Yesterday was a very busy day – which is why this post is
late. Sorry. I am house hunting; taking many classes which
are recorded so I can re-listen to them (which I am doing); and also taking
classes in person.
Yesterday evening I took a 3-hour class and then the class –
instructor and all two students – decided to extend the evening into a
movie. Couldn’t get our initial choices –
Lucy, The Matrix, or The Addams
Family (in a nod to Halloween approaching) – so we settled on The Wizard of Oz.
We were all familiar with the movie, to the point of being
able to recite favorite parts of the dialogue and sing all the songs. Probably could even have done some parts of
the dancing. But we all saw things in it
we had never noticed as kids, or as adults watching with our kids, grandkids, nieces,
nephews, etc. So many older movies look hokey
and dated. This did not.
The costumes were mind-boggling. I remembered the apple-throwing trees –
precursors to the Whomping Willow of Harry Potter fame. But as a kid I had concentrated on the
apples. This time I was able to actually
see the trees themselves. I cannot
fathom how they meshed the tree shapes into/onto human costumes. If you watch it again, look at the tree
trunks, not the throwing arms!
None of us had ever noticed that some of the munchkins in
the initial scenes in Oz had green hair – in one case, green and blond
stripes! Their different hair-dos were
amazing. So while we thought the hippies
had invented the colored hair thing by using Kool-Aid to dye their hair in
colors, and today’s kids, with more sophisticated dyes think they’re the first
generation to do it, the munchkins were ahead of us all!
Don’t know if all the new things we saw were because we were
watching on a hi-def flat screen, or because it was a digitally remastered
version. But whatever the reason, maybe
you should check it out, too.
DON’T MAKE ME SEND MY FLYING MONKEYS!
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