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#100Oz the Great and Powerful
Posted: 3/31/13 at 4:02am
Jordan that's because they needed a MAN to show those powerful, intelligent, beautiful ladies the way! (Good god.)
Correction to a previous post: The animated cartoon where Kansas was black-and-white and Oz was Technicolor was from 1933 not 1936. So it was a full six years before the MGM film did the same thing.
1933 Wizard of Oz cartoon
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#101Oz the Great and Powerful
Posted: 3/31/13 at 8:56am
Then there's this version, which leaves out so many plot points that I wonder if anyone not familiar with the book would have understood it.
1910 silent Wizard
#102Oz the Great and Powerful
Posted: 3/31/13 at 5:43pmI think it was assumed that that film version was connected with the earlier musical stage version--so they assumed people would have some connection to that (though the musical had a cow and no Witch, so...). All the silent Oz films are interesting--at least what we have of them, the ones Baum did himself the most so.
#103Oz the Great and Powerful
Posted: 3/31/13 at 5:46pm
There's also a precedent from the earlier silent film of having actors in the Kansas scenes playing other characters in Oz.
Oliver Hardy, for one--a hired hand, and the Tin Man.
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#104Oz the Great and Powerful
Posted: 3/31/13 at 9:17pm
I guess I'm late to the game with this but I saw it two weeks ago... I was tempted to leave halfway through.
It had potential, but the plot was so rushed and the whole movie was ruined by CGI; if they were going re-create sets such as the Emerald City and Munchkinland, they should've done so with more "charm," in my opinion. I couldn't help but laugh at the obvious "you will not defy me!" stab at Wicked.
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