WICKED!

went to the actors fund performance of wicked on sunday Love it! the cast was amazing but the thing that needs alot of working on is winnie holzmans Book she opened up doors in the script but never closed them and I wish elphebas and glindas friendship could have been stronger! but over all it was phenomenal.

Updated On: 6/30/09 at 11:49 AM

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hell nawh.

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The book does unfortunately need a lot of work, but it probably won't ever get the fix that it needs. I'm sure the producers are more than happy with it the way it is -- having made them so much money and all. Artistic integrity doesn't matter at this point.

Updated On: 6/30/09 at 04:55 PM

What sucks even more is that Holzman is writing the screenplay for the movie.

...and it's the pelvic thrust, that really drives you insane.
Let's do the Time Warp again!

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can you point out for me the plot holes and those "opened doors"

I;ve often heard of references to such but I guess I've never sat down and poured over the script to find them and I am interested to know what people are referring to

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simple question really, i just dont see plot holes unless they are really big, i guess i dont really focus on that. SO i just wanted to sear some of them from other people's point of view

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Updated On: 7/1/09 at 08:32 AM

Hahaha, oh Wicked. I didn't realize they were making a movie though. Link, anyone?

I don't know if I would call this a plot hole, but the whole story makes no sense, in regards to "The Wizard of Oz." For example, Dorothy dreams that she went to Oz, and all the of the characters are supposed to be people she knew from Kansas. If you don't know that movie or anything about it, then you are fine, but I thought way too much about it.

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In the scene where she is standing in the rain I think she was actually standing under a bridge. If I remember correctly.

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but the character does what it is supposed to do and that's develop the relationship of glinda and elphaba. does the job i think.

What relationship? Why are they even "best friends"? Glinda is a complete bitch. They are friends because Glinda gives her a makeover, really?

Dorothy only dreams she goes to Oz in the movie. In Baum's book Oz is an actual place. The slippers are silver in Baum's book as they are in Wicked, they only become red when the heat from the spell makes red hot.
The entire song about how she has one eye that stays awake when she sleeps and that water can melt her is pretty much taken from Baums description of the witch in his book (she is not green BTW).
Wicked is sort of a mixture of what we know from the movie and from the original book. In Baum's book Dorothy doesn't accidently hit the witch with water trying to put the scarecrow out, she does it intentionally. The Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman aren't even there.
This is where the ending of Wicked comes from. We don't see the Tinman Lion or Scarecrow when Dorothy's sillouette throws the bucket of water at the witch and she melts. There is no, "Want to play ball scare crow?" and frantic "I'm burning I'm burning!"

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I do enjoy Wicked, but I don't see WHY they have a relationship. Glinda does nothing but insult her & essentially got her sister killed. The only act of kindness is at the ballroom & it makes me feel that For Good comes out of nowhere.