My understanding from people who own horses is that the best thing you can do for them during a storm (if you can’t drive them out of range of it in a trailer before it hits) is to let them loose like they did in this movie. If they’re stuck in the stable when it hits, they can get injured if the building is hit. In a large pasture or turned loose completely, they have a much better shot at following their instincts to stay alive, then once the storm is over they can be rounded up again. I think it depends on how strong the building you house them in is and how likely it is to survive a tornado.
Ugly or pretty at heart, I'm assuming. For all they knew Dorothy could've been worse than the wicked witches despite looking pretty on the outside. Remember, Dorothy isn't from Oz so she wouldn't be affected by all of the rules of magic
Actually, l believe it was a mirror not a screen. Mirror shots had been used at least since 1919 often to enlarge crowd scenes. Perfected by German effects cinematographer Eugene Schuftan. Oh, and there was NO blue screen until the 1950's. Green screen was an improvement from the 1970's
I remember Margret Hamilton was on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the episode was about things that scares people because the wicked witch scared so many kids even years later.
6:57 this was all done with practical effects. The houses interior is painted entirely in the brown colors, and that's Judy's stunt double, also all in brown, down to the face paint. Then when she opens the door, she steps out of view, then Judy steps in.
This movie is actually pretty hard to forget. Like, the songs: amazing and catchy. The characters: charming and memorable. The number of adaptations and parodies this movie got after its release: who knows? I can’t count that high.
My favourite Oz trivia is that in the book, the slippers are silver. But the filmmakers wanted to show off the newfound technicolour technology, so they changed them to bright red so they'd stand out. They look especially vibrant on the yellow brick road. And imagine watching this for the first time after only ever watching tv/movies in black and white? That must've been incredible.
Honestly, I feel like the color change was for the better anyway. The ruby slippers are so iconic. I remember when I was little, I chose some flats solely because they looked exactly like the icon, and I called them my ruby slippers
And in the book, 'slipper' was not used, they were the Silver Shoes. The rather durable shoes (Dorothy chooses to wear them because they looked suitable for the long journey to see Oz) were probably not the look for film.
24:56 So apparently according to someone in the Pink Popcast comment section, there originally was a romance between Dorothy and Scarecrow that eventually got written out. That line is from that.
"Oh come on, you don't hear the stomping on the door?" As someone who had a tornado go through my neighborhood back when I was in high school, we had a large tree that was on the edge of our property, right next to the driveway that got knocked down by the wind caused by the tornado. Even though the tree wasn't far from the house, when it fell, we didn't hear any sound of the wood splitting or it making impact with the ground. I'd be surprised of Dorothy's family could hear stomping on the door to the cellar. And even if they did, they'd probably mistake it for the sound of something being knocked against the door by the wind.
So the Tin Man got sick from the gray paint he had, the cowardly lion wore a real lion’s mane as a costume, they told Judy Garland (Dorothy) that she wasn’t skinny enough for the role and gave her a special diet, and the snow was asbestos.
Actually, you must be referring to the first intended actor to be the Tin Man; Buddy Ebsen. He was originally gonna play the Scarecrow, but Ray Bolger (who was first gonna play the Tin Man) convinced him to swap roles. However, the makeup to make Ebsen look like he's made of tin had actual aluminium grounded into the powder, which eventually coated his lungs. He eventually survived the ordeal, but the film still needed a Tin Man. Jack Haley, who was on loan from 20th Century Fox at the time, was then picked to quietly replace Ebsen, where the makeup was changed to aluminum paste, which didn’t infect his lungs, but it did give him a brief eye infection.
Also, the Lion's mane was made of human hair, not an actual lion's mane. Judy Garland's diet was only chicken broth and coffee, no cigarettes. Also, various Oz movie historians have said that the snow was gypsum, not asbestos.
@@vicentehizon6202 Thank you so much for this! I had no idea that Jed Clampett was the original Tin Man. This sent me to read about it and wow, they did him so dirty. He lived to be 95 but still, he suffered lung issues for the rest of his life. And this folks is why we need OSHA and Workers Compensation.
Slight correction, but it was the second guy they cast as the Tin Man who had some major lung problems after inhaling the aluminum dust makeup. (The first guy they had begged to play the Scarecrow instead.) So they changed the makeup to an aluminum paste so it could not be inhaled.
I am going to see Wicked in theaters with my Dad this cominy Monday, and I cannot be more excited about it! Yes, the "Snowflake's" in the Poppy scene was actually Aesbestos... and Margaret Hamilton who played the original Wicked Witch actually got injured when she exited the Munchkin scene because of the fiery explosion as the trapdoor was going down. God, the filming of The Wizard of Oz was a nightmare!
Judy Garland was being over dosed on drugs by her mom and she was 16 in the Wizard of Oz. The original author of the Wizard of Oz L.Frank Baum named the main character after his niece who passed at 5 months old
I met Margaret Hamilton as a child in NYC. She was a sweet woman and she even did the iconic laugh. All those actors were so good and the special effects are the best ones you can find in a 1930s movie, even though some of thise poor actors went through hell on set.
As an example of the "hell on set", the filming process they used required _triple_ the usual scene lighting, because the cameras would split the image 3 ways (for color planes) to record it on film.
I agree with you at 13: 38 the set designs are stunning- especially the densest part during this " meeting the cowardly lion' scene. Look at the range of blues on the backdrop, suggesting great depth. Still utterly jaw- dropping.
Well, according to an official merchandise map from the movie, it is the main road in Munchkin Village and specifically spirals out towards a few Munchkin cul-de-sacs, specifically going towards the Coroner’s office and The Lullaby League/ Lollipop Guild.
The Snow was Asbestos which causing scarring of the lung tissue if breathed in and lead to lung cancer or Mesothelioma which is a very rare and aggressive cancer affect the lining of the lungs
@batmanvsjoker7725 the backgrounds were of three types : a) painted cyclorama stretched canvases painted, sewn together and stretch tight between the stage floor and the upper rigging. However, they needed to be carefully photographed to disguise the 12 foot light well between the real set and the cyclorama ; b) matte paintings. M-G-M mattes were pastel chalks on black card board, a system begun back in the 1920's. Other studios used oil paints on glass panes ; c) hanging miniatures. Another silent film trick : a scale model was suspended at precisely the proper distance in front of the camera to blend with the full size set. Used for certain takes of the exterior of the witch's castle.
