hence why he got half of the rights--of course his pics had been seen as a big reason their previous book Father Goose: His Book had been such a massive hit), so I go with the one eye patch. :P I can't remember if Neil ever drew TheWicked Witch of the West in his books and how he did, if he did--though I know he did draw Witch of the East for some of the convulated flashback in, I think, Tin Woodsman of Oz.
Baum called her Locasta in the libretto of the 1902 musical. His successor as Royal Historian named her Tattypoo, which sounds to me like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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