Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Wicked is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum's original book and the popular 1939 movie) focused on the origin of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Gale - Stay Away From Oz is streaming now exclusively on Chilling. The short film is now live, and serves as the setup for the feature film that will be going in to production soon. Long gone are the days of emerald cities and yellow brick roads, the enchanting tale of the Wizard of Oz takes a haunting turn.
Though Return To Oz takes its cue from The Wizard Of Oz, rather than Baum's books, in portraying Dorothy's trip to the magical land as a dream, the framing device it uses is more sinister.
The film is an unofficial sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz, and it is based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz novels, mainly The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz (1907).
Murch wanted to make a film that was more faithful to the source material, and drew inspiration from both 'The Marvelous Land of Oz' and 'Ozma of Oz,' and cast a young Fairuza Balk in her first film role as little Dorothy Gale, giving us a Dorothy who, unlike Judy Garland, was actually a little girl.
When 12-year-old Dorothy Gale and her best friend/dog Toto are whisked away in a magical tornado to a modern, metropolitan Emerald City, all she wants is to return home. But after several action-packed adventures with magical friends and foes in Oz, she has an important decision to make.
In the film, Dorothy is supposed to be 12 years old. Dorothy does not sing in the Oz books. In the Oz books, the fate of Dorothy's parents is never revealed. In Wicked, it is said Dorothy's parents died in a boating accident and she was then adopted by Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
The crew originally used rubber, but it wasn't flexible enough to make the tornado appear realistic. Gillespie used compressed air to spray Fuller's earth, emulating the effects of a tornado. They used a model version of Dorothy's house to create the scene.
Return to Oz is based on the second and third Oz books, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Baum originally did not want to write any sequels, and he eventually grew to resent the series.
The book is a revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz, both the L. Frank Baum novel and the Judy Garland-led film. In the musical, which takes place before Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz, the young wicked witch, named Elphaba, is an outcast because of her atypical green skin.
Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz were among some of the first films ever made. In fact, two silent movies came out in 1910: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Land of Oz. Of the two, only the first remains as the earliest surviving version of a Wizard of Oz movie.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input.
Is every movie ever made an attempt to remake The Wizard of Oz?
Joel Coen of the Coen brothers has said: “Every movie ever made is an attempt to remake The Wizard of Oz.” True or not, all I know is I constantly reference the film in my teaching. Why? Because it contains so many classic narrative elements. Here are just five screenwriting lessons we can draw from The Wizard of Oz.
Lucinda Gale is a 2017-introduced and fiction-only character, is the daughter of Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, she is a part this story, and she was a student at Emerald City High, now is a student at Ever After High. in the Destiny conflict, she on the Royal side because of yet unrevealed reasons.
“You've always had the power,” Glinda, the good witch tells Dorothy at the end of her journey. When Dorothy asks why Glinda didn't tell her that before, Glinda replies that Dorothy wouldn't have believed her — she had to find out for herself. And like Dorothy, women today are on a heroine's journey.
Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the protagonist in many of his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels.
At night, Dorothy sneaks into Mombi's closet to steal the powder so she can escape on her moose plane, but the headless witch awakens, along with her hall of heads, who scream after her. To this day, I consider this one of the scariest scenes ever put to film.
Shirley Temple was the favourite to play Dorothy, but her singing skills were not strong enough. The role was ultimately a big break for Garland, then a contract player at MGM. The film originally featured the Wizard as the central character, and both W.C. Fields and Bert Lahr turned down the part.
“If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.” Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
