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'''Wizard of Oz''', 1939 movie starring [[Judy Garland]], [[Frank Morgan]], [[Ray Bolger]], [[Bert Lahr]], [[Jack Haley]], [[Billie Burke]], [[Margaret Hamilton]] and [[Charley Grapewin]] from the book by [[L. Frank Baum]] Here is [http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/wizoz.txt one script]. I cannot attest for it's accuracy, but it seems fairly good. This article written and copyright 2008 by Will Johnson, freelance biographer and professional genealogist. This page is locked, if you'd like to comment on it, you may email me at [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com] =Detailed Plot= ==Part 1== The story opens with Dorothy (Judy Garland) running home from school with her faithful dog Toto. She excitedly tries to interest her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry Gale in the terrible story of how Miss Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton) hit Toto with a rake because he gets in her garden and chases her cat. Next we meet the three farmhands Hunk, Zeke, and Hickory (Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley), each of them try to help her out in their own way. Hunk (Ray Bolger) tells her to use her brains, Zeke (Bert Lahr) tells her to have courage. (A cut portion had Hickory telling her to have some heart, and have pity on the "sour-faced old maid" Miss Gulch. Another cut portion has Hickory working on a wind machine that he claims will stop tornadoes.) Now Dorothy falls in the pig pen and is rescued by Zeke. Both Dorothy and Zeke are freaked out by this, but Auntie Em is a bit blase, telling Dorothy to "find a place where you won't get into any trouble!" So now Dorothy sings her signature song ''Somewhere Over The Rainbow''. Next we see Miss Gulch riding her bicycle to the Gale's farm where she shows them an order allowing her to take Toto to the sheriff, because she says Toto bit her. Dorothy is very upset and runs crying to her room. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Nh3tCHxEQ part 1] ==Part 2== Toto however escapes from Miss Gulch's basket without her noticing, and runs back to Dorothy. Dorothy knows that to protect Toto, she will have to run away. So she and Toto run away and on her journey meet Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a fortune teller. He tells her that in his crystal ball he can see her Aunt Em crying, and possibly having a heart attack. Dorothy gets upset and wants to run back home. On the way home, a tornado appears and threatens the farm. Henry, Em and the three farm-hands go into the storm cellar, but Dorothy arrives too late. She tries to get into the storm cellar but the door is locked and they can't hear her banging on the top. So she goes back into her room, the window blows out and hits her in the head knocking her out. When she awakes she is apparently up inside the tornado and sees a bunch of things flying by the window, including Miss Gulch on her bicycle, who then turns into a witch riding a broomstick. The force of the tornado diminishes and the house falls and lands but Dorothy and Toto are unhurt. Dorothy opens the front door, and now for the first time, the movie which had so far been in black-and-white, is changed to full-color. Dorothy has landed in a garden with gigantic flowers, a lily-pond, a stream and bridge, some small houses and a bright-yellow brick road. Dorothy walks around the garden but no one else is there. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaYLpm5DI4&feature=related Part 2] ==Part 3== This part opens with her famously misquoted line: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." When her back is turned, some heads pop up from the garden, then dart back down. A ball of light comes closer, then turns into Glinda, the Witch of the North (Billie Burke). It turns out that the Gale house has dropped onto and killed, the Wicked Witch of the East. Now Billie starts the next song "The Munchkinland Song (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead)", which Dorothy and the Munchkins finish. The Munchkins, who are all little people, now come out of hiding and dance about singing. The Mayor welcomes her, the Coronor certifies that the witch is truly dead. The Lullaby League and the Lollipop Guild both welcome Dorothy. (Of course it's never really made clear how the Munchkins which until now had been so oppressed by this evil witch, suddenly live in a beautiful garden and have bright, colorful clothes.) At any rate now appears the sister of the dead witch, this one called the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton). She threatens Dorothy, especially after Glinda causes the Ruby Slippers to disappear from the dead witch and appear on the feet of Dorothy. "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!" She disappears in a cloud of fire and red smoke. