Which doesn’t mean I haven’t marveled at the movie’s layers of meaning. It might seem cowardly of a critic, but I can’t help believing some of cinema’s pleasures should be saved from a look under the hood. Still, I’ve never wavered in saying “The Wizard of Oz” is my favorite movie.Īnd while I know that The Emerald City’s “horse of a different color” came by its hues from powdered Jell-O and Hamilton was rumored to be the only castmember to show Garland any kindness, I can be bested by almost any Oz trivia buff. The 1939 list, which also includes “Dark Victory,” “Stage Coach” and “Mr. A little more than a month into the screenings, the Academy announced that the 2010 Oscars would have 10 nominees for Best Picture Oscar.
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In May, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began celebrating “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The series was a harbinger. And at a begrudging remove, it’s understandable that Fleming’s other film - something called “Gone With the Wind” - triumphed over this classic at the 1939 Academy Awards.įor all the magic in “The Wizard of Oz,” no camerawork in the film rivals the crane shot in “GWTW” that pulls up and back to reveal scores of wounded and dying on an Atlanta thoroughfare. Musicals almost always do now, even to kids Dorothy’s age.
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There’s much to “The Wizard of Oz” that will seem overly theatrical in this cynical movie age. Or, as Dorothy observes in a less fraught moment, “My! People come and go so quickly here!” The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) constantly crashes the party. Throughout the film, director Victor Fleming juxtaposes the chipper with the menacing. The indelible performers are credited not under their Oz identities but by their Kansas farmhand roles. Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), all-loose limbed, is upstaged by a rusted Tin Man (Jack Haley), who in turn is trumped by a hysterical cowering lion (Bert Lahr). Each introduction is more delightful than the previous. Along the way, she meets three characters who accompany her.Įach character feels himself lacking. In determined pursuit is Elmira Gulch, one of the county’s biggest landowners.Īfter the tornado trip, Dorothy and her cairn terrier (a legit breed that reads as a wonder mutt to this day) head down a yellow brick road toward a gleaming urban center called The Emerald City.
It’s a story worth recalling: Dorothy and Toto run home along a rural dirt road. At 101 minutes, “The Wizard of Oz” remains a paragon of storytelling economy.
The film wastes no time dropping us into the action. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” was adapted for the screen by Noel Langley and, to Langley’s chagrin, revised some by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. The in-theater happening is a prelude to the release of “The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition” remastered Blu-ray and DVD editions on Sept. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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