Return To Oz: The Joy That Got Away [5/7]

Part 5 of the acclaimed documentary on the making of the cult classic RETURN TO OZ. This documentary premiered in 2007 at an Oz event in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It is the only documentary in history to feature footage from both MGM's THE WIZARD OF OZ and Disney's RETURN TO OZ.

Written and Directed by Gabe Rodriguez

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• return
• to
• oz
• wizard
• of
• disney
• mgm
• dorothy
• fairuza
• balk
• judy
• garland
• john
• fricke
• walter
• murch

[BroadwayGuy25]

Not long enough in my opinion. David Shire's score is a masterpiece. This man created part of the soundtrack of my childhood.

[OurGangFan]

The score for Return To Oz is timeless!

[Italblessings]

Legendary movie, soundtrack, everything. Love this film. Will defo let my kids watch it (when I have them).

[wildchildlikeu]

Who cares when shock therapy was invented. It fit in well w/ how old fashioned ppl would deal w/ their child's fantasy of OZ. This was an interesting element 2 the film. it was sort of an homage to the strange medical approaches that were being done at the time.Just like w/ the Mummy pt 2, I heard there is no clue of sword fighting in ancient Egypt, in Asia yes.Those who grew up w RTO as I did love it &don't over analyze it. most other hollywood films aren't 100% accurate.

[OurGangFan]

@J2Dstar Don't forget For Me & My Gal, The Harvey Girls, and Easter Parade

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

The movie is brilliant from start to finish, as is the score (which I bought)

[GodofFrankie]

Dororthy lookin' like Falkor on that Sticker Fun cover.

[brabon1]

@SongBirdAllie well, as shock therapy didnt get started till the 30s, that is a huge mistake in the movie....and when it first came out on video, i tried to watch the pos....it was too depressing and fairuza balk creeped me out

she still creeps me out

[SongBirdAllie]

@brabon1 - I suggest that you actually watch Return to Oz. If you had, you would know that Dr. Worley says, "In just two months, it will be the year 1900, a new century, the 20th century." And you would not have left your first reply about kids in the "30's" being sent to mental asylums for having imaginations.

[SongBirdAllie]

@brabon1 - At the turn of the century, people with vivid imaginations or different ideas were thought as "strange". It wasn't "proper" to do anything out of the norm. HInce why in RTO Aunt Em takes Dorothy to the doctor for her strange dreams about places that don't exist and her insomnia issue. We will never know the extent of abuse and maltreatment some individuals endured while being in asylums. Early forms of shock therapy could have happened.

[SongBirdAllie]

@brabon1 - MGM did the best they could with what they had at the time they shot the Wizard of Oz back in 1939. RTO was shot in 1984-85, our technology and means for recreating time periods is superior to what they have in the 30's. I know you know that. I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the point of if they meant for it to be placed in the 30's or not. Shock therapy was introduced as a "safe" medical treatment in the 30s, or so the people of the 30's thought.

[brabon1]

@SongBirdAllie i know when he wrote it....but i disagree that the 39 version was placed at the same time period..it looks to be depression era

now maybe return is set in the early 1900s....but children were not sent to asylums for having imaginations and shock therapy wasnt introduced till the 30s

i suggest you do more research...and check out what was the treatment for minor psych illnesses at the time....most freudian and a lot of sexual abuse