One of my absolute all time favorite movies. But so very dangerous to film. The Wicked Witch Margaret Hamilton got second and third degree burns on her face and hands after the exit scene in Munchkinland went very badly when she fell too fast through the elevator/trap door (which ironically is what ended Idina Menzel's run on Broadway in Wicked a day early- falling through the trap door at the end of the show) and she had copper in her makeup which would dissolve her skin. She was hospitalized for weeks. Her stunt double nearly lost a leg shooting one of the broom smoking scenes when the broom she was riding on exploded. The 'snow' was asbestos. The Lion's costume was 90 lbs. Much of it was a real lion skin. Judy Garland was horribly treated by the director/studio and mom, putting her on a diet of cigarettes and pills to keep her weight down. On set the person she was closest to was, ironically, Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) The original makeup for the Tin Man coated his lungs and sent him to the hospital so badly that they had to replace the original actor who later became Jed Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies. Jack Haley (Tin Man) had to sleep upright on a board. The tornado was a rotating muslin sock attached to a track with dirt funneled around it. And the idea that 'it was all a dream' was specifically created for the movie. In the original books the land wasn't just real it was fairly easily accessible. My favorite fact though is that when looking for a coat for Professor Marvel they found one they liked in a thrift store, and one day on the set the actor discovered the label inside said "L Frank Baum". They verified it was his coat and gave it to his wife after filming.
The song Over The Rainbow is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie. Delicious movie trivia: >The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup. >The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow. Sweet movie trivia: >Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper. Sad movie trivia: >In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it. >The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on Margaret Hamilton's face and a 3rd degree burn on her right hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.
"Over The Rainbow" is one of my top favorite songs from the movie too, along with "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" & "If I Only Had A Heart".💞🎶💞 Thank you for the movie trivia; I didn't know half of it, and I love how you categorized it.😊🩵🌟🦋
@SunsetMercer25 You are 100% welcome, friend. And thank you for not being the kind of RUclipsr who gets after people for posting a long-winded comment with trivia tracks. I do that because my mind is hardwired to be analytical (autism) and I share my observations and random trivia that I look up.
PLEASE check out 'The Wiz'. It's basically an all black cast version of The wizard of Oz. The performances are amazing and the songs are unforgettable. It's starring the All Stars like Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and more. It will not disappoint. You're great as always. Wishing you Peace and Love ✌️💓
@MoviesinDepth maybe also watch the 2015 NBC TV special version. It's a lot more faithful to the musical version of _The Wiz_ and has huge cast of the biggest names of the world of R&B. Queen Latifah is the Wizard, Amber Riley is the Witch of the North, Uzo Aduba is Glinda, Mary J. Blige is the Wicked Witch, Ne-Yo is the Tin Man, David Alan Grier is the Lion, Elijah Kelley (Seaweed in the _Hairspray_ movie) is the Scarecrow, but my favorites are Aunt Em (original Broadway _Wiz_ star Stephanie Mills) and Dorothy (then newcomer Shanice Williams).
Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch, reprised her role on an episode of “Sesame Street” back in the ‘70s. Unfortunately, a lot of parents wrote into the TV network and complained about how her appearance scared their kids. As a result, the episode never aired again and it went into the vault. Two years ago, that lost footage from that episode got pulled from the vault and it’s available to watch on social media. It’s actually quite interesting and is not as “scary” as it was claimed to be back then.
Tin man’s song was always my favorite only because of the Toot! Toot! I feel so happy every time I do it lol. Anyways the amount of “fun” facts I know about this movie is ridiculous.
I still laugh pretty hard when I see Lion's reaction and runs out of the Wizard of Oz's lair. When he asks what if she kills us first. The Wizards shouts out I said go. Scares Lion so much he is Halling ass down that hallway and out the window he jumps. I still find it funny.
During the Wicked Witch of the West's exit scene, where the fire shoots up, the trap door didn't open as fast as it should have, and Margret Hamilton suffered severe 2nd and 3rd degree burns because the make-up she was wearing turned out to be flammable as well as the dress that she was wearing. She spent several weeks in the hospital because of that, and then returned with the condition that they do not use any more fire. Oh, and by the way, when I first saw this movie, I think I was about 5 or 6, the flying monkeys scared me the most. 🐒🐵🙊🙉🙈
When I was little, after watching this movie, my oldest brother caused me to be TERRIFIED of witches coming to get me in the middle of the night, so I slept with a nightlight for the longest time and refused to watch this movie. I can't remember the specifics outside of this uncanny witch cackle, but that was enough
This '39 movie is based on the 1900 book, but in the novel (and all the sequels), Oz is a real place. MGM was worried that audiences would not accept it as real, hence it was supposed to be a dream. MGM purchased the rights to the first book. Disney purchased the rights to the 13 sequels. In 1985, they made Return to Oz, which is very closely based on the second and third books, Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Many people, excepting a light-hearted musical, were upset and consider it too dark. But for fans of the book (myself included), it is so much closer to the stories, including the depictions of the characters, as drawn by the original illustrations by John Neill. (By comparison to Ray Bulger's costume and makeup, the original scarecrow is somewhat creepy.) I would love to see your reaction to Return.
Despite seeing this movie many times growing up, it wasn’t until watching this reaction that I realized she was falling into barbed wire and not just scared of the pigs! I also never realized the wizard playing so many roles until watching the Pinkpopcast’s reaction video🤦🏼♀️
3:28 tell me about it 😅 I have a Cairn terrier/poodle mix and Lydia looks EXACTLY like Toto. It’s so funny because whenever my family watches this movie, she always stares at the screen at this part ☺️
@MoviesinDepth yeah, they kept the first take of it cause the second attempt they were just slightly off que, leading to her costume to be caught on fire and her burnt, the green paint also had copper in it so that also wasn't good for her
I love that I’m not the only 6 foot 4 person they got to play short characters 😂 I had to play a munchkin when my high school did it and I was fine with it because i just love being on stage but i thought really a munchkin you cast the 6 foot 4 person as a munchkin 😂(now I’m 6 foot even but still)
The Wizard of Oz is my #1 favorite movie. My birthday is the same as the release date (August 25th), I was Dorothy for many Halloweens growing up, and my family even sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow at funerals.
I know during each shot there were 3 different horses for the horse of a different color, and you can tell each one is a different breed too. First one was purple, and it was muscular and then there's the red hose it was a smaller and skinny, and then there's yellow which is the smallest of the 3 horses and it's dancing like it's a show pony. But they switched 3 horses. From what I was told and how they shot, you see the horse one moment then the camera's zoom on just the couch and everyone in it, and then another was shot into scene and so on and so on. They zoom out on purpose to do the switch for the 3 horses that's what I was told they did on set.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Not from what I heard. But if you say so. I was told they had used 4 different horses, the white one, then the different colors, and each time it's a different breed of horse look a lot closer to the details.
