My thesis on the Wizard of Oz will look at this authoritative and darling 1939 movie from the behind the camera’s oculus. through the camera’s oculus. and through the audience’s oculus. I will analyze the difference between the book. written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 and the screenplay for the movie. I will research the histrions. both on screen and away screen every bit good as their character’s function and significance to the movie. L. Frank Baum. the mastermind behind the novel. published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and in add-on to the expansive success of this book. he penned 13 fresh sequences.
A musical version of his novel opened on Broadway in 1903 and ran for 10 old ages. Silent movies and dramas evolved from 1908 through 1925. In Baum’s book. Dorothy’s ruby slippers were silver. They were changed in colour to suit better into the colorized part of the movie. The Wizard of Oz was nominated for six Academy Awards. competitory awards for the best vocal. Over the Rainbow and a particular juvenile award for Judy Garland. As in all movies. production companies use trial markets. MGM used three and Oconomowoc. Wisconsin lays claim to the first screening of the authoritative on August 12. 1939.
The original dramatis personae picks. for one ground or another. did non do it to the cinematography or to the concluding cut. The original pick for the Wizard was W. C. Fields. He was replaced by Frank Morgan due to changeless dissensions over his fee to play the character. Buddy Epson was the 2nd pick for the function of the Tin Woodman. nevertheless had to be replaced by Jack Haley after being hospitalized for an allergic reaction to the aluminium dust in the makeup. Ray Bolger was the original Tin Woodman character. but took the function of the Scarecrow.
Rumor has it that Shirley Temple was besides up for consideration for the function of Dorothy. Judy Garland. whose birth name was Frances Ethel Gumm. assumed the function ( Washington Times ) . The gap and shutting scenes were originally filmed on reddish brown tone movie. which is the brown shade. In 1949 all transcripts of the movie were changed from reddish brown to black and white for those scenes. The film remained this manner until it was restored to its original sepia version with the fiftieth anniversary edition in 1989.
At the clip when The Wizard of Oz made its introduction on place telecastings. it was viewed wholly in black and white. colour telecastings were non a common topographic point point. As colour telecastings became more popular and readily available. the movie was one of the few films of the clip that were in colour. ( Geek Twins ) MGM purchased all rights to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in January of 1938. After a battalion of revisions. the script’s concluding bill of exchange was complete on October 8. 1938. In add-on to all of the dramatis personae alterations. there were multiple managers every bit good.
Filming began on October 13. 1938 with Richard Thorpe at the helm. Thorpe was fired after an unknown figure of scenes had been filmed. George Cukor took his topographic point temporarily until he had to go forth the set to return to his rightful topographic point on the Gone with the Wind set. Cukor made some character alterations that required scenes to be reshot. He really ne’er filmed any of The Wizard of Oz and allow the set on November 3. 1938. Victor Fleming took over the function of manager at that point. Fleming continued to movie until he replaced Cukor on February 12. 1939 at the Gone with the Wind set.
King Vidor became the concluding manager for the movie. The cinematography ended on March 16. 1939. Vidor refused to accept any public recognition for his function until the decease of his friend. Victor Fleming ( Wizard of Oz Movie Web ) . The transmutation to telecasting became an one-year event of kinds. The first dissemination occurred November 3. 1956 on CBS. It is estimated that the aerating drew an audience of 45 million viewing audiences. It was non shown once more until December 13. 1959 as a Christmas particular. It ran annually in December from 1959 through 1962. It was omitted in December 1963 ; guesss are that the tryst of John F. Kennedy in November of that twelvemonth or the programming of other Christmas plans kept it off the calendar. It did look in early 1964 and ran for two decennaries as a annual event. In the late 1960’s. NBC bought the rights. nevertheless it was reverted to CBS by 1976.
It can now be viewed multiple times a twelvemonth on such channels as Tuner Classic and TBS The movie was the first picture that was released by MGM/CBS Home Video in 1980. with all subsequent place picture releases through Warner Home Video. The Wizard of Oz has been released in other formats including aser phonograph record and DVD over the old ages. Assorted versions of the film with out- takes. blunders. deleted vocals. dawdlers. newsreels. and photo galleries are on the market. ( Movie Web ) . The casting section hired 124 people from Leo Singer. who operated a music hall show that consisted of small people dubbed the “Singer Midgets” . When necessary. MGM would engage kids to make full in spreads for production. They became the celebrated Munchkins of Munchkin Land. In 2007. there were seven lasting Munchkins who were given the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( Destination Hollywood ) .
