the movie The Wizard of Oz. For example‚ the characters that are in Dorothy’s dream‚ represent people at home‚ as the audience found out toward the end of the movie. This is showing that home‚ or the people who represent home‚ are very important to Dorothy and means a lot to her‚ especially since they were showing up in her dream. Also‚ Dorothy has trouble deciding if she wants to go back home or not. Meaning‚ that home is important and special to her‚ and that even though Oz is great‚ Dorothy really
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This film demonstrates a wide range of film language techniques that all contribute to help convey the overall messages and themes found in the film. In this scene‚ protagonist Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is being told by her mother the truth about the disappearance of the maid that has raised her her whole life. Motherhood and racism are the two most important themes expressed in this scene. These ideas will be backed up with a range of film language techniques that helped to emphasise these themes. Taylor
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The Wizard of Oz was released August 25‚ 1939. In this story Dorothy‚ her little dog Toto‚ a Man of tin‚ a Scarecrow‚ and a cowardly lion all travel down a “yellow brick” road (a symbol for gold and a value to our currency) to find the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. After a long journey‚ they finally get to him and find out that he is nothing more than a man behind a curtain speaking through a microphone and operating levers‚ knobs and switches to keep the illusion alive. Frank Baum‚ the writer
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The Wizard of Oz is a musical fantasy and centers around a young‚ imaginative girl from Kansas. Dorothy’s hometown is suddenly hit by a raging tornado. Dorothy is knocked unconscious by a loose window while trying to take cover inside her small farm house that she shares with her loving Aunt‚ Uncle and three helpful farm hands. After being swept away in the tornado‚ Dorothy lands in a fantasy land called Oz. In order to get back home to Kansas‚ Dorothy has to make the long journey to Emerald City
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a mixture of happiness‚ sadness‚ and‚ most importantly‚ beneficial life lessons. Despite the obstacles imposed throughout the play‚ the characters had overcome them by realizing that they possessed the resources and skills all along. Overcoming obstacles was present throughout the play by Dorothy being African American‚ the lion finding his courage‚ and the use of technology in place of special effects. Being that the Wizard of Oz was a play‚ special effects cannot
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20 January 2013 I recently learned the true meaning of one of my all time favorite childhood movies‚ The Wizard of Oz. The book turned screenplay originally written by L. Frank Baum is not a mere children’s story but a hidden tale of populism and government. The story is and its characters are packed with symbolism. The main character Dorothy Gale gets swept away in a twister along with her house‚ and lands in munchkin land. Dorothy’s last name “Gale” is supposed to represent her being the winds
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the 1890’s‚ crusaded by Bryan and the Populist party. The Witch of the West beseeches her henchmen with the help of her silver whistle and golden cap‚ the Tin Man receives a new ax made of gold and silver and new oil. The pretext of Oz‚ to describe the Great Wizard of Oz‚ is a pun for ounces of gold and silver. Green‚ in compilation with gold is repeated in the story‚ sprinkled with the irony that paper money is green. The Greenback Party‚ a forerunner of the Populist movement‚ urged the expansion
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of speculative fiction. History of the wicked witch of the west and Oz The land of Oz is a fictional country that consists of four vast quadrants‚ the North‚ South‚ East and West‚ each of which has its own ruler‚ sometimes a witch or sorcerer. However‚ the realm itself has always been ruled by one official dominant monarch‚ who represents the entire country as a whole. Emerald City is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz located in the centre of the four quadrants. Emerald City is at the
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Freud’s Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy’s entire time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that "all I kept saying to everybody was I want to go home.’" This fits perfectly with the time‚ 1939‚ that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression‚ many people were forced away
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The Wizard of Oz follows the story of a young Dorothy who lives in rural Kansas. She grows tired of the life she was living since she was feeling unappreciated. In her attempts to run away‚ she ends up in the middle of a tornado‚ locked out of her family’s panic shelter. Once the tornado hits her house‚ she is knocked out by an imploded window. The house rises in the tornado and is cast far away; it lands in a mystical land called Oz. Dorothy realizes that the house landed on and killed a wicked
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