@ they used several white horses (4) indeed but they did dyed their coats with colored gelatin powder. But they had to hurry before the horse would lick it off in between the takes
between you and the lads over at Pink Popcast this will be the second time I "watched" this movie today 😆as a die hard hermit, whenever I see multiple people reacting to the same thing it's always my little clue that there's something happening in pop culture lol
A bit late, but here’s some new trivia that many don’t know: The red brick road is from the book series by Baum. It leads to Quadling Country, which is Glinda’s territory. Oh, and in the books Glinda is not a witch. She’s a sorceress. The witch of the North is another woman. The munchkins were a mix of adults with dwarfism and actual children. Several of the adults were from the famous Singer Midgets vaudeville troupe. Fun fact: Leo Singer was their manager and he is who they are named after. The rest of the adults were independent actors. The munchkin singing voices are actually a group of professional session singers on helium. In fact, almost all the munchkin actors that had a speaking part were dubbed over. Meinhardt Raabe, who played the munchkin coroner-the guy with the death certificate-spent nearly all his life believing his voice was the only one not dubbed. He was shocked to discover he had also been dubbed over, just by someone who sounded almost identical to himself. Margaret Hamilton was the second choice for West. Gale Sondergard was cast first when the studio decided that the wicked witch of the West needed to be like the evil queen in Snow White. Ya know, pretty. I’m not sure who changed their mind, but the decision was made for West to be “ugly” like her book counterpart and MGM went to one of their great character actresses… Margaret Hamilton…with the role. The dog who portrayed Toto was actually fond of her and Margaret had a hard time being mean to her. (Yes, Toto was portrayed by a female dog) They actually worked together years later in another movie and there is an awesome picture of them sitting on a sofa together with Margaret doing her witch claw hands. Meanwhile Terry is just so happy to be in her presence. No one wears jewelry in the film. Except for the munchkin coroner. Meinhardt Raabe forgot to remove his high school ring during filming and they were halfway through the Munchkinland shooting schedule before someone noticed. So he got to keep it on. I could tell you almost everything about this film to be honest. I’m healthily obsessed. So much so that I’ve written about this film in every year of school, including for several courses in college. I’ve also been lucky enough to interview Meinhardt Raabe when I was 15, long before he published his memoir.
I love the scene where the witch sends the flying monkeys - it’s cool because you realise that they’re always just circling the castle waiting for her command
Some little facts about Wizard of Oz... The house falling to earth was created by painting the floor of a sound stage to look like a clouded sky then dropping a miniature of the house as they filmed it then running the film in reverse so that it looked like it was falling to the ground. The lion's suit was an actual lion pelt The "horse of a different color" effect was created by using different flavors of gelatin for each color. Frank Morgan played at multiple characters including Prof. Marvel, a few different residents of the Emerald City and The Wizard as well. The tornado effect was created by wrapping gauze around a frame connected ceiling to floor then running it along a track laid down to simulate a tornao's path
Fun fact: the transition from "Black and White" to colour was fully in colour. The set in front of the door was painted to look like film and Dorothy's Body double was in a brown dress. Notice, she steps back out of frame before stepping into Oz?
I love this movie and the black adaptation “The Wiz”! I got both for my birthday one year. I played the tin man in middle school and I was the only person who remembered their lines and song. Goes to show….Theatre Kids Rock!
I love this movie the cowardly lion is my favorite character in movie i quote the line of"somebody pulled my tail" is my favorite. And fun fact is this:The tin man got sick because of the makeup and the had two different tin men on the move and plus the wicked witch actress got burned as well when she was supposed to leave in a ball a fire in the munchkin land..and there's several more but I'll leave that to the others
Sorry, not quite. Buddy was cast as the Scarecrow and Ray Bolger was the Tin Man. Ray begged the producer to let them switch parts and Buddy didn't care. He then got sick from inhaling the aluminum dust they powdered on his face. They recast with Jack Haley and switched the dust to aluminum paste which gave Jack en eye infection.
The Wizard of Oz will always be a well loved classic. I don't remember watching much of this movie when I was a kid but I did grow up watching the unofficial sequel Return To Oz which is still my favourite to this day as it's such a dark and scary movie compared to the original.
That’s actually not entirely true. Judy was 15 at the start of filming. She turned 16 toward the end of filming. And she was already 17 by the time the film was released to theaters.
I love this movie so much, incredible for it's time and holds up amazingly to this day. But reading about the production is wild, and not always in a good way! A fun little fact I haven't seen anyone else mention is that the green lollipop guild munchkin was the last surviving cast member who had an identifiable speaking role. He died as recently as 2018 at the age of 98! He would of been about 18/19 when the film was made!
The Tin Woodman has quite a different backstory in the book. An enchanted ax chops him up and he has to replace his parts with tin. The Cowardly Lion had to fight and kill animals who attacked them on the way.
@@MoviesinDepth I know, right? The Lion fought the Kalidahs (although he was afraid of them), which were beasts with the bodies of bears and the heads of tigers. Oz is also a real place that Dorothy visits, and she later moves there.
I got beef with Glinda/ The wizard fr because why did they send dorothy this little girl on a whole goose chase, to go the city of Oz and then he being like oh you gotta kill the wicked witch of the west or it to bring back her broom, whichever one it was. For glinda to be like “oh you always had the power to go home” LIKEEEEE HUHHHH me and Glinda would have to square up because you got me fucked up 😭 (that just me tho/ I love your videos a lot ❤️)
It was a quest to show that she doesn’t always need help like she did in the beginning. She was constantly begging for help about miss gulch. But if she would have gone home sooner, she wouldn’t have learned that no matter how boring her Kansas life is, you got to cherish your home. And during her adventure, she didn’t asked for help from others, She did the help herself, she helped the scarecrow tin man and lion see they had what they wanted all along, she helped oz get rid of the notorious witches and made the wizard show this to ‘em. So yeah. Dorothy grew from the girl always seeking for help to the one doing the help. So that’s why she didn’t told her about the slippers from the start
Can’t wait to see the wicked movie! Me and a lot of my friends from theater are going to see it after our White Christmas rehearsal next week!Me and my cousins used to go on walks with our grandmother and great grandmother & we’d do the off to see the wizard wall that they did in the movie & sing the song. It’s one of my fav memories growing up. Love todo he’s so freaking adorable! I love this movie! It’s so good! It’s sad about what the actors & actresses went through bts. Love your videos! You do an amazing job! ❤
Margret Hamilton ended up burned by the pyrotechnics and the green paint was toxic/ harmful to her skin. this movie's fun - I was in 2 productions of this as a play- one was at camp and our bunk was the tornado and in high school we did an abridged version which I stage managed it was soo much fun! in the original book there were 4 witches- one for each direction and Glinda was the good witch of the south and the slippers were silver( it was changed to red for the movie). when you rewatch this as an adult you realize that Glinda was awful she used Dorothy for her own means to get rid of the witch, she is the one who makes the witch of the west angry and makes Dorothy a target by giving her the shoes and doesn't give Dorothy any guidance and then has the audacity to tell her she could've gone home when ever she wanted by clicking her heals! the actor who plays the scarecrow character dancing is great (you know he's a good dancer when he is able to dance in character- and not just a good traditionally trained dancer). in the original book the tin man is a tin woodman who was a woodsman -the witch cursed his axe so he kept cutting off limbs instead of trees, each time he lost a body part he replaced it with tin and eventually became fully tin. there were a lot of issues on the set besides Margret getting burned- the paint for the tin man harmed the actors skin and labor laws were basically non existent so the actors worked past reasonable hours especially Judy- there were a lot of issues on set because of the horrible labor laws and lack/horrible safety protections that basically didn't exist at the time (especially if you were a woman). judy garland is a gay/ queer icon. I think aunt em is supposed to be Glinda
9:43 Fool Witch 10:28 Follow the Yellow Brick Road 12:09 Not the Old Guys from Muppets 13:17 You're Hilarious 13:42 Oh My 14:14 Smack lion 19:24 Stone Cold Stone Cold It's Here 21:45 What a Coward 22:35 I am Melting!🫠
This film still holds up after all these years. No matter how many times I watch it, I find it very charming and pleasant. Side note, I’m really interested in seeing how Wicked turns out. Being based on the classic stage musical, I can imagine it being a smash hit at the box office.😌
Just for Happy Memories, “Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are Far Behind Me! Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Way up high. where Skies are Blue.”
