Wizard of Oz alternate ending REVEALED!

[BetNaph]

Tbh, the fact that the studio realized the audience is to sophisticated at the time makes the original ending better. Instead of the excuse for modern audiences lacking "media intelligence' and needing to over explains and dumb down the story.

[kentGrey]

Movie law: Even without proof, If a child experiences a magical journey: It is always real.

[randilevson]

Dorothy herself says that Oz "was a real truly live place. And you, and you, and you were there.' And she told us the truth.

[chinolebron]

I actually like the concept of that ending. Sounds like it could have been a beautiful shot as well.

[Loupmtf]

In the books Oz was a real place. In book 6: The Emerald City of Oz Dorothy becomes a princess of Oz and gets Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to be moved to Oz bc their Kansas farm was doing poorly.

[laurice]

I like the original ambiguous ending with Dorothy awakening from a dream. But if the studio HAD chosen the alternate ending, then it would’ve been interesting to see only the Dazzling Ruby Slippers fully colorized in Dorothy’s drab black and white Kansas City world.

[johnburnside]

However, according to the original book, Dorothy lost the silver slippers in the flight across the Deadly Desert. This was referenced in "Return to Oz".

[pearhead]

NOBODY, I repeat, NOBODY can remember their dreams with this much detail!!!
It HAD to have really happened!!

[UtahGmaw]

As a child I saw the movie on TV. They had it on every year.. They showed the slippers under her bed at the end of the movie and after a few years they cut that part out.

[leslijones]

In the book it was absolutely a real place. The shoes were silver, and when she was transported home, they fell off and were lost forever in the vast desert that surrounded the land of Oz.

[cl]

The Wizard of Oz museum apparently moved to Nebraska so that they can say that they're not in Kansas anymore

[A-BurmaShave]

Also, since Dorothy was back in sepia-toned Kansas, the reveal of the ruby slippers would have been difficult to shoot effectively since they would have appeared sepia-toned and not red at all.

[dont_be_a_marder]

The fact that A) her hair is still in pigtails, and B) the farm is still intact, tell me it was definitely just a dream. And wasn't her family literally watching over her the whole time while in bed because she was hit in the head by flying debris? They were all super concerned about her being concussed. Yeah, she didn't go anywhere.

[Silentsupernatural]

My sister was Dorthy for Halloween one year and our cat who was obsessed with baskets had a leash on her and went with us

[ILoveRedPandas]

When I was in high school my English class had a substitute
For homework he told us to write a short story
But said if anyone ends their story with "it was all a dream" or "it was their imagination" or anything along those lines they would have to do the homework again as he considered those endings as lazy writing and not very imaginative

[chuckoneill]

In the book, the slippers were silver, and they were lost during the trip back to Kansas. OZ was always a real, and magical, place, in the books.
Baum placed it in the middle of the North American continent, hidden by the "Great Desert". Maybe Baum got the idea from what used to be called "Darkest Africa"; he definitely intended to create an American mythos similar to European centric fairy tales. Of course, when he was writing, there were actually some areas not yet controlled by the US government, a few places where you could imagine anything. Not unlike the bountiful land Joseph Smith promised his followers just a few years before Baum started his stories.

[jrasicmark]

I actually like that ending. Although I always thought leaving it unclear, ambiguous, and mysterious and letting each audience member decide for themselves was kind of fun, too. It's like a little lesson in itself; that not everything in life is clear and easily explained. Sometimes, you have to just accept you don't know for sure.

[dishman]

That scene should have been included. But the slippers should have been “magically” altered into Silver Slippers just to actually align with the novels in the 1 instance.

[wheelz]

That was the best part not knowing if you saw reality or a dream😂

[DPIII]

I always saw it that both are true 😮 OZ is a real place, but she went there in some astral form