Margaret actually rang up the heads of the studio when they wouldn’t let Judy go to her prom. Judy had been so excited showing everyone off the dress she was going to wear to it. Margaret was furious when they told her that she couldn’t go.
I love that Dorothy was apologizing for killing the witch. The most evil person in Oz, and she’s apologizing. That just goes to show how innocent and genuinely kind she is, and I love that about the character.
An alternative explanation is this: She didn't realize the Winkie Guard was forced to work for the Witch. Believing they were friends of the witch, Dorothy would be afraid they would seek revenge or punishment.
The cruelest words ever spoken in any film “The last to go will see the first three go before her, and your mangy little dog too!” She was going to torture them all to death and let Dorothy see it before she did the same to her.
The wicked witch is truly diabolical, ruthless, and you get a sense of dread whenever you see her. Margaret Hamilton gave a phenomenal, terrifying performance! She should’ve won an Academy Award 🖤
Had The Wizard of Oz not been overshadowed by other 1939 films, including the box office blockbuster Gone With The Wind, I guarantee it would have won more Oscars.
I love how casual they show that while the witch is talking, the scarecrow is constantly thinking, using his brain to get them out of there like when he uses the tinman to cut the ceiling light.
How this, one of the best films of all time, was made in 1939 will still baffle me to this day. For a film that came out nearly 90 years ago it still has some of the best visual effects I’ve ever seen, they really do hold up and are phenomenally better than some of the garbage that is being poured out today. It just shows how much the filmmakers cared, they really don’t make films like they used to anymore
2:01 How about that amazing matte painting of the exterior of the witch's castle overlooking the river far below. Try to guess where the painting ends and the set begins. Hint: paintings cost less than sets.
Dorothy's best friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion to rescue her. Dorothy threw water to melt the Wicked Witch! Wow what a great scene, thank you!
In the book, however, the lads were all out of commission; the Scarecrow had been torn apart and stuck in a tree, the Tin Woodman was dropped into a gorge where he was all dented up and unable to move, and the Cowardly Lion was in a cage in the Wicked Witch's courtyard. Dorothy faced and defeated the Witch all by herself!
It turns out the guards didn’t even like the wicked witch of the west anyway after she melted. They were happy and relieved. I always found that part confusing because they would literally do what the witch told them to do.
I always figured that either she had cast a spell on them to force them into her service or they were serving her out of fear, not loyalty. In the case of it being a spell, the spell likely broke upon her death, and in either scenario, they were glad to see her die, seeing as that meant they were rid of her and no longer had to do her bidding.
As a kid, it always felt like the guards were suddenly good after her death. The movie certainly would have benefited from explaining that they were enslaved, as the book made that very clear.
How ironic that Margaret Hamilton (the witch) was Judy's only friend on set. The rest of the adult actors snubbed her. She was a female & a child upstaging the guys. Tons of resentment of Judy. Margaret reached out to Judy & befriended her. She loved kids & was a teacher before acting. Margaret also noticed Judy's drug use early on and did her best to help her.
It's time for that lie-- and so many others-- to die. Judy was the darling of the set, and everyone was enchanted by her talent, her ebullience, and her vast intelligence. Also, Judy was not using medicine in a harmful way-- and she never used "recreational" drugs in her life.
Truly. It was clear they only served her out of fear. Is that why she only armed them with those spear-halberd-type weapons, when we know a sort of musket-level of firearms technology existed in Oz? Did she fear assassination? But it is not clear she could be killed or harmed by a musket, or any mortal weapon. She may have considered those spear-things adequate for what she expected them to do.
@@alyssajones4368 Winged Monkey. Or rather Wingless Monkey; Nikko, who was the King of the Winged Monkeys, had had his wings clipped by the Wicked Witch so that she could ensure their cooperation.
Margaret Hamilton is immortal for her work here. Darth Vader. Hannibal Lecter. Nurse Ratched. None hold a candle to the wickedness of The Wicked Witch of the West. We are all blessed to have had her in our lives. Thank you forever Margaret. You are loved.
(The three guards from before without their uniforms appear.) Guard 1: It’s them! Those are the guys that stole our uniforms! Guard 2: Yeah! And beat the crud out of us, too! Guard 3: Don’t let them escape!
@@carlosburness3487 You remember, the scene where Lone Starr and Barf stole two of the Spaceball Troopers uniforms and after rescuing Vespa and Dot they ran into the two guards whose uniforms they stole.
