The wiz can i go on

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We think your country is: Germany Change Country. The Wiz is set in late s New York, dingy and rundown, full of dilapidated tenements of the sort the Trump Corporation was keen to buy up. Dorothy contemplates her sense of confinement while washing Thanksgiving dishes. Until, that is, a door is held ajar too long and Toto, her dog, runs out into a blizzard. Dorothy gets swept up in a storm, landing in the kind of sandbox Aunt Em wants her to leave so that she can teach high school. Like the canonical Dorothy, she kills the Wicked Witch of the East.

In this version, the witch is Evamean, the Parks Department commissioner, who punishes graffiti artists by turning them into graffiti. But is that what he really wants to do? Avoiding both the ironic excesses of camp and the uber-machismo of Blaxploitation, The Wiz managed to leave space for feeling in a cultural moment that otherwise poked fun at it or tried to avoid it.

This was a show that had universality, and it was fun. That the more strident Roots was a TV sensation and became a cultural phenomenon, while The Wiz failed horribly, says something about the public lack of appetite for subtlety or complexity in Black productions.

I used everything that happened to me on my way here. He advocated the extermination of the Sioux Nation.

The movie is truly magical. When Michael Strautmanis saw The Wiz for the first time at the movie theaters, he was blown away by what he was seeing on screen. And in preparing to interview you, I watched it for the first time. Percy: So think back to the first time that you saw The Wiz , and just how old you were and where you were, who you were with, all these memories that come to mind.

Strautmanis: I saw The Wiz when I was about 9 or 10 years old. And going to the movies, then, was — it was a big deal. And so, it was always just an exciting thing just to go to the show. It was expensive. Percy: I was gonna say — you were a Hollywood movie producer. But I do remember big songs, big emotions, big stars. Michael Jackson, of all things. I was — and I have to say, the big colors. I remember the colors more than anything — just these vivid splashes of gold and red and green.

There was one in every home. And it always had a fashion section, called Fashion Fair. Strautmanis: Right? And the big afros and the scarves and the heels, and it was just glorious. Percy: Watching it for the first time, I was struck, first of all, with how perfect it begins. And what a beautiful way to introduce this whole story. In a lot of ways, it felt a lot more familiar to me than the way The Wizard of Oz actually begins, with Dorothy, the old version ….

Percy: Yeah. This one just felt like home. And you really get a sense of her and this Diana Ross character. And the other thing that really just blew me away was blackness. Every actor is black. And I know people say that these days. Every actor, as you said, in that movie is black.

It does feel like home. And it was so much of what life was like, then. Every family member is represented in there. And so, to go to the movies and just to see yourself and your life reflected on-screen, I just think it happens too rarely; and particularly, then, it happened too rarely for black folks.

Still, as a minor, she suffered both physical and emotional abuse on the set of The Wizard of Oz, something that would not fly today in Hollywood productions. The main Oz characters in The Wizard of Oz are all counterparts of Dorothy's family and other Kansas characters as a way to emphasize that she is dreaming throughout the film.

This is an essential aspect of the movie, but this isn't the case in The Wiz. Instead, The Wiz reinvents the characters emotionally, giving them all more realistic backstories of woe.

In both films, Scarecrow seeks a brain, Tin Man seeks a heart, and Lion seeks courage, but in The Wizard of Oz , these characters all equate to the same amount of character dimension, even singing the different variations of the same song.

In The Wiz , each Oz friend gets their own new song to reflect their unique, individual experiences, all of which representing different perspectives from Black Americans. The main lesson about the importance of family and friendship is in part what makes The Wizard of Oz s o timeless. While those themes are also quite evident in The Wiz , the film in many ways is more about finding independence and self-love instead.

The theme of family is best represented in The Wizard of Oz by Dorothy being so focused on making it home to her loved ones, and eventually, she does find herself back in Kansas at the end of the movie. In The Wiz, Dorothy is instead more focused on finding herself. Before winding up in Oz, Dorothy in The Wiz sings about feeling disconnected from a purpose, and it is through her journey in Oz that she finds one.

This is emphasized when the film doesn't end with a reunion with her family, but instead after Dorothy's dramatic ballad "Home," performed in a single, intimate close-up shot.