There is much to compare and contrast about return to Oz and the Wizard of Oz. Because the Return to Oz is not a musical it seems to be a darker tone. As in the Wizard of Oz they had all of those bright moments whenever someone began to sing. But in Return to Oz they don't even talk about over the rainbow or where Oz is. In my opinion Return to Oz was not a good sequel. Let's try to just focus on Dorothy. In the Wizard of Oz you see Dorothy as a 14-year-old Who seems to have much trouble in her
Matthew Boyce History 1302 Land of OZ? L. Frank Baum shared an imaginary tale to the world when she wrote the “The Wonderful Land of Oz”. His passion and reasoning for writing this story was “written solely to pleasure the children of today”. Although not everyone agreed with this reason and thought otherwise. Quentin P. Taylor believed the “The Wonderful land of Oz” was a political symbolism and even thought that it was a populist allegory. Taylor accused the author of this imaginary tale that
The Wizard of Oz is a story of a young girl named Dorothy, who gets carried away in a tornado away from her Kansas home to a new place nothing like she’s ever seen. Her house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and she is welcomed to the magical and colorful new land by the Munchkins. She meets the Good Witch of the North, who tells her the only way she can return home is if she goes to Emerald City to seek help from the Wizard of Oz. Along her journey, Dorothy and her dog Toto meet the Scarecrow
The Wizard of Oz The book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a well written children's story from the year 1900. The story is about a young girl and her dog who are swept away from their farm in Kansas by a cyclone. They then arrive in the magical land of Oz. The author goes on to tell the story of Dorothy’s adventures and the struggles she has along the way. It teaches the reader the struggles in life and the challenges we may face. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank baum shows the wickedness of
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 film directed by Victor Fleming, which follows Dorothy Gale on her journey through the magical land of Oz. Dorothy is swept away from a farm in Kansas to the land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return to her home in Kansas. The director, uses a number cinematic techniques such as camera angles, lighting, colour and dialogue to portray a central theme of There’s no place like home. Dorothy Gale, the protagonist of the story
There may not be a more oft quoted musical than The Wizard of Oz. However, the mystical land received a new examination through the contemporary musical Wicked. Both deal with the land of Oz and the occupants, but from different places in the world and perspective. The Wizard of Oz is a familiar story where the protagonist gets carried by a tornado from Kansas to the mystical land of Oz. Whilst there, the protagonist, Dorothy, finds three friends to travel with to the Emerald City. In the Emerald
In the film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum inspires his concrete belief of gender and power inequality through an allegory of both the setting of Oz and the characters themselves. The two major focus points shown in The Wizard of Oz is both power and gender roles being challenged within the two realms of Kansas and Oz which are present in society during the time the book and movie adaptation The story of The Wizard of Oz is a beautiful piece of American history containing wonderful
In 2013, Alfonso Cuarón released his science fiction film that was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 7, including best sound mixing and best sound editing. Gravity is about a woman’s struggle to return home and find her will to live. Gravity revolved around Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist who lost her daughter and is still recovering. During her recovery process, she is sent on a mission into space and catastrophe strikes when a space station is hit with a rocket, sending debris into the orbit around Earth
The film The Wizard of Oz fulfills the fantasy genre (1939). The theme of this film is about a girl named Dorothy, unappreciative of what she has at home. In spite of the fact that Oz was a magical place with witches good and bad, wizards and talking animals, Dorothy missed her life in Kansas. She was also saddened that she had forsaken her obligation to care for her aunt back home. The film begins with Dorothy in Kansas. During a terrible tornado, she is unwillingly whipped up and dropped into
to it’s meaning. Structuralism encompasses a large range of analytical tools, however, this essay will examine Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theory of binary oppositions. Through analysis of Victor Fleming’s film, The Wizard of Oz (1939), it will be shown that although the monomyth and binary oppositions are useful tools with which to unveil how meaning is generated in this text, structuralism can undermine the audience’s ability to engage with their own interpretations of the
