Film Analysis: The Wizard Of Oz

Home Is A Place in Your Heart ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ has been sung at enough pre-k beauty pageants over the past year to cement the idea that The Wizard of Oz, despite it’s age, is not going anywhere anytime soon. Many people love the idea of getting lost in a brightly colored place far away from home, only to realize home is where you belong; however, when the original book of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ is examined, reader’s find the raw truths that exist in the world of Oz. In today’s culture The Wizard of Oz is still as relevant as it was hundreds of years ago, but it hasn’t stayed completely the same, and things are changed for the sake of cultural appreciation. The movie is a jolly sing-a-long watch, but like all wonderful

The movie team obviously had to cut things like a little endearing munchkin man named Boq who had three lines in the book out for clarity’s sake; however, with the retelling of The Wizard of Oz in film adaptation the themes are easily lost if the audience has no background knowledge by reading the original novel. A huge theme in the book is that your home is always with you in your heart, but the movie can’t really express this other than by selling it off as Dorothy always had the power to return home. That doesn’t communicate that it doesn’t matter where her journey takes her because home is always with her. The last weakness that I reluctantly point out is that the film uses dated graphics for a modern viewer; nonetheless, this can be ignored when one realizes how long ago the film was made and how enthralling it is after all. Essentially the film has very few weaknesses other than it had to stray from the book, and that the graphics are dated, but neither of these things decrease the production value of the film. The Wizard of Oz is the perfect watch for anyone who is looking for some perfect procrastination. The songs and colors are catchy enough to lure the audience into rewatching scenes again and again to feel the warm joy that the film radiates. And then, before you know it, you’ll be watching the entirety of the catchy film again! History will see that “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” is sung at beauty pageants for years to