Post by maxwellperfect on Oct 10, 2020 21:51:40 GMT
People will laugh, but parts of 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) scared the crap out of me as a child. I think a proper Oz movie should be scary, at least in parts, as 'Return to Oz' was. I think it was a bold choice to give Dorothy a new set of companions, even though none of them have the loveable personalities of the '39 bunch. And yeah, the warmth of the '39 movie was absent, but again I think it was a bold choice to throw Dorothy into an unfamiliar, partly ruined version of Oz rather than parade her through the familiar sites and characters. Also, Dorothy is a young girl, not the plucky teen we see in the '39 movie, which makes the juxtaposition with the weird monsters she encounters that much more compelling to me.