In the book it was also an accident, sort of. The Wicked Witch had managed to grab one of the silver shoes and put it on, and in a rage, Dorothy doused her with the bucket she'd been using to mop the floor. She didn't know what would happen next, and she certainly never expected that to be the end of the old crone. And as there was nobody else in the kitchen except Toto, Dorothy didn't have to apologize to anyone. 🙂
Funny thing about this scene is that scarecrow is the one with no brains but he is the one doing the rescuing and using his head to think of a way out of there 😂😂😂😂
@@MaskedMan66personally, I would’ve been way more ticked off than they were if I was looking for something that I felt was missing that I had all along and traveled all that way just to be told that.
@@MaskedMan66 true. Lol funny thing, I just read your username and I think I commented on the hanging munchkin theory like 3 years ago or something like that on my old account and we were replying to each other in the comments.
These are actual sets and they look fucking amazing. This isn’t CGI. It’s so cool to see this because it’s so doable and studios spend so much money on cgi and this is so much better.
Presumably nobody in Oz knew the witches weakness as Dorthy was given the task to slay her when if they had known her weakness was water the threat would have been dealt with before her arrival
@@CannedShrimp and on a larger note no had killed either witch before Dorothy came along but in both cases she didn’t want cause any harm since she didn’t know her house landed on East and when she accidentally doused West she was just trying to put the fire out
Well, she didn't kill the Wicked Witch of the East. She just caught in a tornado 🌪 and her house just landed on her. As for basically killing the Wicked Witch of the West, she is just trying to save the Scrawcrow because she set him on fire 🔥 and was trying to put it out.
It's funny cuz in the books The Wicked Witch successfully snatch the Silver Shoes from Dorothy, they were silver in the books, and Dorothy got so mad that she grabbed a bucket of water, and splashed it all over the Witch, killing her in the process. Lol
@@wesleyjenkins4267 just because she was pissed the witch tripped her. The bucket of water was the first thing she saw and that was the first thing that came to her mind was to throw it on her
In the book, Dorothy became angry with the witch because she was able to get one of the magic slippers from her. When she refused to give it back Dorothy, in a fit of rage, grabbed a bucket of water and threw it at the witch.
@@fxvsoundofcoups Firstly, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is originally released in 1900. Then in 1995, a novel called Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Then that novel is adapted loosely into a Broadway musical in 2003 simply titled Wicked, which is what Wicked (2024) is being directly adapted from.
My favorite scene beside Dorothy sing her iconic song. It took me years to figure out what the wicked witch was saying there when she said half you go this way half you go that way and then she says 2 words hurry hurry!!
@@evanmiller2562 Pat Walshe did a vaudeville act where he impersonated a chimpanzee with a fur suit and very little make-up. It was reportedly quite uncanny!
So, about the hourglass - the witch said "that's how much longer you've got to be alive." Did that mean Dorothy would drop dead when the sand runs out? Or that it would take the witch that long to organize her "troops" to surround her? Except Dorothy seems to be under the impression that if she gets out of that specific room before the sand runs out (hurry! The hourglass is almost empty!) she'll live (and she does.) Also why can't she just flip it over? Is it enchanted? Prob just movie logic.
Only the witch knew these things, and with no scene in the film giving us any more information those questions are unanswerable. This doesn’t mean that such questions aren’t interesting, and it can be fruitful to speculate on them. In fact, speculating on what we don’t know is essential. But the witch took whatever she knew to her watery grave.
When the hourglass ran out, the witch was going to return and kill Dorothy. Turning over the hourglass wouldn't affect the time before the witch returns. The witch needed time to come up with the right spell to kill Dorothy and get the silver slippers, without destroying the magic.
I can remember seeing a late 1960s rerelease of this for the first time in a movie theater when I was very young and at that time they still had the second version of "Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead" the guards sang! I always wondered what happened to that song when it made it to television later.
You can see Tin Man's initial chops are hitting to far up on the door. Probably in the uncut theater version Scarecrow probably told Tin Man "Chop at the area where the lock is!!! If we knock out the lock the door it will open without any resistance. We don't have to knock down entire door!!!
My mothers read the book Wicked and explained some it to me because I never understood why water killed her. In the book Elphaba(the wicked witch) kind of has a "Joker" setting becoming a product of society. Being born ugly having others treat her like a monster ect. She became intrigued with evil and studied it. Theres a point shes pushed to her limit and just embraces what everyone already sees her as, a wicked witch (the new movie Wicked supports this idea) so metaphorically Elphaba was pure evil at this point in the film and having Dorothy throwing that water being innocent and "Good" to me is like throwing Holy water on a demon and it burns them. This is how I interrupt it. All that "Holy water" completely melts her away.
