[ SECRET POST #3357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #15

[philstar22]

I could rant for a good long while on Oz the Great and Powerful and all the things wrong with it. I hated it so much. More than I hate Wicked, and I really hate Wicked.

Why can't they do a faithful adaption? The books are awesome? Especially Ozma of Oz and Emerald City of Oz. I want an Emerald City movie. Return to Oz was actually better than the first movie, though not perfect.

The movie is so much in the public conscious, though, that it has surpassed the books and now everyone thinks of that and Wicked as being what Oz is.

Re: Inspired by #15

[shortysc22]

Have you read the Marvel comics series? They published versions of the first six Oz books and they are gorgeous. Return to Oz is an enjoyable movie and incorporates a lot of the sequels to make one fluid movie.

This was a really well done adaptation that aired on HBO in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz_%281986_TV_series%29

This took a different approach to the sequel of the 1939 movie and I liked it because of childhood nostalgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%28TV_series%29

I remember this being a good adaptation and I feel like I have it recorded on VHS somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281982_film%29

I love the Wizard of Oz so much. On a different note, the Dorothy Must Die series goes off in a totally different direction but incorporates a lot of the sequel book ideas. I'm curious to see how the series ends.

Re: Inspired by #15

[philstar22]

These books were such a huge part of my childhood. I really want to reread them one of these days. I need to find my copies.

I've not seen either of these, I will have to check them out. I remember an animated version we used to own that was really good, but it isn't that one.

Re: Inspired by #15

[shortysc22]

I have multiple copies of the first book, I'm going to end finding all of them when I finally move and can organize my books.

Re: Inspired by #15

[philstar22]

I just can't remember where I have them. I have book boxes here in storage, I have book boxes at my godmother's house, and I have book boxes at my sister's house. I have a lot of books.

Re: Inspired by #15

[(Anonymous)]

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Oh man, Return To Oz freaked me out so bad as a kid. The Wheelers! Momby's heads! Eeek!

Re: Inspired by #15

[philstar22]

I was relatively unscareable as a kid. I loved it so much. I loved the bits that I recognized from the books. Weelers. Momby (although she was actually an amalgam of two book characters). The Nome King. Ozma.

Re: Inspired by #15

[ketita]

Yes! every time I rant about Wizard of Oz and how it's been butchered nobody gets it :( and that's also why I despise Wicked.
One of the most astonishing things is how feminist the books are, especially for their time, and how ALL adaptations manage to mostly be... not.
And agreed that Return to Oz is the only halfway decent one.

Re: Inspired by #15

[(Anonymous)]

Most people don't get it because they're focused on the film being a technical and cinematic marvel. Its importance in cinema history eclipses the source material for them. Many probably haven't even read any of those books. I mean, I've read a couple of them, enough to know the film isn't faithful, but I remember little to nothing about the story. Those songs though? Well-deserved classics.

Re: Inspired by #15

[ketita]

I'm not minimizing the importance of the movie to cinema, nor how great a masterpiece it is - it just frustrates me when people act like that's the be-all end-all of Wizard of Oz, and that because of that all adaptations since are based on that movie (and most of them are lousy).