Wizard of Oz (2005) - Behind the Scenes video

[rosiemon]

My friend and I watch the 1939 movie quite often and we do catch many mistakes in the film with props or scenery but I don't think that it should ever be remade. The movie was ahead of it's time for the year it was made and it deserves much respect.

[agalant13]

@rosiemon I agree!

[SLuMberMoOn7]

a douche bag made this song... its so annoying!!! but everything it says is true when it comes to film making though

[ManBig4]

Sunday in the park to the wizard of oz..... nice.

[orioncon]

Heck with the movie scenes ... this music does it for me ... i listen to this every day !

[leegeorgeson]

I know Wizard of Oz is a classic but I think Peter Jackson or Quentin Tarrantino could pull it off

[TheLolifish]

don't forget that spangles are expensive

[fundasuiuventus]

how they used green screen with that green face witch? :))

[Discoboy504]

They should NEVER EVEN THINK of "re-making" The Wizard of OZ...if they do it will be a POS compared to the original.

[hydrolito]

@Discoboy504 They already remade the Wizard of Oz several times and the most famous version from 1939 was one of those remakes.

[Red41658]

@IdLie32 YES! That would b amazing! Open with Wicked and whenever Dorothy comes in show the Cyclone scene and stuff like that! That would b an amazing movie/stage play!!

[supahstah85]

This was amazing! Did they do the MGM version of the Stage musical or the other one? There is another one out there but I can't remember, all I remember about it is it plays out like a cheap dollar store version of Wizard Of Oz. From the little bit of clips I saw in this video it looks like the MGM version.

[IdLie32]

I feel like they COULD re-do The Wizard of Oz, with all the Wicked stuff combined. But should they?

[agalant13]

@IdLie32 Once "Wicked" stops making $5Million per week on Broadway, then they'll make a film version of it. Universal Pictures already owns the rights to "Wicked".

However, "The Wizard of Oz" is a classic and still holds out against CG filled movies of today. I don't think they should ever remake it.

[hydrolito]

@agalant13 The 1939 version is a remake it was orignally done in black and white. There have been other remakes such as TheWiz (Black Actors) and for tv The tinman (on Syfy Channel formerly scifi Channel) and Oz on ice (ice skating version), has also had sequels and paradies on various shows such as That 70's Show with Jackie as Dorothy and Donna as the Witch, Also an episode of Dr. Oz and others.

[agalant13]

@hydrolito - The 1939 version is NOT a remake to the extent that I was referring to earlier. The 1939 MGM version with Judy Garland was a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book. The earlier silent films entitled Wizard of Oz were very very loosely based on the book (Dorothy never had a pet cow in Oz). So the 1939 version was not a remake of the silent film, it was a different interpretation of the novel.

The other examples you have given are also interpretations of that same book.

[hydrolito]

@agalant13 Even the 1939 version was loosely based on it I don't think any version was completely faithful to the original story.

[agalant13]

@hydrolito Also, the novel Wicked... is a imagining of Oz worlds. And Gregory McGuire paid homage to L. Frank Baum by naming the Wicked Witch of the West 'Elphaba' based on his name.

The concern expressed earlier was that Robert Zemeckis was going to take the MGM musical version (with all songs like "Over the Rainbow") and do a 3D animation version. That is UNNECESSARY! The original 1939 film still holds up today.

[cinemaker006]

@hydrolito Haha that's funny because Mila Kunis is playing the Wicked Witch in Sam Raimi's upcoming film "Oz: The Great and Powerful".

[mumandauntyglad]

I don't usually like these self put together things, but this was good, I mean really good, I enjoyed the music as also. Well done

[Dragon1813]

@agalant13 I don't think they should do a remake of the musical, but I would love to see a well made movie of the book, with all the details.

[grizzleybearz282004]

@IdLie32 no they shouldnt as much as i would like to see a remake its never the same they should just should leave it alone and in the high up in the spotlight like its been for over 70 years now in 1985 disney did a movie called return to oz the woman that played in the 1996 movie the CRAFT she plays as dorothy in return to oz which was her very first movie she was in its a pretty good movie i just got it on dvd for my kids to watch on ebay you can get it new for as low $5

[nocturnallyinsane]

LOL @ the witch.

[uglypunk16]

were all on the same page that this never needed to happen at least not like this right?

[agalant13]

@uglypunk16 - you mean remake the Wizard of Oz as a film today? Definitely not! The 1939 is not only a classic but even the FX still hold up after all this time.... can't say that about most early fantasy or Sci-fi films.

Mary Poppins is another film that still stands the test of time... yet I enjoyed what they did with the Broadway version.

[RayPointer]

@agalant13 Tell this to Warner Brothers. They are doing a remake with Rober Zemeckis directing it. They claim they are basing it closer to the original book. But the public may find this too ponderous and sluggish.

One of the things that the MGM classic did was to preserve the base of the story and enhance it for the motion picture medium. This is one of the times that a movie improved on a story. It works as a musical fanatasy. And it holds up because it has integrity and sincerity.

[hydrolito]

@agalant13 1933 King Kong was better than the Godzilla vs King Kong done many years later. Some other movies back then such as invisibleman(1933) Gone With the Wind (1939), It's a wonderful life which was originally a box off flop has been repeated numerous times on tv.

[uglypunk16]

this is so dumb the original had no green screen

[agalant13]

@uglypunk16 If you had taken the time to read the blurb under the video, you would have noticed that this was for a theatrical stage production; winning an award for incorporating Animation, Computer Generated FX, and Film Sequences in a live stage production. We clearly state that this was 2005 (making no claim to the original 1939 classic). In fact, in 2005, all but one of the actors from the 1939 MGM film were dead in 2005. Meinhardt Raabe (Munchkin coroner) died recently (April 9, 2010).

[TheNeonRabbit]

Why?

[agalant13]

@TheNeonRabbit

Why what?

[VarietyRocks117]

is the witch played by a guy

[agalant13]

@VarietyRocks117

Ummmm.... no....

[VarietyRocks117]

oh ok np

[steezypictures]

Amazing looks just like the real movie!

[mohawksaresexy2]

after hearing this music, thank god for rock and roll...

[ageshero]

What the hell? lol

[SunnySunshine77]

fantastic! please could you give me some more details where it was played, when, how long etc.... thx! :) thumbs up!

[mikesmikeisscool]

Awesome, is tihs a play..? For ours, we have real flying FX ( Strings LMAO) Although, we are professional.

[OKSteve]

Fascinating! The transformation from Miss Gulch to The Wicked Witch was incredible for a stage show. I've always loved plays and movies and I like the behind the scenes stuff just as much. Maybe it's that fine balance between the imagination of the performance we see and get lost in, and the reality that made it happen....

[tylerbfw]

i love your costumes and your oz.

[MrBoydLee]

i was there with my school

[etraig]

Innovative!, and I like the song to, It's the version from the review "putting it together", that had julie andrews, who was latter replaced by carol burnet.

the songs originaly from "sunday in the park with george"

cool morph from miss gulch to the witch.

[oOWickedRulesOo]

What is the song at 2:34?

[agalant13]

It's still the song "Putting it Together" the music changes at 3:19 for the cyclone sequence.

[LovettSweeney]

That's cool

[TheWizardofodd12]

the witch looks very awsome!