THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) FIRS TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️
1 JOHN 1:5-9
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
For this is the day the Lord has made…..rejoice and be glad in it! Here is just one of many reasons why:
And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened! - Jesus
Cheers!!
Great Bible verse! Thank you!
Devotion from Beauty is treasured. God Bless.
Awww
You spoilt it by adding religion 😢
@@jerryhayes9497remember that time Harry Potter was evil? It happens. Anything fantastic really
My mom watched this movie in the theater when it was released. She said the entire audience made an audible gasp when the story made the transition from b&w into color. It was something that nobody ever dreamed of. Today, we would consider this a special effect, but back then, it was like a miracle.
We would also call it "a trip" depending on certain conditions.
As a kid, I waited all year long just to see that moment.
The black and white is in fact Sepia,a shade of brown🎩
@neilmcdonald9164 Right you are, but for the sake of average movie viewers, it might as well be b&w. I am familiar with the term sepia. Years ago, I worked with a lot of engineering drawings and I would create copies from an original document using sepia paper, which was then fed through an ammonia developer. The sepia copy allowed me to erase and replace certain features or text as required to create a new document of a part or assembly. It was very convenient bcuz it saved valuable time of having to create another drawing
I've read about how they did it, which is something we don't always think about. To make the transition smooth, the interior of the room had to be actually constructed all in sepia. When Dorothy opens the door, it is a double who is made up in all sepia; she pulls her arm out of the frame and then we see Judy Garland herself going out.
It was a wonderful magic trick on film!
This kind of magic trick can still be effective. The actors playing hobbits in The Lord of the Rings were normal-sized actors, and had small stand-ins. When Denethor chucks Pippin out a door, it is the small stand-in who rolls out, then disappears, quickly replaced by the full-size actor in the foreground, as if he just got up from being thrown.
Magic beats technology every time.
Regarding effects, the scene at 6:10 where Dorothy walks into Munchkinland was actually filmed in 'color' but the bedroom and Dorothy's dress were re-made all in sepia-tones. "Dorothy" is an extra wearing a sepia dress-she opens the door, moves out of camera, hands Toto to Judy Garland who then walks into the now-colored landscape. This is the kind of craftsmanship movies pioneered pre-digital age.
Back in the 1960s, before cable or satellite TV, when there were only three major television networks, this movie was shown once a year, and it was advertised heavily so that families could tune in and make an evening of it. It was a major TV viewing experience comparable to watching the Super Bowl today. That's why The Wizard of Oz is such a beloved part of Americana. It is a prime example of wholesome entertainment that is woefully absent today. I for one miss those special yearly airings. It brought families and friends together. Those were very special times.
They did that in the 80s. We had a living room picnic to watch it every year.
that's how I saw it
Exactly. And I think that's why it's sooo iconic to baby boomers.
The movie aired on TV in 1956.
When I was a a child I was freaked out at the tin woodman's makeup and wouldn't watch. After Dorothy got past the scarecrow, I'd go to the other room and listen to the rest of the movie.
As an older adult, I appreciate reactions to the true classics. I wince when reactors say they are doing an old movie that was made only a few years ago. There is a quality of movies made during the age of the great studios that simply could not be matched after their collapse.
Judy Garland had an AMAZING voice. ❤
As does her daughter Liza Minelli
Margaret Hamilton’s iconic witch character/portrayal became the witch all others have been compared to since. If you experienced her as a young kid for the first time back in the day, you never forgot her.
P.S. - The ill effects of the green skin dye put her in the hospital for quite a Spell.
@@raymeedc She was badly burned when she left Munchkinland because the elevator was too slow lowering her and flames burned her!
Yes, that too!
@@raymeedcI think you are thinking of Buddy Ebsen who was originally cast as the tin man but the aluminum dust they used for the makeup nearly killed him when it got into his lungs and he was hospitalized and could not finish the movie. They found a less dangerous way to do the makeup after that.
Yes, I know about Buddy Ebson’s makeup misfortune, but I believe Margaret Hamilton also had fairly serious makeup related skin pore problems.
This movie is INFAMOUS for all the stuff that happened during the making of it. Back then, the actors REALLY suffered for their art.
