Honest Trailers | The Wizard of Oz

Before theaters get Wicked, revisit the 1939 masterpiece that inspired it all: The Wizard of Oz! This week we get honest about the first time baby boomers saw color on screen, shoe stealing bad witches, and the value of picking up strange men along the road.

Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Manager: Emin Bassavand
Manager, Content Operations: Tiffany Tse
Post-Production Specialist: Rebecca Castaneda
VP Content: Max Dionne

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[raydunakin]

Years ago a newspaper had this plot summary of "Wizard of Oz" in their TV listings:
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills a woman, then teams up with three strangers to kill again."

[jfenton]

Dorothy: 'I miss Kansas'.
Toto: 'I miss the rains down in Africa'.

[sebastianashbury]

"A movie about two women trying to kill each other over a pair of shoes"

[aricaj.]

Now we need an Honest Trailer for _Return to Oz_ because that movie is terrifying

[wickedshadesproductions]

“An obvious metaphor for which ever politician you currently despise” and “the enduring message that they should pick up any weird stranger they meet on the street.” Is perfect

[RedPegasus]

"You killed her so completely that we thank you very sweetly".

"Making her walk for miles in heels for literally no reason." Dude 🤣

[RIPjkripper]

"Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking.." always hits me in the feels

[FigmentJedi]

Oz is a real place in the books and six books in, Dorothy moves there with her aunt and uncle permanently when the farm goes belly up. The "All just a dream ending" was something the studio executives tacked on because they thought 1930s audiences wouldn't accept the idea of a girl going to an actual fairy tale kingdom.
Also Glinda and the Witch of the North were two separate characters that they just merged for the movie because they didn't want to film the second quest to find Glinda that involved a china doll kingdom and the Cowardly Lion killing a giant spider to truly earn the title of King of the Forest.

[recklessted]

1:17 This shot is all in color. They did the transition by having the house interior and Judy Garland's stand-in painted brown. Once the camera is through he door, Judy steps into frame.

[renji]

Here are some things about the movie

-Apparently the director thought the over the rainbow song was terrible and didn’t think it would be via iconic hit that it is today.
-Judy Garland would occasionally get slapped by the director if she messed up her lines. Reshoot weren’t really a thing and we’re on a strict schedule.
-Supposedly some munchkins(the ones that were adults) got a little grab happy around Judy Garland(who was 15) during the follow the yellow brick road scene. Might be connected to the hanging munchkin theory.
-Behind the scenes, Margaret Hamilton was practically the only one who was actually nice to Judy Garland.
-Margaret suffered some burns when she disappeared in a puff of smoke on set.
-Margaret stunt almost had a fatal accident. In the scene where the witch is skywriting a message, the engine that used to create the Smok effect started to backfire and sent the stuntwoman flying. She actually kind of shrug it off and said it wasn’t the worst thing she experience.
-The role of the tin man was going to a different actor, but the paint they use had led in it and was having a bad reaction. They didn’t even tell him that he was being replaced while he was still in the hospital.

[zacharymccoy]

I was really glad that Margaret Hamilton's episode of Sesame Street was found in full. She always tried to reassure the kids watching that the witch is just make-believe and that she was actually really sweet.

[bluegreenparrot]

"Who needs courage when you have . . . a gun?" - The Professor of Oz, Futurama.

[philipsheppard]

The hardest thing to swallow is that anybody would be so desperate to get back to Kansas if they found themselves in Oz

[Joe-rzfd]

Fun fact: this movie premiered in my town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin two days before it premiered in Hollywood. To celebrate the 85th anniversary this year, our minor league baseball team, the DockHounds, changed their name for one series to the Flying Monkeys.

[c.w.johnsonjr]

You should have mentioned Margaret Hamilton having to appear on Mr. Roger's Neihhoorbod to assure children that she really wasn't that scary in real life. Even though she got typecasted and ended up playing witches in an Abbott and Costello movie, Sesame Street, and 13 Ghosts.

[reobeem]

This is a movie that has stood the test of time for almost 100 years that's saying something. And it still gets people emotional.

[averymerrick]

“The only good thing to come out of the 1930s besides Clint Eastwood.”

King Kong, Batman, Superman & Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would like to have a word with you…

[Jon_from_LI]

Ok, it was all funny together, but the "undecided voter" comment at 2:54 had me spitting the drink out of my mouth screaming laughing.

[Justmyhandle]

2:34- Glinda: "You've always had the power to go back to Kansas."

Dorothy (after HOURS of traumatizing bullsh*t): "And you just tell me this NOW?! Eat dog a**, you b*tch!" (Throws Toto)

[snowangelnc]

"If she's always had the power to go back then why didn't you tell her?"
"Because I just found out about it myself and then came straight here. Where do you think I've been this whole time? I was off doing research on how those shoes work. Just because I'm a witch, that doesn't make me omniscient you know."
How hard would it have been to write that instead of "Because she wouldn't have believed me"? It's like the script writers were deliberately trolling her.