#the wizard of oz 1939

[letterboxd-worth-a-damn]

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[aquitainequeen]

The moment in the cyclone with Miss Gulch turning into the Wicked Witch and cackling is one of the best moments in cinema.

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[ultrakeencollectionbreadfan]

I do hope that if The Wizard of Oz is ever adapted again in any form, I want it to have the 1939 Wizard's tone combined with Return to Oz's technological sensibilities.

#the wizard of oz #l frank baum #lyman frank baum #the wizard of oz 1939 #return to oz #maybe not as a movie #but a tv series made like that would be interesting

[themousefromfantasyland]

Thoughts I had while watching The Wizard of Oz after a long time

1 - This is the Wicked Witch of the East. She's wearing high heels that look suspiciously similar to the ruby slippers, and later Dorothy tells the Munchkins how the Wicked Witch of the East flew too close to the house.

The wind began to switch – the house to pitch and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch.

Just then the Witch – to satisfy an itch went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch.

2 - Why do Munchkins think goblins are destined to go to hell? Are there goblins in Oz?

Wake up, the wicked witch is dead!

She's gone where the goblins go below, below, below, yo ho

3 - Is Oz technically a county?

4 - Oz seems to be a mostly agrarian society. You could see farmlands in almost all backgrounds

5 - The Wicked Witch of the West is Hitler and Mussolini. The Wicked Witch is green, because the Winkies are green. She's a sovereign leader who enslaved her own people, and is so tyrannical, that they are glad and relieved when she's dead. I think 1930's audiences were more than likely to understand these subtexts.

6 - The LGBTQ fandom of the movie subverted the whole message.

In the film, the Land of Oz, no matter how much it's more colorful, more cheerful and more liberated than Kansas, is treated just like a childish fantasy, and Kansas is the reality that Dorothy has to learn to conform to live within. The message comes as if you should never try to escape your dreary, monochromatic conservative rural state.

The LGBTQ following, the friends of Dorothy, identity themselves more with Oz, and prefer to live over the rainbow in a magical fairyland where they can be themselves and be celebrated because of it, than to be forced to conform to society expectations in dreary Kansas.

@ariel-seagull-wings @autistic-prince-cinderella @tamisdava2 @natache @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie

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[quotes-from-oz]

I do think it's a great touch (and a pointed diss to higher education that Baum would have loved) to give the Scarecrow a diploma in the film instead of physical brains. It does a great job of accentuating the ridiculousness of using a piece of paper to measure intelligence or wealth when we know it's all a sham <3

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[lovecatnip]

The Wizard of Oz

1939

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[velvet4510]

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[pollsforpondering]

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[pyramidofmice]

Pearl (2022) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) parallels:

• Pearl talking to her barn animals about being a star / Dorothy's Over The Rainbow

• Ruth catching fire and Pearl throwing the bowl of water on her / The Wicked Witch catching fire and Dorothy throwing a pail of water on her, accidentally killing her

• Pearl taking the scarecrow down from the post and dancing with him / Dorothy freeing the Scarecrow from the post and dancing with him

• Pearl riding her bike past the cornfield / Dorothy, Miss Gulch (the Wicked Witch) riding a bike down the road

• Pearl's dress silhouettes and hair bows / Dorothy's dress silhouette and hair bow

#The movie also references Hitchcock's Psycho by having Pearl push John and his car into the pond #pearl 2022 #the wizard of oz 1939 #pearl movie #pyra speaks

[imholdingoutforahero]

An exceptionally rare picture of Judy Garland as Dorothy wearing a blonde wig, a different dress and plainer ruby slippers during the first week of filming “The Wizard of Oz”, before producers changed their minds about her appearance.

The original picture is the first one in black and white, while the second one in sepia is a very simple edit made by me.

Source: The Judy Room

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[letterboxd-worth-a-damn]

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[elastijubilee]

Fave Musical Movies (In no exact order mostly):

West Side Story (2021)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Grease (1978)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The Music Man (1962)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Mary Poppins (1964)

Honorable Mentions:

The Sound of Music (1965)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Chicago (2002)

Les Miserables (2012)

Also, there's plenty of other ones I've liked but those were my faves.

My Most Anticipated New Musical Movies:

Wicked parts 1&2 (2024/2025)

The Color Purple (2023)

Follies (whenever that'll actually be...)

Merrily We Roll Along (sometime in 20 years)

Remake of The King and I (TBA)

Remake of Flower Drum Song? (TBA)

Musical Movies I Need to Watch:

In the Heights (2021)

Sweet Charity (1969)

Cabaret (1972) (yep I've never actually seen it in its entirety)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Tik Tik Boom (2021)

An American in Paris (1951)

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (I've seen The Young Girls of Rochefort ('67) so I have faith in this director)

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[schlock-luster-video]

On December 13, 1940 The Wizard of Oz debuted in Portugal.

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[delightful-mirth]

It really was no miracle

What happened was just this:

The wind began to switch the house to pitch

And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch

Just then the witch, to satisfy an itch

Went flying on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch

#the wizard of oz 1939 #the wizard of oz #judy garland #margaret hamilton #billie burke #Youtube

[gwydionmisha]

     A Deep Dive into the Horror-filled Production of The Wizard of Oz (1939)    

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[quotes-from-oz]

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz film 1939.

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