Wizard Of Oz

In his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster explains many reoccurring themes in literature, and shows how to recognize them and in some instances shows certain works where they occur. By reading this guide to literature, one may gain a deeper understanding of the work itself and of the author’s intent in writing it. However, Foster’s methods can also be applied to films. A film that contains many of the various themes, models, symbolism, and devices discussed in his book is Walt Disney’s Mulan.

There’s no place like home, right? Dorothy assured us of that. Home for Dorothy here becomes a bit of a situation for her; it’s the place she wants to get away from, yet the place she wants to get back to once she’s away from it. Dorothy’s home represents peace, comfort, and safety. Where the people you love want you back.

"Follow the yellow brick road" - The Wizard of Oz. Although society is more familiar with the 1939 version it was in fact the fifth remake of the 1910 silent film. In fact the original film was actually based off of a 1902 stage musical of the same content which was based off of the original book written by Lyman Frank Baum. The release of the movies 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful ' is a 103 years difference. In that amount of time this movie has been remade 57 times and counting. Even though the newer version of the Wizard of Oz isn 't a remake of the original it 's more of a prequel , both the original and the new version were interesting as you get a different perspective because the focus was on different aspects, the techniques used were drastically different and the characters play roles that are unexpected.

According to Reel News Daily, on average, there are 57 movies released every month or 684 movies each year. That’s way more movies than the average person watches in a given year. So, how do we decide what movies to go watch and what not to watch? What’s pleasing and what’s appalling? Fortunately, we have critics who watch most of these movies and write reviews to help narrow down what movies to and not to view. One of these critics is Robert Ebert. Robert Ebert is an honorable critic to base judgements off of because he does an exceptional job summarizing the plot, stating his personal opinions, and speaking about the actors/director’s roles in the film.

The creator uses symbolism throughout the video to show how misleading Crow Foods Incorporated is to their customers.The crow is depicted as the face of the food company. These birds are known to be dirty and sneaky. In this instance the company hides the truth about what they actually sell. The scarecrow represents the average working class person. The viewer can infer this because he owns a small house, takes a train to and from work, and works for a factory. This symbolization appeals to pathos, or the viewer’s emotions towards the working class. This scarecrow discovers that the company is not what it

Turning timeless classics into big-budget films is the new rage in Hollywood today. Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful is no exception. With numerous other competitors in the market, it failed to meet the bar as yet another film is added to the ever-growing pile of adaptations for L. Frank Baum’s Children's novel. The beloved childhood movie of millions received a prequel packed with phony effects and boring one liners.

In this paper I will look at the movie “The Wizard of Oz” through the Musical/ Fantasy/ adventure genre lens. The film is about a young girl who is whisked off into a magical place. A place that is full of witches, munchkins, flying monkeys and actual magic. It is a place of perilous adventure and colorful and interesting personalities. The Wizard of Oz was a 1939 musical/ fantasy/ family/ adventure film based on L. Frank Baum’s book of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film was directed by Victor Fleming and produced by Mervyn LeRoy. The film’s cinematography was done by Harold Rosson, and the editing was completed by Blanche Sewell. The film starred Judy Garland as Dorothy, Ray Bolger as Hunk/ The Scarecrow, Jack Haley as Hickory/ Tin Man, Bret Lahr as Zeke/ The Cowardly Lion and Frank Morgan

This book is a feel good story called The Wonderful Wizard of OZ written by L. Frank Baum. The story starts and ends in Kansas but the majority of the story takes place in the land of OZ. The time period of the book is irrelevant. Dorothy is a girl who used to live in Kansas and her house got carried away to a mystical land and she needs to get to the wizard to get her back home. Toto is Dorothy’s beloved dog who she takes everywhere. Scarecrow is the first friend she encounters along the way to the wizard. On her way she also meets the ‘Tin Man’, and the ‘Cowardly Lion’.