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cAyPJkiQAk&feature=related Part 3] ==Part 4== Now Glinda recommends that Dorothy should travel to meet the "great and wonderful Wizard of Oz", who lives in Emerald City. To get there Dorothy must "follow the Yellow Brick Road". Glinda now disappears and then the Munchkins launch into the next song ''Follow the Yellow Brick Road''. In the next scene, Dorothy comes to a four-way intersection and is unsure which way to go. Here she meets the scarecrow, helping him down off his pole. We learn that the scarecrow is troubled because he doesn't have a brain. Also he states that he isn't a very good scarecrow because the crows aren't afraid of him. He now launches into the next song-and-dance ''If I Only Had A Brain''. He suggests that perhaps the Wizard could help him by giving him a brain. So the two of them set-off together. Next Dorothy and the Scarecrow come upon an apple orchard, only to discover that the trees talk and are annoyed at her for trying to pick their apples — "How would you like to have someone come along and pick something off you?" The Scarecrow tricks the trees into throwing their apples at him. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu1EInG3PLA&feature=related Part 4] ==Part 5== As Dorothy is picking up the apples, she comes across a Tin Woodsman. He mumbles something which they interpret to mean that he wants them to oil his mouth. Once they do, he starts speaking clearly. He tells them that "'Bout a year ago I was chopping that tree and suddenly it began to ran, and right in the middle of a chop, I rusted solid." When Dorothy says "Well you are perfect now", the Woodsman complains that "the tinsmith forget to give me a heart." He then launches into the movies next song-and-dance with ''If I Only Had A Heart''. Now the Scarecrow and Dorothy offer that the Tin Woodsman should come with them to see the Wizard. Now the Witch appears and threatens the two men, throwing a fireball at the Scarecrow, and then vanished again in a cloud of red smoke. The men however, stick by Dorothy. And they all go singing and dancing down the road. In the next scene, they are in a dark forest and feeling frightened, when suddenly a lion appears and threatens them. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8RhueFc9sY&NR=1 Part 5] ==Part 6== The Lion threatens Toto, and so Dorothy slaps the Lion on its nose. The Lion bursts into tears at this and tells them that he has no courage. They now offer to bring him along with them to see the Wizard. "Well wouldn't you feel degraded to be seen in the company of a Cowardly Lion?" Now he launches into the next song-and-dance ''If I Only Had The Nerve''. Here we are treated to some of the most bizarre song lyrics : "I'd be brave as a '''blizzard''', I'd be gentle as a '''lizard''', I'd be clever as a '''gizzard'''". None of which makes any sense. They then give us another round of ''We're Off To See The Wizard'', as they go skipping out of the forest. Meanwhile the Witch has been watching them in her giant crystal ball and she has a plan to stop them. Mixing a potion, she casts a spell that thousands of poppies would appear in their path and put them to sleep with their narcotic odor. The travelers now for the first time, see the beautiful Emerald City rising from the plain in front of them, but the poppies have completely grown over and obscured the Yellow Brick Road. Running ahead, the Tin Woodsman, and the Scarecrow, not being flesh, are unaffected by the poppies, but the Lion, Toto and Dorothy fall asleep. The Scarecrow tries to think of some way out of their predicament, while the Tin Woodsman, starts yelling and crying. Glinda now appears in an overlay, and casts her own spell, making it snow. The snow dampens the narcotic odor enough to cause Dorothy, Toto and the Lion to wake up, but the Tin Woodsman rusts. Now we flash back to the Witch who is pissed off that she's been thwarted. We see something odd here that must be explained. At 6:55, the Monkey King is jumping up and down with something in his hand, and he hands it to the Witch, who takes it and waves it around for a few seconds around 7:01. This thing is the Magic Hat or Helmet or Skullcap (like a bathing cap). If the Witch wears this, she can command the Flying Monkeys but she can only do this three times. This is explained in the book, but not in the movie. Now we go back to the travelers and the brief song ''You're Out Of The Woods'', which all Oz fans wish had been much longer. The Witch now flies from her castle, "To the Emerald City as fast as lightning", while the travelers come up to the gate of the city. They tell the doorman that they want to see the Wizard and he responds "Nobodies ever seen the Great Oz. Even I've never seen him!" The doorman tells them to go away, but then being informed that Glinda sent them, he lets them in. An interesting aside here. In the book, as Dorothy and the group enter the city, they are made to wear green-tinted glasses so everything will '''look''' emerald, when in fact the '''emeralds''' that appear to cover all the buildings are only cheap glass. