"Michael Urban" <urban@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <1y96j.19697$t31.15103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Zachary Zulkowski <zeeker518@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Golly! That was close!
>>
>>Tho I found it hard to believe that Ambrose was the brains behind the
>>entire
>>machine.
>>
>>I think L Frank Baum would have like the series. He wrote the OZ books
>>because he wanted to tell a "modern" fantasy story; and would no doupt
>>approve of the embellishments.
>>
>>And Richard Dreyfuss as such a cool wizard.
>>
>>
>
> Baum would almost certainly have loved the crafts and special
> effects (he was one of the first to use stop-motion animation,
> miniatures, and double-exposure effects in his Oz films - before
> his film company went bust); and he would have liked the fact that
> the program drew a lot of viewers (did I mention that his own Oz
> Film Company went bust?) He would probably have liked the techno
> magic depicted in the world: his last Oz book has submarines, and
> a room full of magical machinery, to say nothing of Tik-Tok, who
> "Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live."
>
> But Baum's Oz was generally a sunny, Utopian, happy place that
> could advertise that no child ever had bad dreams after reading an
> Oz book. Tin Man's world is a singularly joyless place - one that
> is also curiously devoid of any signs of population. It has places
> with plain-wrap-product names: a Central City, a Northern Island,
> and a whole realm whose inhabitants call it the Outer Zone. The
> Oz references end up as nothing more than an extended in-joke, and
> do nothing to enhance the original, nor to be enriched by it.
Well, the dystopian look was probably due to the Azalia (sp), Wicked Witch
fusion, and the outer zone reference was probably a derogatory reference
to
that fact. (We did see OZ symbols on some places.) I liked the bit with
the "Grey Gail", apprently, this Oz is set ion the far future of the
original story.
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