#glinda move

[undersimi]

yall are not prepared for the woman i will become when i see act 2 elphaba.

[cloudyfloss]

the lesbian flag (mostly) colourpicked from glinda's ozdust dress !!

pics i used will be under the cut

[liv0]

My professor just told us we got a presentation on monday....I'm kinda busy here sir

[corinnastonewall]

Glinda Upland is basically Howl. If you see her throwing a major sulking fit, you can be sure something insignificant has transpired to wound her ego. If you see her change the tiniest thing about her appearance, you know she’s down bad.

[murderouswidowsmatter]

Just saw Wicked for the second time, and I for once feel very happy to be in this timeline. It’s so good and shows such clear love for the source material. It really shows that making a Wicked adaptation was Jon Chu’a dream project for years before landing the role as director. Even the title card is a clear love letter to tradition of movies he is stepping into. The casting is great, next to zero complaints, and Cynthia and Ariana are incredible. While I don’t necessarily prefer a closeted lesbian read of Glinda (I don’t think the closet exists in Oz and I think her relationship with Fiyero is genuine), Ariana nailed the gay longing and heart eyes that I like to see in a Glinda. I’ve been strapped to the Gelphie train for over a decade, and I don’t plan to get off anytime soon.

The movie’s not perfect, though, and I do have some complaints. They strip back the instrumentation in a lot of the songs, relying very heavily on percussion (seriously, there is a lot of snare). For a score as iconically epic as Wicked’s, the choice is a bit baffling. It exacerbates the jerkiness of the choreography, which is not my favorite. The dancing has a lot of sharp, jarring movements where people are stomping and lunging. Maybe if the music was more orchestral or if the choreography were different or even if they had just chilled it with the stomping folio, it would be fine. But in combination it’s not my favorite.

The bit the add in the middle of One Short Day with the Wizomania performance is pretty musically weak for me. It loses the melody and the momentum of what should be a very high energy number. I get the exposition was important, but the only good part of the scene was the cameos (which I wouldn’t trade for the world).

In general there are a lot of brakes in the middle of songs for added bits, and while some work for me, others really don’t. The repeated interruptions to Defying Gravity devalue the impact a bit. I mean the leads are so talented that they can carry it, but I think the sequence could do with less cutaways to guards running down halls or breaking down doors. I like the idea of slowing several parts of the song, but the cutaways slow down the pacing enough that you kind of start to feel it when they cut the tempo.

The whole span Sentimental Man and the ending of Defying Gravity could be tightened up a bit. I’m happy that they are doing it in two parts, but I think it could have been a 2 hr movie rather than a 2 1/2 hr movie if they stopped trying to make it an action movie.

[wavemoonfern]

The entire Ozdust Ballroom after Glinda and Elphaba start to dance together be like

[emagios]

Trying to recall book elements that I can incorporate in the childhood AU and maybe because it's 3 AM here for me but my mind is stuck because damn it She really did held out. She held out just like what Elphie asked of her too, and she did so even until the end and--- 🥹 🥹 🥹

[tomwambsmilk]

There’s a particularly type of post which keeps crossing my dash that goes “I don’t think we talk enough about [insert extremely surface level analysis of a piece of media here]”. Yeah the reason we don’t talk much about it is because it’s kind of obvious and there’s. Not actually much to say about it if you have more than a 3rd grade level of lit analysis skills. Anyways-

[multiicolor]

basically just gonna make glinda a bubble as a human. teehee

[rozecrest]

office is so quiet today… barely seen a coworker… don’t have anything urgent to do…. perfect fic writing setting gonna lock in

[moghedien]

Glinda being clearly a little freaked out by the little tik tok thing that delivers the letter from the Wizard is never not funny

[spiribia]

LIIR JUST FRAMED A GUY AND HAD HIM SENT TO SOLITARY AND THEN DISCHARGED FROM HIS POST JUST BECAUSE HE WAS JEALOUS THE KID HAD LOVING PARENTS THAT BAKED FOR HIM? ELPHABA

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

On the verge of doing a deep dive compare and contrast between both Wicked and Evita being adapted for films because the parallels are RIGHT THERE. In this essay I will

[ghostbustermelanieking]

ever since i saw wicked, i've been saying i can't wait for part 2 and cynthia and ariana to make me take "for good" seriously. because my first ever exposure to wicked AND "for good" was in the sixth grade when my chorus teacher had us sing it at an end of year concert, like, to our teachers. despite having seen the stage show twice since then, i have never been able to take "for good" seriously because in my head it's always like oh this is a song about how great teachers are (and obviously that wouldn't fucking work in wicked). it's like one of my least favorite songs from the show (i remember like 3 songs from part 2), and i can't take it seriously as a love ballad right now. but i was (am) sure that part 2 will change this and make my little gay heart explode

and then. they changed the fucking title to WICKED: FOR GOOD?!

farewell i fear i will never take this song seriously 💔

[localbabygirl]

i can't really put it into words but something about that long silence between glinda saying "you could've picked me" and elphaba apologizing to her in the elphaba's promise deleted scene is so crazy to me

[dawntheduckrb]

Watching Wicked with my family; got one entire song in, Dad goes "wait hold on is this a musical"