Actually Pretty Funny: After Dorothy agrees with Scarecrows opinion that some people without brains can do a lot of talking she gives him a smile, showing that she actually found the statement pretty amusing.The Munchkins, of course, sing 'Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead', and when the other Wicked Witch is killed, the Winkie guards (who were seemingly her loyal followers) are ecstatic. 0% Approval Rating: Absolutely no one is upset when either Wicked Witch is killed.

Adaptations were far rarer since then, and most since have been based on the film rather than the book.Īs far as tropes go, this film has directly inspired Off to See the Wizard (for Stock Parodies of the film's plot) and Not in Kansas Anymore. Although most of the music for the show has been lost, the producers of the 1939 version were aware of it, and that may have had an influence on their work.

That, curiously enough, was based on a 1902 stage musical. There were several silent adaptations, the oldest surviving of which is from 1910. While this version is by far the most well known, and much more well-known than the book it is based on, it is not the only, or even the first film adaptation. As it turns out, Oz really was a real place. note In The Emerald City of Oz, just before Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry come to Oz once and for all, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry think that Dorothy's Oz adventures are mere dreams, as well.

The film changed the silver shoes to ruby slippers (depending on this source, this was either to show off the new color technology of the time, because silver shoes were boring, or because silver shoes didn't show up well), merged the two good witches, cut out several incidents, including all of Dorothy's (admittedly anticlimactic) return to the Emerald City after killing the Witch and the journey from the Emerald City to Glinda's palace, and added the possible All Just a Dream ending-the studio heads thought the audience was too sophisticated to accept a 'real' fantasyland. The film was directed by Victor Fleming and starred Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton. The Wizard Of Oz is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, and the most well-known screen adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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