c17ds » Wizard of Oz http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds New Blog Posts To Read Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 © help@dalton.org () help@dalton.org() [add a tagline] help@dalton.org No no http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg c17ds http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds 144 144 Wizard of Oz: Debate http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds/2009/06/03/wizard-of-oz-debate/ http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds/2009/06/03/wizard-of-oz-debate/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:07:51 +0000 c17ds http://blogs.dalton.org/c17ds/?p=41 I think that the MGM Wizard of Oz movie was a good adaptation of the book. It doesn’t include useless things like the dainty china city. I mean, what do they even do in the city besides, say hi to a china princess then leave? They don’t leave out really important things like how Oz is a humbug and things like that though. Who cares if the only witch in the movie is Glinda, the only thing the Witch of The North does, is kiss Dorothy and welcome her and stuff. Why can’t Glinda just do that, well she does in the movie. Anyways, the movie would be two hours and like, seventy minutes if every tiny detail was included. When you think of the book this is what most people think: Girl gets flown away in her house from a cyclone, meets munchkins, follows the yellow brick road, meets scarecrow who want brains, tin woodman who wants a heart, and a lion who wants courage, then they meet Oz who want them to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, they melt her, and see that Oz is a humbug, then they get what they want, and live happily ever after. I don’t think of the hammer heads, lion being king of the jungle, the china city and every thing else that was useless.

L. Frank Baum was an author known for getting straight to the point, but he adds a lot of things to get you to get more into it. He wanted to make it sound more fun and interesting, but sometimes he tried to hard. Plus, some of those  things they just couldn’t have possibly done. Like the lion killing that spider creature, or them killing the wolves, bees, and crows. That would be way to scary, and violent for children’s fiction. Also the golden cap could be confusing. The movie was made a LONG time ago so  the special features that the book needed in the movie could have been impossible to make happen. Read the book, and see the movie!

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