The emergence of B-class films, animated films and musicals evidenced that films were trying to meet the aesthetic taste of the lower-class people. Ironic and realistic elements were also usually used to reflect the discomfiture of the whole society and to express people’s dissatisfaction. Ordinary people replaced those righteous knights or people who with great power became the protagonists in the artworks, aesthetic taste and mundane lifestyles were also considered as the main content of American culture. Following the great success of Disney’s fantasy Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs made in 1937, The Wizard of Oz became an iconic part of American culture, for it illustrated “the need Americans felt for escape during the Great Depression,” (Moje). The more desperate people are, the more entertainment and leisure they want, and they try to escape from despair. So it is reasonable that we are able to detect the now familiar outlines of an image-mediated, consumer society in the 1930s, despite the painful national experience of scarcity and poverty. During the Great Depression, the audience went to the theaters only for the entertaining elements in movies, and they would never want to revisit their hardships again in theaters. They needed the brutal joy and surrealist elements on the screens to give them confidence and hope. This type of optimism with an escapist filter

In 1939, Victor Fleming made a film version of L. Frank Baum’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” However, both the novel and the film focuses or touches on the same moral, it features the protagonist Dorothy who resides in Kansas the farm, along with her aunt Em and uncle Henry as well as her dog Toto. Both Baum’s novel and Fleming’s 1939 film adaptation the setting is in Kansas which is described as a small farm which Dorothy lives in which in Baum’s novel is picturized as gloomy, grey and dull. Throughout Fleming’s adaptation of Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” there are a number of differences which presents itself in a direct manner on screen as well as similarities. The variety of changes in the film’s adaptation tends to take

The Wizard of Oz is the tale of a young girl by the name of, Dorothy who was having, what she felt to be a hard time at home. No one was really listening to her or showing her enough attention and Miss Gulch

L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became a favorite read for America. The novel became a huge part of the American culture. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz impacted twentieth and twenty-first century ethos. The book influenced people around the globe. The story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz created several forms of entertainment, such as film and theatre. Baum’s novel cannot necessarily be classified as childish because of all the adult themes and topics covered in the book and later in the movie. His novel breaks the stereotypes and creates a rich story filled with not only entertaining events, but also potent and meaningful content. The presence of strong women is more prominent topics seen and analyzed from the book and the movie. The two articles that argue this later are Paige and Linda Roher’s “Wearing the Red Shoes,” and Emad A. Alghamdi’s, “Growing up Grey is an Inevitable Matter.” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a literal representation of early twentieth century women. Compared to earlier fairy tales, where women were portrayed as passive and pleasing characters, Baum creates the prototype of women who are strong individuals.

Often, people who enjoy reading are found disappointed by the film versions of their favorite books. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and The Wizard of OZ movie produced by Vincent Fleming serve as a good example of a distorted transition from text to film. While the novel was originally created to teach that anything is possible with hard work and is a straightforward children’s book, the film tacks on many unintended morals, further changing the stories meaning. While which one preferred is only an opinion, adapted aspect’s of the novel including the reality of Oz, Kansas, and Dorothy’s characterization each alter what the story was meant to be, which was an innocent fairytale.

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom” says Charles Dickens. Having a heart that is able to love portrays the most wisdom and is relevant to modern day and Great Expectations. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the readers are introduced to a boy named Pip that goes to London because a benefactor funds his journey to become a gentleman. Pip later finds out this benefactor is a convict who he met several years before. Pip is in love with a girl named Estella who he met as a young boy at Miss Havisham’s, Estella’s mother, house. Pip has confessed his love to Estella multiple times, but she continues to say that she does not love him back. Pip thinks of her in everything he does but, eventually admits that he no longer loves her. Dickens

Have you ever imagined yourself stepping inside a world like no other? Where there are strange creatures, flying broomsticks, and magic? In 1939, there was “The Wizard of Oz” starring actress Judy Garland. Today, approximately 80 years post the famous Wizard of Oz movie is the Harry Potter series. Best-selling British novelist J.K. Rowling has penned a saga that has become the record breaking book series in history. More importantly, the book collection, is the basis for the Harry Potter film installments and is the second highest-grossing film series in history (Wikipedia, 2015) The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two movie trailer will represent the artifact as the topic of this paper. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part two is the climax of the Harry Potter series and represents the fight between good and evil forces. This artifact is filled with interesting concepts and themes that can be analyzed from various perspectives.