Monday, April 8, 2013
The Wizard of Odd
It is safe to say that most of the people reading this have seen the epic known as The Wizard of Oz. To the untrained eye, it is a "feel good" story with positive morals and good intentions. However, when I really look at it and break down all the details that come along with the story line, it doesn't seem to have the qualities everybody thinks it has. These thoughts mostly come from the so called "good witch" named Glenda. Glenda isn't much of a good witch when you really think about it. She takes Ruby slippers off of the feet of the wicked witch of the east when she had no right to. If anything, the slippers belong to her sister, the wicked witch of the west. Glenda also has a bunch of munchkins all fired up to the point where there all singing songs about a persons death. Finally, Glenda sends Dorothy on a long journey in attempt to kill the wicked witch of west, which does turn out to happen. It turns out at the end of film that Glenda had the power to send Dorothy home the whole time, but Glenda made her go through this pointless journey just to kill the wicked witch of the west. It seems as though Glenda used Dorothy to do all of the dirty work that she doesn't want to do herself. All in all, the Wizard of Oz is just another one of those movies where you have to read in between the lines to find out what it's all about.
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I've never actually looked at the Wizard of Oz like that. I've only watched the movie a few times when I was younger. When you're younger, you don't notice what's really going on in the television shows you watch. Take Blue's Clues for example. When were younger, we just watched the show for the entertainment. Our brains couldn't really analyze some of the details. Now that we're older, we realize how weird Joe and Steve were, and what really went on in their lives.
ReplyDeleteI often try to look at movies and sows in this way as well. I ask myself, "what is really going on here?". I'm glad you brought this point up. Maybe some of our biggest stories in history could be taken in a different sense. Maybe Finding Nemo is just about bad parenting.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting and critical look at "The Wiz." Similar points can be made about 'The Odyssey.' Why do the gods put Odysseus through all of those trials? Why doesn't Zeus just snap his fingers and deliver Odysseus back to Ithaca?
ReplyDeleteThe answer has to do with why we have stories like these in the first place -the fact that we use these stories to make sense out of our own lives. As in real life, Odysseus and Dorothy must earn their destinies. Our myths help us understand the value and nature of struggle.
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