Good video. BTW, you should also react to "Return to Oz (1985)". It's the only movie that IS sequel to the "The wizard of Oz (1939)" because it adapts the second and third books of the Oz book series, and also shows the ruby slippers.
Wait a minute, I think the Munchkins in the Wicked movie are average height people? IIRC the Thropps are from Munchkinland. I guess that's a good way to avoid the Snow White Dwarfs scandal. Can't wait for part 2, I want to see the event cross between Wicked & Wizard of Oz. You can see Dorothy & the gang in the intro but I wonder if their designs will look like that in part 2(the one we see could be just a homage to the OG movie).
Toto actually plays an important part in the Tin Man trilogy. If you haven’t watched that, I highly recommend you react to it. Alan Cumming, Kathleen Robertson, Blu Mankuma, Raoul Trujillo, Neal MacDonough, and Zooey Deschanel are in it. 😊
I just noticed that the "Wizard's" balloon says Omaha State Fair. Omaha is in Nebraska, but he said he is a Kansas man. Hmm. I know the states are next to each other. I just never saw the Omaha State Fair sign before after dozens of viewings of this incredible film.
The horses in Oz were colored by powdered jello. They had to film it very quickly because the horses kept licking it off.
HAHAHAHA. WHERE IS THIS FOOTAGE
wait isnt jello made from horses lol
would you like to see the funniest twisty dream works movie I have seen watch The movie Bad Guys
Please you definitely should watch Bad Guys
That "big goose" is a grey crowned Crane and that fake snow was asbestos 😮😮😮@@MoviesinDepth
My understanding from people who own horses is that the best thing you can do for them during a storm (if you can’t drive them out of range of it in a trailer before it hits) is to let them loose like they did in this movie. If they’re stuck in the stable when it hits, they can get injured if the building is hit. In a large pasture or turned loose completely, they have a much better shot at following their instincts to stay alive, then once the storm is over they can be rounded up again. I think it depends on how strong the building you house them in is and how likely it is to survive a tornado.
"Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" "Only bad witches are ugly..." WHY ARE YOU ASKING DOROTHY IF SHE'S A BAD WITCH WHEN SHE'S OBJECTIVELY PRETTY
Ugly or pretty at heart, I'm assuming. For all they knew Dorothy could've been worse than the wicked witches despite looking pretty on the outside. Remember, Dorothy isn't from Oz so she wouldn't be affected by all of the rules of magic
In Glinda's defense, the girl did just drop a house on someone. Pretty or ugly, that's gonna raise some questions. 😅
She said ONLY bad witches are ugly, not ALL bad witches are ugly. The bad and pretty combo is still on the table 🤷♀️
HAHAHAHA
@@tangally Thank-you, thank-you!
The witch's crystal ball was actually a huge glass bowl turned on it's side. Em and the witch were projected onto a screen inside the bowl.
I KNEW A PROJECTION WAS INVOLVED👏👏👏
Actually, l believe it was a mirror not a screen. Mirror shots had been used at least since 1919 often to enlarge crowd scenes. Perfected by German effects cinematographer Eugene Schuftan. Oh, and there was NO blue screen until the 1950's. Green screen was an improvement from the 1970's
I remember Margret Hamilton was on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the episode was about things that scares people because the wicked witch scared so many kids even years later.
Acting is just like pretending.
She was there to Helppppp 😂
She was a kindergarten teacher if I recall! 😂
6:57 this was all done with practical effects.
The houses interior is painted entirely in the brown colors, and that's Judy's stunt double, also all in brown, down to the face paint.
Then when she opens the door, she steps out of view, then Judy steps in.
I looooove the practical effects from back then!!
This movie is actually pretty hard to forget. Like, the songs: amazing and catchy. The characters: charming and memorable. The number of adaptations and parodies this movie got after its release: who knows? I can’t count that high.
The parodies are INFINITE
@@MoviesinDepth Would you consider watching Return to Oz?! It's definitely a free TRIP and a HALF!! 😂😂😂
Was just thinking about one of the Mad TV parodies and how no network today would allow it to air 😂😂😂😂
Try watching the dream works movie Bad Guys it is full of twists
Judy Garland actually had a hard time being afraid of the actress who played the wicked witch, Margaret Hamilton because she was such a sweet lady.
Hahahaha that’s the wholesomeness I needed today
My favourite Oz trivia is that in the book, the slippers are silver. But the filmmakers wanted to show off the newfound technicolour technology, so they changed them to bright red so they'd stand out. They look especially vibrant on the yellow brick road. And imagine watching this for the first time after only ever watching tv/movies in black and white? That must've been incredible.
Exaaaaactly. Crazy for the time period this was made in
Honestly, I feel like the color change was for the better anyway. The ruby slippers are so iconic. I remember when I was little, I chose some flats solely because they looked exactly like the icon, and I called them my ruby slippers
If there isn’t already a movie, it’d be interested in one that follows the red bricks
@@smnbrgss That would be interesting! I’ve seen a theory/meme saying it leads to the Wonka Factory
And in the book, 'slipper' was not used, they were the Silver Shoes. The rather durable shoes (Dorothy chooses to wear them because they looked suitable for the long journey to see Oz) were probably not the look for film.
24:56 So apparently according to someone in the Pink Popcast comment section, there originally was a romance between Dorothy and Scarecrow that eventually got written out. That line is from that.
Thank God that got written out! Not every movie and series needs a romance plot.
@@batmanvsjoker7725it also just wouldn't make sense in this because we know everyone she meets reflects someone back in Kansas
@@TaliyahHarris1025 Not Glinda.
@@HuntingViolets ?
