69 Biggest Differences Between The Wizard of Oz Movie & Book

With the release of the movie, Wicked, let's find out how different The Wizard of Oz movie from 1939 is to the book it's based on, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. This is 69 of those differences and similarities.

0:00 Differences Between Book & Movie
1:39 Dorothy Differences
2:04 Good Witch Differences
2:31 The Lion Differences
2:52 The Scarecrow Differences
3:15 The Tin Man Differences
3:38 The Wicked Witch Differences
4:20 The Wizard Differences
4:47 The Munchkins Differences
4:59 Characters in the Book, but not the Movie
5:29 Locations in the Book, but not the Movie
5:52 More Between Book & Movie
6:08 Wizard of Oz Fun Facts

[LoweQualityTom]

What’s your favourite movie based on a book?

[disneyfan]

Actually, Dorothy does say "There's No Place Like Home" in the book. However, she says it to the Witch of the North (not Glinda; in the book, she was the Witch of the South) while in Munchkinland at the beginning of the book.

[Digitalgems]

only 11k views. deserve a few 0s to that. great vid ty

[williamwatson]

I don't recall the Witch of the West being green in the book.

[rileynelson]

I recently read the book for the first time. This was great to watch!

[donoakes]

The gold cap that controls the monkeys was originally in the movie but was cut and there is still one scene where she has the golden cap in her hands

[williamdogan]

It would be fun to have a movie made based strictly based on the book; not a musical. Using Denslow’s illustrations as the scenery style.

[betelgeuseredstone]

There's really Glinda in the book, later on. The Good Witch of North is called Tattypoo from around the beginning.

[DCUniverse]

2:39 sounds like a negative overstatement to me

[karlschumaker]

Liza Minelli also lent her voice to play Dorothy Gale in the 1972 animated film “Journey Back to Oz” which was a sequel to the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz!!!”

[David-ffr]

So much more details in the book and the adventure getting to the Emerald City

[EugeneLorey]

Scarecrow clearly states on page 40 that the only thing that scares him is a lighted match.

[officialchase]

In the original book none of the witches were related to each other the way they are in the movie so the reason why the witch wants the shoes in the book is entirely different reason to why she wants them in the movie

[GodIAdore]

Absolutely the book and every Oz book after it!! 😆

[Tejiknasten]

IMO, L Frank Baum's series of books are a better, that said, the movie is a very good adaption. 🎉

[davidjacobs]

interesting. according to Chinese 5 element.
East is Blue, West is White, South is Red, North is Black, and center is Yellow.
also, coincidentally (or not).
Red Sea is located South of Israel, Black Sea to the North, Mediterranean is called White Sea, and Caspian Sea is sometimes called Blue Sea.

[sammcfarlane]

Can you a differences video for Wicked and it’s boon please?

[FghtGamr]

I think the channel Jon Solo did a video on this too, I wonder how a collab video w/ u 2 would be like 🤔

[EugeneLorey]

Dorothy clearly states on page 43 "there is no place like home".

[Power_Crystals]

I hope if wicked is successful, we get all the books made into a movie universe