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This year we read The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum. Then we watched the MGM movie. Now we are writing whether we thought if it was a good or bad adaptation of the book.
I think that the movie is a pretty good but it was an ok adaptation. I’ll start with the things that I thought were not good. The wicked witch of the west was chasing Dorothy all around some people might have liked it but some people might not. I think it wasn’t needed and there was no point in it. Also their journey was not very hard to get to the Emerald City. There hardest obstacle was the poppies and it was stupid how they got out. In the book the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman carry Dorothy out of the poppies and find a yellow wildcat chasing a field mouse and that mouse is the queen. The Tin Woodman chops off the wildcat’s head and saves the field mouse’s life. For this the Queen says that the mice will do anything for them so they help them get the loin back. But in the movie the good witch of the north makes it snow and that wakes them. In the movie they skip about the last forty-five pages of the book. The part with the fighting trees was at the very beginning. When in the book it was at the end. They stayed at OZ’s castle for days and days when in the movie they were there for barely anytime. This wasn’t too bad but if you haven’t read the book usually people think the slippers are red. They are silver though in the book and most people think they are red because of that. In the book she does go to OZ but in the movie it is just a dream. Also the way that at the end Gilinda comes to her instead of her going to Gilinda
This is what I thought was good the way they found the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion. That was good because the way they did it they made it exactly like the book. At the beginning when she first gets to OZ that was ok it was nothing like the book though but it was kind of interesting.
I thought the movie was good but I liked the book more. But I thought the movie would be better if it had the end of the book.