#FRANK FUCKING OZ

[michaelnotwheeler]

holy fucking lord the snl movie was so good someone get me a protein puck

[diana-andraste]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Fuck Trump. (keep your wishes simple)

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Illustration for L. Frank Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Giant Horse of Oz, John R. Neill, 1928

[bikkue]

I don't think society is really that ready to acknowledge that in almost a month people will start simping for The Wizard in Wicked

[scribledon]

MORE SCARECROW CAUSE I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL

[theprestigegirly]

rick moranis and frank oz in my favourite little shop of horrors deleted scene!! no idea why this was cut when this part of the song is one of the best parts of the whole soundtrack

[pumpkin-twink-my-beloved]

I’ll be on my fifth retelling of the wizard of oz and Dorothy will get carried away in her house by the tornado again and say “where are we going toto?” and i eat it up every time. Like damn where IS she going

[dyketennant]

burst into tears tonight because i found out that during richard hunt's final days as he was suffering from HIV (this was shortly after jim henson's death, whom richard had hosted the memorial service for) frank oz and the rest of the muppets performers stayed at his bedside (x)

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

Thinking about the muppets a lot and how Disney can’t fucking use them correctly especially with the new electric mayhem show like the muppets are a theater troupe each one of the Jim Henson era movies is them putting on a play or a movie and then somewhere along the line (muppets in space) it became “the muppets play themselves” which doesn’t work as well it just doesn’t and it like kills me that the people who understand this because they created the muppet are barred from interacting with and playing the characters that they created and made popular and are now a shell of what they used to be because instead of Disney going “let’s do a muppets show reboot where it’s a sketch show like the original” they went “let’s make a fucking 30 rock rip off” like not even hating on the new muppeteers but Frank Oz deserves to do whatever he wants with the muppets at all times he IS miss piggy he IS fozzy and honestly Disney will never let them be the muppets because they hate the muppets and art and happiness

[cynicalclassicist]

It shows again how soulless corporate art can really be.

this makes me want to throw up and cry and scream and punch a wall

[thatweirdfandom]

look i’m done with live action remakes. HOWEVER you can and should change my mind if the live action remake or just reboot or even sequel is just a muppet version of the movie.

[randompony03]

AUUGHGMHOHFIHHCOHHC

THE KANSAN IN ME HAS BEEN STRUCK THROUGH THE HEART

AND WALLY IS IN THE ROLE OF MY FAVORITE FUCKIN CHARACTER

Hey guys! Remember when I mentioned that I made doodles of a Welcome Home Wizard of OZ AU? Well here they are, I wanted to share them with you guys and see what you think! :D

PLEASE NOTE: I don’t know if I’ll properly work on this AU since I’ve already got two AUs I’m currently working on atm, so for now I’m going to put the idea up in a shelf ^^

[gffa]

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOST IT AT THIS YEAH IT WAS FUNNY WHEN THE ANZELLAN WAS LIKE “BAD BABY!  NO SQUEEZIE!” BUT ALSO LOOK AT THEM ABSOLUTELY ZERO ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE ANYTHING OTHER THAN TWO PUPPETS ON A STRING THAT PUPPET’S FEET ARE BARELY EVEN TOUCHING THE TABLE HE’S WALKING ON THOSE LEG MOVEMENTS ARE THE LEAST NATURAL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE THEY ARE BOTH UTTERLY TOP HEAVY AND YET NEVER SEEM TO EVEN THINK ABOUT FALLING RIGHT ONTO THEIR GIANT OVERSIZED HEADS AND IT’S FUCKING GLORIOUS THIS SHOW REALLY EMBRACED THE GLORIOUS ROOTS OF STAR WARS PUPPETRY WHERE THEY’RE CHARMING AND ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS AND NONE OF YOU ARE ON FRANK OZ’S LEVEL DON’T EVEN FUCKING TRY SO THEY DIDN’T!  THEY JUST GAVE THE FUCK UP AND SAID, HERE, ENJOY YOUR VERY OBVIOUSLY IMMERSION BREAKING PUPPETS LITERALLY FUCKING T  A  P     D  A  N  C  I  N  G ACROSS THE TABLE FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT. AND I DID.  I ENJOYED IT SO FUCKING MUCH. IMMERSION IS OVERRATED, I AM TIRED OF FRANK OZ’S UTTER GENIUS AT MAKING CREATURES MOVE REALISTICALLY, I WANT SOME FUCKING PUPPETS TAP DANCING FOR MY AMUSEMENT AND THE MANDALORIAN DELIVERED THIS IS WHAT STAR WARS IS ABOUT AND I LAUGHED UNTIL I CRIED WATCHING THIS SCENE

[reginalusus]

I did a redraw of a panel of him singing before, but I wanted to draw him singing again...

I HC that, when he has fuck all else to do, he goes around Gotham's karaoke bars. That's if the coin comes up good, of course.