The actress playing the Wicked Witch was actually a very nice lady. She was afraid her performance would be too scary for children so she visited schools to show them that she wasn't really scary.
She was a single parent at the time so this was an important gig for her.
Also, she got badly burned by pyrotechnics and had to be taken to a hospital (when she was on the roof and threw a fireball at the scarecrow.)
There is a cute episode of Mr Rodgers Neighborhood where he introduces her to kids/viewers and they talk about how she is only mean as an actor and not a real witch 😊
@@richardpetty9159 Actually, it was when she was exiting Munchkinland. During the red smoke & fire, the elevator that lowered her was too slow, and she was burned by the flames.
She wasn't the only one who was injured. Some of the flying monkeys were injured when the wire broke. And the original Tin Man almost died from the paint. And the scarecrow had lines on his face for over a year.
IIRC she was also once a kindergarten teacher.
This was on TV once a year when I was a kid and it was a family event. We'd all sit in front of the TV with the lights off with blankets to hide behind when it got scary. I finally saw it in a theater when I was in my 39s and it was electric! Cheers at all the best moments.
I never think of this as a musical, but as a fantasy adventure with music. Yes, the scarecrow, tin man and lion songs sound the same because the characters are all singing the same song, in a way. And notice that throughout the adventures, the scarecrow was always the one come up with idea, the Tinman was the most sentimental and when he had to be, the lion was brave. They all did have it within them. I'm glad you saw that as the message of the film.
Same here. Watched it once a year as a kid..
It was a shared cultural ritual. The flying monkeys were real scary.
I remember it just like you Yea I’m old too
TNT and TBS still air it several times each during the holidays.
The Professor Marvel actor, Frank Morgan, was actually multiple people in Oz. He played the man behind the curtain, the big head projection of the wizard, the horse carriage driver, the guard who lets them in to Emerald City, and the guard who lets them in to see the wizard.
Do you know that the coat he wore as Professor Marvel actually belonged to L. Frank Baum himself?
Yes, because it was SUPPOSED to be the same person. Marvel was a huckster, a flim flam artist.
@@dan_hitchman007 Hmmm. I know of a prominent one of those here in modern times.
@@charlotex1 Does it rhyme with rump?
I remember my mother taking me to see it in a stroller. I was probably 3 in 1952. It's still a0 great movie to me and WAY ahead in effects.
The moment when Dorothy enters into OZ in glorious technicolor is one of the most magical moments in all of movie history. Thank you for a great reaction!
My niece watched this a few years when she was about 8 and afterwards she said "So, if this was all a dream, then Toto does get recaptured and killed."
On a side note ... before there was internet, VCR or cable television, there was standard TV with only three national networks: ABC, NBC and CBS. CBS would air this movie once a year around March/April and it was a family event in our house. We'd sit and watch the movie and do bathroom breaks during the commercials. Happy times.
"So, if this was all a dream, then Toto does get recaptured and killed."
Well, Miss Gulch was last seen being blown away by the tornado, so ... maybe not?
@@wwoods66 The further adventures of Miss Gulch are imagined in Fred Barton's one-man musical, *Miss Gulch Returns!*
Your niece is very smart and perceptive,what a comment from an 8 yr old. LOL.
This is exactly what has bothered me about the ending for years. She's not worried about Toto anymore.
I'm with wwoods66 on this. I think Miss Gulch was taken away by the tornado. Problem solved.
In the book, she really was gone to a faraway land, and she was gone for months. I'm surprised you've never seen this movie: when I was a kid in the '70s, it used to show on network TV every year (the first commercial break came right after "Poor little kid. I hope she gets home all right.").
In the book there were other differences as well. The ruby slippers were actually silver, they no doubt changed them to ruby to make them pop better on screen. The farmhands didn't exist in the book either, it was just her aunt and uncle.
I counted and she was away for at least forty days if you consider her imprisonment at wicked with of west’s castle.
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob They have officially gone on-record to say that they changed the colour of the slippers to ruby to better take advantage of the Technicolor technology. I think that was the right move visually, even though silver has more roots in traditional magic than rubies do. Interestingly, when Motown Films made The Wiz in 1978, they had to use silver shoes because MGM owned the rights to the ruby slippers, whereas L. Frank Baum's silver shoes were in the public domain. Later, when Disney made Return to Oz in 1985, they licensed the use of the ruby slippers for their film.
