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Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner from a story by Kapner. Based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz books and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, [5] the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. [6]
On the film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, The Wizard of Oz has a 98% rating based on 170 reviews, with an average score of 9.4/10. Its critical consensus reads, "An absolute masterpiece whose groundbreaking visuals and deft storytelling are still every bit as resonant, The Wizard of Oz is a must-see film for young and old."
With Wicked, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, now in theaters, PEOPLE takes a look back at the 1939 classic. For years, people have claimed the fantasy film starring Judy Garland was cursed. Oz ...
AIEC Wizard of Oz is a short film parody of The Wizard of Oz starring characters from the Adventure In Epic's Chat web series. Edward W. Hardy released a cast album entitled The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording) "Straight Outta Oz" is a studio album and original musical written and produced by Todrick Hall. It is based on the ...
The slow-burn aesthetic of director Oz Perkins works perfectly in this new version of the sinister fairy tale, starring Sophia Lillis as Gretel and Alice Krige as the witch. —C.C.
A pointed black hat resting on a pool of water. A broken window. A yellow brick road being traveled by a girl in a gingham dress surrounded by a lion, a tin man and a scarecrow.
Cartoonist William Allen Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of ...
We all remember 'The Wizard of Oz' from the ruby slippers to the emerald city -- not to mention how cute Toto was. So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life ...