Henry Littlefield. a high school instructor in 1964 penned an article. “The Yellow Brick Code” . Littlefield defined his theory as a friendly review of the Populist thought. In an attempt to learn pupils the issues of the clip epoch. teachers have used Littlefield’s review. He used symbolism of the characters to explicate Populist beliefs. The writer of Oz was a Populist. therefore many theories circulate that his novel was loaded with Populist believing. The followers is Littlefield’s symbolism. Dorothy represents the mundane citizen Scarecrow is a husbandman
Tin Woodman is an industrial worker Lion represents William Jennings Bryan. a politician who backed the Ag cause Wizard of Oz is the U. S. Presidents of the late nineteenth century Wicked Witch represents a malign Nature. who was destroyed by the farmer’s most cherished trade good. H2O Winged Monkeys represent the Native Americans or the Chinese railway workers who have been exploited by the West Oz is an abbreviation for ounce or as Baum writes the O-Z taken from the filing cabinet Emerald City is Greenback paper money. exposed as fraud Munchkins are ordinary citizens ( moviemeanings ) .
Some of these accounts or critique sound like confederacy theories. However. one besides must retrieve the epoch that had merely ended. the Great Depression. The stock market had crashed ; people were still bouncing and fighting to last. I can hold with some of the above analogies. such as Dorothy. the Wizard. the straw man. and the Tin Woodman. I see the film as a immature miss life in Kansas with her aunt and uncle. lasting off their land. Kansas and the farm is all she knows.
The movie at this point is shot in the reddish brown colour to stand for the bland ballad of the level land of Kansas. the normality of her life. and the colour of the universe as Dorothy sees it that surrounds her. The tornado that Dorothy finally is rendered unconscious during conveyances her to another universe. another clip. another life. The bright colourss. the vocalizing. the Lollipop childs. and the jubilation for her killing the enchantress ( the one the house landed on and where the ruby slippers come into drama ) are overpowering to Dorothy.
As she travels the Yellow Brick Road on her manner to Emerald City and the Wizard. she encounters familiar faces that act as defenders to her as she makes her manner to the unknown. She knows them as the Scarecrow. the Tim Woodman. and the Cowardly Lion. Of class. we know them as the farm hands. There is good and evil. as in any great authoritative narrative. and Dorothy brushs both. The beauty of the promised land of Emerald City is to me the old proverb of the grass is ever greener on the other side.
Once she made her manner to the Wizard with her comrades. she was instructed to confront the Wicked Witch and recover her broom. This equates to confront our frights and get the better ofing them. The wicked enchantress that Dorothy must get the better of is Miss Gulch from the farm. the adult female who wanted to take Toto off from her. Once she succeeds in acquiring her broom. she has non merely liberate herself but liberated those in her gaining control. She returns to Emerald City to put the Witch’s broom at the Wizard’s pess in order for him to maintain his promises to her friends ( encephalons. bravery. and a bosom ) and to acquire her dorsum to Kansas.
She discovers that everything one needs to get the better of and win is within them. They merely need to desire it and believe in themselves. After tearful adieus. she is on her manner in the hot air balloon headed place. when Toto jumps out. The balloon leaves without her and she believes all is lost and she will ne’er acquire back place. Glinda the good enchantress tells her the secret to the ruby slippers that would hold taken her place at any point in her journey ; snap your heels three times and say “there’s no topographic point like home” .
All the colour disappears as Dorothy awakens in her sepia room with her Aunty Em fusing over her. Everyone had been so concerned for her while she was unconscious and far off in Oz. Dorothy realizes that all of them had been with her in her dream. except her aunt and uncle who were her anchoring force. her ground to desire to travel place. There is symbolism in this movie. but I do non believe it to be confederacy. democrat. or any other theory. This charming. fantasy universe of a immature farm miss gives immature and old a authoritative household movie to portion throughout the coevalss.
