Reading the wizard of Oz and something struck me

697

•

Oz came from elsewhere, somewhere plain. He was a ventriloquist, circus showman by trade, simply bored of life but landed there by accident.

The people there thought he was basically a god, a “wizard” because he came from the skys. He decided to use his showman-circus-ship to just go along with it and rule as a liar about who he was.

But real good (and evil) rulers existed in this land, with real powers (talent, earned respect, “magic over things of earth”), so he decided to use his showmanship to create a fake vision of himself in the throne area to scare them into thinking he was great too.

At one point when he was caught “he rubbed his hands together.”

This is all an analogy of the real world. However what bothered me is dorthy agreed to pretend he was still a great wizard. So she could just get what she wanted at the time, and so he could keep ruling over a people who thought he was someone else.

Oz came from elsewhere, somewhere plain. He was a ventriloquist, circus showman by trade, simply bored of life but landed there by accident. The people there thought he was basically a god, a “wizard” because he came from the skys. He decided to use his showman-circus-ship to just go along with it and rule as a liar about who he was. But real good (and evil) rulers existed in this land, with real powers (talent, earned respect, “magic over things of earth”), so he decided to use his showmanship to create a fake vision of himself in the throne area to scare them into thinking he was great too. At one point when he was caught “he rubbed his hands together.” This is all an analogy of the real world. However what bothered me is dorthy agreed to pretend he was still a great wizard. So she could just get what she wanted at the time, and so he could keep ruling over a people who thought he was someone else.

[–] • 3 pts

Yea. Pretty realistic. The movie is a classic. I like the lesson at the end:

You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself

And an excellent quote:

Dorothy: How can you talk, if you haven’t got a brain?

The Scarecrow: I don’t know. But, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?

link

[–] • 2 pts

The book is sooooo much better than the movie. Much more content, side stories / quests. And those characters aren’t as nice as you think. They’re murders.

The movie is actually supposedly based off of ie broadway type shows of the book at the time, which were adaptations themselves already.

The movie dryly hits a lot of the main story progressions in the beginning, then starts to miss a bit. Character development is totally off.

parent
link

[–] • 1 pt

(edited )

Author has some amazing quotes that are buried by google now. I'm sure.

In one, he suggests the book came to him in his sleep or by the grace of God, lucky to have been able to write a parable about following the golden brick road, which , at the time I understood as an allegory to the gold standard/sound money. in the book, dorothy wore silver slippers, etc. And it was just a man behind the curtains orchestrating the problems.

link

[–] • 1 pt

And in the book, the "Green" was all fake.

parent
link

[–] • 0 pt

Right. It's even in the name. Oz means an ounce of gold.

parent
link

[–] • 1 pt

Trump

link

[–] • 3 pts

(edited )

Ya exactly ironically

I was going to say Dorthy is a Trump. Getting a cut to not just say what the real show is.

MTG also posts stuff like “they are this” or “they are doing that”. If YOU can’t tell us who “they” are then who the fuck can? WE use “they” be because we can’t know. But you literally are interacting with them as they stop you.