I usually prefer either a conical chase or a physical confrontation between the hero and the villain as my kind of climax. But it’s the work of art that matters in this case. Thanks to a certain musical, I can’t look at the Witch’s melting from the same preteen perspective!
Three possibilities: 1) To extinguish the torches every morning. 2) In case a fire breaks out. For all we know, fire could kill the Wicked Witch too. 3) In case Glinda shows up. Did you ever read Cheshire Crossing? ;)
They said that melting the witch was actually one of the easier effects to do. They had Margaret Hamilton standing on an elevator platform underneath her dress. She wore a larger hat to make it look like her head is shrinking and dry ice was put underneath to had steam. Air was blown through the elevator to make the steam spread and add effect. When they first tried it though, the air blew her dress right up over her head and also blew her hat right off. So they tacked her dress to the set floor which is seen here. No, you won't find that blooper. There is no existing blooper footage of the WOZ.
This Moral of the story is that Scarecrow, Tim Man, Cowardly Lion and Dorothy all had what they were after. Scarecrow thought out plan for the trap; Tim Man’s constant crying; Cowardly Lion attacking the guards for their clothing and Dorothy was home the entire time, dreaming the whole thing.
I like how the wicked witch of the west was screaming in terror when dead it literally terrified me when I was younger I like her acting to bad she’s actually dead irl and Dorothy didn’t mean it
Her name was Judy, and who are "they" and what did "they" do? She was not mistreated in any way while making this movie, no matter what some sensationalists say.
@@MaskedMan66It wasn't the making of the moive per say, it was what happened *after* the moive. Read up on how she died if you like, But I bielive it was due to the genaral audience complaining that Judy was too fat, which lead to her overdosing (I could be completely wrong, But I think that's what happened)
@@theprofessor3684 Since you put it forth as an option, please take no offense when I tell you that yes, you are completely wrong. No moviegoers said anything against her build. Her accidental overdose of barbiturates came three decades after the movie and was related to personal issues rather than professional ones. You see, she did a lot more in her life than just make _The Wizard of Oz._
The Great Mighty Poo says "Arrgh, you cursed squirrel! Look what you have done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh what a world, what a world. Who would've thought a good little squirrel like you could destroy my beautiful clagginess?"
The Great Mighty Poo says "Arrgh, you cursed squirrel! Look what you have done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh what a world, what a world. Who would've thought a good little squirrel like you could destroy my beautiful clagginess?"
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Funny how in real life, Judy always said Margaret Hamilton (wicked witch) was the kindest to her on set
Funny how actors who play the evilest characters are actually known to be very kind in real life… 🤔
Well she was a kindergarten teacher helped her Judy with homework when needed
@@Pink_pr1ncess exactly
Margaret actually rang up the heads of the studio when they wouldn’t let Judy go to her prom. Judy had been so excited showing everyone off the dress she was going to wear to it. Margaret was furious when they told her that she couldn’t go.
@@hadbetterdays8118aww that’s sweet :)
Margaret Hamilton is an absolute powerhouse in this. As a kid I was scared of her, as an adult I love the character
Isn't she marvelous?
Lucky for me I’ve seen scarier than her! Otherwise I wouldn’t be here
most peole dont even bother to watch the film after th emelt scene
@@thomasdelvin3683 Wrong.
“ I’m melting I’m melting “
I love that Dorothy was apologizing for killing the witch. The most evil person in Oz, and she’s apologizing.
That just goes to show how innocent and genuinely kind she is, and I love that about the character.
An alternative explanation is this: She didn't realize the Winkie Guard was forced to work for the Witch. Believing they were friends of the witch, Dorothy would be afraid they would seek revenge or punishment.
I hate that about her cause it makes her weak
@@mrsantoro8306 that’s true..:
@@keara.ls3 I hate to say it though..
@@mrsantoro8306 Weak how?
The cruelest words ever spoken in any film “The last to go will see the first three go before her, and your mangy little dog too!” She was going to torture them all to death and let Dorothy see it before she did the same to her.
Apparently that’s what she attempted to do in the book
I guess she had to weaken and break Dorothys will to get the slippers.
Talk about irony
@@writepg it’s a programming script it was used to program agents
@@sam8192 You hit the nail on the head. I'm sorry for us both that we know that. All the best to you.
“The last to go will see the first three go before her. And her mangy little dog.” Iconic!
How about a little fire Scarecrow?
