Basque Cultural Identity 2014 is the 75th anniversary of the classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. One of the most important themes and dialog of this film is “there’s no place like home.” The main character‚ Dorothy Gale‚ is magically transported to a different land after a traumatic experience involving a cruel woman and her little dog. While in this new land‚ called Oz‚ her mission is to find a wizard to get her back home. After adventures in this new land‚ she finds out she always had the
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The Wizard of Oz was a powerful movie made in the thirties. It did not just tell a simple story of a girl who gets lost‚ but also brought many different ideas about current events of that time to the surface. The Wizard of Oz was released on August 25‚ 1939‚ a time where women did not play a big role in society. It tells a story of a young girl who magically appears in the Land of Oz after a powerful twister comes through Kansas‚ her home state. In Oz‚ Dorothy goes on a journey to find the great
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When I was a child‚ each evening my mother would read from the novels of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ by L. Frank Baum. The usual bedtime routine was filled with anticipation of that imaginary world of wonder‚ adventure‚ and excitement in which I would soon be enthralled. The once yearly-televised motion picture based on the story‚ contributed greatly to my love for the fairy tale. The music and bright colors in the film confirmed all the different images I envisioned while listening intently to my
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The Wizard of Oz By Mary Ann Monjeau-Warner HUMA 205 Film Critique #1 Instructor: Dr. Tomory March 15‚ 2013 “Transported to a surreal landscape‚ a young girl kills the first woman she meets‚ and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.”(Polito) You would think this is a horror flick coming up. It’s not! I sat down to watch the The Wizard of
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fictional tale that appeals to many children as they travel with Dorothy from her gray home in Kansas to the wonderful land of Oz. The story begins with the lead character Dorothy‚ who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on their farm in Kansas. A horrible cyclone carries her and her dog Toto inside their home to the Land of Oz‚ where her home falls on the Wicked Witch of the East. She learns from the munchkins (citizens) that to return home‚ she needs to travel
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What makes the Wizard of Oz Cinematic? By: Eric Svenson The Wizard of Oz was a cinematic breakthrough when it was released in 1939. It became cinematic because of many different new ideas and technologies spliced together into one film. When Frank L. Baum wrote the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in 1900 he had no idea of what a success it would become in the motion picture industry. The remainder of this paper will touch on some of the key points that made The Wizard of Oz a cinematic breakthrough
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The 1939 film the Wizard of Oz is directed by Victor Fleming. Throughout this film the idea of dystopia is shown. Dystopia is a very unpleasant imaginary world in which ominous tendencies of our present social‚ political and technological order are projected into a disastrous future elimination. Dystopia is shown throughout this film as in a dystopian society people must believe they are happy and then discover they are not. Dorothy discovers she is unhappy in the film. This idea of dystopia is
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Sam Stillerman Wizard of Oz Allegorical Analysis 3rd Period Mrs. Stanley APUSH The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is believed by many to be an allegory of the current economical and political state that America was facing in the late 1800s. This allegory is mostly in line with the populist movement‚ a quickly growing belief that bankers and corporations controlled the two major parties in America. The Populist Party quickly arose from this movement‚ consisting mostly of farmers and other agriculturally
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1. Short summary of the film.- Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’s path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain‚ heart and courage 2. The film’s genre. - Fantasy‚ Children’s novel 3. Major character’s conflict and change. - Dorothy only considers herself as an ordinary girl‚ but she is more. She liberates
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The Wizard of Oz‚ by L. Frank Baum tells the tale of a young girl Dorothy as she wanders through the land of Oz. In the original movie adaptation‚ Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the East causing the Wicked Witch of the West to avenge her sister by making Dorothy pay. The Wicked Witch of the West has become a common archetype for the definition of a “wicked witch” with her long nose‚ green skin‚ and black hat. Both the novel and movie portray the witch as an evil relentless character to be disliked
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