@@gregschultz8639 Yes, and also all of their walking on the Yellow Brick Road took a long time, and they stayed in the Emerald City for a while. 😊
Props to you for reacting to such a classic movie. Extra props for your creative touch while reacting, i.e. matching the color scheme of the movie with your video image.
You remember in The Avengers where Nick Fury comments about “flying monies” and Captain America gets excited and says “I understood that reference!” ? Well, now you know where it’s from! 😃
Monkeys 🙈 🙉 🙊…..darn auto-correct.
Great reaction. FUN FACT - When they fell asleep in the poppy field and it started snowing, they used Asbestos for the snow. In 1939 nobody knew of the dangers of Asbestos
It's not only dangerous, but unsanitary to fall asleep in a poopy field. 💩
A fun trivia fact is that some of the actors who played Munchkins also played Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 32 years later in 1971.
The three actors playing Dorothy's companions were all veteran song-and-dance men from the last days of burlesque, which really shows in their physicality and acting. Thanks for the memories!
It was a dream. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Wicked Witch, and Oz were all people she knew from real life. After Dorothy wakes up from being knocked out by the window, she sees Miss Gulch riding her bike suddenly turn into the Wicked Witch riding a broom. When she returns from Oz, she's still in bed waking up from her concussion from the window hitting her.
The song of the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion WAS the same song. Each of them sang their own verse to describe their desire. All the other songs were very unique songs of their own.
But what happened to the tornado? It must have faded the second Dorthy was unconcious...
@@stevetheduck1425 I imagine it passed by the house. Tornadoes don't hit everything.
And each character is a quality of Dorothy's own personality, bravery, love and intelligence, at the end she states she will miss the scarecrow most of all, which signifies her acknowledgment that intelligence most be superior to the other 2 yet the all must work together as all of them did.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” That line is still iconic.
The Wizard of Oz messed me up as a kid....had me asking my parents how did they feel when color came to the world lol
My mother took me to see this when it premiered in the theaters. I was 6 years old in 1939. Precious memories that are dear to my heart.
So cool to see your surprise at the end when you realized that the three farmhands were the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. Used to blow my mind when I was a kid. Great reaction. Definitely watch Return to Oz at some point -- it acts like a sequel to this, but was made 50 years later in a totally different style and takes much more from the original Oz books.
In the past I knew the actors were the same, but only recently in reactions did I notice the certain sort of foreshadowing they made as farmhands before we see them again in Oz.
One of my favorite movie musicals of all time. I LOVE the way Judy Garland sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I recommend the 1946 classic Gilda starring the fabulous Rita Hayworth.
Backstory: If you look close, you can see Dorothy bury half her face into Toto's fur. That's because Judy couldn't keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as The Cowardly Lion and would get slapped for it.
I have so many memories of watching this movie as a kid with my grandmother. One of my favorite movies ever lol.
When Dorothy steps into Technicolor still gives me chill bumps.
The Lion (Bert Lahr, 1895-1967) was my favourite character in this film❗️ He put heaps of effort into his performance 👀👍❗️
There is the 1974 song entitled "Tin Man" with one line
"But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have."
When I was growing up (shortly after the Earth cooled but before cable TV) this was shown every year at Thanksgiving. The same station would show "It's a Wonderful Life" at Christmas and "The Ten Commandments" at Easter.
Ray Bolger the scarecrow, and Dick Van Dyke of _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ and Disney _Mary Poppins_ were two dancers who were "hoofers." They danced classically like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but they did it flamboyantly, even comically. That was called hoofing. They would take pratfalls, too.
You changing to color along with the movie is the CUTEST detail lol
When We Were Young we only had a black-and-white TV so when it changed to color we never saw it. And also when it came on once a year it was hosted introduced by Danny Kaye. He was a comedian dancer actor got a lot of good movies that he was in back in the 1940s 50s and 60s. Thank you for your reaction on this one it was very enjoyable.
