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  1. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2018The Wizard of Oz Is Officially the Most Influential Film of ...

    Nov 30, 2018 · According to The Guardian, the other films that join the Wizard of Oz in the top five are Star Wars,Psycho,King Kong (1933), and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rest of the top 20...

  2. theconversation.com › wizard-of-oz-why-thisWizard of Oz: why this extraordinary movie has been so ...

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    As far as I am concerned, The Wizard of Oz has exerted the most profound influence on filmmakers around the world who refuse to see the cinema as a realist medium, but rather view it as the art form that comes closest to our dreams. In The Wizard of Oz, reality – as represented by Kansas – is literally colourless. What’s worse, it’s not the beautif...

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    It should come as no surprise then that one of the finest riffs on the film comes from the doyen of American surrealist filmmakers, David Lynch. His 1991 Palm d’Or winner, Wild at Heart, belongs to the great American tradition of the road movie, a genre which Lynch (quite rightly) traces backto The Wizard of Oz. But Lynch does not simply acknowledg...

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    Perhaps the most extraordinary nod to The Wizard of Oz comes from closer to home. A Matter of Life and Deathwas a fantasy film written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1946. Commissioned during the final months of World War II to help mend the strained relationship between the British and their American...

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  4. www.mentalfloss.com › posts › wizard-of-oz-book10 Differences Between ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Book and Movie

    • The original slippers were silver, not ruby. It may come as a surprise to classic film fans that the original enchanted slippers were silver, not red.
    • The Kansas alter-egos of the Oz gang were an invention of the movie. “Remember me? Your old pal Hunk?” Baum didn’t. The film’s elaborate framing structure, which transforms the crabby Miss Gulch, the humbug Professor Marvel, and the three farmhands into the Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard of Oz, and Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, wasn’t part of the book.
    • The Tin Man used to be a real man. Does anyone else find it odd that nobody in the movie questions the existence of a “Tin Man”? Where does a man made of tin come from in the first place?
    • The Wicked Witch of the West did not send the poppies. In the book, the poppy episode has nothing to do with the Wicked Witch. In fact, these bewitching flowers need no magical help at all.

  5. movieweb.com › wizard-of-oz-films-rankedEvery Wizard of Oz Film Adaptation, Ranked - MovieWeb

    Feb 20, 2024 · The Wizard of Oz (1925) opens up with an old man reading a story to his granddaughter about the land of Oz. A young Kansas farm girl, Dorothy, learns that she is actually the long-lost...

  6. www.tasteofcinema.com › 2016 › 10-reasons-the-wizard10 Reasons “The Wizard of Oz” is Actually a Cult Film

    Dec 26, 2016 · Most would consider The Wizard of Oz as MGM intended it, a ‘full colour’, singing and dancing ‘family’ adventure/fantasy musical. In terms of genre, one might say it was a musical with elements of fantasy. Nothing too ‘genre-abusive’ – musicals and anti-realism go hand in hand.

  7. www.denofgeek.com › movies › important-wizard-of-oz10 Important Wizard of Oz Adaptations of the Last Century

    Aug 25, 2019 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz were among some of the first films ever made. In fact, two silent movies came out in 1910: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and...

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  9. www.msn.com › en-us › moviesThe Best Movies Based On The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz - MSN

    IMDb Rating: 5.6. Directed By: Sidney Lumet. Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor. Release Year: October 24, 1978. The Wiz was originally a Broadway musical, and it ...