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjpkIozdgYw&feature=related Part 6] ==Part 7== Now the group enters Emerald City, we notice that all the population wear green clothes. Our group is met by a horse-and-carriage who offer to take them to a place to freshen up. Now we get the next song ''In The Merry Old Land of Oz''. This '''horse of a different color''' changes colors several times in the next minute: white, purple, burnt orange, yellow. At the ''Clip and Brush Up C...'' the Scarecrow is restuffed with fresh straw, the Tin Woodsman is polished with a giant buffer, Dorothy is given a beauty treatment, and the Lion is clipped with hedge-trimmers (it's true), by five very silly women. Our group, now beautiful and refreshed (presumably), go out of the beauty spa only to find the Witch has arrived and is sky-writing on her broomstick, "Surrender Dorothy", in black smoke. The townspeople all rush to inquire of the Wizard, but they are shooed back home by the Wizard's Gatekeeper. Our group however insists they must see the Wizard, and to the gatekeeper's intransigence state "But she's Dorothy!", "The Witches Dorothy?", says the gatekeeper, "Well that's makes a difference." Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsBlsOxPqI&feature=related Part 7] ==Part 8== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2LBFafFDAI&feature=related Part 8] ==Part 9== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGuUVlWgH5g&feature=related Part 9] =Continuity Issues= ==CI Part 1== When Dorothy is rescued from the pig sty, her dress is completely clean. Just after Dorothy is rescued from the pig sty, Auntie Em shows up with crullers and in part she says to Hickory "I saw you working on that contraption", then Hickory says "Some day they are going to erect a statue to me in this town". This exchange '''makes no sense''', since the entire backdrop that the "contraption" is a machine that can stop tornadoes, has been cut. ==CI Part 2== When Dorothy returns to the house during the tornado, she tries to get into the cellar but the door is bolted and they can't hear her. She is carrying Toto and the picnic basket. She goes inside and the next frames show her in her bedroom with Toto but no picnic basket. Where did she put it! At 6:41 her end table in front of the window appears relatively clear of object. And again notice at 6:46. Then the majority of the window frame blew out and hit Dorothy on the head, but apparently didn't affect anything else in the room, and especially not this weird group of figurines or whatever they are who appear on that table clearly at 7:19. And as this point as the house is slowly leaning back and forth, that left-over storm window on the right, should be flapping back and forth, but it's not. When Dorothy is up inside the cyclone, she sees Miss Gulch riding her bicycle, who then turns into a witch on a broomstick. When the house lands, it lands on the witch, and then Dorothy and later the Munchkins sing about how "the witch to satisfy an itch when riding on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch", so the house landed on her. So the witch who was killed by the house was Miss Gulch/Witch of the East, and it's her sister that is the Witch of the West. The figurines are now gone! But at least we see where she put that picnic basket, she picks it up right before she leaves her bedroom after the house has landed. A girl can't go anywhere without a picnic basket! Of course even though the bed has just been sliding back and forth all over the room, the picnic basket is still upright with all it's precious contents (whatever they are) in it. For a people just-recently-oppressed by the evil Witch of the West, the Munchkins sure seem to live in an idyllic garden of beautiful flowers and water and have very colorful clothes. ==CI Part 3== The Mayor says "As Mayor of the Munchkin City, in the County of the Land of Oz". Glinda earlier however had said "this is Munchkin Land". So what is Munchkinia? Is it a city? a county? a land? Is the County called the "Land of Oz" County ? Or what! Right at 8:19 and just a second or split-second before you see the red smoke of the witch's arrival, someone screams prematurely. At 8:26 Dorothy still has the giant lollipop, '''after''' the witch has arrived, so it wasn't frightened out of her hand, but it never appears again. At 9:04 the witch has taken about seven steps over to the ruby shoes on the feet of her dead sister, the end of her broom is almost touching them when they disappear. But at 9:09 it appears that she is being shadowed against a painted backdrop some distance away, almost like a draft of the film cast on a screen. Then at 9:10 she is right up against the house again. So obviously 9:09 was a redo, some time later. When Dorothy is about to leave the city, Glinda says that the Munchkins will accompany her to the border of Munchkinland, but they only go a few feet before they stop and wave her on her journey. We know it's a long distance to the Emerald City, so what's the name of the land that Dorothy is now trans versing? ==CI Part 4== As she leaves Munchkin City, she is carrying a bouquet of flowers. They never again appear. Dorothy comes upon a four-way intersection in the Yellow Brick Road, which is