The wicked witch is truly diabolical, ruthless, and you get a sense of dread whenever you see her. Margaret Hamilton gave a phenomenal, terrifying performance! She should’ve won an Academy Award 🖤
Had The Wizard of Oz not been overshadowed by other 1939 films, including the box office blockbuster Gone With The Wind, I guarantee it would have won more Oscars.
@@bradyryan5105 Maybe, but six is not to be sneezed at. 🙂
Lucky I wasn’t traumatized by her
@@MaskedMan66I didn’t win six it won 2 and Judy won a special juvenile award. Know the facts before you comment your stupid comments
I know her real name. Elphaba. Because Glinda knew her when they were attending a school in Oz.
They put this together really well. And to be honest dreams can really be like this.
Honey I’ve had WAY crazier dreams than this!! lol. So yeah dreams definitely can be like this i agree!
Except, of course, that in the book, Oz was no dream.
I love how casual they show that while the witch is talking, the scarecrow is constantly thinking, using his brain to get them out of there like when he uses the tinman to cut the ceiling light.
LOL Well, the Tin Woodman's axe, anyway.
She adlibbed those lines after the water went on her…. And thus put herself into the most quoted lines in movie history. lol
That wasn’t in the script?
@@Brentman56 nope. Not from what I’ve heard.
I often say "what a world, what a world" 😢
She might have ad libbed during a rehearsal, but not while filming. But as far as I'm aware, all her dialogue was in the script.
@@MaskedMan66 that goes completely against what I've heard from more than once source. But whatever.
How this, one of the best films of all time, was made in 1939 will still baffle me to this day.
For a film that came out nearly 90 years ago it still has some of the best visual effects I’ve ever seen, they really do hold up and are phenomenally better than some of the garbage that is being poured out today. It just shows how much the filmmakers cared, they really don’t make films like they used to anymore
Certainly didn't care about their actors mental and physical health.
@@liamjm9278 I burst out laughing when they said “it just shows how much the filmmakers cared”😂😂
2:01 How about that amazing matte painting of the exterior of the witch's castle overlooking the river far below.
Try to guess where the painting ends and the set begins. Hint: paintings cost less than sets.
Those were the days when movies were still an art form.
@@liamjm9278 Nobody's mental health was affected, and who is this "they?"
I love that the movie's main theme was to have self-confidence and believe in yourself.
I always thought it was home is where the heart is!
@@manuelorozco7760I think all of this is wrapped in one , it’s about being happy and confident with what you have ☺️
@@Kenny-bu4uv I never thought it that way before actually
It was a book first.
Who’s here after watching Wicked
Margaret Hamilton scared THE HELL OUTTA ME as a child !
but I will ALWAYS LOVE THIS FILM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
0:24 “Stand Back” that line still gives me goosebumps.
0:00
“Stand Back,” a song by Stevie Nicks. 🤣
@@BuShips One of my faves!
How lol
@@deljeanAll Tinman had to say after “Here’s Tinny”
Dorothy's best friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion to rescue her. Dorothy threw water to melt the Wicked Witch! Wow what a great scene, thank you!
In the book, however, the lads were all out of commission; the Scarecrow had been torn apart and stuck in a tree, the Tin Woodman was dropped into a gorge where he was all dented up and unable to move, and the Cowardly Lion was in a cage in the Wicked Witch's courtyard. Dorothy faced and defeated the Witch all by herself!
Margaret Hamilton’s witch’s laugh and scream always terrified me when I was a kid watching this movie. Great performance!
It turns out the guards didn’t even like the wicked witch of the west anyway after she melted. They were happy and relieved. I always found that part confusing because they would literally do what the witch told them to do.
I always figured that either she had cast a spell on them to force them into her service or they were serving her out of fear, not loyalty. In the case of it being a spell, the spell likely broke upon her death, and in either scenario, they were glad to see her die, seeing as that meant they were rid of her and no longer had to do her bidding.
@@19TheFallenThey were her slaves.
I felt that confusion too
As a kid, it always felt like the guards were suddenly good after her death. The movie certainly would have benefited from explaining that they were enslaved, as the book made that very clear.
@@camdencoblentz3245 They were also no bigger than Munchkins in the book, and not at all fighters.
How ironic that Margaret Hamilton (the witch) was Judy's only friend on set. The rest of the adult actors snubbed her. She was a female & a child upstaging the guys. Tons of resentment of Judy. Margaret reached out to Judy & befriended her. She loved kids & was a teacher before acting. Margaret also noticed Judy's drug use early on and did her best to help her.
NOT TRUE
@@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753 ?
