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The OZ Trilogy

posted 12 years ago by mutagenrocks
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Now that they've made a Prequel, OZ is a weird unofficial trilogy:

1. Oz The Great and Powerful (2013, Disney)
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939, MGM)
3. Return to Oz (1985, Disney)

I just saw Oz the Great and Powerful, which I thought was lots of fun. Don't know why people are complaining so much. Then checked out the other 2 again, prequels never flow directly into the original movies well, I've tried it with Star Wars Ep. III & IV, The Thing Prequel & Original, Prometheus & Alien, etc. It never feels right.

I've already noticed a lot of inconsistencies. The main most glaring one is that in Wizard the whole thing is supposed to be a dream, her house is in tact at the end. In Return to Oz there house is being rebuilt, oh and she's a little girl and not in her 20s. You could say the Disney ones are purely sequels and prequels to the book (hence the look of everything in return being like the book). However they used certain things from the MGM one like the look of the witch, the ruby slippers (there silver in the book), the sepia tone beginning Oz the great switching to color in Oz, just like the MGM one.

None of them fit exactly together, but they're all great movies in there own right and I thought it was interesting for a view to see them as a trilogy.

[–] maskedman66 11 years ago

The "Star Wars" films flow together brilliantly, and when I watched the saga in order, the scene in Episode IV when Obi-Wan and Vader meet again had a whole new feeling of, "OOOOoOOOOOh boy!"

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[–] mrjessjess 11 years ago

If you like good continuity ( like I do) read books. Continuity is never really hollywood's strong point, even when there's a movie series made by the same director they tend to screw it up a little.

However Harry Potter had good continuity, the hobbit / LOTR too, but like I said hollywood would rather use variety and innovation rather than repetition.

Tv generally has much better continuity than movies do but books are usually the best. However, with the Oz series... it's so long running that it would be pretty hard to include all the plots even in a tv series, so don't expect the movies to.

Recapping all those books would be a pretty tremendous undertaking for any director / studio.

I don't think there will ever be a great OZ series (movie or tv) that is faithful to the books, but movies like these are still nice compliments to the series.

I also recommend Marvel comic's OZ stories adapted from the books.

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[–] maskedman66 10 years ago

Really? Well, there's a major continuity problem with "Wizard" right there, considering Dorothy made her first trip to Oz in 1900.....

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[–] Wombstar 9 years ago

There have been many of versions on Oz on film.

[–] jp3183 9 years ago

Here's hoping that they'll eventually get around to adapting Wicked on the big screen.

[–] rmcrae_deluxe 9 years ago

I'm sure that'll happen well before an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ever sees the light of day.

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[–] keeleyroughley 8 years ago

There's also a movie called The Wiz. Which I enjoyed

[–] rmcrae_deluxe 8 years ago

Have you seen the NBC live version, keeley?

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