The Messed Up Origins of The Wizard of Oz

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• JO

  @JonSolo · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Thank you all for your tuning into this episode, Solo Fam! This one holds a special place in my heart and I really hope you enjoy what I&apos;ve put together. ❤ <br>Remember to hit the like button to support the channel and comment your thoughts on the book, movie, musical, or new movie in a comment!

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• JU

  @julieabraham3566 · 1 year ago

  I remember an interview of Liza Minnelli describing the first time she ever saw the film. She was maybe 3 or 4 and her mother, Judy Garland, was in New York and had instructed the nanny that The Wizard of Oz was showing on TV and that the girls were to watch it. Well, it terrified them. Instead of seeing a magical story of a little girl in an enchanted place, they saw their mother going away to a frightening place with witches and flying monkeys!<br>When their mother called them to see how they liked the film, but the girls could only sob, &quot;They flying monkeys took you away to the witches castle!&quot;<br>Judy tried explaining, &quot;No, I&apos;m in New York!&quot;<br>With refreshed angst, they cried, &quot;The flying monkeys took you to New York!&quot;

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• BE

  @bearforceone211 · 1 year ago

  Orphanages were often called orphan asylum. Asylums were at &quot;safe space&quot; for vulnerable people.

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• TH

  @Thomas_H._Smith · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHH0ga_rowI&amp;t=591">9:51</a> And another fun fact: The way that transition was accomplished, with the film going from sepia tone to technicolor in the same shot, was actually by having a body double wearing sepia colored clothes and makeup open a sepia painted door and wall, then walk out of the frame as the real Judy Garland enters into the full color set.<br><br>But an even more fun fact is that Judy Garland&apos;s body double in that scene, Caren Marsh Doll, is still alive today at the age of 105.

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• MI

  @misspinkpunkykat · 1 year ago

  The original draft of Dorothy saying she was treated better at the asylum might be a reference to an orphanage. Orphanages also were sometimes referred to as asylums.

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• LI

  @Lilith_SD · 1 year ago

  Re the asylum line, back then orpnanages were also called asylum as they offered asylum to children without parents.

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• JE

  @jesusperez8394 · 1 year ago (edited)

  If you squint hard enough, this is Lord of the Rings. A hero kills the evil mage and takes the drip, builds a fellowship to protect the drip bearer and goes on a quest involving a wizard, while all along, a dark mage sends troops to retake the drip to become all powerful. They travel through woods and fields. There&apos;s a fight involving living trees. They both have seeing Chrystal balls. They defeat the evil mage, one with fire and one with water. When the final battle is just about to start it&apos;s over. Then they meet back up with the wizard and part ways in the end. And after the intro, the story starts in a village of little people.

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• PO

  @poweroffriendship2.0 · 1 year ago

  <b>Just a daily reminder:</b> The name &quot;Oz&quot; in Wonderful Wizard of Oz came from the third section of Frank Baum&apos;s file cabinet (O - Z), with the first and second section being A - G and H - N.

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• MW

  @MWP_Aloy · 1 year ago

  Funny explanation for the snow waking up Dorothy and the Lion in the poppy field: Poppies make heroine, which puts you to sleep. Snow is a slang term for cocaine, which wakes you up. Seems like they used one drug reference to cross out another.

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• ME

  @Me-wx1mt · 1 year ago

  respect for commissioning an artist to do the backgrounds instead of using ai

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• MC

  @mcmptn · 1 year ago (edited)

  If you are from Kansas, and you travel abroad, you will hear a certain phrase from this movie referenced multiple times. &nbsp;I&apos;ve lost count of how many times this has happened:<br><br>Person: &nbsp;Where are you from?<br><br>Me: &nbsp;USA.<br><br>Person: &nbsp;Where in the US?<br><br>Me: &nbsp;Kansas.<br><br>Person: &nbsp;Well, you&apos;re not in Kansas anymore, Toto!

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• BR

  @brucealanwilson4121 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Baum&apos;s wife &amp; mother were both leaders of the Califonia Women&apos;s Sufferage Party, which is why the strongest characters--good &amp; evil--are women.

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