The Wizard Of Oz

It's on TV now....I've never seen this fockin movie - is it any good?

• Is it a metaphor and if so, what?
• Does a munchkin-actor really hang himself in the background of one scene?
• Is there any synchronized correlation between the movie and Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon'?
• Is it a gay-icon movie?

:dunno:

 

The "Wizard of Oz" is an Iconic CHILDREN's Flick...

If you're Watching it for the 1st Time & Children AREN'T Around, you'll Probably Find it CORNY & BORING...REED Would Suggest Watching it w/a Child, if you Have Any...

GOOD Flick, but Targeted to a PARTICULAR Audience, in REED's Opinion...

REED:kidcool:

 

Answering in order.

1. No idea.
2. No. Read it was not true.
3. In a flukish way perhaps. Maybe Pink Floyd tried to do it intentionally, but they never copped to it.
4. Who knows?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

 

I love Wizard of Oz. A timeless classic. Great family movie. Saw it for the first time 30 years ago.
But if you're a dull boring f*cktard with no imagination whatsoever, you simply won't get it. So yeah, it is geared towards a specific audience as reed said.

 

When I was a kid I enjoyed watching it every year. The flying monkeys gave me nightmares.

It was waaaaaay ahead of it's time in terms of set design and whatever they called special effects back then.

I always hated musicals, but I liked Wizard of Oz for some reason. There's a subtle dark element about it.

Never heard about it being a gay-icon movie. The star, Judy Garland later fit into that role, along with her daughter Liza Minnelli. I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe the Broadway musical background they both had.

Garland was very cute in her early years but began to look like a mawkish caricature of herself as she got older. That may also have something to do with it.

 

Shutup!

Stanley Kubrick hung a traitor midget spy on the set of Oz, at the behest of the U.S. government. His wife swore to it on a stack of Kinko's Bibles.

Everybody knows this. :nono:

 

I've heard it's about monetary reform of all things ::. There was a big revolt going on in the 1890s when it was written because farmers were getting squeezed out of existence by chronic deflation. I can't remember all the details but its something like the yellow brick road represented the folly of the gold standard which kept monetary policy so tight, the wicked witches are the big financial interests of the east and west coast, the wizard represents the monetary system which is based on nothing but deception and false confidence.....::The tin man etc all represented something too. The crux of the debate was that the money supply should be expaned by minting coins backed by silver too, so there're a bunch of things which are meant to represent silver.....in the book her slippers are silver for instance.

Probably a load of shit

 

I found this about playing 'Dark Side Of The Moon' as soon as the MGM lion roars at the start on the movie:
http://dark-side-of-the-rainbow.com/dark-side-of-oz-instructions.html

Fucking hell, who comes up with this stuff??

 

I loved it as a kid

It's corny, but as Noble said, WAY ahead of its time and I think it still holds up as a children's film

 

Awesome film. The Lion cracks me up ::

 

It is more entertaining than American Beauty or Magnolia.

 

I have heard the same thing

 

Was it filmed in actual color or was it filmed in black and white and the color was put in after?

 

Filmed in color, as far as I know, hanz

 

Yes, Hanzy, it was filmed in colour. Even the supposed black and white parts of the movie are sepia toned. The movie was filmed that way to make as stark a contrast between Kansas and Oz as was possible and it was very expensive to do back then.

 

A 1939 movie filmed in Colour. Now that was a BIG DEAL back then. No wonder the movie was way ahead of its time. Much like Star Wars when it comes to special effects. People had never seen anything like it at the time.

 

There had been other movies filmed in colour at the time, but I read somewhere that audiences thought they were going in to see a black and white movie. Switching from what looked like black and white to colour must have been shocking for them or at least very pleasantly surprising. I still love watching the movie. Brings back good memories of being allowed to stay up late, watch popcorn, and watch it. It used to come on once or twice a year on CBS when I was a primary school lad.

 

Ted Turner owns it. I'll need to pick up the Blu Ray. Although they keep releasing a "newly restored" version so frequently.

 

"somewhere over my penis"

 

It was a tradition to watch the Wizard of Oz on Thanksgiving night the only date it was aired once a year.

 

That's funny. It was always on at Easter when I was a kid.


They talk about it being ahead of it's time, but I could tell, even as a kid, that the cowardly lion was a dude in a lion costume. Cheap SFX.