Can we talk about how gorgeous 1930/40s graphic design was? I thought I would finish the Wicked book before this video was finished but I’m still working on it haha
Margaret Hamilton deserved an academy award for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West. Her performance single handedly set the bar high for other actresses interested in a witch role. I wish her deleted scenes were available today.
The script for this movie was passed through over a dozen screenwriters at different times, often with several working at the same time unbeknownst to each other. How this ever turned into a coherent story is amazing. At one point, the witch was to have a son (I recall named "Bobo") and she was trying to get him to be the new ruler of Oz. In another rewrite, Dorothy is romantically interested in the scarecrow/Kansas farmhand - the vestige of this remains where she says "I think I'm going to miss you the most." Since you said you've read the original book, you know that Oz was written as a real place (and eventually Dorothy takes her aunt and uncle there to live). MGM felt audiences at the time were too sophisticated to accept that and made it a dream/fantasy. The very first book I ever read was Ozma of Oz, the third book in the series. Disney's 1985 Return to Oz is closely based on the second book, Marvelous Land of Oz and on Ozma, and the character appearances closely based on the original illustrations by John Neill. Disney only had purchased the rights to the other books but MGM held the rights to the first book. So Return had to be very careful to skirt infringing on the MGM film, while at the same trying to relate Return to well-known elements of the MGM version - I think it was masterful in this regard. I am among the many who consider it a sort of love-letter to the books. (Others consider it too dark and creepy.) In the sequels of the first book, L. Frank Baum, the author, gives a lot of the background here and there to how Oz originated. I haven't seen Wicked (stage production or now the film) but from what I can see, Wicked does not match that, being so influenced instead by the MGM movie. For instance, in the first book, Dorothy meets the Good Witch of the North (unnamed) who is depicted as a sort of granny peasant women. There is also Glinda, the Good Witch of the South but the two good witches are rolled into one in both the MGM movie and Wicked. Also, the book's Wicked Witch of the West is drawn as a - well, I don't know how to describe her. Margaret Hamilton's portrayal, including the green skin, has overwhelmed and overshadowed the book version.
Here is an excerpt from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz “This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot.”
Both are correct. In the movie version, she did throw the water to extinguish the scarecrow, who's hay hay arm had caught flame, rather than she did it in anger.
Thank you very much for all the research you did for this video. I can’t stress enough how so many people try to invent facts that are not true. It makes for a good headline, like : JUDY GARLAND WAS HATED ON SET BY HER CO-STARS WHILE FILMING THE WIZARD OF OZ. It’s sad to see. While Judy’s life was pretty tragic, we can all agree on that, Judy had a great time filming The Wizard Of Oz. She was so excited to make it, she knew that if the movie was successful she would be built as a major star. It was a multi million property purchased pretty much FOR HER. As a vehicle to make her a star. It was a big deal. So thanks again for the video, you did great, you gained a sub 😊
My son when age 11 or 12 loved the book and movie and one day found out where Ray Bolger lived in Beverly Hills and brazenly knocked on the door/ The lady who answered said Mr. Bolger was upstairs watching the golf game but to come back the next day .which he did and posed for a picture with him and got his autograph. I wound up later writing an Oz story as my sun wanted a sequel. It is called The Wickedest Meanest Witch of Oz. Not a printed book yet but an ebook on Amazon Kindle and have just finished a screenplay. (Waiting for Hollywood to call :)
Jokes on all of them though. Margaret Hamilton did an amazing job at playing the witch and, ironically, the "less desirable" witch became the epitome of this character and made her memorable! ❤
I didn't know there's a lot of dark stuff behind the scenes. There's a lot of dark stuff in behind the scenes of this movie that everyone doesn't know about. Well it's still a wonderful movie. 💚😁🌈👏🏻
Also, there was still segregation in 1939 so racism/discrimination was normalized in society as a whole not just in Hollywood… and so seeing those aspects in movies during that time was not surprising and not seen as racist.(obv it’s wrong but wanted to give more context)
Yes, the degree of racism and misogyny up through the first 2/3rds of the 20th century is hard to believe by present generations. Black dancers were not allowed to do solos, lest they run the possibility of becoming stars (a great boon, it turns out, for the Nicholas Brothers). A big controversy arose in the 1935 movie, The Little Colonial, featuring the first interracial dance routine (cut from the film when shown in the South). Little Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson did an iconic tap-dance number up and down a staircase. (Not sure when the NEXT interracial dance routine was featured.) Black women were pretty always the maids. A young black man was typically added for a bit of (attempted) comic relief, where at some point he would get supposedly frightened by something supernatural, and then the camera focused on his face so he could roll his eyes. Meanwhile, blackface (for the white actors) was often added to musical numbers, generally for no particular reason other than variety.
