Questions you'd like answered
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CastleH908 — 10 years ago(August 03, 2015 08:03 AM)
This is kind of a dumb question that I just thought of while watching the tornado scene on youtube: what happened to the window that hit Dorothy in the head? We see it hit her and then defy the laws of gravity and fly off at and angle off-camera, never to be seen again. I don't know why this never occurred to me before, but shouldn't it be laying on the bedroom floor somewhere when the house lands & Dorothy gets up & makes her way out to the hall?
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Gubbio — 10 years ago(August 03, 2015 10:03 AM)
but shouldn't it be laying on the bedroom floor somewhere when the house lands & Dorothy gets up & makes her way out to the hall?
Well, as you said, the window flies out of the frame.
I never thought about it after that.
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bradford-1 — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 06:50 AM)
1)The Gale farm looks pretty hardscrabble. How can they afford to pay three farmhands?
2) If the Wicked Witch can be destroyed by water, then how could she survive? I take it to mean she couldn't DRINK water, either. I guess she could never bathe, either. Musta been a funky gal!
3) In early drafts of the script, were there ever Oz equivalents to Uncle Henry and Aunt Em?
4)In the 1925 OZ, written, produced and directed by Larry Semon, the concept of the farmhands is introduced and they also end up corresponding to the Scarecrow, Woodsman and Lion, albeit in a much different way than the '39 film. In fact, Oliver Hardy plays the Woodsman and the Lion is portrayed by a black comedian (who was sometimes billed as Spencer Bell or as G. Howe Black). Did any of the later writers/producers ever acknowledge "lifting" Semon's idea?
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BelleCBelle — 9 years ago(April 08, 2016 08:42 PM)
Seems to me the most obvious question is what has so changed about Toto's future, his death sentence? Dorothy runs away from home attached least partially because of Toto's lack of a future; yet she makes a one-eighty degree turn about during the trip to the Emerald City, wanting only to go home. The term "continuity" seemed to be unimportant.
Believe me, I enjoy the film every time I watch it. I have already felt sorry for Toto's sake. Also, I never read the books. I wasn't exposed to the series when I was young. What a shame, and my mother was a reading teacher. I want to read them, but there
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mpcpot — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 08:18 PM)
I have some questions:
- What was the bandwith of the wicked witch's crystal ball? And who was her ISP?
Seems like a pretty fast connection for 1939. - Why didn't they just kill the cowardly lion? I mean, really
- Are there any Pokestops on the yellow brick road?
- What on Earth is a "Lullaby League" and a "Lollipop Guild"? Are they union?
- Why didn't Dorothy just flip that hourglass over, to gain more time?
- Do flying monkeys need to file a flight plan?
- Does being a wicked witch castle guard come with a good 401-k and dental plan?
- In Oz, they get up at twelve, go to work at 1, take an hour lunch, then leaveis this really the DMV?
- What was the bandwith of the wicked witch's crystal ball? And who was her ISP?