“The Wizard of Oz” works on another level as an adult. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the wonderful, wizardly, and weird things about “The Wizard of Oz” that might have grabbed their broomsticks and flown over our heads when we were kids. Our countdown includes where are Dorothy’s parents?, is Glinda really all that good? Dorothy’s shoes are meant to be silver, and more! Are there any tidbits from “The Wizard of Oz” that YOU only spotted only after you got older? There’s no place like the comments section to share them with us!
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Are there any tidbits from “The Wizard of Oz” that YOU only spotted only after you got older? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Wizard of Oz Facts That Will Ruin Your Childhood – https://youtu.be/7-MA2MjihjI
A dog leash would have stopped Dorothy’s problem to begin with.
Scarecrow got the math wrong .
What about the fact that poppies (aka opium) put everyone to sleep and snow (cocaine?) wakes them up?
Agreed on poppies.
Papaver somniferum. Somni for sleep and ferum for the reddish color of iron.
When the Wicked Witch leaves Munchkinland, her exit is supposed to mirror her entrance. She spins away from Dorothy and Glinda and hits her mark about 10 feet away. Smoke rises from under the stage, momentarily obscuring her. A trap door opens, she drops underneath the stage, and then flash-pots go off to signal that she has magically teleported away. But on the day of filming, the timing of the special effects went haywire. If you watch carefully, you’ll notice that the smoke begins to rise a good 3 seconds before the Witch hits her mark. As the scene continues, the flash-pots go off as the Witch is dropping through the trap-door. The actress, Margaret Hamilton, was severely burned by the flash-pots, and filming had to be delayed for several days. The production team couldn’t afford to scrap the footage and re-film the scene, so they kept it as is, with some judicious editing.
Why did the Wicked Witch’s sister’s legs curl up under Dorothy’s house like that?
I believe that Glinda is meant to be a representation of Aunt Em _and_ Uncle Henry! All the symbolism is right there, down to the line, “because you wouldn’t have believed me.”
In Kansas, all Dorothy wants to do is run away and find a better life “somewhere over the rainbow”. She meets Professor Marvel, who advises her to go home. Before the storm hits and knocks out Dorothy, she calls for Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.
Once she gets to Oz, all she wants to do is get back home. She is promised that the Wizard will take her there. Instead, he turns out to be a phony (referring to Professor Marvel not really being psychic). After Dorothy learns her lessons, Glinda arrives to guide her home, where her rainbow has been all along.
in Disney’s unofficial prequel Oz: The Great and Powerful, Glinda has a Kansas counterpart who is implied to be Dorothy’s mother and the wizard’s ex