Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Opening Title

Here's the opening title to the direct-to-video release "Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz."

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Film & Animation

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• Ozma
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• Oz

[ylwbrcboi]

a blond dororthy...why would anyone even entertain a thought like that?

[RoyalKidofOz]

Actually... She's been pictured as a blonde by several people... Including John R. Neill, who illustrated the book this was based on. I personally prefer a blonde Dorothy.

[elrota]

You know, that's the one thing that always upsets me; because of the liberties the 1939 movie took everyone (who has never read the books)thinks anything besides what was shown in the movie is sacrelige. Don't get me wrong I LOVE the 1939 one but I WORSHIP the original books. They (the books) were 100x better than the movie...look at me I'm ranting and raving like a maniac...LOL

[Searcrow15]

I like the song.

[TheCowardlyLion04]

@ozma914 I have three copies of the MGM film, too, but I also have various versions of "The Marvelous Land of Oz," plus "Return to Oz" (another brunette Dorothy, but a brilliant one), and Baum's own silent oz films.

[TheCowardlyLion04]

@elrota My friend, I could have written what you said! It's nothing short of a tragedy that the Oz books, which everyone in the country used to look forward to every Christmas for the first half of the last century, are virtually unknown now. Like you, I love the MGM movie, but I despise the stranglehold it has on people's minds.

And don't even get me started on "Wicked."

[TheCowardlyLion04]

@ozma914 Dorothy was probably blonde in the first book; since Denslow didn't do any actual color plates it's hard to tell. But it's likely that her hair was bleached under the Kansas sun.

Oddly enough, Ozma started out with golden hair, but to make a contrast with Dorothy, Neill depicted her in later books with dark hair. But being a fairy, Ozma could have any color hair she wanted.

[TheCowardlyLion04]

@22brigid What, the singer? She's got a lovely voice! In any case, how do you know what her voice would sound like? Judy Garland?

[TheCowardlyLion04]

@ylwbrcboi because the Dorothy of the books IS blonde.

[TServo2049]

Dorothy was going to be blond in the 1939 movie. Garland wore a blond wig for the first few weeks of shooting, before they fired the director and changed direction.

[22brigid]

What a disgusting simpering voice. I'm sure Dorothy didn't sound like that...

[ozma914]

Since Dorothy was blond in all the Oz books except the first one, it's generally considered canon that she's blond. The 1939 movie got a lot of details wrong, but since it's all most people remember, they're not even aware there's a debate! :-)

I wrote a fanfiction once in which Dorothy admitted she was originally brunette, but got Ozma to give her a magical dye job -- that's one way to explain it.

[ozma914]

Go ahead and rant, I feel exactly the same way you do! We watched the movie every year when I was a kid, and now I have three copies of it; but the books are the true Oz stories.

And Dorothy is blonde, dammit! :-)