Before taking this class I
have never read The Wizard of Oz. I
only watched the movie. Seeing out each character growing through out the movie,
with creative and crazy scenes. After reading and knowing the book with it’s
odd view point and set up, it is interesting that the movie came from this
story.
In class we talked about what
was the real “text” of The Wizard of
Oz, is it the movie or the book. That is a hard question. I believe
that the real “text’” depends on which one you read or saw first. For an example
people my age might have seen only the movie and not have read the story, so
for them the real “text” of The
Wizard of Oz would be the movie. Then for an older generation they
might have just read the book and not seen the movie or they might have seen
the movie too, which for them the real “text” is the book and not the movie.
The younger generation they might have not seen or read The Wizard of Oz and will only know that new movie that is
coming out soon called Oz. I
think it just depends on your personal view of what you think the real text is.
The book and the movie are
really different from each other. In the movie all the characters grow through
out the film. There is also kind of a backstory, which they used the same
characters at the beginning of the movie as the lion, tin man, and scarecrow,
to help with the flow and to set up the movie. Also the movie I think is more
family friendly then the book. The book has blood and killing in it.
On the other hand the book
shows the lion, tin man, and scarecrow already had what they wanted through out
the book all the way to the end, like lion jumping over the gorge, which shows
having courage. Also Dorothy stays the
same through out the book. She does not grow through the book and yet we are
going through this story through her. Both go back a forth about the idea of do
you need to have an object to show that you are brave, a heart or a brain.
Over all I think that no matter
if you read or watch the movie The
Wizard of Oz it is still a great and magical story.
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