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2008-02-18

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Is she the Good Witch of the South? I get them confused.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-02-18 07:24|| 2008-02-18 07:24|| Front Page Top

Posted by Fred 2008-02-18 08:14|| 2008-02-18 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Good Witch of the East, Excaliber.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-18 10:51|| 2008-02-18 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 As I recall...

The wicked witch of the East was the one who Dorothy dropped a house on. Glenda was the witch of the south. The wicked witch of the West was 'liquidated'. The witch of the north was not in the movie (but in the book... I don't recall the details...)

(In our world the east is running for the DNC nomination, the west was elected to Speaker...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-02-18 11:23|| 2008-02-18 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 What is the Witch of the South good at?

Posted by gorb 2008-02-18 14:26|| 2008-02-18 14:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Glinda was good at explaining things. She told Dorothy how to get home using the silver shoes (not ruby slippers, as in the movie). She also used the winged monkeys to get the Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Woodman back to where they wanted to go, and then released the winged monkeys from the requirement that they serve the owner of the golden cap.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-02-18 16:07|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-02-18 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll get you my pretties, and your little blog too.

Posted by dedit dedit deduhduh 2008-02-18 17:38|| 2008-02-18 17:38|| Front Page Top

#8 In 1964, the American Quarterly published Henry M. Littlefield's "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism." Littlefield described all sorts of hidden meanings and allusions to Gilded Age society in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the wicked Witch of the East represented eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins); the Scarecrow was the wise but naive western farmer; the Tin Woodman stood for the dehumanized industrial worker; the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan, Populist presidential candidate in 1896; the Yellow Brick Road, with all its dangers, was the gold standard; Dorothy's silver slippers (Judy Garland's were ruby red, but Baum originally made them silver) represented the Populists' solution to the nation's economic woes ("the free and unlimited coinage of silver"); Emerald City was Washington, D.C.; the Wizard, "a little bumbling old man, hiding behind a facade of paper mache and noise, . . . able to be everything to everybody," was any of the Gilded Age presidents.(1)

The most extensive treatment of the Littlefield thesis is an article by Hugh Rockoff in the Journal of Political Economy. Rockoff, who saw in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz "a sophisticated commentary on the political and economic debates of the Populist Era," discovered a surprising number of new analogies. The Deadly Poppy Field, where the Cowardly Lion fell asleep and could not move forward, was the anti-imperialism that threatened to make Bryan forget the main issue of silver (note the Oriental connotation of poppies and opium). Once in the Emerald Palace, Dorothy had to pass through seven halls and climb three flights of stairs; seven and three make seventy-three, which stands for the Crime of '73, the congressional act that eliminated the coinage of silver and that proved to all Populists the collusion between congress and bankers. The Wicked Witch of the East was Grover Cleveland; of the West, William McKinley. The enslavement of the yellow Winkies was "a not very well disguised reference to McKinley's decision to deny immediate independence to the Philippines" after the Spanish-American War. The Wizard himself was Mark Hanna, McKinley's campaign manager, although Rockoff noted that "this is one of the few points at which the allegory does not work straightforwardly."

More here. Though I think the Wizard was Alan Greenspan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-02-18 18:37|| 2008-02-18 18:37|| Front Page Top

#9 that's without mentioning Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon simulcast synching...spooky :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-18 19:07|| 2008-02-18 19:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Margaret Hamilton asked why the movie used ruby slippers instead of silver shoes. She gad read all the books as a child. She was told that ruby looked better in Technicolor.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-02-18 21:40|| 2008-02-18 21:40|| Front Page Top

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