#dr. dillamond

[witchofthemidlands]

didn't think that my second favourite singer from the wicked soundtrack would be peter dinklage but he is the GOAT.

[randomnessoffiction]

Her companion in the compartment, waking up when the conductor came back through, stretched his heels as he yawned. “Would you be so kind as to reach my ticket, it’s in the overhead,” he said. Galinda stood and found the ticket, aware that the bearded old thing was eyeing her comely figure. “Here you are,” she said, and he answered, “Not to me, dearie, to the conductor. Without opposable thumbs, I have no hope of managing such a tiny piece of cardboard.” — Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

[roysexton]

“Why can’t you teach us history instead of harping on the past?” Wicked … the movie (part one)

Wicked. An adjective. A thirty year old book by Gregory Maguire. A twenty year old musical by Stephen Schwartz. A present day marketing/merchandising juggernaut by Universal Pictures. And, oddly enough, the post-2024 presidential election escapist allegorical cautionary tale none of us quite realized we would need. (And here my money would have been on Joker: Folie à Deux to fill that…

[finleyforevermore]

A YEAR AGO TODAY I SAW WICKED!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💜💜💜💜💜🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[notafraidofstopping876]

Okay but when are we going to find out who is playing Doctor Dillamond in the Wicked movie??????

[azural83]

All those youtube bros calling wicked woke or dei would lose their nonexistent minds over the book

[moon-axolotl]

BREAKING NEWS: Sources Say That Wicked (2024) Is THE Movie For Thirsty Bisexuals+

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

It’s almost 3 am and my brain won’t shut up about this

Could dr dillamond hypothetically loaf

[liongrl321]

Hey Wicked Fandom,

if Dr. Dillamond was married to a guy what do you think he should be?

(I cant wait for the Wicked movie to come out fr)

[notearsnora]

The map of Oz in Dr. Dillamond’s classroom that shows the struggle of animals in Oz.

[penguicorns-are-cool]

I feel that everyone should know that in the Wicked book Madame Morrible has a murderous clock called a Tik Tok and it kills Dr. Dillamond

[basilibino]

Thinking abt that take on Twitter that was like "wicked the musical is like if halfway through Clueless Cher got invited to the pentagon and wound up being pursued by the national guard" and I genuinely believe if that post was made in good faith that op had not revisited the show at all since they themselves were in high school drama club bc how else do u miss

Shiz being a Univeristy

Sorcery being a politically important major

Dr Dillamond introducing the political corruption plotline early into the show

[robertphilip]

I think Giselle would really love Wicked, and she'd make Robert see it with her, like, every weekend 💚🩷

[multifandomexpialidocious]

The subtext of hunger, agriculture, food crisis vis-a-vis scapegoating and “othering” in Wicked

I just watched the WICKED movie the other day. This is my second night after having watched that movie. I’ve read the book, watched the musical, and now, watched the movie. I am writing this immediately after I woke up after lucid dreaming, some themes and commentary hiding in plain sight having been made clear in my dream.

So.

Oz is a highly agricultural land. From the depiction of a largely agrarian society in Munchkinland to the triggering events that shape its society, this much is clear.

Right off the bat, in the movie, Dr. Dillamond attributes the scapegoating of the Animals to the Great Drought, where the people, hungry and frustrated, wanted someone to blame. (As a side note, I am curious whether Madame Morrible is alive and already competent a sorceress during those times. I am don’t remember the dates, but come Oz suffers from Great Drought when there’s a weather-manipulating sorceress in the picture? This to me is suspicious in the same way Morrible’s hand in Nessa’s demise is, or will be.)

This already sets the precedent of the public consciousness being pliable to “other” sectors of society and deprive them of their rights, if it meant being able to get-over a real but complex societal problem like poverty and hunger. Sounds like Nazi Germany and today’s current climate, right? It does. The propensity for fascism exists within Oz’s culture.

Now this part may sound like a stretch, but I argue that there is subconscious reason why they sprang out of the creators’ imagination.

I’m not gonna talk about witches and their significance as an historically oppressed group and the metaphor of a witch as society’s constant attempts to snuff out women empowerment. Y’all already know that.

Obviously, the solution to a drought is water. And I cant help but remember how water is significant in the story. In the classical tale, Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch of the West into a puddle by throwing a bucket of water at her. In the books, Elphaba is deathly allergic to water. This is not the case in the musical and movie, but she does take advantage of that ridiculous rumor and a bucket of water gets thrown at her. In the movie, and as I’ve seen many point out, during Elphaba’s iconic scene, storm clouds punctuate her rise to power. But Elphaba isn’t known to manipulate the weather. You know who is? Madame Morrible. Storm clouds and thunder are gather to literally make Elphaba appear villainous, fearsome, and menacing. Spoilers, but, Elphaba wasn’t able to see her political aspirations bear fruit. Going back to the drought imagery, Elphaba, a symbol of otherness herself exists as a figure that seeks to correct the undue scapegoating and political disenfranchisement that people chose to wrongfully resort to. They may wreathe her in stormclouds all they want, but as force of nature herself, her moral stance in all these injustice, her advocacy, is correct and righteous. She and everything she stands for water to the Ozian’s moral drought: clear, purifying, quenching. A path to wash away the sins of society and clean its conscience anew.

The resulting “othering”, scapegoating, and disenfranchisement of the Animals, of Elphaba, were not mere reactions to a harrowing social ill. The Great Drought and its direct effects (poverty and hunger) and the trauma it entrenched in collective Ozian consciousness were taken advantage of by political figures. Leaders people looked up to but were unable to solve the problem. So instead of taking accountability, they chose to shift it on others instead, employing propaganda. The “greenness” of Emerald City is an illusion of the Wizard, the phony spectacles masking the glaring inequality in its metropolitan affluence as opposed to the more agricultural provinces and distracting from holding leaders responsible to effect true and direct solutions. After all, if there were no problems, who would the people look up to? It is all a fake. This “greenness” is a fake to Elphaba’s real. It’s a “greenness” that co-opts and imposes conformity, calling one to willful blindness and perpetuating that same culture of division and disenfranchisement. A “greenness” that is not the same as and inevitably clashes with Elphaba’s own: a greenness forged by the same “othering”, stigma, and disenfranchisement but with a sense of self and a sense of justice to effect social change that would end the cycle.

[musicalgifs]

miss the days when i genuinely believed the wicked movie was using practical effects

[wanna-bewitch-you]

Why did Dr. Dillamond shock me in the new trailer💀 of course he isn’t going to be a man in a goat costume