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The Great and Wonder Film
Mar. 11th, 2013 06:56 pm
I'D EAGERLY WAITED FOR Oz the Great and Powerful, and despite my correctly guessing the whole plot from the trailer, I enjoyed it muchly!
Essentially a Disney prequel to the MGM film version of the 1st book (there were 13 more), that makes this pastiche (much like the bazillion Sherlock Holmes stories), but the writers have at least read their source material - there's references to Quadlings, and places that were in Baum's first book but which got written out of the MGM film. I loved backgrounds as well, which seem to be a mutant child of Maxfield Parrish and Roger Dean. See if you can spot a couple of lines/ideas stolen from Wicked.
I wish I had the figure for any of Theodora's outfits (both "before" and "after")! Also, I can well imagine that if this film is successful, that it will become the first in an unintended trilogy, the sence being The Marvelous Land of Oz and the third Ozma of Oz (one can only hope)!!!!!
Essentially a Disney prequel to the MGM film version of the 1st book (there were 13 more), that makes this pastiche (much like the bazillion Sherlock Holmes stories), but the writers have at least read their source material - there's references to Quadlings, and places that were in Baum's first book but which got written out of the MGM film. I loved backgrounds as well, which seem to be a mutant child of Maxfield Parrish and Roger Dean. See if you can spot a couple of lines/ideas stolen from Wicked.
I wish I had the figure for any of Theodora's outfits (both "before" and "after")! Also, I can well imagine that if this film is successful, that it will become the first in an unintended trilogy, the sence being The Marvelous Land of Oz and the third Ozma of Oz (one can only hope)!!!!!
