The Wizard of Oz, based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is a movie that focuses on a young girl and her whimsical adventure through the Land of Oz. Throughout the last century, many people have interpreted the film in various ways.
However, Baum was a member of a philosophical organization called the Theosophical Society that focused on the occult. He used its lessons and teachings to write The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The movie adaptation resembles the themes in the novel, such as occult symbolism and self-enlightenment.
Beginning in Kansas on Dorothy’s aunt and uncle’s farm, the film focuses around Dorothy’s monotonous life. Shortly into the movie, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are swept away by a twister and dropped off in the magical Land of Oz. Here she meets the Good Witch of the North, Glinda. She advises Dorothy to follow the Yellow Brick Road and find the Wizard, who can grant the girl her wish of returning to Kansas. Along her path to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz lives, she encounters the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. Each lack something they need, so they join Dorothy on her journey to see the Wizard, in hopes to gain what they are missing. However, their pilgrimage faces a manifold of obstacles, most importantly the Wicked Witch of the West and her mission to retrieve ruby red slippers from Dorothy. She fails. Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the West. After defeating the evil witch, the Tin Man is talking with
The Wizard of Oz is a classic known by all. The plot is fairly simple. Poor bored Dorothy is sick of her normal boring life on her Aunt and Uncles farm in Kansas and decides to run away to a more exciting life. Her plans are changed when she meets a fortune teller who convinces her to go back home. Unfortunately, as she is headed back home a horrible storm starts and she and her dog Toto are blown away, along with her house. When she lands, she comes outside to see that she has landed on a person with red shoes. She is met by tiny people and a witch called Glinda who tells her that she has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy tells Glinda she wants to go home, and Glinda tells her if she follows the yellow brick road she will end up in the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can help get her home.
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Frank Baums, The Wizard of Oz is arguably one of the most popular films made. Even though it was released in 1939, nearly three-quarters of a century ago, the film continues to entertain audiences and speak to them in a personal way. The question that comes to the mind when analyzing this film is: What is it about this film that gives it such timelessness? When reflecting on the film’s timeless qualities, it seems clear the plot is one of the things that enable it to maintain its relevance. Primarily, the plot of The Wizard of Oz is timeless because it is such an excellent example of the heroic journey, both in literally and cinematically. This journey of self-awareness is a metaphor for growth, which is something we all search to discover
In the movie: It tells the story of a girl named Dorothy, who ends up in a tornado and gets hurled away from her farm in Kansas to a land that is not like anything she has experienced before. After Dorothy’s house falls and kills the Wicked Witch in the first scene, Dorothy is welcomed by the Munchkins. The kind witch, Glinda, appears and explains to Dorothy that in order to find out about getting back home, she needs to follow the yellow brick road. This road leads her to Emerald city, where she must ask the grand Wizard to get her back to Kansas. Along her way down the yellow brick road Dorothy encounters some characters who all have something they want to ask the wizard. However, when they finally arrive at the Emerald City, they discover the wizard is just a fraud and that everything they had been searching for they can find deep within themselves (metaphorically rather than physically).
Scene: This scene in the film comes just after the house has been picked up in the twister. Dorothy's house has been lifted up into the sky and suddenly dropped back down to earth in the middle of the Land of Oz. In the scene itself, Dorothy leaves her home to see that she is "Not in Kansas anymore," and finds the new and amazing world of the munchkin city in front of her. She also meets Gwendela the good witch as her journey in Oz begins.
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The Wizard of Oz uses film form by using similarity and repetition. With Dorothy being the main character, she is always reappearing in the film. As well as all of the characters, The Tin Man, The Lion, and The Scarecrow, have similarities to Dorothy. Each of them need something, Dorothy needs to go back home, The Tin Man needs a brain, The Scarecrow needs a heart, and The Lion needs courage. The film also progresses from the beginning to the end, as well as the characters. Dorothy starts at one spot, follows the yellow brick road and eventually makes it to her destination to see The Wizard of Oz, gets what
“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home”, repeated Dorothy. A young girl trying to go back home to Kansas after a cyclone lands her and her dog, Toto, in the Land of Oz. There Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, the TinMan, and the Cowardly Lion who are all in need of something that is considered important to them; a brain, a heart, and courage. Along the way, they have to travel to Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz, directed by the Good Witch of the North, especially for Dorothy to get back home. However, Dorothy and the gang run into problems with the Wicked Witch of the West, who wants Dorothy’s ruby slippers (which was originally the Wicked
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The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900, and the original movie was made in 1939 (produced by Mervyn LeRoy). Both the book and movie are similar. The story is about a little girl named Dorothy who is carried away from home by a cyclone. She ends up in the land of the Munchkins where she meets little people and a witch. Once she meets the witch she is told that in order for her to get back home she has to go to the Emerald City to speak to Oz. On her journey to Oz she meets three characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. These three characters also want something from Oz. The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Man wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. Although the book and the
searching for in them the whole time and that they certainly didn’t need any help for a Wiz. Then, the wicked witch of the South tells Dorothy that she can go back home by clicking her heels three times. Dorothy says goodbye to all of her new friends and clicks her heels together. Then at the end of the movie Dorothy and her dog Todo end up back at her home in New York.
The story is what happen and in The Wizard of Oz is about a girl; Dorothy Gale and her dog are blown away by a tornado and end up in a fairyland. The place is full of fantasy adventure and along the way Dorothy meets the scarecrow, tin man, and the cowardly lion. Each of these characters have the own wish that they want to ask the wizard of Oz and together they go on a quest to find the wizard. Through out their journey they face obstacles set by the wicked witch of the west in an attempt to make Dorothy give up the magic ruby shoes that she is wearing. In the end they overcome the challenges by destroying the wicked witch and Dorothy and her dog were able to get back home.
“I will get you my pretty, and your little dog too!” The Wizard of Oz is probably one of the best known movies of all time, and it is a timeless classic. Generations all remember the little farm girl Dorothy who is swept away to the mystical land of Oz. While in Oz, she encounters the Wicked Witch of the West who will stop at nothing to destroy Dorothy. On the dangerous journey, Dorothy teams up with a brainless scarecrow, a heartless tin man, and a cowardly lion to reach to the Emerald City to find a way back to Kansas. The Wizard of Oz is known to be a family fun, musical fantasy which teaches people everywhere that there is no place like home.
The theme of The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is the reason society is flawed is because people are flawed. Although Piggy is knowledgeable, he has many flaws including his laziness and physical inabilities. Ralph is an authority seeker. He sets rules and laws, yet does little to enforce them. Ralph wants to be the ruler, without doing the work to enforce his laws. Jack is persistent. He is rude, harsh and violent in order to get what he wants. He wants to be supreme. Piggy’s flaws are impactful in the story. His laziness and lack of physical ability hurt him in his quest for survival.
“The cyclone had set the house down into a country of marvelous beauty.” is merely just the beginning of the tale of Dorothy traveling through a mysterious land, making interesting friends, and eventually slaying an evil witch. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic by L. Frank Baum is known by children and adults alike all over. And what exactly makes this tale of a naive little girl an epic? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic due to its characteristics, conventions, archetypes, and the way it follows the stereotypical hero’s journey.