In 1964 Henry Littlefield a teacher published an article in the journal American Quarterly (Taylor). In the article Littlefield contended that “The Wizard of Oz” was an allegory for Populism, which was a political reform movement that had existed in the latter part of the 19th century. The Populists were primarily concerned with monetary reforms and creating equitable wealth and economic growth. The populists were popular with the disenfranchised, such as farmers, small business owners and other
Wonder-Oz For my paper I wanted to compare the works of Alice in wonderland and the wizard of oz. these are books and movies we have discussed in class, which has a lot of similarities as well as their differences. We will be looking at summaries of each story, next the use of animals and then going into the writing styles and usage of word play, and finally the journey taking by each main character. Both stories are fun to read and watch for interpretations of each. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in
despair, one ray of hope peered through the darkness when Frank Baum’s classic work of fictional adventure/fantasy, The Wizard of Oz was created. This marvelous film not only made cinema history but it grasped the heart of not only children but adults as well. The setting of The Wizard of Oz starts in a happy society in Kansas and moved its way into a breathtaking place called Oz. Dorothy grew up in Kansas with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and her dog Toto. One day Dorothy was in her bedroom listening to
The Wizard of Oz is story about a farm girl named Dorothy, who lives in a small grey town in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. One day, a cyclone appears and carries the farmhouse away with Dorothy and her dog, Toto inside. After the crazy ride, the house finally lands in the magical land of Oz. While in Oz, Dorothy is praised by the people of the town for killing the evil Witch of the East, but she explains to them she wishes to do nothing but get back to Kansas. Dorothy soon finds out it’s
“The Wizard of Oz” is a classic film that will never get old. The film was produced in 1939 but aired on TV for the first time in the 1950s. “The Wizard of Oz” is about the journey of a girl, named Dorothy, and her three companions to Emerald City. (8 Things You May Not Know About "The Wizard of Oz") The protagonist in the film is Dorothy. A protagonist is the central figure of the story, the advocate of a central movement or cause. The primary focus of the movie is Dorothy’s desire to go back home
whirling cyclone landed her house on a witch in Oz; she started her journey to the Emerald City to ask the Wizard of Oz how to help her return to her hometown of Kansas. Dorothy was really nice and kind and she had many traditional moral values. She didn’t worry about the past events; she somehow made the best out of thing that was happening in the present. Her goal was to return home despite the difficulties she encountered in the magic city of Oz. The wicked witch of the east was killed when Dorothy's
Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz is one of the most controversial movies in American history because there is no clear and cut meaning of the film. Everyone has a different interpretation of what the film Wizard of Oz really means. Some people believe that the movie has Christian religious symbolism or atheist symbolism, others believe that the illuminati was behind the making of the Wizard of Oz to brainwash people, others believe that there is a more political based meaning of the Wizard of Oz with a
The Wizard of Oz is a classic story that has been told in numerous ways. The first version I will tell about is the movie version, the book version, and finally the Michael Jackson version. The Michael Jackson version is called “The Wiz” but the book version and the movie version are both known as The Wizard of Oz. I will talk about the differences between all of the versions. They all have the same basic plot but are told in different ways. The movie was originally shot in sepia-toned, black and
Lyman Frank Baum, more commonly known as Frank Baum, was an American author generally known for his astonishing novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. However, Baum wrote many other intriguing pieces, including playwrights, journals, and children’s books. Baum was born and raised in Chittenango, New York and had a particularly comfortable upbringing due to his father owning a barrel factory. Frank Baum never earned a high school diploma; he instead spent a majority of his early adulthood pursuing his
In 1939, the movie The Wizard of Oz made its debut in the United States. Based off the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, the movie displays the mystical adventure of a young girl, Dorothy Gale. Beginning in Kansas on Dorothy’s aunt and uncle’s farm, the film focuses around Dorothy and her monotonous life. Shortly into the movie, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are swept away by a twister and dropped off in the magical Land of Oz. Here she meets the Good Witch of the North, Glinda