Exactly. The villain used a little girl as a hitman instead of helping her
My exposure to this movie was as a child (No, I wasn't alive in 1939). I find it surprising so many young adults today have apparently never seen really old (pre-Star Wars) films.
From Airplane ! Auntie Em,, Uncle Henry, Toto, it's a twister, it's a twister!
I'm 74 now and when I was a kid The Wizard of Oz came on television once every year. We would all gather around the tv to watch it. When it was getting close to the time of year for it to be on my parents would use it to make us behave.They woul say "if you don't behave you can't watch The Wizard of Oz" We were angels until it came on the tv.
1. If you start playing side one of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd when the MGM lion roars the third time it syncs up with what's happening in the movie until shortly after the color kicks in.
2. Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the tin man, but he was allergic to the dust they used on his face, so since he was under a lifetime contract with MGM they eventually offered him "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the rest is history.
3. Sadly, Judy Garland died in 1969 from barbiturate overdose.
4. GOOF: The Nebraska State Fair has always been in Lincoln, not Omaha.
5. In 1979 they made "The Wiz" featuring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson among others.
6. If you want to know about the hanging body the story is in IMDB trivia. It's reliable.
7. Speaking of Pink Floyd and this movie before the times, but how much acid was used to come up with this?😏
According to Wikipedia, the Nebraska State Fair was originally in Nebraska City, then Brownsville, then alternating between Lincoln and Omaha.
The author, Frank Baum, based the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on his experiences from growing up in the 1880s and released the novel in 1900.
In 1901 was the last year that the state fair was held in Omaha. While the movie was released in 1939 (obviously there were no such movies in 1900) since non-silent films didn’t start into the late 1920s.
So the circa 1900 setting of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz was factually correct in Omaha being the location of the Nebraska State Fair.
Lincoln was not the “permanent” home until 1902.
Then it changed….
@@tvc1848 This former Nebraskan learned something NOT taught in State history. I stand corrected.🤔
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I am 67 years old and always say, if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living.
The fact that I took the time to look it up was yet another example of trying to learn more and an education for me.
Now if someone makes a comment about the Nebraska State Fair not being in Omaha as portrayed in Wizard…. I can act like I knew it all along. 😀
This movie is based on the first of several books about the Land of Oz, though the Kindom of Porcelain Dolls wasn't portrayed in the film.
Over the Rainbow became Judy's theme song for 30 years. Because of the grueling schedule, teenage Judy was encouraged to take uppers & downers in making this film, addiction not being well understood. So when Judy died of an OD... it was a culmination of events which started with this film.
And yes, react to The Wiz sometime.
Hearing about Judy's drug habit was sad,considering she was encouraged to take them and she died from an OD.She played her role so-ERNESTLY-which endeared me to her character as a child.LOVE this film,no cursing,no nudity,a very good family film that everyone of any age can enjoy.
I read a lot of the Oz books as a child, and while Oz in the movie is clearly a dream, in the books it is real and we get to learn a lot more about it. For example, we learn that all four quadrants originally had wicked witches, but the ones in the north and south were overthrown. As far as I know, we never learn anything more about the wicked witch of the south, but in the second book, The Land of Oz, we learn that Mombi, the wicked witch of the north, while no longer in power, is still around, living in the standard wicked witch's cottage in the woods, along with a boy named Tip whom she keeps as a slave. Tip, we eventually discover later in the book, is actually Princess Ozma, the rightful ruler of Oz, whom Mombi kidnapped and transformed into a boy. When Tip is rescued and learns the truth, he reacts to the idea of being restored to his true identity as any little boy would: "I don't want to be a GIRL." But he is transformed back into Princess Ozma, who is returned to the Emerald City and rules Oz for the rest of the series. Four books later, Dorothy, after a series of temporary visits in the three previous books, settles permanently in Oz along with her aunt and uncle and Toto. At some point (I don't recall in which book) Dorothy gets into a conversation with someone about the fact that all the animals in Oz can speak, including those who come originally from somewhere else. Dorothy doesn't see how this can be true, pointing out that Toto can't speak. At this point Toto corrects her and tells her that he can. When Dorothy asks why he never spoke before, he says that he simply never had any occasion to do so. By the way, the movie fuses two characters into one: the good witch of the north, who is never given a name in the book and who sets Dorothy on the way to the Emerald City via the yellow brick road, and Glinda, who is the good witch of the south and who first appears only very late in the book. Unlike the witch of the north, Glinda remains a major recurring character throughout the series, and Princess Ozma's wisest advisor.