Go away gossip/Karen. Needless post, only, to get attention for your lonely self.
@@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753 Yes it is.
It's time for that lie-- and so many others-- to die. Judy was the darling of the set, and everyone was enchanted by her talent, her ebullience, and her vast intelligence. Also, Judy was not using medicine in a harmful way-- and she never used "recreational" drugs in her life.
After all those years flying around OZ it's quite amazing that the Wicked Witch of the West never got caught in a sudden downpour anywhere.
I think it would’ve been funny if after Dorothy apologized for killing her, the guard would be like, “ *Laughing* You’re sorry??? We all hated her!” 😂
True lol. The Flying Monkey was happy.
Truly. It was clear they only served her out of fear. Is that why she only armed them with those spear-halberd-type weapons, when we know a sort of musket-level of firearms technology existed in Oz? Did she fear assassination? But it is not clear she could be killed or harmed by a musket, or any mortal weapon. She may have considered those spear-things adequate for what she expected them to do.
@@alyssajones4368 Winged Monkey. Or rather Wingless Monkey; Nikko, who was the King of the Winged Monkeys, had had his wings clipped by the Wicked Witch so that she could ensure their cooperation.
@@davidhawley3337 They're called lances.
@@alyssajones4368 They're called Winged Monkeys, and in point of fact, Nikko's wings had been clipped.
1:54 half of you go this way half of you go that way
I just love that line
I say it at least once a week lol
Margaret Hamilton is immortal for her work here.
Darth Vader. Hannibal Lecter. Nurse Ratched.
None hold a candle to the wickedness of The Wicked Witch of the West.
We are all blessed to have had her in our lives.
Thank you forever Margaret.
You are loved.
WHAT A DEATH!!!!!
Frau Bluche, Frau Farbissina
Vader comes out tops on a lot of lists.
@@MaskedMan66yes
@@pare4918 *WHINNYYYY*
3:11 the witch is having a melt down.
Trumps defeat
Lol
Don’t say that I’m autistic
@@carlosburness3487 wot
@@HeatherHeatherAndHeather I asked you first
(The three guards from before without their uniforms appear.)
Guard 1: It’s them! Those are the guys that stole our uniforms!
Guard 2: Yeah! And beat the crud out of us, too!
Guard 3: Don’t let them escape!
NICE! I know where you got that from. 🤣🤣
Where are they in this scene
Spaceballs reference. Very nice.
@@abeiscool40 what
@@carlosburness3487 You remember, the scene where Lone Starr and Barf stole two of the Spaceball Troopers uniforms and after rescuing Vespa and Dot they ran into the two guards whose uniforms they stole.
I love how the wicked witch was defeated by accident, and that Dorothy apologizes.
In the book it was also an accident, sort of. The Wicked Witch had managed to grab one of the silver shoes and put it on, and in a rage, Dorothy doused her with the bucket she'd been using to mop the floor. She didn't know what would happen next, and she certainly never expected that to be the end of the old crone. And as there was nobody else in the kitchen except Toto, Dorothy didn't have to apologize to anyone. 🙂
Except to the witch's remains. 😄@MaskedMan66
@@garyjones2561 Nope. Why apologize to a gritty puddle?
Such an iconic movie and timeless film
Timeless is one of the most glorious words in the English language
Most epic battle in history
Lol.
Everybody despised the Wicked Witch of the West, even her own castle guards! The were free once she melted out of the picture, and they all celebrated
There was to have been a reprise of "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead" at that point.
The wicked witch probably mistreated her guards, so it's not surprising they'd celebrate
@@bradyryan5105 In the book, she whipped her slaves.
3:10 Um, Mr Stark, I don’t feel so good
3:00
Such an iconic cackle😂😍👑👏🏻
Kamala Harris
@@AmEricAnL27 Damn! You stole my comment.
Cackles Academy
@@AmEricAnL27 Marjorie Taylor Greene, no wait, Lauren Boebert. Hey this is fun, I can be political too! Yay!
@@AmEricAnL27 And your mama
Funny thing about this scene is that scarecrow is the one with no brains but he is the one doing the rescuing and using his head to think of a way out of there 😂😂😂😂
Because he already has a brain. That's the point.
All of the travelers have what they think they want.
@@MaskedMan66personally, I would’ve been way more ticked off than they were if I was looking for something that I felt was missing that I had all along and traveled all that way just to be told that.
@@N0tCreat1ve34 Except that they weren't "ticked off," they were amazed at the revelation.
@@MaskedMan66 true. Lol funny thing, I just read your username and I think I commented on the hanging munchkin theory like 3 years ago or something like that on my old account and we were replying to each other in the comments.