WHAT
"Oh come on, you don't hear the stomping on the door?" As someone who had a tornado go through my neighborhood back when I was in high school, we had a large tree that was on the edge of our property, right next to the driveway that got knocked down by the wind caused by the tornado. Even though the tree wasn't far from the house, when it fell, we didn't hear any sound of the wood splitting or it making impact with the ground. I'd be surprised of Dorothy's family could hear stomping on the door to the cellar. And even if they did, they'd probably mistake it for the sound of something being knocked against the door by the wind.
Ok note to self do not get involved with tornados lol
I’ve heard many stories of especially F3-F5 tornadoes sounding like freight trains
Ding dong the witch is dead” was banned at one point because it had implications of celebration of the death of Lady Thatcher.
PFF
"Citation needed."
@@majkusno seriously, it charted in the UK the week she died.
@@ruffboiALT Lol awesome!! That bitch was evil
So the Tin Man got sick from the gray paint he had, the cowardly lion wore a real lion’s mane as a costume, they told Judy Garland (Dorothy) that she wasn’t skinny enough for the role and gave her a special diet, and the snow was asbestos.
Yikes, that's how they made movies back then. Before they even knew the dangers of asbestos and safe paint.
Actually, you must be referring to the first intended actor to be the Tin Man; Buddy Ebsen. He was originally gonna play the Scarecrow, but Ray Bolger (who was first gonna play the Tin Man) convinced him to swap roles. However, the makeup to make Ebsen look like he's made of tin had actual aluminium grounded into the powder, which eventually coated his lungs. He eventually survived the ordeal, but the film still needed a Tin Man. Jack Haley, who was on loan from 20th Century Fox at the time, was then picked to quietly replace Ebsen, where the makeup was changed to aluminum paste, which didn’t infect his lungs, but it did give him a brief eye infection.
Also, the Lion's mane was made of human hair, not an actual lion's mane. Judy Garland's diet was only chicken broth and coffee, no cigarettes. Also, various Oz movie historians have said that the snow was gypsum, not asbestos.
@@vicentehizon6202 Thank you so much for this! I had no idea that Jed Clampett was the original Tin Man. This sent me to read about it and wow, they did him so dirty. He lived to be 95 but still, he suffered lung issues for the rest of his life.
And this folks is why we need OSHA and Workers Compensation.
Slight correction, but it was the second guy they cast as the Tin Man who had some major lung problems after inhaling the aluminum dust makeup. (The first guy they had begged to play the Scarecrow instead.) So they changed the makeup to an aluminum paste so it could not be inhaled.
I am going to see Wicked in theaters with my Dad this cominy Monday, and I cannot be more excited about it! Yes, the "Snowflake's" in the Poppy scene was actually Aesbestos... and Margaret Hamilton who played the original Wicked Witch actually got injured when she exited the Munchkin scene because of the fiery explosion as the trapdoor was going down. God, the filming of The Wizard of Oz was a nightmare!
WICKED HYPEEE
For such a fun and bright movie, the makings of it are so dark
I auditioned to be Toto in the school play, but I was replaced by a toy dog.
PFF.. ok I’m laughing with you at this moment ♥️
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24:01 Glinda did say that Kansas was a star that Dorothy fell from
Judy Garland was being over dosed on drugs by her mom and she was 16 in the Wizard of Oz. The original author of the Wizard of Oz L.Frank Baum named the main character after his niece who passed at 5 months old
I met Margaret Hamilton as a child in NYC. She was a sweet woman and she even did the iconic laugh. All those actors were so good and the special effects are the best ones you can find in a 1930s movie, even though some of thise poor actors went through hell on set.
That is AMAZING
As an example of the "hell on set", the filming process they used required _triple_ the usual scene lighting, because the cameras would split the image 3 ways (for color planes) to record it on film.
I agree with you at 13: 38 the set designs are stunning- especially the densest part during this " meeting the cowardly lion' scene. Look at the range of blues on the backdrop, suggesting great depth. Still utterly jaw- dropping.
YES
7:19 As someone who's seen at least 5 different Oz based movies, I wish they would answer that question
Well, according to an official merchandise map from the movie, it is the main road in Munchkin Village and specifically spirals out towards a few Munchkin cul-de-sacs, specifically going towards the Coroner’s office and The Lullaby League/ Lollipop Guild.
The Snow was Asbestos which causing scarring of the lung tissue if breathed in and lead to lung cancer or Mesothelioma which is a very rare and aggressive cancer affect the lining of the lungs
This movie has that 1930s vibe that makes it weirdly charming, with the background being clearly painted and everything
@batmanvsjoker7725 the backgrounds were of three types : a) painted cyclorama stretched canvases painted, sewn together and stretch tight between the stage floor and the upper rigging. However, they needed to be carefully photographed to disguise the 12 foot light well between the real set and the cyclorama ; b) matte paintings. M-G-M mattes were pastel chalks on black card board, a system begun back in the 1920's. Other studios used oil paints on glass panes ; c) hanging miniatures. Another silent film trick : a scale model was suspended at precisely the proper distance in front of the camera to blend with the full size set. Used for certain takes of the exterior of the witch's castle.
I used to be obsessed with this film as a kid. I saw wicked two days ago and it was incredible! I’ve never seen anything wicked till a few days ago.
AHHHH ITS HERE
5:53 It's safer to let horses free during a tornado because it allows them to run somewhere safe whereas keeping them inside might trap them.
You know what’s funny? There’s an whole ass train that goes to Emerald City.
One of my absolute all time favorite movies. But so very dangerous to film. The Wicked Witch Margaret Hamilton got second and third degree burns on her face and hands after the exit scene in Munchkinland went very badly when she fell too fast through the elevator/trap door (which ironically is what ended Idina Menzel's run on Broadway in Wicked a day early- falling through the trap door at the end of the show) and she had copper in her makeup which would dissolve her skin. She was hospitalized for weeks.
Her stunt double nearly lost a leg shooting one of the broom smoking scenes when the broom she was riding on exploded.
The 'snow' was asbestos.
The Lion's costume was 90 lbs. Much of it was a real lion skin.
Judy Garland was horribly treated by the director/studio and mom, putting her on a diet of cigarettes and pills to keep her weight down. On set the person she was closest to was, ironically, Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West)
The original makeup for the Tin Man coated his lungs and sent him to the hospital so badly that they had to replace the original actor who later became Jed Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies. Jack Haley (Tin Man) had to sleep upright on a board.
The tornado was a rotating muslin sock attached to a track with dirt funneled around it.
And the idea that 'it was all a dream' was specifically created for the movie. In the original books the land wasn't just real it was fairly easily accessible.
My favorite fact though is that when looking for a coat for Professor Marvel they found one they liked in a thrift store, and one day on the set the actor discovered the label inside said "L Frank Baum". They verified it was his coat and gave it to his wife after filming.
