Friday, 17 November 2017

Watch a Film from before 1940

Hello again guys.

So, this is another blog that I wrote up ages ago, and yet am only posting now because #issues.

So, recently, a TV series came out that was basically the Wizard of Oz, except it was set in the modern world and wasn't as family-friendly as the original movie. It was called Emerald City.

It was really interesting to watch, and I'm so sad that it's not getting a second season because it really went a completely different direction than what you would expect, and it was a lot darker than you'd believe it to be.

I love dark fairytales, to be honest with you.

In any case, there's now the original Wizard of Oz, the TV series, and the prequel-sequel 'Oz: The Great and Powerful'.

So I decided to go back and watch the original Wizard of Oz, and return to my childhood.

Watching it, the distinctions between the differences in technology between 1939 and 2017 are quite visible, but the original is still a good film.

I can see where and how the prequel-sequel 'Oz' ties in to the original, and how the writers of the TV show got their ideas and incorporated them into the basic plot of the original film and extended it over a series.

I remember how, as a child, I would always skip to the part of the film where the colour came in and Dorothy was in Oz, because I couldn't stand the sepia colouring or the beginning and the end. Ah, how times have changed.

It just goes to show how even something that's old and regarded as a classic can be changed and become popular for its differences and relativity to the modern world.

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