Gee, I had forgotten how magnificent this film is. You know it's not that far from being a hundred years old now.
As a kid, I would fast forward through a VHS tape rewatch this scene lol now it’s just a RUclips clip
These are actual sets and they look fucking amazing. This isn’t CGI. It’s so cool to see this because it’s so doable and studios spend so much money on cgi and this is so much better.
Pure water defeats wicked people what a world it destroys!
The best movie villain of all time? Surely Top 3. I agree with everyone here, she just tears it up. Movie immortality.
She and Darth Vader are pretty much neck and neck in a lot of lists.
When I was a child the wicked witch of the west and bully from A Christmas Story were so terrifying to me.
HER LAUGH😂😂😍😍👑👑
0:05 the way Toto was trying to get through the door to reunite with Dorothy 🥹
How was she supposed to know a little splash of water would cause the wicked witch to melt away?
Presumably nobody in Oz knew the witches weakness as Dorthy was given the task to slay her when if they had known her weakness was water the threat would have been dealt with before her arrival
@@CannedShrimp and on a larger note no had killed either witch before Dorothy came along but in both cases she didn’t want cause any harm since she didn’t know her house landed on East and when she accidentally doused West she was just trying to put the fire out
She didn’t. lol
She didn't she was just trying to help Scarecrow put out the fire on his arm and then she accidentally splashed it on the witch.
I’ve heard a theory that it’s not the water that killed her, but act of kindness
And everyone especially her guards and captain and nikko pet and other monkeys reliefed very much 😊
Dorothy killed both witches. And she gave the munchkins and the minions their freedom.
Well, she didn't kill the Wicked Witch of the East. She just caught in a tornado 🌪 and her house just landed on her. As for basically killing the Wicked Witch of the West, she is just trying to save the Scrawcrow because she set him on fire 🔥 and was trying to put it out.
Winkies.
Both Wicked Witches, you mean.
The witch of the east was beyond human control and the witch of the west was a slight accident
My childhood movie! Memories 😊
Proud to say that Margaret Hamilton was a distant cousin of mine)
It's funny cuz in the books The Wicked Witch successfully snatch the Silver Shoes from Dorothy, they were silver in the books, and Dorothy got so mad that she grabbed a bucket of water, and splashed it all over the Witch, killing her in the process. Lol
She only grabbed one of them.
So dorothy threw the water on purpose
@@wesleyjenkins4267 just because she was pissed the witch tripped her. The bucket of water was the first thing she saw and that was the first thing that came to her mind was to throw it on her
Dorothy: Yes! It's me! She's locked me in! Oh hurry! Please hurry! The hourglass is almost empty!
Tin Woodman: Stand back!
He uses his axe at the door
the escape music was also used in an earlir film norma shearer mARIE antonette while the peole were gathering toattack the palace
In the book, Dorothy became angry with the witch because she was able to get one of the magic slippers from her. When she refused to give it back Dorothy, in a fit of rage, grabbed a bucket of water and threw it at the witch.
Good will always conquer evil! Yay for Dorothy! ✨🙋🏼♥️✨
Oh, what a world! What a world!😂😍
Who's here after watching wicked?
Hey! It was an accident! We didn't mean to splash water on you! We just wanted to put the fire out!
We did get your shoes though.
She already had the shoes.
Later we found out she’s not dead, wicked part two
Wicked isn't canon
Wicked is cannon lol, it's totally The Prequrl of this movie.@@CovenantQuarter
@@fxvsoundofcoups Nope. Wicked was written by a different author decades after the original book and movie. It's not canon
@@fxvsoundofcoups Yeah it's essentially fanfic, pretty awesome though
@@fxvsoundofcoups
Firstly, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is originally released in 1900.
Then in 1995, a novel called Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Then that novel is adapted loosely into a Broadway musical in 2003 simply titled Wicked, which is what Wicked (2024) is being directly adapted from.
This classic 1930s movie is so good! The wizard of oz is my favorite 30s movie of all time! It’s a twister! It’s a twister!
Did anyone notice that the guards lower their spears as she's melting?
I did. The DVD commentary did.
Yup.
My favorite scene beside Dorothy sing her iconic song. It took me years to figure out what the wicked witch was saying there when she said half you go this way half you go that way and then she says 2 words hurry hurry!!
I like how Toto and Nikko (The Monkey) go and investigate the Witch's clothes like real animals would XD
And Nikko clapped!