I saw a video if this woman explaining that the whole judy getting slapped thing was an extremely exaggerated version to events. apparently the director just took her aside and more like patted her cheek or something like that instead of actually slapping her? regardless, him feeling guilty and asking others to slap him was still apparently true and that seems like a weird thing to do if it wasn’t a full on slap
Fantastic video. One small mistake... "Dorothy throws the pail of water at the Scarecrow's arm which the Wicked Witch of the West has set on fire." Like Dorothy says, "It was an accident! I didn't mean to kill anybody." Dorothy did not throw the pail of water in anger, it was only to save the Scarecrow's life. The fact that the water hit the Wicked Witch of the West instead, was completely an accident. I hate all the prequel musicals and NOW a film. L. Frank Balm is rolling in his grave. PLEASE, PLEASE' PLEASE do not reinterpret L. Frank Balm's original work with prequels. He wrote 13 more books about the Land of OZ. Use those books as inspiration. Not fabricated garbage like they do in Wicked. The musical and movie "BORROW" heavy from the creations of the 1939 film. Which it just wrong. The ruby slippers were silver in the original book. When Dorothy the Lion fall asleep in the poppy field, in the book, an army of field mice carry them to safety. MGM couldn't pull that off, so Glinda sends snow to wake them up. In my opinion... The original books and the 1939 movie are the gospel truth. Just think about every little child, who sees Kansas in black & white, and then AMAZING, BEATUFIL Technicolor when Judy opens that door. It gives me goosepimples every time I see it. Because, let's get real. LIFE SUCKS! Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could open your front door and be transported to a place... "Where there isn't any trouble?" I would!
@societycrumbles : no it was 100% asbestos and the Strawman's costume was made fireproof with an asbestos lining. In 1939 the product was considered a safe building product.
Can we talk about how gorgeous 1930/40s graphic design was?
I thought I would finish the Wicked book before this video was finished but I’m still working on it haha
Margaret Hamilton deserved an academy award for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West. Her performance single handedly set the bar high for other actresses interested in a witch role. I wish her deleted scenes were available today.
Or even evil villain characters
Yes!
The wicked witch is the high excitement of this classic. Margaret Hamilton did a great job portraying the witch.
The script for this movie was passed through over a dozen screenwriters at different times, often with several working at the same time unbeknownst to each other. How this ever turned into a coherent story is amazing. At one point, the witch was to have a son (I recall named "Bobo") and she was trying to get him to be the new ruler of Oz. In another rewrite, Dorothy is romantically interested in the scarecrow/Kansas farmhand - the vestige of this remains where she says "I think I'm going to miss you the most."
Since you said you've read the original book, you know that Oz was written as a real place (and eventually Dorothy takes her aunt and uncle there to live). MGM felt audiences at the time were too sophisticated to accept that and made it a dream/fantasy.
The very first book I ever read was Ozma of Oz, the third book in the series. Disney's 1985 Return to Oz is closely based on the second book, Marvelous Land of Oz and on Ozma, and the character appearances closely based on the original illustrations by John Neill. Disney only had purchased the rights to the other books but MGM held the rights to the first book. So Return had to be very careful to skirt infringing on the MGM film, while at the same trying to relate Return to well-known elements of the MGM version - I think it was masterful in this regard. I am among the many who consider it a sort of love-letter to the books. (Others consider it too dark and creepy.)
In the sequels of the first book, L. Frank Baum, the author, gives a lot of the background here and there to how Oz originated. I haven't seen Wicked (stage production or now the film) but from what I can see, Wicked does not match that, being so influenced instead by the MGM movie. For instance, in the first book, Dorothy meets the Good Witch of the North (unnamed) who is depicted as a sort of granny peasant women. There is also Glinda, the Good Witch of the South but the two good witches are rolled into one in both the MGM movie and Wicked. Also, the book's Wicked Witch of the West is drawn as a - well, I don't know how to describe her. Margaret Hamilton's portrayal, including the green skin, has overwhelmed and overshadowed the book version.
I love these little fun facts! ❤ thanks 😊 The Wizard of Oz is my all time FAVORITE movie!
please get this person a million subs in the future she has so much potential 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I agree
Amen 🙏🏾 Amen 🙏🏾 Amen 🙏🏾
great video! such an interesting deep dive!
Excellent video! Love the editing!🧙🏻♀️
Dorothy didn’t throw water at the WWW “in anger”, she threw the water to extinguish the Scarecrow who had been set on fire by the WWW.
Here is an excerpt from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz “This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot.”
Both are correct. In the movie version, she did throw the water to extinguish the scarecrow, who's hay hay arm had caught flame, rather than she did it in anger.
Thank you very much for all the research you did for this video.
I can’t stress enough how so many people try to invent facts that are not true.
It makes for a good headline, like : JUDY GARLAND WAS HATED ON SET BY HER CO-STARS WHILE FILMING THE WIZARD OF OZ. It’s sad to see.
While Judy’s life was pretty tragic, we can all agree on that, Judy had a great time filming The Wizard Of Oz. She was so excited to make it, she knew that if the movie was successful she would be built as a major star. It was a multi million property purchased pretty much FOR HER. As a vehicle to make her a star. It was a big deal.
So thanks again for the video, you did great, you gained a sub 😊
Once again, thank you so much for your videos and what you do! You do it so well!
