#post by oz

[octopus-defence-squad]

Parkour Civ is like

"What if you got out of jail and moved into a new house and Joe Biden was living in your basement?"

and then you end up a communist after watching it.

[hamletthedane]

I'm too much of a sucker for the tragedy of Wicked's ending to take any of this seriously, but the funniest possible fix-it concept is that Glinda just. Does not know. How the fuck. To send this 12yo back to Kansas. Like why the hell would she know how to do that?? Who thought it was a good idea to leave her in charge of this???

And from Dorothy's POV, this is such a funny concept: imagine for a minute that you (a child) wake up in a Fairy-Land, become best friends with a (possibly mentally unstable?) talking scarecrow, and are told by the god-kind that you must go murder his political rival before he'll send go home. Fine. This might as well happen.

And when you return from said murder - which is somehow successful - it turns out the god-king is a fraud and cannot help you. Whoops. Well, how about the OTHER seemingly most powerful person in the country? Ah, no....it turn out she had pretty limited powers in the magic department. And they're mostly bubble-related.

So she takes you (by bubble) to a tiny seaside town on the edge of the map to seek the help of her most powerful friends….the woman you just murdered and your scarecrow best friend who was an accomplice to that murder. And apparently, they’ve all three been dating since undergrad.

I mean, what do you even do with that.

[lesbianelphie]

Wicked + text posts

[neo--queen--serenity]

When the Wizard, grasping for straws to get Elphaba on board, reaches around for Glinda, hauls her forward, and awkwardly declares, “you can even bring your…friend…” in a last ditch effort to win her over?? Like queer subtext or no, that man 1000% assumed they were already dating.

[maines]

You’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’ve known you all the time. But I couldn’t have, could I?

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) | AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024)

[nessa007]

it’s kinda crazy the amount of people on twitter who don’t know the slippers in the wizard of oz are silver in the original novel but ruby in the 1939 film because they were more vibrant and stood out more on camera and wicked (2024) has a little nod to the ruby slippers ��️

[lizardsfromspace]

I've looped around from finding the belief that The Wizard of Oz was "the first color film" or "first technicolor film" understandable if wrong to finding it deeply annoying

Like. I get how it feels true - how the transition from sepia to technicolor in the film feels epochal, and how it's a springboard to people imagining how AMAZING and how AWESTRUCK audiences must've been at the time, but it just isn't the case, and no one in 1939 would've thought it was the first color film.

I mean, you've probably seen Snow White (1937) and Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). At the time color features were becoming more common, and they had been common in cartoons and shorts for years.

On a base level, if The Wizard of Oz was such a monumental moment in film history, giving people something they've never seen before, why did it only break even at the box office? By all accounts while not a flop it did decently but not great, and it only became a Cherished Classic thanks to TV airings later on. I mean, 1939 saw what is still, if adjusted for inflation, the highest grossing film ever made, and it wasn't The Wizard of Oz

Here is the actual history of color: most silent films were tinted, most commonly with different scenes being all tinted different colors, but more rarely hand-coloring. But back then people started experimenting with many different "true" color film systems, most of which failed for one reason or another, and there were a couple silent features made in two-strip technicolor, which had a more limited palette. At the start of the sound era, some black & white scenes would have color segments; this stage has been largely forgotten bc in many cases, the color segments don't survive & we only have them in black and white. Then three-strip technicolor began and became the dominant form of color until the late 1950s, with the first full-length three-strip technicolor film being 1935's classic...Becky Sharp. Which did decently, and got one Oscar nom for Best Actress, but didn't really become a classic. And then color films became more common until they became the norm in the 1960s

But it has to be a classic, right? It can't just be some random movie that ushered in technicolor. It has to be a famous movie everyone's heard of. It can't have been a gradual process touched by many individual artists, it has to be something one Great Man ushered in overnight, and the crowds were amazed, bc they had just been waiting for someone to Do Color Film so they could ditch black & white forever. It couldn't have been the case that they rejected many previous attempts at color film bc they sucked. Nothing can ever be the result of many people making many choices in many works of art, it has to be the work of one Great Work of Art that Changed Everything Instantly, and all the little people and failed experiments and less-enduring ones just have to be erased to make way

But it isn't. The transition from sepia to color in The Wizard of Oz did dazzle audiences, and still does, but that's because it's a incredibly well-done visual effect and a creative choice within the story to show the change from Kansas to Oz. We don't have to say it was important bc it was the first to do something technologically; it can be important for just being a really good movie

[finalatomicbuster]

Oz (1997-2003) ─ 4.08 "You Bet Your Life"

[adobe-outdesign]

The notes on that last Muppet poll I made made me realize that most people seem to mistakenly believe that Muppet adaptations of classic literature are parodies, which isn't true. you have to everything dead straight. in fact, the key to making a Muppet adaptation is to be so faithful to the source material that it's more accurate than 90% of other non-Muppet adaptions

[fabcreature]

you know what, since we've been talking about how annoying it is when people react like "what drugs were they on when they wrote this 🤪" when someone is creative, i just wanna say

everyone who says "HOW IS THIS A KIDS' MOVIE 😱😱", when a kids' movie is a little bit out of the box and features dark or deep imagery and meanings, owes me one thousand euros

[vintageandroid]

Fuck it. 80s Fantasy Movie poll.

I ran out of space. And no, there is no "more than one" option, you gotta choose.

Reblog if you wanna for more reach etc etc.

[octopus-defence-squad]

a sweet, peaceful moment; out of time and away from the world that would drive them apart.

(pose referenced from AdorkaStock on Deviant Art)

[hauntedorpheum]

ETHAN SLATER AS BOQ WOODSMAN IN WICKED JACK HALEY AS THE TIN MAN IN THE WIZARD OF OZ

I could stay young and chipper

And I'd lock it with a zipper…

If I only had a heart

[ichiwashername-o]

Wicked Master Post

Or as I like to call it, join me as I continuously bully the shit out of Fiyero.

Follow this posts and check in here to see more updates as I continue to ceaselessly harass our favorite straw-stuffed himbo!

Rewrite The Stars: A Wicked Animatic

Other Ways The Cornfield Scene Could Have Gone (Cursed Animatic)

In (rough) Chronological Order:

Scarecrow-ified (Blood warning)

Tin Man'd (Blood/ Body Horror warning)

Those are some nice shoes you got there, kid

The World's Most Uncomfortable School Reunion Tour

I Saved Your Ass as a Cub and This is the Thanks I Get?!?!?!?

Oops, I'm highly flammable now

Scarecrow of Theseus

A Quiet Moment

It's Still You

Secret Identity

Green and Scarecrow

This Comic Has No Political Implications At All I Promise

Suspicious Wording

This is the WORST Plan EVER

Random Shit-Posts and Asks

Ah yes, my good friend Figaro

Preferential Treatment

Witchy Girlfriend Doing Witchy Things

Stupid Question

Idiot Sandwich

Get Fuckin' Dunked On (requires this first for full effect)

Sit Straight Challenge (Impossible)

Accent

Save a Broomstick, Ride a Scarecrow

Where Wolf? There Wolf

Putting My Blorbo Through The Meat Grinder

How To Draw Tin Man

Tattoos

[aniharless]

[clarkgriffon]

Your hair... is brown. Oh yeah, sometimes.