@@nathanboswell6611 Yeah his actor was great at animal impressions
@@evanmiller2562 Pat Walshe did a vaudeville act where he impersonated a chimpanzee with a fur suit and very little make-up. It was reportedly quite uncanny!
@@MaskedMan66 Yeah the Monkeys are quite uneasy to look at. I like the masks
Scarecrow was on fire and they said this was rated g
That ratings system hadn't been invented yet, and so what?
So, about the hourglass - the witch said "that's how much longer you've got to be alive." Did that mean Dorothy would drop dead when the sand runs out? Or that it would take the witch that long to organize her "troops" to surround her? Except Dorothy seems to be under the impression that if she gets out of that specific room before the sand runs out (hurry! The hourglass is almost empty!) she'll live (and she does.) Also why can't she just flip it over? Is it enchanted? Prob just movie logic.
I have a feeling some things were edited out. I, too, thought she'd drop dead if it ran out.
When you're frightened, you usually don't think too clearly.
Only the witch knew these things, and with no scene in the film giving us any more information those questions are unanswerable. This doesn’t mean that such questions aren’t interesting, and it can be fruitful to speculate on them. In fact, speculating on what we don’t know is essential. But the witch took whatever she knew to her watery grave.
When the hourglass ran out, the witch was going to return and kill Dorothy. Turning over the hourglass wouldn't affect the time before the witch returns. The witch needed time to come up with the right spell to kill Dorothy and get the silver slippers, without destroying the magic.
@@stpat7614 they are ruby slippers in the movie The silver ones are from the book
I love the Winkie guards so much! 🥹🖤
Dorothy ends up killing two witches if you think about it.
Her uncle's house killed the Wicked Witch of the East.
my favorite character
movie about The wizard Os
i always felt sad when she died. dorothy took her sister's shoes.
Actually, Glinda the Witch of the North put the slippers on Dorothy and told Dorothy to never take them off. All Dorothy wanted was to go home.
@@rainier2672 the witch was stll wronged lol
@@rainier2672 Glinda was definitely a troublemaker. lol
@Tin Watchman true lmao
So?
I love how hammed up it is
This was dead serious to me at 6yrs old😂
I can remember seeing a late 1960s rerelease of this for the first time in a movie theater when I was very young and at that time they still had the second version of "Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead" the guards sang! I always wondered what happened to that song when it made it to television later.
That bit was removed in 1939; nobody has ever seen it.
I always found it ironic that the Winkie guards actually cheered when the witch was killed
They only served her out of fear. They were essentially slaves. I'm less sure about the Flying Monkeys.
Nothing ironic about it; they hated her.
They served her out of fear.
I love the pacing in this scene. Not too fast cut but not too boring either!
The precise synchronized lowering of the guard’s spears as the witch melts away. Cool. Uncredited role of the guard who speaks is actor Harry Wilson.
I would have thought he would have had an evil voice.
The actor's name is Mitchell Lewis.
@@pare4918 Why?
No, it's character actor Mitchell Lewis.
It's Mitchell Lewis, a character actor who appeared in several small and uncredited roles for MGM.
I met Margaret Hamilton when I was a kid living in NYC..She was a sweetheart
You can see Tin Man's initial chops are hitting to far up on the door. Probably in the uncut theater version Scarecrow probably told Tin Man "Chop at the area where the lock is!!! If we knock out the lock the door it will open without any resistance. We don't have to knock down entire door!!!
"To (sic) far up" for what?
The greatest movie about shoe envy! 👠👠
The witch has always been my favorite! 💚
No, it's about a little girl who wanted to get home.
can anyone explain to me why the strongest witch died from just water so easily?
My mothers read the book Wicked and explained some it to me because I never understood why water killed her. In the book Elphaba(the wicked witch) kind of has a "Joker" setting becoming a product of society. Being born ugly having others treat her like a monster ect. She became intrigued with evil and studied it. Theres a point shes pushed to her limit and just embraces what everyone already sees her as, a wicked witch (the new movie Wicked supports this idea) so metaphorically Elphaba was pure evil at this point in the film and having Dorothy throwing that water being innocent and "Good" to me is like throwing Holy water on a demon and it burns them. This is how I interrupt it. All that "Holy water" completely melts her away.
1:30 that scream haunted me.
For a scarecrow with no brain, he’s a smart one. 1:23
They all have what they think they want. Whole point of the story.
I usually prefer either a conical chase or a physical confrontation between the hero and the villain as my kind of climax. But it’s the work of art that matters in this case. Thanks to a certain musical, I can’t look at the Witch’s melting from the same preteen perspective!