Sometimes he even graces the Iceberg Lounge when Oz is hosting a retro night, or something of the like. He enjoys 60s hits in particular. Think Elvis Presley, Dion, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry, Lesley Gore etc. They match his oldy-goldy vibe (one must keep up appearances), and since his voice is suave, articulate and deep, he can perform them with ease.

His henchmen and thugs always accompany him. They cheer him on in all their drunken stupor, especially when he gives that gyrating hip action. "Tha's OUR boss!" - Oz's men watch too, jaws slacked and eyes wide. Didn't Oz say this guy had no sense of humour?

Somewhere, amidst the crowd, Matches Malone sits, stone-faced and thankful that the Lounge's dim lights conceal his blushing.

Perhaps, on another night, Jason sits instead; his face twisted in second-hand embarrassment as his 6'5", supposedly-terrifying uncle figure rotates his hips in rhythm to Elvis Presley's Bossa Nova, Baby (it must be the Viva Elvis version, no exceptions). No one cares about the hints of blood spattered on his suit, thankfully. They were supposed to finish the job and celebrate with a quiet drink. How did this happen?

Image description: Fanart of DC's Harvey Dent/Two-Face. It's a full-body piece of Harvey singing Now or Never by Elvis Presley into a retro mic, the colour scheme a mix of pink, blue and purple. There is brightly coloured lineart silhouettes on each side of Harvey, one reflecting his scarred side, the other of his unscarred side as he sings. End of image description.

[t00thpasteface]

You mentioned Blues Brothers in your tags, a wonderful, amazing movie that does not get enough credit for having A- a scene featuring Illinois Nazis being driven off a bridge, and B- a huge amount of subtle AND in-your-face class consciousness

and it's got ray charles, james brown, aretha franklin, john lee hooker, and motherfucking CAB CALLOWAY!!!!! and goddamn snl legends as the leads, and carrie fisher with a rocket launcher!!! pee wee herman and frank oz and john candy!! hundreds of cop cars get obliterated!!! AND THEY HAVE A CHASE SCENE DRIVING THROUGH A MALL!!!1 everyone needs to watch the blues brothers.

my mom and i once made a list of every line in that movie that we quote with regular frequency...

...it ended up being 53 fucking things. like we're talking weekly, monthly basis here. I Love This Movie So Much.

[giantkillerjack]

Following up to say it should be done in the style of A Muppet Christmas Carol, in which it is

Not controlled by Disney,

Narrated by Gonzo and Rizzo,

Slightly (but only slightly) cleaned up for child consumption,

and a portion of the characters are played human actors doing their fucking damnedest to deliver the best dramatic performances of their lives.

Also, I want whoever plays Jean Valjean to be the best Jean Valjean ever captured on film. I want Patrick Stewart-level acting and John Owen Jones-level vocals.

And for the rest of time, everyone will just have to deal with the fact that the most incredible Jean Valjean monologue ever preserved on film is in fact delivered directly to Kermit the Frog.

Jean Valjean must absolutely be a human character I will not budge on this.

I also think Javert should be a human doing an oscar-worthy performance, but the rest of the cast is a mix of Muppets and humans playing their roles totally straight.

The student revolutionaries are a mix of beautiful humans and incredibly enthusiastic puppets.

The Thenardiers could be played by literal cockroaches. Or by Kermit and Miss Piggy, and it's an issue that Kermit keeps breaking character to try to be nicer than the script calls for, and Piggy is like GET IT TOGETHER, KERMIE. (Or maybe they're Marius and Cosette? Either way, what fun!)

I hope in some alternate universe, this could be done right. Or else if we destroy Disney, I volunteer to play.... let's say Marius if he's a human in this one.

That's right - since in this theoretical scenario, Disney is out of the picture, Marius could in fact be a gay fat Trans boi, and I swear I'd make those romance scenes less fuckin' boring. You'd never doubt for a second that Cosette and I are in love and that it matters. This is the future we could have if we tear down the crushing giants that legally hold half our stories. Enjolras would agree with me. Also, I have the vocal range for the part.

Anyway, this is just to say that we should destroy all media monopolies so I can cover myself in mud and fake blood and sob in the rain while clutching the body of the Muppet playing Eponine. The audience, who at first were only here as a joke, has been totally invested since "I Dreamed A Dream", and they are crying now too.

Furthermore, Valjean and Javert both live because this is a kids' movie for everyone to enjoy (and the ending of the book is only happy if you're Catholic).

Valjean is saved in the nick of time, and he sits awkwardly at the wedding next to a grumpy Javert covered in a cartoonish amount of bandages (Gavroche, who also lives because this movie can't kill a child character, is the one to fish Javert out of the river - "Good evening, dear inspector, lovely evening, my dear!!")

All the dead characters are seen partying in heaven or else showing up Force-ghost style at the wedding for just a moment so Cosette and Marius can see them.

