The Wizard of Oz is about a young girl named Dorothy who feels like her family does not understand her‚ loses them in a tornado‚ and somehow lands in a magical land. Her house that was ripped up by the tornado lands on the Wicked Witch of the East killing her. Dorothy makes an enemy with the Wicked Witch of the West once she finds out that Dorothy killed her sister. In order to go back home‚ Dorothy must go on a journey to the City of OZ and speak with the all powerful wizard. Along the way
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Heroes exist in a world is considered ordinary or uneventful by those who live there. Often the heroes are considered odd by those in the ordinary world and possess some ability or characteristic that makes them feel out-of-place. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Dorothy in Kansas The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins in Hobbiton Star Wars: Luke Skywalker on Tatooine The Lion King: Simba at Pride Rock THE CALL TO ADVENTURE For heroes to begin their journeys‚ they must be called away from the ordinary world
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by the end of 1939‚ Technicolor had twenty-five features in production including MGM’s The wizard of Oz (1939) which was expensively produced with Technicolor and has become one of the best known of all films and part of American popular culture. After a short introduction of the history of early film color development‚ this essay then will focus on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The wizard of Oz (1939)‚ analysis how colour is used to signify good /evil and magic /reality in those colour
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Dorothy summon the Winged Monkeys to contain her and Toto habitat‚ but they dissolve they cannot opposition the waste encircling Oz. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers animate Dorothy that Glinda the Good Witch of the South may be qualified to assist her recompense tenement‚ so the favor entertheir peregrination to see Glinda‚ who alive in Oz’s Quadling Country. On the interval‚ the Cowardly Lion kiln a immense spinner who is frighten the animals in a sylvan. The animals interrogate the Cowardly
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swings her back and forward on the moral pendulum. Although this is a work of pure fiction‚ this novel does illuminate how different someone can be perceived when looked at through different a light. In Franks Baum’s The Wizard of Oz‚ the wicked witch embodies everything bad and evil in Oz. In Wicked‚ while in the end that still rings true‚ Maguire shows that this green woman in fact has her own morality and intentions that are far from evil. Iris Murdoch believed that morality lies in interacting with
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associate their own life with whatever they are watching‚ and thus‚ different perspectives emerge. "Out of Kansas" is an essay written by Salman Rushdie about a rather unorthodox perspective on the timeless classic‚ The Wizard of Oz. The everlasting fascination with The Wizard of Oz raises inquiry of why the movie is so wonderfully enchanting‚ even though according to Rushdie the movie fails to deliver its message. Rushdie suggests that there were slight misconceptions in the movie that caused confusion
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Hollywood actress‚ certainly proved that the lifestyle of a star is not always simple. She endured endless hardships just to please her fans‚ which is why she is so beloved by many. Judy Garland‚ a singer and actress known for her brilliant role in The Wizard of Oz‚ is one of the most memorable Hollywood actresses of the 1930s. Garland’s love for theater and wonderful singing talents started very early due to her family’s great musical influence. To begin with‚ “Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on
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narrative. In simplest terms‚ the cinema of attractions is cinema based on the quality or ability to show something. Examples of the cinema of attractions have been found throughout the films the Great Train Robbery‚ Nanook of the North and The Wizard of Oz. There are some film qualities that without a doubt would prove to be an attraction to the audience. However‚ depending on how the individual interprets‚ this attraction’ is subjective and thus every audience member may find different techniques
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“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was a great read. This excellent allegory took “follow the yellow brick road” to an entire new level. The character I chose to analyze is The Wicked Witch of the West. In “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” the Wicked Witch of the West represented segregation in the South. During the time this book was written‚ segregation had be the usual in the South. This book was written in 1900. During the early 1900s‚ slavery had of course been abolished‚ and blacks were considered
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One Mourns the Wicked in Wicked. It queries a universal value that a dichotomy between “good and evil” is always used by human being. In our collective consciousness‚ saturated as it’s by exposure to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and its adapted 1939 film‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ Glinda‚ the Good Witch of the North‚ and Elphaba‚ the Wicked Witch of the West‚ are polar opposites – one is "good" and another‚ "evil." But in Wicked‚ things aren’t so simply white and black. In Medea by Euripides
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