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    The Wizard of Oz

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    pietroantoni@

    " The Wizard of Oz " is a film that NEVER appealed to me from the time I was a child to my now adult years in my thirties. It is such a over hyped film that it has taken on legend status simply because everyone, from studios to public have always praised it to death and never stopped writing about it. Since my childhood years, I have never seen the complete film in one sitting. I suppose my children have my genes as they are hardly fond of this O. K film that actually annoys me a great deal of the time. It is all on too ridiculous a level, meeting the 4 main characters with their psychological problems, little people, witches and god knows what else. Yes! There is a message in all this, but I can't tolerate all the absurd fuss in getting to a few words of wisdom. WHEN FIRST RELEASED "THE WIZARD OF OZ" WAS AN ENORMOUS BOX OFFICE FAILURE WITH THE PUBLIC, MOST NOT KNOWING WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS ENIGMATIC GENRE. MGM CRIED THE BLUES OVER THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT WHICH WAS NOT RECOUPED TILL YEARS LATER when somehow, someway it entered the public consciousness ( probably due to some critic's later review ) and so has remained a classic, a film almost no one wanted to see in 1939. The present stature of the film should reveal itself in enormous light as THE OSCAR CELEBRATION for 2014 films honoured WIZARD for 75 years of excellence with one incredible montage, all three of Judy Garland's children Liza, Lorna and their brother in attendance at the Academy Theatre! Sorry to burst your bubble, FOLKS!

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    pietroantoni@  4.6.2015 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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