Apparently the lady who played the Wicked Witch was once a Kindergarten teacher… Can you imagine? I bet she was lovely in real life.
The producers originally conceived the movie with a very different cast. They wanted Shirley Temple to play Dorothy, but couldn't arrive at a deal that satisfied her parents and her agent. They wanted W.C. Fields to play Professor Marvel/the Wizard, but he felt like being difficult, apparently just for the fun of being difficult, so they couldn't make a deal with him eirher. Even so, it was Fields who recommended his friend Frank Morgan to take the role instead. An actress named Gale Sondergaard was originally chosen as the Wicked Witch of the West, but she had it in mind to play a slinky, sexy witch, and didn't like the idea of being uglied up with makeup, so she passed. Margaret Hamilton, who did play the Witch, used to be a much-loved kindergarten teacher before turning to acting. The Tin Man was going to be played by Buddy Ebsen, and the makeup artist had a revolutionary idea for using very fine-ground aluminum dust to give his face a metallic quality, instead of the silvery face cream that was the industry standard. Unfortunately, while preparing for a makeup test shot, Ebsen accidentally inhaled a cloud of this aluminum dust, it coated the insides of his lungs, and he began to suffocate. He had to be rushed to the hospital, and spent several weeks in an iron lung, slowly expelling the dust bit by bit. This forced him to miss the start of principal filming, and Jack Haley was hired as his replacement. As a consolation prize, when he recovered Ebsen was given the role of the captain of the Witch's guards, the one who says "You killed her" after the Witch is melted.
Tin man, scare crow and lion are the guys from Kansas 😂
Out of all the reaction videos I've seen on The Wizard of Oz, you went the extra mile and made your camera shot in black and white during the Kansas scenes. Nice touch.
My favorite movie. As far as the music, think of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion songs as different verses of the same song. It was meant to be that way. If you watch again with that in mind, I think you'll hear that the other songs don't sound like the 3 in 1 song. Great reaction! Thanks for the Bible verses!
this was my comfort movie growing up; i watched it whenever i was sick. my grandmother even made matching dorothy and tin man costumes for my granddad and me one year for halloween. i haven't gotten a chance to watch this movie in ages though so i'm happy i can watch it here with you today
From the moment Dorothy gets hit by the window during the tornado until she wakes up in bed at the end is all a dream. Her real world in bleak Kansas is black and white while her dream in Oz is in color. Her performance of Over the Rainbow is amazing, so full of dreams, yearning and sadness and it’s all just from her performance. And that voice, for a teenager it’s so rich, full, and professional
So wonderful when a child watches this for the first time. Really loved your reaction.
I've seen this movie at home maybe a hundred times. I finally saw it in a theatre this year, and it's amazing on the movie screen. So many details I never caught before.
it's a whole different game on the big screen - that tornado is terrifying
I have seen it twice on the theater. It's wonderful to watch. You can actually see Judy Garlands freckles. "The Wizard of Oz" is my favorite movie & l watched it every year it came on tv. My great nephew, who is 5, now watches it with me on DVD. I ALSO have the 50th anniversary VHS tape with a booklet attached to it. Didn't get to buy the special DVD box set. Maybe one day l will.
Back in the day (1960s, 70s), Wizard of Oz was on TV as a special/event every year.
"Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man, that he didn't... didn't already have". -America
It wasn't just water that melted the witch. She explains as she is melting that only as good a girl as Dorothy could defeat her wickedness, or something like that.
Jack Haley, who played the tin man, had a son who was married to Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, in the 70's.
The lion is the guy at the beginning who got Dorothy out the pig pen
Notice that the movie doesn’t just CUT to color. Dorothy opens the door from black-and-white with color on the other side of it and then she walks from the black-and-white house and into color all in one shot. They use lighting to make it appear she is changing from black-and-white to color as she steps out.
