The Wizard of Oz Focus Group

Footage from an early focus group for The Wizard of Oz. Introduced by Billy Crystal at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012.

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[Zardo Michael]

Honestly... Great idea, but it wasn't that funny...

[crazyguy43]

Best line: Was one green or am I nuts?

[rlbluver]

And that is why MGM never made any films based on the other Oz Books (even "Oz the Great and Powerful.") Besides this is funny and if this was real I have never seen this clip but it looks new but in B&W and makes it look like an old movie.

[Mike Walker]

deep filming focus groups

[kylekubrick]

My god, the irony! The fact that so many people posting comments didn't "get" the point of the "Wizard of Oz Focus Group" was the whole point of the Wizard of Oz Focus Group! A lot of people are just too damn DUMB to understand what they are watching.

[bluestate69]

i thought it was funny, but that's just me. apparently 54 people disagree with me on that, and 21 people just hated it.

[diegowushu]

Christopher Guest is a treasure. But this needed some Michael McKean.

[MsRaconteur]

If that was really their point then they should realize that there's people at home watching who have no idea what they want them to conclude. I think it was just meant to be funny.

[beatlesfreak100]

I love Fred Willard.



[ilovemyschnauzer1]

Best line was when they said they'd like it without dorothy!!

[DViniciusPictures]

Stifler's mom and Jim's dad?

[Pixieonthe7]

The idea is to show the pointlessness of focus groups in movie reviews. This used to feed into making necessary edits on the film at the director's discretion. So FUNNY is not really the goal... the point is well communicated, I thought. And yeah, funny too.