My son when age 11 or 12 loved the book and movie and one day found out where Ray Bolger lived in Beverly Hills and brazenly knocked on the door/ The lady who answered said Mr. Bolger was upstairs watching the golf game but to come back the next day .which he did and posed for a picture with him and got his autograph. I wound up later writing an Oz story as my sun wanted a sequel. It is called The Wickedest Meanest Witch of Oz. Not a printed book yet but an ebook on Amazon Kindle and have just finished a screenplay. (Waiting for Hollywood to call :)
Will check it out!!
Subscribed! Very well researched video and I've been on an old Hollywood roll lately too.
your voice is soothing
Thank you - this was so well researched and interesting 😊
Well done ❤
Thank you ❤
Very well done. Thank you.
Jokes on all of them though. Margaret Hamilton did an amazing job at playing the witch and, ironically, the "less desirable" witch became the epitome of this character and made her memorable! ❤
I didn't know there's a lot of dark stuff behind the scenes. There's a lot of dark stuff in behind the scenes of this movie that everyone doesn't know about. Well it's still a wonderful movie. 💚😁🌈👏🏻
Great video!
It will always be a good movie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Also, there was still segregation in 1939 so racism/discrimination was normalized in society as a whole not just in Hollywood… and so seeing those aspects in movies during that time was not surprising and not seen as racist.(obv it’s wrong but wanted to give more context)
Yes, the degree of racism and misogyny up through the first 2/3rds of the 20th century is hard to believe by present generations. Black dancers were not allowed to do solos, lest they run the possibility of becoming stars (a great boon, it turns out, for the Nicholas Brothers). A big controversy arose in the 1935 movie, The Little Colonial, featuring the first interracial dance routine (cut from the film when shown in the South). Little Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson did an iconic tap-dance number up and down a staircase. (Not sure when the NEXT interracial dance routine was featured.)
Black women were pretty always the maids. A young black man was typically added for a bit of (attempted) comic relief, where at some point he would get supposedly frightened by something supernatural, and then the camera focused on his face so he could roll his eyes. Meanwhile, blackface (for the white actors) was often added to musical numbers, generally for no particular reason other than variety.
Great video!! Judy Garland had & many others had a really awful time behind the scenes. Crazy how people were so obsessed with weight & body image.
OMG WICKED VIDEO NEXT?? WICKED VIDEO WHEN!?!?!
I saw a video if this woman explaining that the whole judy getting slapped thing was an extremely exaggerated version to events. apparently the director just took her aside and more like patted her cheek or something like that instead of actually slapping her? regardless, him feeling guilty and asking others to slap him was still apparently true and that seems like a weird thing to do if it wasn’t a full on slap
The wizard of öz humanity ❤
Takes place 3 billion years before Dorothy's time
13:55 Judy Garland's eyes were small???
Yes!! So glad we're diving into how badly Judy Garland was treates, it's so so wack
Judy garland ❤❤❤❤
If Glenda asked was she a good witch or bad witch 😭Dorothy should’ve so u calling me ugly ?
The wizard of öz The wiz wicked ❤
Judy garlan immortal ❤
This is great but you are interrupted every 2 minutes with an ad. Every 2 minutes.
Fantastic video. One small mistake... "Dorothy throws the pail of water at the Scarecrow's arm which the Wicked Witch of the West has set on fire." Like Dorothy says, "It was an accident! I didn't mean to kill anybody." Dorothy did not throw the pail of water in anger, it was only to save the Scarecrow's life. The fact that the water hit the Wicked Witch of the West instead, was completely an accident. I hate all the prequel musicals and NOW a film. L. Frank Balm is rolling in his grave. PLEASE, PLEASE' PLEASE do not reinterpret L. Frank Balm's original work with prequels. He wrote 13 more books about the Land of OZ. Use those books as inspiration. Not fabricated garbage like they do in Wicked. The musical and movie "BORROW" heavy from the creations of the 1939 film. Which it just wrong. The ruby slippers were silver in the original book. When Dorothy the Lion fall asleep in the poppy field, in the book, an army of field mice carry them to safety. MGM couldn't pull that off, so Glinda sends snow to wake them up. In my opinion... The original books and the 1939 movie are the gospel truth. Just think about every little child, who sees Kansas in black & white, and then AMAZING, BEATUFIL Technicolor when Judy opens that door. It gives me goosepimples every time I see it. Because, let's get real. LIFE SUCKS! Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could open your front door and be transported to a place... "Where there isn't any trouble?" I would!
in the book she throws it out of anger
@@yanna396 True! She throws the book out of anger, in the book. I thought we were talking about the 1939 film.
Wicked 2 the movie will be v accurate to the books
Only human beings ❤
The snow was made of gypsum, not asbestos.
@societycrumbles : no it was 100% asbestos and the Strawman's costume was made fireproof with an asbestos lining. In 1939 the product was considered a safe building product.
The wizard of öz 😂😂😂
Okay so now I can’t believe anything else in this video because you presented the snow being made of asbestos as true
There is a single moment of information in this video. I think you were the last one to hear about all of this.
Adaption?
Adaption?