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The Wizard of Oz is a grotesque predictor of Trump’s America
The Guardian ^ | 3 Dec 2018 | Bidisha

Posted on 12/03/2018 8:07:22 AM PST by Rummyfan

The Wizard of Oz is such a classic film that I don’t remember the first time I saw it. It seemed to be on TV every Christmas during my childhood and became a part of my cultural education, a formative film language. A new study claims the film, which went through a staggering run of directors, writers, songwriters and script edits during its production, is the most influential film ever. I don’t know about that, but I frequently rewatch it to study how great film-making can make any story fly like a wicked witch’s monkey.

Judy Garland’s performance as Dorothy is a wonder of innocence, sensitivity and determination. At the start of the film, she wonders what lies over the rainbow and then, in a concussed dream, enters the rainbow. The combination of imaginative anything-is-possible scale and picaresque narrative style is totally cohesive, so that what could have been a discordant riot of songs, set pieces, production design, acting styles and plot somehow barrel along together, from the special effects of the tornado scenes to the twinkling transformation into Technicolor, to the sinister and deliberately fake-looking malachite-green art-deco sets of Emerald City. Then there’s the surging music, in which every group song increases in volume and hysteria until there’s a kind of bullying mania to it.

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To: Rummyfan

No, it was on during Halloween. Sad people don’t know the difference between the two.


41 posted on 12/03/2018 9:03:33 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Rummyfan

You want to see the “Progressive” USA? Check out The Hunger Games. The elite would enjoy their bread and circuses with us Deplorables as gladiators. This is why we can never allow the government to disarm us.


42 posted on 12/03/2018 9:04:00 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Post5203

Is it like a bidet?


43 posted on 12/03/2018 9:05:27 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: al baby
My Dad grew up down the street from MGM he and his buddies would tease the little people that invaded the neighborhood

Any midget tossing involved?
44 posted on 12/03/2018 9:09:03 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: bgill
"No, it was on during Halloween. Sad people don’t know the difference between the two."

I remember it being on in late winter - February or March.
45 posted on 12/03/2018 9:11:33 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rummyfan

Does this make Pink Floyd a conspirator?


46 posted on 12/03/2018 9:43:34 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Rummyfan

This is as dumb as the FR blogger claiming that Caddyshack is really about Trump


47 posted on 12/03/2018 10:52:22 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Rummyfan
"why am I reading these messages into this film, at this moment?"

ummm, maybe because you're a blithering ranting Leftard idiot?????

48 posted on 12/03/2018 11:04:56 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Rummyfan
The supposedly great man living in Trump Tower CNN’s newsroom – I mean Emerald City – turns out to be a con artist, a bloviating coward who relies on self-aggrandisement and empty shows of power claims of superiority to cow the people.

49 posted on 12/03/2018 11:54:00 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: Rummyfan
This woman definitely has issues



Dave's Site



Yep!

Lighten up Francis... er, Bidisha! Dave's Site
50 posted on 12/03/2018 12:23:46 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: Rummyfan
Here is another Bidisha hit -

"Angelina Jolie has found a powerful voice as a director. It’s time we listened"

Kali Mar! Kali Mar!!!

51 posted on 12/03/2018 1:17:50 PM PST by Eddie01
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