Nowadays they’d just use CG, but back then they had to get real tricky and creative with special shots like that.
The flying monkeys scared the heck out of me as a kid. Classic flick!
Yep, the witch and the flying monkeys were traumatizing!😂
I wanted one!
I must have been a strange kid. I loved those monkeys.
Nice review, so heartfelt!
The amazing backstory of "The Wizard of Oz" movie.
- When the wardrobe department got the script, they said Professor Marvel (and The Wizard) required a long coat for the part. Every coat on MGM's lot didn't seem acceptable for the actor Frank Morgan's part, so they sent several assistants out to the thrift stores in the Los Angeles area to search for long coats. After returning with many coats, Mr. Morgan went through them and chose one tattered, old wool coat. He looked at the label, and it was marked with the previous owner's name.
L. Frank Baum. They saw the manufacturer's name, as it was made by hand at a fine clothing shop in England, and contacted the shop, which was still in business, to search their records to verify the owner's having placed an order for this coat in the late 1800's. It was true! How it made it's way to Los Angeles is a mystery. And an even larger mystery was how it was selected by the actor who played The Wizard of Oz, from hunddreds of pieces of clothing on the MGM studio lot.
After filming concluded, the MGM studio presented the coat to L. Frank Baum's family as a souvenir of the film. You see, the author of the original children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from which this movie was based, was L. Frank Baum!
- Buddy Ebsen (from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show) originally got the part of The Tin Man, but was allergic to the silver face paint, so he had to turn the part down.
- The Ruby Slippers Dorothy wore are considered "The Holy Grail of Hollywood Collectibles"
- "Today in 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century in a poll conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. The song was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Garland's signature song."*
* www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/03/02/today-in-music-history-over-the-rainbow-was-song-of-the-century
I seen this movie when I was a kid and still love it at 40 years old 😊
Did you notice that when they were rescuing Dorothy, the three unknowing exhibited the traits they were wishing for? The Tin Man who wanted a _heart_ cried and said "we have to get her out" and the lion who was wanting "courage_ was brave enough to attack the soldiers, and the scarecrow who wanted a brain, was the one who came up with the idea to cut the candles to drop on the witches soldiers. Excellent writing.
If you haven’t seen it yet you will love the 1978 movie The Wiz. In my opinion it’s very underrated and just as iconic as this is. They don’t make movies like these anymore unfortunately.
I had a wizard of oz birthday when i was a kid, it was a costume party and I was Dorothy one of the ladies at our church made the costume for me and I still have it. My parents rented a bouncy castle and used chalk to make our sidewalk the yellow brick road! My cousin was the scarecrow and we lived on a farm so we stuffed his shirt with straw and painted his face. My best friend dressed as the lion and my mother was the wicked witch.
I love watching people experience The Wizard of Oz for the first time. They’d air it on TV once a year and the streets would be empty. ❤️
I have always enjoyed this movie from my child hood up now im gray headed and still watch it every time i run across it
The beginning is really appreciated upon a re-watch. It's almost a condensed version of the color part in itself. I always looked forward to the annual showing of this film on network TV back when there were only 3 channels just before independent stations were courted by FOX. (edit/spelling)
In 5th Grade, my class did a stage production of The Wizard of Oz, and I played the wizard!
The flying monkeys scared the crap out of me as a kid.
In the movie Oz is a figment of Dorothy's imagination but in the original book Oz was a real land that she was taken to in the twister
In the movie, Oz was a dream, but in the book, it was an actual place
Before there were VCRs and DVR, when this movie came on TV, we kids stopped EVERYTHING to watch it. Still one of my favorites!!
“If I only had a_____” is a repeated song, but you’re forgetting about the munchkin medley (the coroner’s proclamation, the lollipop Guild, and the lullaby league), “somewhere over the rainbow”, “follow the yellow brick Road”, “we’re off to see the wizard“, “the merry old land of Oz“ and “ if I were king of the forest”.
Margret Hamilton who plays the wicked witch was actually the sweetest lady. She even went on the Mr Rodgers show and explained to the kids that this was just a character she played, and they shouldn't be afraid. As a kid she terrified me 😂
"The Wizard of Oz" has held up very well, for an 85 year old movie.