Bishop Myriel (played either by a prestige actor/actress or Sam the Eagle) gives Valjean a warm nod of approval. Valjean tears up with joy, surrounded by love past and present.

Gavroche is adopted by any number of nice characters. We see that while he has been given nice new wedding clothes, he is already getting them dirty as he sneaks wedding food to Gonzo and Rizzo as the credits roll.

Gonzo: "Aw, thanks, that's really nice of you!"

Rizzo: [mouth full of food] Yeah! You're a real pal!!"

It is all very silly and very beautiful. 😌💖

the muppets should do les mis

[hottestthingalive]

ok so i know i’ve been dorothy gale-posting late at night recently but for those unaware of the lore I need to explain to you why the wizard of oz series by L Frank Baum is in fact Gay TM and not just because all the characters are friends of dorothy.

so just about everyone knows the plot of the first book. the first book was huge. the first book is incredibly famous. the first book got a monumentally famous movie adaptation and inspired countless works after it including critically acclaimed plays, books, and songs/albums. but while the first book is great and features some fascinating little tidbits about nick chopper/the tin woodman and the scarecrow’s developing ‘friendship’, the second book is where it really starts getting good. because the marvelous land of oz has it all: single teenage fathers. the women of oz deciding to unionize. depressed furniture chimeras. the scarecrow talking about how he and nick chopper are Such Good Friends Such Great Friends and eventually deciding to move in with nick chopper permanently (and notably, the old cover features the two of them sitting across from each other like they’re the main characters, which they super aren’t, but good for them and their old man yuri anyways). Here’s an actual quote from the book about their relationship:

“Thank you,” replied Ozma. “Some day I may accept the invitation. But what is to become of the Scarecrow?”

“I shall return with my friend the Tin Woodman,” said the stuffed one, seriously. “We have decided never to be parted in the future.”

But lastly, and perhaps most famously, my favorite queer plot point from this book: the main character, who for the entire book has been Tip, The Boy, transitioning to become Ozma, The Fairy Queen Of Oz.

It’s slightly more complicated than I’m making it out to be—it’s a whole thing about Mombi having taken Ozma in as a baby and changing her into Tip so she can’t be princess anymore—but notably there’s two bits that really have made people hold up Ozma as a trans icon. The first is how Tip is like “um but I’ve never not been a boy” and Glinda basically says “that sucks. want to be a girl?” and they have a whole talk about it, wherein Tip is understandably nervous and Glinda explains that if he decides to turn into Ozma he can’t really go back (which in the context of the time reads more like an awakening thing a la the Matrix movies than the gender rigidity we might read it as today). and Tip turns to his friends and goes “well. Could be fun. let’s do it” and then takes a magic potion and wakes up as Ozma.

but what really matters to me specifically is the second bit: that when told that she is actually a girl, and when meeting her for the first time as Ozma, her friends are totally fucking chill with it. which is WILD, for a book published in 1904: but they all just basically go “huh! Good for you!” while also acknowledging a thing that I think goes under acknowledged in a lot of queer media: that the self pre and post transition are, in fact, Different. the book shows this in a quick conversation between Tip/Ozma and the rest of the cast, but specifically Jack Pumpkinhead:

“I hope none of you will care less for me than you did before. I’m just the same Tip, you know; only—only—”

“Only you’re different!” said the Pumpkinhead; and everyone thought it was the wisest speech he had ever made.

But the point is that her being different isn’t bad—in fact, it’s quite good, both for Ozma herself and Oz as a whole. She finds that she likes being a girl, that she’s more comfortable in her skin that way, and Oz benefits by having its princess returned and Jinjur ousted. Ozma’s ‘transition’ is never reacted to negatively by anyone but Tip (who is, as stated earlier, incredibly apprehensive and taken aback by the whole thing) or by figures like Jinjur, for political reasons.

This book, like all of the Oz books, of course is not perfect (Baum was likely a feminist, but his writing is full of the casual sexism typical of his time, and he notably said and wrote extraordinarily racist things, especially regarding his editorials on the death of Sitting Bull, the massacre at Wounded Knee, and the Lakota people as a whole), but it establishes a stronger queer undertone to the Oz books that continues through the rest of the series, and into pop culture today. Many modern adaptations play into these themes, such as the excellent, ongoing Yellow Brick Ramble comic by Daisy Finch McGuire (@/gastrophobia here on tumblr), which adapts the story through the lens of Ozma explicitly being a trans girl, as well as perhaps Oz’s most famous adaptation, Wicked, which in the book features a complicated but explicitly queer relationship between Glinda and Elphaba, and in the musical features perhaps one of the most queercoded songs in sapphic history.

Basically, this is a very long post to say that while many people know and acknowledge the relationship of the Wizard of Oz to queer history and art, I think it’s important we also acknowledge the following books in the series as being just as, if not more, queer than the first, and that the merits of fame do not mean that it has more value than what came after it. and also Ozma was a trans icon