A paper in completing the Thematic Film Studies assignment
Spring 2010
Spring 2010
A little girl desperately runaway from home and that would be a valuable experience for her. The little girl, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in her domestic problem with her uncle and auntie conflicting to the landlady Almira Gulch, at their farm, surprisingly swept away in a tornado to a place which she would starts her journey then. Some places begun from the introduction plot and Dorothy’s journey in the magical world of Oz contains of three major archetypal settings in the film, they are gate, place and time that will be explained below.
Dorothy came to the magical world of Oz, a place over the rainbow, after a tornado swept her farm away and moved her house to that world. So that, the tornado is kind of a doorway or a gate from the Dorothy origin place into the magical world of Oz. Through this crossroad we could see besides the different of place, the film also shown different part of film. To begin with, the film uses black and white part in pre-tornado (Kansas), then the color part in the magical world of Oz. As we have seen, by the different world, the film has shown diverse in creatures and physical appearance which revealed by the color also how the life was going in Oz.
Since the tornado sent Dorothy to the magical world of Oz, this place is too strange for Dorothy that she realized that she was not in Kansas anymore even she was a stranger in Oz, so what is the magical world of Oz? In my point of view and some information that I got from the film, the magical world of Oz is another world where the witch, wizards and the Munchkind life in a colorful world that the Wizard of Oz (Professor Marvel) said the Emerald city as “the noble city”. Finally I had archetype the magical world of Oz as the wilderness.
Regarding to the thematic film’s terms of archetypal time setting, I categorized the magical world of Oz as “now” of age. Even if the film has shown different color to illustrate the place, as the story going the magical world of Oz did not narrate or explain any indication in the setting of both “long long ago” and “coming of age” at all. Maybe the origin book told in different way, but In short the film story told just about the present time when those all of things happened to Dorothy.
To conclude, the whole things about the tornado, a place over the rainbow and how the story was going completed the Wizard of Oz as an evergreen movie and story ever. The film’s casts perform perfectly even under the unbearable make-up and costumes at 1939, some of them marvelously versatile in three to five roles. Moreover, some of term from the movie has been an inspiration and common terms in daily life.
Dorothy came to the magical world of Oz, a place over the rainbow, after a tornado swept her farm away and moved her house to that world. So that, the tornado is kind of a doorway or a gate from the Dorothy origin place into the magical world of Oz. Through this crossroad we could see besides the different of place, the film also shown different part of film. To begin with, the film uses black and white part in pre-tornado (Kansas), then the color part in the magical world of Oz. As we have seen, by the different world, the film has shown diverse in creatures and physical appearance which revealed by the color also how the life was going in Oz.
Since the tornado sent Dorothy to the magical world of Oz, this place is too strange for Dorothy that she realized that she was not in Kansas anymore even she was a stranger in Oz, so what is the magical world of Oz? In my point of view and some information that I got from the film, the magical world of Oz is another world where the witch, wizards and the Munchkind life in a colorful world that the Wizard of Oz (Professor Marvel) said the Emerald city as “the noble city”. Finally I had archetype the magical world of Oz as the wilderness.
Regarding to the thematic film’s terms of archetypal time setting, I categorized the magical world of Oz as “now” of age. Even if the film has shown different color to illustrate the place, as the story going the magical world of Oz did not narrate or explain any indication in the setting of both “long long ago” and “coming of age” at all. Maybe the origin book told in different way, but In short the film story told just about the present time when those all of things happened to Dorothy.
To conclude, the whole things about the tornado, a place over the rainbow and how the story was going completed the Wizard of Oz as an evergreen movie and story ever. The film’s casts perform perfectly even under the unbearable make-up and costumes at 1939, some of them marvelously versatile in three to five roles. Moreover, some of term from the movie has been an inspiration and common terms in daily life.
Credit
The Wizard Of Oz. Dir. Victor Fleming. Perf. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, 1939, VCD.
By Anisa Caesar
March 2010
By Anisa Caesar
March 2010
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