The 1939 film‚ The Wizard of Oz’‚ was a colour and sound explosion that is as cherished today as it was when it was first released. But what a lot of the public doesn’t realise‚ is that the movie is based on the first of 14 books written by L. Frank Baum. Publish in 1900‚ "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" marked the beginning of a new type of fairytale. Baum steered away from the Classic European style fairytales like those of Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm brothers‚ into a more light-hearted
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In 1900‚ Baum introduced the vibrant Land of Oz to children across America. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ the story of a misplaced farm girl and her adventures with unlikely friends became a hit and later an American classic (bibliography.com 1). Many readers‚ however‚ began to find parallels between the iconic tale and
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. This is a story about a little girl named Dorothy who gets caught in a cyclone along with her dog Toto‚ and they are transported to the unknown Land of Oz where she meets amazing friends in her way to meet the Wizard of Oz‚ who is said to help her find a way to get back home. The intention of this report is to analyze the following aspects: • Symbolism and Imagery • Irony • Tone and Mood • Point of View Analysis of the Book The Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank
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Week 2 Film: The Wizard of Oz FORM: is the sum of all parts of the film‚ unified and given shape by patterns such as repetition and variation‚ story lines and character traits. - Film is not the product of a random collection of technical devices‚ but rather‚ it is a system THE CONCEPT OF FORM IN A FILM - Artworks involve us by engaging our senses‚ feelings and mind in a process. - The artwork cues the spectator to perform a specific activity. Example: A poem’s words may guide us to imagine
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A Parable on Populism (and American Monetary Policy) This popular and well-documented reading sees The Wizard of Oz as being about the collapse of the Populist Movement in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. In this scenario‚ Dorothy represents the common citizen‚ the Tin Man is the industrial worker‚ the Scarecrow is a stand-in for farmers‚ and the Cowardly Lion is politician William Jennings Bryan (seen by many at the time as being all talk and no action). They travel along
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1930’s was an economic catastrophe in which the American stock market crashed and citizens lost millions of dollars. Near the end of the Great Depression the movie The Wizard of Oz was produced‚ and became a groundbreaking movie about a farmer’s daughter’s search to get home after she was blown away in a twister to the Land of Oz. The time period in which the movie was produced and how well it was received raises the question: how does the film’s popularity relate to the Great Depression? To research
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narrative. In simplest terms‚ the cinema of attractions is cinema based on the quality or ability to show something. Examples of the cinema of attractions have been found throughout the films the Great Train Robbery‚ Nanook of the North and The Wizard of Oz. There are some film qualities that without a doubt would prove to be an attraction to the audience. However‚ depending on how the individual interprets‚ this attraction’ is subjective and thus every audience member may find different techniques in
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are five “religions” in the Land of Oz. There is the “worship” of the Wizard‚ Lurlinism‚ Unionism‚ TikTokism and the Please Faith. I believe that the Wizard is worshiped like a god in the novel. The people have unwavering loyalty to him and do whatever he says without question. He has unlimited‚ godlike power and the public treat him as such. Lurlinism is the main religion in Oz. It is a pagan religion that is starting to fall out of favor with most of the citizens of Oz in favor of Unionism. Unionism
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kept hidden in the suitcase because since he started burying all his feelings he wasn;t really living and functioning as a normal child‚ but now that his father acknowledged his mom it was as if he started to live again‚ similar to in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy
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on the other side.” Using the word emerald to describe Wellington makes it seem desirable and sought after. It makes life in Wellington look worth aspiring too much like the fantasy land ‘Emerald City’ in the Wizard of Oz. “The road leads to Wellington. The big city‚ The Emerald city!” In the first book The Wizard of Oz the walls of the city are green but the city itself is no different in colour to any other. The people in the city are made to wear green tinted glasses which affect their perception
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