The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939, USA, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger.
film recreation of the world conceived by author L. Frank Baum a milestone in children's films still hard to beat in día.Puede like more or less, but the fact of the spell that has on small (and not so small) is innegable.Un both aged over the years, the aesthetic too "campy" in some respects (the costumes of the Munchkins ) but with undeniable merits considering the overall design production, this product Metro that catapulted Judy Garland is almost mandatory viewing for any fan of the most decorated cine.La are gorgeous, the special effects are amazing tricks of imagination (remember the much more limited means the time) and the turning of the magical sepia Technicolor is an unquestionable value of the film and not forgetting the original makeup worn by many characters. Promoted by
harvested by the commercial impact classic Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the point raised in a home similar to the Witch Queen Stepmother by the brain of production Mervin LeRoy, childhood adventure that paraded a half dozen managers and a host of writers as well as the characters run or offer a few actors and actresses, has passed into history, test this is its appearance in popular culture (especially American) and / or its significance to the community homosexual.Pero above any other consideration The Wizard of Oz is one of the major paradigms of film study, overproduction the Metro-the most expensive up to that moment where every single detail are designed and implemented to give meaning and uniqueness to the product final.Todos members of the film functioned as specialized elements know their role in the machinery.
is amazing to discover that each costume Munchkin is different and is designed for that particular character as well as the makeup of each individual is, this example demonstrates the thoroughness in the gestation of the work and reveals the operation of the studies . Mervin LeRoy got surrounded by the roster of experienced professionals that are members of the producer ( Cedric Gibbons, Jack Dawn Adrian or each of them the most eminent in its field, the same Victor Fleming ) and involve in the project by producer Arthur Freed musical who subsequently develop a gender-relevant career and this became the key to understanding the success of the musical aspect filme.Las Harold Arlen Songs and "Yip" Harburg among which Over the Rainbow (all standard and a thousand times re-interpreted) and Herbert Stothart score managed to take two separate qualifying for Oscar and have become part of popular music.
Of the countless vicissitudes that occurred during filming (from the sad story of Buddy Ebsen going to play the Scarecrow at first and ended up in hospital for inhaling the aluminum dust makeup of your Tin Man to exchange with Ray Bolger losing the role to participate in the film or the accident that Margaret Hamilton provoked burns on his face and hands) or before it (the evidence with other actors, including interest Shirley Temple to play Dorothy ) and anecdotes ( Toto was female reality and already had on his resume with films like Fury, the invasion of the Munchkins who lived the study, penalties have passed some carrying the respective makeup or costumes) has written a great deal of literature and knowledge gives shows the interest generated by this expensive production over the años.Desde its premiere the work achieved a resounding success but their high cost is not allowed a great value for money, the characters were already very popular since the publication earlier in the century of the first novel in the Land of Oz and even circulated a lot of product merchandising for them, so the stakes were high but MGM was able to overtake and raise it to levels where the scope is difficult.
mention deserves the impetus for the celebrity involved the TV movie, premiered in 1956 on the small screen and despite the small number of color TVs in the film got such a shock that three years later was established as a tradition in U.S. their annual pass, a ritual that repeated itself in that country during décadas.La film is a sociological phenomenon in the USA and collateral, as cultural colonialism and despite not having reached such magnitude, in the rest of world ... the yellow brick road or the futuristic-Art Deco-medieval Emerald City are in the collective without doubt.
argument easy to follow narrated with simplicity and functionality classic children's adventure gets entertaining and it emphasizes the use of color in the set in the fantastic Oz, in this aspect the second feature of the Metro in Technicolor rabid was an oasis in the path of study rather reluctant to increase the cost of their products by using the process uneconomic at that time (even though the production has gone down in history as an example of the use of color, remember What the Wind), the reluctance is manifested in the following Music Arthur Freed, directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland , the Sons of expendable Farándula , shot in black and white and overwhelming success and that is the inclusion in the soundtrack of Good topic Morning .
Returning to the Wizard of Oz in describing the correct interpretations among which excels Ray Bolger, a dancer by his admiration for Fred Stone -the Scarecrow version theatrical turn of the century, was determined to assume the role for misfortune of Buddy Ebsen, what a pity that the musical number led by Berkeley which presents the character was eliminated from the final assembly to reduce the length of the film. Frank Morgan run multiple characters and Margaret Hamilton, for obvious reasons and not forgetting their artistic skills, a good witch (although it would have been interesting to see the original choice Gale Sondergaard, with makeup to be prepared to make it ugly.) A success
pointed to the credit of Mervin LeRoy , true alma mater of the project and who many infants of different generations would be a good bit of fun and Metro sac little later I would break the bank with What the Wind, "but that is another story."
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