The Wizard of Oz.

So, I was thinking to myself "I should write a blog today. But what about?" That's when it came to me. My sister, Emma, and I noticed a few things whilst watching 'The Wizard of Oz' today. Now, it would be wrong of me not to share them with you. Also, I have a question about HP5 at the end, that I was discussing with my friend Angie last night as she slept in my house, after I watched it. Anyway, here we go. Note that the headers for each part are the messages that that particular part sends to kids;


IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEBODY, BE HAPPY WHEN THEY DIE.

Now come on, we've all sat there and suddenly sang, "Ding-dong, the Witch is dead/Which old witch?/The Wicked Witch!/Ding-dong, the Wicked Witch is dead!" But shall we examine these lyrics a little more closely? Here's just a little part of the song;


"It really was no miracle. What happened was just this.
The wind began to switch - the house to pitch
and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch.
Just then the Witch - to satisfy an itch
went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch.
And oh, what happened then was rich.
The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch.
It landed on the Wicked Witch
in the middle of a ditch,
The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch.
It landed on the Wicked Witch
in the middle of a ditch,
Who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch
of what was once the Wicked Witch."

Are you hearing this? Now, I'm going to assume that we've all saw the film so we all know the song, and if you haven't, you're childhood must've been extremely sad and munchkin-less. They're singing about a woman lying in a ditch twitching, after a house fell on top of her, and how amazing it was. I mean, I know she was the "Wicked Witch of the East", but she wasn't even as bad as her sister! That's the Wicked Witch of the West, for any of you with those munchkinless-childhoods. She still had feelings! And Dorothy stole her slippers, which I think we can assume that she legally left to her sister, or whatever flying animals she kept. But you know what? That's not even the worst part of the film (and by worst I mean most twisted, psychotic part, because the film pwns).

IF YOU NEED SOMETHING, BE PREPARED TO DO ANYTHING THE WEIRD WIZARD MAN ASKS YOU TO.

No matter what it is.
The "Wizard" literally asks Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman and the Cowardly Lion to risk their lives to go and get the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West, and bring it back to him so that he will do what they ask. Did they notice that her title is not just 'The Witch of the West", but 'The WICKED Witch of the West?" I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean she's amazing. But they go ahead and do it, because good ol' Wiz asks 'em too.
Although it does turn out he's not actually a wizard, but a guy behind a curtain that was pwned by a dog. Seriously, a curtain? Wouldn't you go for something with a lock?

Also, when they're going to get the broom, the Cowardly Lion takes a big net (and I mean, a really big net that I assume he was going to catch the Witch with, as if she were a jellyfish on Spongebob), the Tinman takes a big wrench thingy, and what does the Scarecrow take? Let's have a look, shall we?

HE'S GOT A FREAKIN' GUN!

One thing I never understood in this film was giving the Lion a perm. Did they think it would make him look more 'manly', giving him a perm and a pretty red bow? Seriously? Wtf?

But you know what? I love this film and I don't care about the bad messages hidden inside it, you know why? There's a horse that changes colour in it! And come on, we all know all the songs by heart. If you haven't watched this, go and watch it now, and if you don't like it, you don't have a soul. And we'll set Scarecrow on you.

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The promised question about the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix;

WHO IS THIS CHILD?! No! I know what you're thinking! He is NOT a Weasley! He is some random little child that appears everywhere throughout the film! Who IS he? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!
-Sob-

That is all.
G'night, fair Reader,

-C