3:12 I had to perform this song my senior year for the show choir. Did an arrangement of the whole soundtrack my junior year
That is fantastic
Nah but throwing weapons at a 15 pound small dog is CRAZY work😭 and MISSING
The song Over The Rainbow is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie.
Delicious movie trivia:
>The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup.
>The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow.
Sweet movie trivia:
>Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper.
Sad movie trivia:
>In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it.
>The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on Margaret Hamilton's face and a 3rd degree burn on her right hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.
"Over The Rainbow" is one of my top favorite songs from the movie too, along with "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" & "If I Only Had A Heart".💞🎶💞
Thank you for the movie trivia; I didn't know half of it, and I love how you categorized it.😊🩵🌟🦋
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You are 100% welcome, friend. And thank you for not being the kind of RUclipsr who gets after people for posting a long-winded comment with trivia tracks. I do that because my mind is hardwired to be analytical (autism) and I share my observations and random trivia that I look up.
Yesss. Just iconic from start to end
@@rainbowpegacornstudios No problem! I don't always look through the comments, but when I do, the sweet & detailed comments like yours are a treat!💖💖💖
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PLEASE check out 'The Wiz'. It's basically an all black cast version of The wizard of Oz. The performances are amazing and the songs are unforgettable. It's starring the All Stars like Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and more. It will not disappoint. You're great as always. Wishing you Peace and Love ✌️💓
I.. I def seen it… 👀
@MoviesinDepth maybe also watch the 2015 NBC TV special version. It's a lot more faithful to the musical version of _The Wiz_ and has huge cast of the biggest names of the world of R&B. Queen Latifah is the Wizard, Amber Riley is the Witch of the North, Uzo Aduba is Glinda, Mary J. Blige is the Wicked Witch, Ne-Yo is the Tin Man, David Alan Grier is the Lion, Elijah Kelley (Seaweed in the _Hairspray_ movie) is the Scarecrow, but my favorites are Aunt Em (original Broadway _Wiz_ star Stephanie Mills) and Dorothy (then newcomer Shanice Williams).
Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch, reprised her role on an episode of “Sesame Street” back in the ‘70s. Unfortunately, a lot of parents wrote into the TV network and complained about how her appearance scared their kids. As a result, the episode never aired again and it went into the vault. Two years ago, that lost footage from that episode got pulled from the vault and it’s available to watch on social media. It’s actually quite interesting and is not as “scary” as it was claimed to be back then.
They complained before the episode aired?
@ No. They complained after the episode first aired in 1976. After that, it was never shown as a rerun again.
That is actually so funny
Tin man’s song was always my favorite only because of the Toot! Toot! I feel so happy every time I do it lol. Anyways the amount of “fun” facts I know about this movie is ridiculous.
LOVE thatttt
15:05 Now for you to figure how to split the lights so you can have both colors
15:50 yes the snow was asbestos... buy an older house...
This movie has got to have the most ICONIC shoes in all of movie history!
AMEN
I still laugh pretty hard when I see Lion's reaction and runs out of the Wizard of Oz's lair. When he asks what if she kills us first. The Wizards shouts out I said go. Scares Lion so much he is Halling ass down that hallway and out the window he jumps. I still find it funny.
He couldn’t be bothered one bit lmao
During the Wicked Witch of the West's exit scene, where the fire shoots up, the trap door didn't open as fast as it should have, and Margret Hamilton suffered severe 2nd and 3rd degree burns because the make-up she was wearing turned out to be flammable as well as the dress that she was wearing. She spent several weeks in the hospital because of that, and then returned with the condition that they do not use any more fire. Oh, and by the way, when I first saw this movie, I think I was about 5 or 6, the flying monkeys scared me the most. 🐒🐵🙊🙉🙈
When I was little, after watching this movie, my oldest brother caused me to be TERRIFIED of witches coming to get me in the middle of the night, so I slept with a nightlight for the longest time and refused to watch this movie. I can't remember the specifics outside of this uncanny witch cackle, but that was enough
@@savannahwestover7144 I feel your pain sweetie.
@@michaelkantner6420 Brothers are the worst at times
It was because of Margaret Hamiltons accident that they used the take with the visible trap door.
I never realized the “and the munchkins” part ooo dear
AND is a wild choice
This '39 movie is based on the 1900 book, but in the novel (and all the sequels), Oz is a real place. MGM was worried that audiences would not accept it as real, hence it was supposed to be a dream.
MGM purchased the rights to the first book. Disney purchased the rights to the 13 sequels. In 1985, they made Return to Oz, which is very closely based on the second and third books, Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Many people, excepting a light-hearted musical, were upset and consider it too dark. But for fans of the book (myself included), it is so much closer to the stories, including the depictions of the characters, as drawn by the original illustrations by John Neill. (By comparison to Ray Bulger's costume and makeup, the original scarecrow is somewhat creepy.)
I would love to see your reaction to Return.
Despite seeing this movie many times growing up, it wasn’t until watching this reaction that I realized she was falling into barbed wire and not just scared of the pigs! I also never realized the wizard playing so many roles until watching the Pinkpopcast’s reaction video🤦🏼♀️
After years, I finally understand what Otho meant in Beetlejuice when he said "She's upset because someone dropped a house on her sister"
Pffff the references are endlessss
3:28 tell me about it 😅 I have a Cairn terrier/poodle mix and Lydia looks EXACTLY like Toto. It’s so funny because whenever my family watches this movie, she always stares at the screen at this part ☺️
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WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD!
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
9:53 - Unfortunately, the actress playing the WWoW got 2nd degree burns from that trap door stunt. :(
WHAT
@MoviesinDepth yeah in her legs.
@MoviesinDepth yeah, they kept the first take of it cause the second attempt they were just slightly off que, leading to her costume to be caught on fire and her burnt, the green paint also had copper in it so that also wasn't good for her
I love that I’m not the only 6 foot 4 person they got to play short characters 😂 I had to play a munchkin when my high school did it and I was fine with it because i just love being on stage but i thought really a munchkin you cast the 6 foot 4 person as a munchkin 😂(now I’m 6 foot even but still)
That is PERFECT😂
My theory about the red brick road is it brings you to Quadling land. In the original book, the Quadling color was red.
They had to recast the Tin Man because he had a bad reaction to the aluminum paint.
Awwww the man tried to have a heart♥️💔
The Wizard of Oz is my #1 favorite movie. My birthday is the same as the release date (August 25th), I was Dorothy for many Halloweens growing up, and my family even sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow at funerals.
20:59 - Ah. Because these things must be done de-li-cate-ly. Or you hurt the spell.
Just like when you make a souffle.
I know during each shot there were 3 different horses for the horse of a different color, and you can tell each one is a different breed too. First one was purple, and it was muscular and then there's the red hose it was a smaller and skinny, and then there's yellow which is the smallest of the 3 horses and it's dancing like it's a show pony. But they switched 3 horses.
