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The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Patreon)

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2022-11-03 19:36:03
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Full link: https://youtu.be/UvOoAMQYCdw

Hi everyone,

Yes yes, again comes the wrath of the Breaking Bad fans :) I'll still upload some episodes this week, no worries. But the edit isn't finished so I can't post that on YouTube yet, so this one is for the YouTube post of tomorrow :). 

I had a lot of fun discovering this classic! The crazy part is that since I watched this I picked up a million references towards it in other media. I wonder how many times I actually missed some.

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Avery

DOROTHY IS THE ONE WHO KNOCKS......with her heels.

Bryan Tuck

Glad you finally got to see this. In some ways, it's kind of a Rosetta Stone for American fantasy filmmaking. Many other movies have been influenced by it over the years. If you're feeling adventurous, you might check out "Return To Oz," a semi-sequel made by Disney nearly 50 years later (1985 to be exact). It was based on the 2nd and 3rd novels in the original Oz series by L. Frank Baum, so narratively, it is a sequel. But obviously it has a completely different cast, and it's actually closer in tone to the novels (it's also not a musical).

Blake Robert

Looking forward to more BB! Thank you!

Odd Thomas

I also loved Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful; very underrated imo

Odd Thomas

Technicolour was still a very recent thing in 1939. This and Gone With The Wind came out around the same time. In fact it wasn't until the 1960s that colour pretty much became the norm, as it was more expensive than black and white film.

Christian Rennie

This is such a beloved movie and it is great that you got to see it! Now, you can watch the Prequel, "Oz, the Great and Powerful." But, before that you gotta watch "Return to Oz." Both are great movies and expand world even more. Return to Oz is an cult classic and is considered a little dark and scary for kids. The original books are pretty vast, too.

Eric

There was supposed to be a 5th character but they ended up cutting him out of the movie. There's some footage of scenes they shot with the 5th character on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ4H2_CFIeQ

james repka

Film-making was still in it's infancy when this movie was made. Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man but was forced out after 9 shooting days because he had a severe reaction to the silver make-up, which contained powdered aluminum! Also the green make-up Margaret Hamilton wore was copper-based and highly toxic. She couldn't eat or drink (except through a straw) while in make-up for concern over poisoning herself -- also during the burning scene at the end some of the make-up base ignited and she received 3rd degree burns on her hands as a result. In the scene where Glenda makes it snow to reverse the effect of the poppys the snow dropping on the actors is 100% pure asbestos, the best looking fake snow available in Hollywood at the time. It was decades before its toxicity was known.

james repka

I expected that the editing of the next few episodes of Breaking Bad was the reason we hadn't seen them yet. Thanks for acknowledging this. Also, on the topic of classic movies that set the tone for what comes next, you should definitely watch Casablanca. It was only released a couple of years after WofOz, and it contains some of the most memorable dialog in the history of the industry.

Michael Cruse

They used to broadcast this every year on American television. The first time I saw it, we didn't have a color tv yet, so when Dorothy reached Oz and suddenly everything was in color, nothing changed on our tv. My mom had to tell me to use my imagination and pretend.

samuel Jakob

Since u mentioned it, Marry Poppins is very much worth watching, its such a fun movie.

N M
>>95110824

Interesting! Didn’t know that about the asbestos! And I’ve watched this many times.

Mike LL
>>95164879

I was back there with you in those days. Mary made the connection that on their quest to save Dorothy that the Scarecrow showed his brains making plans, and the Cowardly Lion showed bravery, and right before Mary made that comment the Tim Man said how he couldn't imagine Dorothy in that place, displaying his empathy. I didn't make those connections in my first 20 years of my life, seeing this movie once every year. Of course, during that time before I reached 20 you could only see this movie once a year, on broadcast television, because it never came to theaters, and it was before the internet, cell phones, computers, cable TV and video tape.