Bette Midler recorded a medley of "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" and "Lullaby of Broadway."
Mad TV has offered an alternative ending, available on YT, which addresses your criticism of Glinda, the Witch of the North.
My mother made sure we watched this movie every year when it came on I'm 64 and still watch it. And I'm a tinsmith.
Glinda is a master manipulator. She literally put those damn slippers on a young girls feet and let a wicked witch hunt her down. Then she has the audacity AFTER letting her do the dirty work of taking out witch #2 to tell her she wouldn't have believed her if she said the slippers had the power to take her home! 😐😂
yeah, she tells quite a few fibs from start to finish, and thats what makes her a witch.. the 'good' is because she tries to produce good things with her witchy behavior
Here are two quotes from famous people that, I think, say what this story is all about:
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” - Sigmund Freud”
Dorothy gave the lion a Will Smith smack 😂😂😂😂
One of all time favorites, so many fond memories of me and my sister sitting in front of tv every year it would come on in the 60s , around thanksgiving I believe, timeless classic, thanks
I've probably seen this movie more than any other. Every year when I was a child it was on TV. I found out later that the woman who played the wicked witch was the nicest person on the set and the funniest. The whole cast loved her. How ironic.
Margaret Hamilton, who played Mrs. Gulch/The Wicked West of the West was a very nice person in real life. She was actually working in a children's daycare when she was offered the part of the Wicked Witch, and she made a memorable appearance on "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood where she showed the children that her character was just pretend and they didn't have to be afraid of her.
When I was little I thought the land of Oz was real but instead it was a place where in a dream it can answer the most meaningful of questions. ❤
Fun fact: in real life, the daughter of Judy Garland (Dorothy) ended up marrying the son of the Tin Man (Jack Haley).
I always thought the wizard of Oz plot was highly underrated.
Oz was pulled to the land of Oz in his balloons from the winds (east and west witches) his crash landing and invention of the balloon is what made him influential to the Emerald city. His original performance was for a city and audience and he got swept up to another city that treated him the same way so he never left. He’s suppose to be the traveling oracle at the beginning.
The 3 guys tin man/lion/scarecrow are the brothers/uncles the one who almost fainted when she feel near the pigs, the brother who wants to be a statue in the town square, and the final brother who wastes time in the fields they just have to actively pursue what they want and even if they don’t get what they imagined exactly they did accomplish their goals. All they need is opportunity.
The mother become Glinda the beautiful witch urging her to go home. The father become the gaurd to the city as he tries to argue in the house making agreements before handing over toto.
We don’t see horses in Kansas to the horses in OZ are displays and shows and FANCY
The reason the wizard of Oz can return home himself is because dorthy took out both the east and west winds which originally trapped his balloon. Now that the winds are gone he’s free to return home. Honestly think he’s in the story a little late and isn’t as well rounded but that idea of him being a prisoner in Oz only to have dorthy save him kinda by accident of just WANTING to go home. I think it makes him realize what he left behind far more then how he expresses it at the end of the film, he seems excited to leave and it’s brief but honestly it’s kind of a wildly intense situation.
Also this is the tamest wizard of Oz movie the ones with the actual like 8 year olds as Dorothy is WACK but also amazing sets and creative designs
Everyone should watch this at least once in their life. God bless you. Love your channel.
I love seeing somebody find out for the first time that the Scarecrow, Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion were the farmhands. I lost it when I was 5 years old, I’m glad that the reveal still has the same effect on adults.
Fun fact, the lady who played the wicked witch actually spent most of her free time on set playing with Toto. She actually really loved that little good boy.
OMG......32K.......U been moving!!!!! Feel like yesterday when I was what....your 3,000th sub I think....proud of your growth and wow....first time watching WoO.....trippy
The GREAT Character Actor Frank Morgan actually played 5 roles in this film. 1)Professor Marvel, 2)Doorman to the Emerald City, 3)The Cab Driver in the Emerald City, 3)Doorman to The Wizard, 4)The Fire Wizard, 5)The Wizard himself. He never saw the colorized version as he died in 1949 of a heart attack.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" is the greatest line in the history of cinema.