From what I was told and how they shot, you see the horse one moment then the camera's zoom on just the couch and everyone in it, and then another was shot into scene and so on and so on. They zoom out on purpose to do the switch for the 3 horses that's what I was told they did on set.
They used jello for the horses
@@SeyaDiakite7 Not from what I heard. But if you say so. I was told they had used 4 different horses, the white one, then the different colors, and each time it's a different breed of horse look a lot closer to the details.
@ they used several white horses (4) indeed but they did dyed their coats with colored gelatin powder. But they had to hurry before the horse would lick it off in between the takes
@@SeyaDiakite7 They did indeed.
between you and the lads over at Pink Popcast this will be the second time I "watched" this movie today 😆as a die hard hermit, whenever I see multiple people reacting to the same thing it's always my little clue that there's something happening in pop culture lol
HAHA Great minds are thinking alike today😂
I came here from the Pink Popocast. That and a good looking guy is my weakness lol
@@roter13 well I mean Benji, Rizzo and Evan are ✨🎶beautiful human beings🎶 ✨on the inside and out so you know... you're in the right place lol
A bit late, but here’s some new trivia that many don’t know:
The red brick road is from the book series by Baum. It leads to Quadling Country, which is Glinda’s territory. Oh, and in the books Glinda is not a witch. She’s a sorceress. The witch of the North is another woman.
The munchkins were a mix of adults with dwarfism and actual children. Several of the adults were from the famous Singer Midgets vaudeville troupe. Fun fact: Leo Singer was their manager and he is who they are named after. The rest of the adults were independent actors. The munchkin singing voices are actually a group of professional session singers on helium. In fact, almost all the munchkin actors that had a speaking part were dubbed over. Meinhardt Raabe, who played the munchkin coroner-the guy with the death certificate-spent nearly all his life believing his voice was the only one not dubbed. He was shocked to discover he had also been dubbed over, just by someone who sounded almost identical to himself.
Margaret Hamilton was the second choice for West. Gale Sondergard was cast first when the studio decided that the wicked witch of the West needed to be like the evil queen in Snow White. Ya know, pretty. I’m not sure who changed their mind, but the decision was made for West to be “ugly” like her book counterpart and MGM went to one of their great character actresses… Margaret Hamilton…with the role. The dog who portrayed Toto was actually fond of her and Margaret had a hard time being mean to her. (Yes, Toto was portrayed by a female dog) They actually worked together years later in another movie and there is an awesome picture of them sitting on a sofa together with Margaret doing her witch claw hands. Meanwhile Terry is just so happy to be in her presence.
No one wears jewelry in the film. Except for the munchkin coroner. Meinhardt Raabe forgot to remove his high school ring during filming and they were halfway through the Munchkinland shooting schedule before someone noticed. So he got to keep it on.
I could tell you almost everything about this film to be honest. I’m healthily obsessed. So much so that I’ve written about this film in every year of school, including for several courses in college. I’ve also been lucky enough to interview Meinhardt Raabe when I was 15, long before he published his memoir.
I love the scene where the witch sends the flying monkeys - it’s cool because you realise that they’re always just circling the castle waiting for her command
Happy Wicked Day MID and I can't wait for more content from you and i do want you to do review of Wicked
Some little facts about Wizard of Oz...
The house falling to earth was created by painting the floor of a sound stage to look like a clouded sky then dropping a miniature of the house as they filmed it then running the film in reverse so that it looked like it was falling to the ground.
The lion's suit was an actual lion pelt
The "horse of a different color" effect was created by using different flavors of gelatin for each color.
Frank Morgan played at multiple characters including Prof. Marvel, a few different residents of the Emerald City and The Wizard as well.
The tornado effect was created by wrapping gauze around a frame connected ceiling to floor then running it along a track laid down to simulate a tornao's path
yeah I'm Todo too .... just happy to be involved lol
EXACTLY
5:22 cleopatra had relationships with both julius ceaszer and mark Anthony… the latter led to the conflict that caused the fall of Egypt
The witch didn't melt from the the water itself, but the act of kindness behind Dorothy using it.
Fun fact: the transition from "Black and White" to colour was fully in colour. The set in front of the door was painted to look like film and Dorothy's Body double was in a brown dress. Notice, she steps back out of frame before stepping into Oz?
I watched this movie OVER AND OVER AND OVER again as a kid. Favorite all time movie
Found out today that the Cowardly Lion's costume is made with real lion skin and fur. I find that fascinating as it is disturbing. 🤣
Hang on WHAT NOW
I love this movie and the black adaptation “The Wiz”! I got both for my birthday one year. I played the tin man in middle school and I was the only person who remembered their lines and song. Goes to show….Theatre Kids Rock!
I love this movie the cowardly lion is my favorite character in movie i quote the line of"somebody pulled my tail" is my favorite.
And fun fact is this:The tin man got sick because of the makeup and the had two different tin men on the move and plus the wicked witch actress got burned as well when she was supposed to leave in a ball a fire in the munchkin land..and there's several more but I'll leave that to the others
The pulled my tail line got me giggling pff
Fun Fact: The Scarecrow is played by Buddy Ebsen. He also played as Jed in the Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones from Barnaby Jones.
Sorry, not quite. Buddy was cast as the Scarecrow and Ray Bolger was the Tin Man. Ray begged the producer to let them switch parts and Buddy didn't care. He then got sick from inhaling the aluminum dust they powdered on his face. They recast with Jack Haley and switched the dust to aluminum paste which gave Jack en eye infection.
Oh. My bad. I always heard that he was the scarecrow.
Pantheon season 1 is out on Netflix. Great Show that you should consider checking out.
6:18 To be fair, the wind is pretty loud
I too was a tree, however I am 4'11'' 😢
… AND YOU WERE AN ICONIC TREE
The Wizard of Oz will always be a well loved classic.
I don't remember watching much of this movie when I was a kid but I did grow up watching the unofficial sequel Return To Oz which is still my favourite to this day as it's such a dark and scary movie compared to the original.
Prepare to have your mind blown: Judy Garland was 16 when she filmed this movie. The talent that can come at a young age is unbelievable.
That’s actually not entirely true. Judy was 15 at the start of filming. She turned 16 toward the end of filming. And she was already 17 by the time the film was released to theaters.
@kailyns8159 Point still stands
I’d watch an entire movie about the lolly pop gild lol
Those boogers were UP TO SOMETHING
Or a limited series for their weekly antics
I love this movie so much, incredible for it's time and holds up amazingly to this day. But reading about the production is wild, and not always in a good way!
A fun little fact I haven't seen anyone else mention is that the green lollipop guild munchkin was the last surviving cast member who had an identifiable speaking role. He died as recently as 2018 at the age of 98! He would of been about 18/19 when the film was made!