*Comical chase I mean
@@manuelorozco7760 I was gonna ask you about that! lol
@@MaskedMan66 Ha ha very funny
So if the wicked witch knew water would kill her then why would she have a bucket of it in her own castle?
Question of the century. lol
Also how does she shower 🤔
Three possibilities:
1) To extinguish the torches every morning.
2) In case a fire breaks out. For all we know, fire could kill the Wicked Witch too.
3) In case Glinda shows up. Did you ever read Cheshire Crossing? ;)
@@Sabrinajaine 😂
@@Sabrinajaine She doesn't. She isn't originally green. It's mold covering her.
They said that melting the witch was actually one of the easier effects to do. They had Margaret Hamilton standing on an elevator platform underneath her dress. She wore a larger hat to make it look like her head is shrinking and dry ice was put underneath to had steam. Air was blown through the elevator to make the steam spread and add effect. When they first tried it though, the air blew her dress right up over her head and also blew her hat right off. So they tacked her dress to the set floor which is seen here. No, you won't find that blooper. There is no existing blooper footage of the WOZ.
The same death than judge Doom in Roger Rabbit 😀
One of the best movies of all time
1:33 THE SCARECROW HAD A BRAIN ALL ALONG!
We've known that for 123 years.
This Moral of the story is that Scarecrow, Tim Man, Cowardly Lion and Dorothy all had what they were after. Scarecrow thought out plan for the trap; Tim Man’s constant crying; Cowardly Lion attacking the guards for their clothing and Dorothy was home the entire time, dreaming the whole thing.
That’s Irony of Dorothy’s friends. They each find what they desire in themselves throughout the journey.
3:10 Elphaba Death
Margaret "The Legend" Hamilton.
Ring around the rosey a pocket full of spears.
Thought you'd be pretty foxy, didn't you?
I like how the wicked witch of the west was screaming in terror when dead it literally terrified me when I was younger I like her acting to bad she’s actually dead irl and Dorothy didn’t mean it
After she was dead, she didn't make any more noise.
@@MaskedMan66 sorry I meant before her death
You hero dorothy 💋❤️
Heroine.
Poor dorothy what they did to that actress is heartbreaking
Her name was Judy, and who are "they" and what did "they" do? She was not mistreated in any way while making this movie, no matter what some sensationalists say.
@@MaskedMan66It wasn't the making of the moive per say, it was what happened *after* the moive. Read up on how she died if you like, But I bielive it was due to the genaral audience complaining that Judy was too fat, which lead to her overdosing (I could be completely wrong, But I think that's what happened)
@@theprofessor3684 Since you put it forth as an option, please take no offense when I tell you that yes, you are completely wrong.
No moviegoers said anything against her build. Her accidental overdose of barbiturates came three decades after the movie and was related to personal issues rather than professional ones. You see, she did a lot more in her life than just make _The Wizard of Oz._
@@MaskedMan66 Ohhhhhhh. Okay then! Thanks for the clarification!
@@theprofessor3684 You're welcome! 🙂
Nice movie clip
You should see the whole film!
Beautiful dress and red shoes
its pretty insane how this was made in 1939, first i thought it was made in 1970 when i was a child
How is it "insane?" That's when movies were movies!
I’m 30 and I was surprised myself when I found out the year 1939.
0:58...that laugh is sooooo evil. She is one POWERFUL WITCH
While I like this classic scene , I wish the chase was longer
So do I! Just to make it a more exciting climax
😭🙏🏽🤦🏾♂️😩 me my dada favorite scene what a world 🤣 I'm melting 😩
Insert Conker's Bad Fur Day reference here
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The Great Mighty Poo says "Arrgh, you cursed squirrel! Look what you have done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh what a world, what a world. Who would've thought a good little squirrel like you could destroy my beautiful clagginess?"
Close Encounters 'borrowed' the mountain climbing scene, you know, when the Tinman was holding the Cowardly Lion's tail.
How do you figure?
3:10 I'm melting!
Melting! Oh what a world what a world
I ❤ Those Guards
3:08 don't throw that water
Witch screams
It's a very good scene for her crying so dramatically is a little much for me.
3:11 is this a Conker's Bad Fur Day reference?
Is she going to throw her…poop…at you?
@@emmarose4234 lmao
@@emmarose4234 she was so wicked her blood dried up long ago.
No. Next?
The Great Mighty Poo says "Arrgh, you cursed squirrel! Look what you have done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh what a world, what a world. Who would've thought a good little squirrel like you could destroy my beautiful clagginess?"