where she meets the scarecrow. She doesn't know which way to go, and he doesn't know, but at the end of this scene they merrily march off down one of the paths anyway. Notice the force she is using flinging the picnic basket back and forth and yet nothing ever flies out of it! It's a magic picnic basket! At time 3:09, there is a small bed of flowers directly behind Dorothy that are mostly some type of small blue flower and a lesser amount of yellow/orange flowers. But at time 5:02 we see a much more vibrant red/orange/yellow bushy arrangement partially climbing up the fence. At 6:32 what is this? Now the flowers look almost white. We can see this patch of flowers again clearly at 7:56 and there is no blue, and now it's a very muted yellowish. At time 3:38, its clear that the Scarecrow is taller than his pole, but in his close-up at 3:42, the pole clearly extends up behind his head. At 3:45 it's short again, but then at 3:50 it's tall ! At time 5:07, we can see some type of flowers or vines the piece of fence directly behind the scarecrow and Dorothy, at 5:14, that piece of fence is clean, at 5:49 we see them back. Also during this scene, we see Dorothy's hair comes down to well-below her bosom and is sort-of "bushy" at the ends. Right about the time the scarecrow falls off his pole, her hair is suddenly several inches shorter and much less "bushy". He then falls over the fence and when a crow comes up and sits on his shoulder, Dorothy's hair is again long and bushy. The crow flies off, "What would you do with a brain" and again her hair is much shorter. The Scarecrow sings, Dorothy courteously keeps her hair short during his song but as soon as it ends, her hair is long again! The nerve! At 8:00 we can clearly see the entire pole the Scarecrow had been on, even though earlier it was mostly obscured by the "corn". At the end of part 4, right after the trees throw apples at them, it appears that Dorothy has on black shoes, instead of her ruby shoes. (see 9:24) ==CI Part 5== At time 1:32, Dorothy who has been holding an apple, tosses it on the ground as she is helping the Tin Woodsman lower his arm. At time 1:51, without her ever bending down, the apple has leaped back into her hand! Check out time 2:21 what the heck is there a bird flapping it's wings right behind them? Rule number 72 of movie-making '''no extraneous flapping birds please!''' And then again at 4:13, will someone give that bird an Actor's Equity card please! And then see 4:58 what is that? A peacock? A crane? The Tin Woodsman is raising crane? At 5:45 notice the Tin Woodsman's button are on the right, at 6:11 they are on the left, at 6:37 they are back on the right again! That loony Dorothy now at 7:05 is going to go skipping off forgetting her precious picnic basket! Lucky that the Scarecrow picks it up. Notice something bizarre here. The Scarecrow has the basket, but then suddenly he is flinging his arms up with no basket and it appears Dorothy is too. The basket has vanished! And then just when you thought it was safe, at 7:23 that '''crane reappears''' for just a second! I don't know about you, but if I were traveling a well-established yellow brick road (but however never met any fellow travelers) and it went through a dense, dark, overgrown forest, I would expect the road to itself be overgrown and broken up in patches. But it seems strangely well-groomed. ==CI Part 6== You will recall, that as they skip along, Dorothy sometimes had to "pull up" on the Scarecrow. That is because Scarecrows being made of straw would have a tendency to sag and loose shape if they were dancing along a road. Scarecrows are also very weak creatures, being made of straw. However at 5:33 we see the Scarecrow propping up and helping the Lion to stand up! The Lion must weigh at least 200 pounds! =Premature Plotlines= Hunk (Ray Bolger) who will later appear as the "Scarecrow" says: "Now lookit Dorothy, you ain't using your head about Miss Gulch. Think you didn't have any brains at all." He then gives her a good idea and says "Well your head ain't made of straw you know!" Zeke (Bert Lahr) says "Listen kid, are you going to let that old Gulch heifer try to buffalo ya? She ain't nothing to be afraid of, have a little courage that's all." In the script, but cut from the movie, Hickory (Jack Haley) tells Dorothy to have some heart for that "sour-faced old maid." When Miss Gulch shows up to take Toto to the sheriff, she wants to put him in a picnic basket, and Dorothy in an outburst says "Oh you Wicked Old Witch". Of course Toto jumps out of the unlocked basket. Much later the Wicked Witch, when she captures Toto, also puts him in the same picnic basket. And of course he jumps out again since the basket is unlocked. '''Lock the dang basket!''' Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan) who later will be the "Wizard", is a fraud, claiming to be a fortune teller and to have known the "Crowned Heads of Europe". Similarly the Wizard is a fraud. [[Category:Wizard of Oz]] [[Category:Movies and Television]] [[Category:Kansas]]
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