Loving the neon lights in the background
Thank you!!
The fact that this movie is directed by the same director as Gone With the Wind
Same year.
HUH
Thanks for acknowledging Toto
THE BEST PUPPERS
The Tin Woodman has quite a different backstory in the book. An enchanted ax chops him up and he has to replace his parts with tin. The Cowardly Lion had to fight and kill animals who attacked them on the way.
WOAH. WHERE IS THIS VERSION ON FILM
@@MoviesinDepth I know, right? The Lion fought the Kalidahs (although he was afraid of them), which were beasts with the bodies of bears and the heads of tigers. Oz is also a real place that Dorothy visits, and she later moves there.
I watch and like your posts all the time. This was a good one.
I got beef with Glinda/ The wizard fr because why did they send dorothy this little girl on a whole goose chase, to go the city of Oz and then he being like oh you gotta kill the wicked witch of the west or it to bring back her broom, whichever one it was. For glinda to be like “oh you always had the power to go home” LIKEEEEE HUHHHH me and Glinda would have to square up because you got me fucked up 😭 (that just me tho/ I love your videos a lot ❤️)
It was a quest to show that she doesn’t always need help like she did in the beginning. She was constantly begging for help about miss gulch. But if she would have gone home sooner, she wouldn’t have learned that no matter how boring her Kansas life is, you got to cherish your home. And during her adventure, she didn’t asked for help from others, She did the help herself, she helped the scarecrow tin man and lion see they had what they wanted all along, she helped oz get rid of the notorious witches and made the wizard show this to ‘em. So yeah. Dorothy grew from the girl always seeking for help to the one doing the help. So that’s why she didn’t told her about the slippers from the start
@ I can respect that overview
Thank you for watching!!
Can’t wait to see the wicked movie! Me and a lot of my friends from theater are going to see it after our White Christmas rehearsal next week!Me and my cousins used to go on walks with our grandmother and great grandmother & we’d do the off to see the wizard wall that they did in the movie & sing the song. It’s one of my fav memories growing up. Love todo he’s so freaking adorable! I love this movie! It’s so good! It’s sad about what the actors & actresses went through bts. Love your videos! You do an amazing job! ❤
14:11 Yeah Tin Man, like Scarecrow knows him any better than you do 😂
Margret Hamilton ended up burned by the pyrotechnics and the green paint was toxic/ harmful to her skin. this movie's fun - I was in 2 productions of this as a play- one was at camp and our bunk was the tornado and in high school we did an abridged version which I stage managed it was soo much fun! in the original book there were 4 witches- one for each direction and Glinda was the good witch of the south and the slippers were silver( it was changed to red for the movie). when you rewatch this as an adult you realize that Glinda was awful she used Dorothy for her own means to get rid of the witch, she is the one who makes the witch of the west angry and makes Dorothy a target by giving her the shoes and doesn't give Dorothy any guidance and then has the audacity to tell her she could've gone home when ever she wanted by clicking her heals! the actor who plays the scarecrow character dancing is great (you know he's a good dancer when he is able to dance in character- and not just a good traditionally trained dancer). in the original book the tin man is a tin woodman who was a woodsman -the witch cursed his axe so he kept cutting off limbs instead of trees, each time he lost a body part he replaced it with tin and eventually became fully tin. there were a lot of issues on the set besides Margret getting burned- the paint for the tin man harmed the actors skin and labor laws were basically non existent so the actors worked past reasonable hours especially Judy- there were a lot of issues on set because of the horrible labor laws and lack/horrible safety protections that basically didn't exist at the time (especially if you were a woman). judy garland is a gay/ queer icon. I think aunt em is supposed to be Glinda
9:43 Fool Witch
10:28 Follow the Yellow Brick Road
12:09 Not the Old Guys from Muppets
13:17 You're Hilarious
13:42 Oh My
14:14 Smack lion
19:24 Stone Cold Stone Cold It's Here
21:45 What a Coward
22:35 I am Melting!🫠
LEGEND
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This film still holds up after all these years. No matter how many times I watch it, I find it very charming and pleasant. Side note, I’m really interested in seeing how Wicked turns out. Being based on the classic stage musical, I can imagine it being a smash hit at the box office.😌
Let me tell you… it’s gonna be a SMASHH
Wicked was so good
@@carlycchapman Yes, it was!
You also should consider checking out Oz: The Great and Powerful.
Just for Happy Memories,
“Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are Far Behind Me!
Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Way up high. where Skies are Blue.”
We never find out where the red brick road goes. I have been wondering that myself
I used to watch this at my grandma’s house, nobody can tell me this isn’t the best original movie ever
It’d be even more amazing if it wasn’t based on a whole series of books published in the early 1900s
Good video. BTW, you should also react to "Return to Oz (1985)". It's the only movie that IS sequel to the "The wizard of Oz (1939)" because it adapts the second and third books of the Oz book series, and also shows the ruby slippers.
@ 8:45, that coroner was the Quincy of Munchkinland!
PFFF
Wait a minute, I think the Munchkins in the Wicked movie are average height people? IIRC the Thropps are from Munchkinland. I guess that's a good way to avoid the Snow White Dwarfs scandal.
Can't wait for part 2, I want to see the event cross between Wicked & Wizard of Oz. You can see Dorothy & the gang in the intro but I wonder if their designs will look like that in part 2(the one we see could be just a homage to the OG movie).
The crystal ball scene, getting us ready for our cell phones. . . lol
I was a munchkin in a stage version, I remember going out for Dorthy but o was too short 😂
immediately looked up where the red brick road goes and it’s just the munchkin city road!
15:42 They used asbestos for the snow
This movie would’ve been mind blowing in theaters at time. And I wonder what the fan fare will be when it’s the 100th anniversary
Loved this as a kid, has a timeless quality to it.
Toto actually plays an important part in the Tin Man trilogy. If you haven’t watched that, I highly recommend you react to it. Alan Cumming, Kathleen Robertson, Blu Mankuma, Raoul Trujillo, Neal MacDonough, and Zooey Deschanel are in it. 😊
ALAN CUMMING MY IDOL
@ he’s my idol too! 😁 I’ve noticed you and I have similar tastes in movies and actors. lol
I just noticed that the "Wizard's" balloon says Omaha State Fair. Omaha is in Nebraska, but he said he is a Kansas man. Hmm. I know the states are next to each other. I just never saw the Omaha State Fair sign before after dozens of viewings of this incredible film.
Are you gonna watch any of the others about the wizard of oz like “oz: the great and powerful”?
Instead of the M word they're now referred to as Little People or Little Persons if you were legit asking 😊💖
Tbh I’ve never saw this version I saw Michael Jackson’s version and Tom and Jerry’s version maybe I should give it a watch before I watch wicked
You should!!