I just read someone's answer to Alice in Wonderland, and they stated that the Wizard of Oz is a 'drug related' story. It is NOT! Dorothy received a blow on the head, from a window that was dislodged, due to a tornado, that caused her to pass out. While she was passed out she had a D-R-E-A-M. The dream was that she was in a land, located 'over the rainbow', and THAT is where she met the gnarley characters.
2007-01-13 07:59:18 · 11 answers · asked by dizzyhorse 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
CampBeav2005...Pink Floyd was WAY after the Wizard of Oz. maybe They designed their album after the movie...maybe they ran the film as they ywrote their songs... c'mon, man that's all just coincidence. Like Led Zepplin backwards stating "my savior, satan"... just coincidence... I will admit that the poppy field is drug related, but NOT on purpose!
2007-01-13 08:13:10 · update #1
I LOVE you, Jellycat72... That was HILARIOUS!
2007-01-13 08:17:38 · update #2
Becky W... I got the book, it's great! Just one thing... the story is by Frank L. Baum, not Balm. You're still ok!
2007-01-13 08:19:07 · update #3
No No No, I am a huge rediculous Wizard of Oz fan. This movie shas never had anything to do with or portray drugs or drug use. This story does however have a story line of politics to it and the meaning of The emerald city being green (representing money). Definetly no drug relations though.
P.S. Just for the myth record. No one EVER killed themselves on the set. There is a great book called the Making of The Wizard of Oz that's talks about all of the deaths that have happened due to and since the making of the movie.
Also remeber that the Origional Wizard Of Oz is by Frank Balm in the late 1890's. No Drugs there either.
2007-01-13 08:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by Becky 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Drug Wizard
2016-10-02 10:18:29 · answer #2 · answered by rentschler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice and Wonderland was an opium addict. Some believe that alot of what he wrote were actually his opium trips. As for L. Frank Baum, other of Oz, he was a devote Christian so I don't think that the story itself is about drugs. Its possible that the movie adaptation contained drug paraphenlia like the poppie fields, the dream of going to OZ etc could be reflections of an opium trip
2007-01-13 08:27:00 · answer #3 · answered by aalma00 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Wizard of Oz" was one book in a series of children's books set in the mythical Land of Oz; these books were written by L. Frank Baum around the turn of the 20th Century, and this particular book was made into a movie in 1939.
The movie and the book are in no way drug-related. Someone somewhere decided that it was, and concocted a story to make it so just as the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary in the 1960's was supposed to be about drug use. (In response, Paul did a wonderful job in taking the National Anthem and connecting it to drug use as well, showing just how easy it is to do.)
True story from the making of the movie:
The actor who played Professor Marvel, The Wizard, the doorman to Oz, and the driver of the coach being pulled by the Horse of a Different Color was a wonderful character actor named Frank Morgan. When being costumed for his character of Professor Marvel, Morgan insisted that he be allowed to pick the coat that the Professor would wear. He wanted something he described as "elegance gone to seed," and found an old, worn-out frock coat with a threadbare velvet collar that just happened to fit him perfectly. The coat came from a local thrift shop instead of the Wardrobe department.
During filming, the set he was on became very hot because of the lack of air conditioning and the heat of the kleig lights, and in an effort to dry out his coat and cool himself Morgan turned the pockets of his coat inside-out. It was then that he noticed the name of the person for whom the coat was made sewn on the inside breast pocket. (In those days, coats weren't bought off the rack but were tailor made for each person.) Stunned at what he saw, he went back to the thrift shop and obtained the name of the person who donated the coat; he then went to pay the woman a visit to verify the original owner of the coat. He spoke to the woman, who was a widow and, when shown the coat, verified that the coat was made for her late husband and had been donated to the thrift store by her after his death.
Her late husband was L. Frank Baum, the author of "The Wizard of Oz."
2007-01-13 09:39:05 · answer #4 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/7134/oz.html
This site tells you all about the connections (tongue in cheek) between Oz and drugs e.g.
Dorothy's given a lollipop by the Munchkins, just as pushers often give drug users a free sample. The Scarecrow has been told that his brain has been fried by drug use. The Tin Man is a heroin addict who needs a fix from a syringe-like oil can to be able to function. The Cowardly Lion is afraid that others will find out about his drug use, so he's "lyin'" about it. The yellow brick road symbolizes the money that can be made from drugs and the Wizard of Oz is the guru of the drug world, and oz, of course, is the abbreviation for ounces, often used as a unit of measure for drugs.
LOL
2007-01-13 08:11:56 · answer #5 · answered by Pumpkin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When dorothy is in the feild and they all "fall asleep" they are running through a field of popies which is where opium comes from. Also if you didn't know you can link Pink Floyd's- Dark Side of the moon up with the movie, they wer big into drugs that is probablyu where the whole drug thing started.
2007-01-13 08:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by Satan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is part of a conspiracy to jade popular literature and diminish the fantasy and whimsy of childhood. There is a belief that if children are lead to believe in fantastic stories it will inhibit their ability to deal with reality. Like teaching about the Easter Bunny and Santa fantasy literature is believed by extremists to create a breach in a child's trust and mental capacity. It is sad really that this type of Bull---- is allowed to continue but this is a free country and just as they are allowed to spew this malarkey we are free to rebut it. Teach your children that fantasy teaches us creativity and skills at dealing with issues without actually have to have lived them - if you had to go through an experience to understand it one would never learn anything from history.
2007-01-13 08:12:04 · answer #7 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No relation to drugs
2007-01-13 08:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
she has weird dreams
2007-01-13 08:07:39 · answer #9 · answered by &heartsBri&hearts 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes..and the witch mixes potions, so perhaps that is what they mean
2007-01-13 08:06:48 · answer #10 · answered by k8thesnake 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