They nodding off in the poppy field ( heroin comes from poppy plants ) but woke up real quick when that snow showed up 😂
In return to oz ( 1985 ) they bring dorothy to a mental hospital to get shock treatment because the think shes crazy . She escapes back to Oz and the emerald city is all post apocalyptic . its a wild movie .
Still to this day one of my favorite movies. That witch used to scare me when I was a kid. Love your reactions. 😊🥰
I feel so old now. lol I can't imagine someone being an adult and never having seen Wizard of Oz. We used to watch it every year when it came on t.v. There were 6 movies I remember watching every year: this one, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, What's Up Doc, A Christmas Carol, Miracle On 34th Street, and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. And, of course, all the holiday short specials.
Great reaction. If you get a chance to rewatch the movie, pay attention to the part before Dorothy goes to Oz.
Ray Bolger, the man who plays the scarecrow says: 'thinking you don't have any brains'. Bert Lahr, the man who plays the cowardly lion says: 'Have a little courage'. Jack Haley, the man who plays the tin man says: 'someday they're going to erect a statue for me'. Dorothy's mother says: 'Dorothy stop imagining things'. And finally Dorothy says to Mrs. Gulch 'you wicked old witch.'
Also, look for vintage Lay's potato chip commercials and you'll find Bert Lahr promoting them.
Baum wrote many books about OZ. Easy but fun reading.
The melody sung by Dorothy's Oz friends is the same. The Lion gets his own song because the actor, Bert Lahr, was a famous comedic actor from vaudville. Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead is so memorable and funny. Can't not like We're Off to See the Wizard. Saw this at 5 years old and it scared the crap out of me but so impressed by the special effects. Glad you liked it!
But of course Lahr's "If I only had the nerve" song only gets one verse, so it all sort of evens out.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is that they _indeed_ had what they wanted all along... and were showing it the whole time, they just never realized it.
For someone without a brain, the Scarecrow sure seemed to be the brains of the group, coming up with all the clever ideas like how to sneak into the Witch's castle and tricking the trees into throwing their apples at Dorothy so she could have some.
For someone without a heart who yearned to be able to love and be tender to people... the Tin Man is unbelievably kind and gentle and does everything he does out of love for his friends.
For someone with no courage, the Lion spends the whole time terrified out of his wits... and yet always sticks through it, for his friends' sake. When the stakes are down and the people he cares about are in danger, he stands tall and doesn't waver.
And Dorothy could have gone home in a wink if she had bothered to ask about the Slippers instead of looking for all the solutions to her problems somewhere other than herself.
the iconic phrases went over your head....people have been using them for years "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." the late Robin Williams [who?] used it often as did many others. "I get you my pretty...and your little dog too." "Lions and tigers and bears. oh my!" "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." "If I only had a brain." "I'm melting, oh what a world." So many phrases that lasted 2 generations. Those who don't these catch phrases, it hysterical to watch them go right over their heads.
Your editor did a good job to include a small part of the songs. I've seen other reactions where they remove all the music and singing, it won't get taken down for copyright but there's little point to doing musical if you can't hear it.
As a kid I didn't realize the farm hands are the scare crow, tin man and lion. The fortune teller plays OZ, and more recently realized the gatekeeper too.
I've seen this movie ten million times over the last 54 years.....and I never noticed the Scarecrow carrying a gun! 😄 Thanks! What a great time I just had watching this reaction! Isn't it so much fun? Love it. Hey, another super duper entertaining, visually dazzling classic: "Singin' In The Rain"! I think you would do an amazing job with that one! PS: The Scarecrow song, Tin Man song and the Lion song ARE all the same song! Just with different lyrics!
I've seen this movie countless times since I was a child in the 1960s and more recently on DVD, and I never noticed Scarecrow's gun either. Nice to know this movie can still surprise you.
@@galandirofrivendell4740 because it wasn't a gun
The flying monkeys hit hard when we were kids. Them ripping the scarecrow to shreds was nightmare fuel. Ask Captain America!
When the witch tries to take the red shoes from Dorothy's feet and sparks fly from her hands,...have you ever looked at the album cover for "Eldorado" by the band, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) ?
The heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others...