Wizard of Oz question

The dog.

YES! I can never take my eyes off that adorable dog!

(Tina, that sounds cool. In the 80s a woman MADE me smoke pot with her to watch it "altered" and I just fell asleep right away.)

I loved Dorothy and Toto the most.
The other characters were great!!
But not to top these two, no way!
The Wizard of Oz was filmed in the
same year I was born. I always did
wonder why Momma didn't name
me Dorothy, ummmmmmmm!

That movie gave me nightmares. But I did want the slippers.

It's all about the shoes, baby! I coveted them then, and I covet them still!

The flying monkeys...lol

"not in Kansas any more..." Just translates as not where I expected to be. I often relate to it.

I'm meltingggggggggggggggggg

I enjoy the whole thing. The special effects that are so outdated, the colors, the flying things, scary things. It's a fun movie.

Dorothy clicking her heels and reciting, "There's no place like home" - what a coincidence that I painted that for Father's Day across the eaves of our home, just beside where I painted my 'Mother's day rainbow'... I'll take a picture to post...

all of the above

The ruby slippers (how do they keep those puppies so shiny - brick is hell on shoes!) & the wicked witch of the east (no line, no action & I'll bed they paid her scale!) - :)

Munchkinland and the singing Munchkins.

Meeting the Wizard of Oz, of course.

the gift of family and friends

Toto of course is my favorite - and, then, Dorothy's slippers. It's a classic and I love watching it. The upbeat mood is really great and the action never stops.

We love the Munchkins! Nothing is so wonderful as their high, squeaky voices ...would you like to hear my impression of the Munchkins singing? Okay, here we go ...ahem...we're off the see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz... Well, how'd you like it so far?

I can't decide!

I especially like the basket that todo was in in the beginning and Auntie M. Oh, and the scene where the neighbor and Dorothy's family had a sit down. That's memorable, but recently I've heard the rumor that someone fell and died during production and it was caught on tape somewhere in the forest scene.

The moment when it switches from B&W to color.

Peter, got that photo posted yesterday with your name as a tag, so you can find it...
There's no place like home...

You have to love Munchkin Land, it's beauty and oddness just bring out the kid in you. And it's a real toss up between the flying monkeys and the apple throwing tree for me. LOL

You have to say, Wizard of Oz is truly one of the best movies ever created!

Toss up between the Munchkins and the flying monkeys!

The Winkies' uniforms are about as cool as any I've ever seen. And I love the blood-red hourglass.

When I was in Navy boot camp, marching a platoon around the base, I would occasionally have them sing the Winkies' marching chant ("Yo-ree-yo, Yo-row.").

Absolutely the shoes, first of all. It's always about the shoes.

The flying monkeys creeped me out, and I love to be creeped out. So that's #2.

Aren't those apple trees cool?!

It IS the best use of black and white to color. The Secret Garden tried it but it didn't have that same WOW as the Wizard of Oz!

The man behind the curtain.
The stories about the little people in the cast.

I was never that fond of the movie. I first saw it when I was 10 or so after I had read several of the books. I guess it was one of my first "movie isn't as good as the book" experiences. The other thing was watching it on an B&W TV.

If you haven't read any of the Oz books you might have some fun reading a few.

In the book the slippers were silver, either for alliteration or according to some people, the book was really an allegory about the free silver movement of the 1890s. They became red in the movie because red was the most dramatic color in the Technicolor process they used.

I think the free silver interpretation is kind of weak but it's fun.

One of the first B&W to color movies was "Dixiana," a comedy starring Wheeler and Woolsey. Wheeler and Woolsey brought the vaudeville/burlesque tradition to the screen.

My fave early color movie is "Whoopee" with Eddie Cantor. I saw it on AMC back when they ran old movies. It's a movie of a musical that makes no attempt to translate if from the stage. The stage sets give it a surreal quality that's pretty darned interesting.

And SCARY for little kids, as fantasy should be. Anybody out there read Tolkien's essay (actually a lecture he delivered) "On Fairy Stories"? Brilliant!

When RDA from Stargate makes Oz references in the show

The Lollipop Guild's welcoming song, "We represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild! We represent the Lollipop Guillllllllldddddd! And we'd like to welcome you to Munchkin Land!"

The march of the flying monkeys. "Owe-we-owe! Weeee-owe-owe!" (For those of us in debt.)