Posted on 12/02/2007 7:24:59 PM PST by KevinDavis
This is the live thread for the Tin Min on the Sci-Fi channel..
Wasn’t the original Oz a political allegory?
The Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City had something to do with the gold standard for the greenback. “Following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City” was a metaphor for supporting the gold standard. Or opposing it. Or something. :)
The Scarecrow represented the agricultural workers, who were “following the Yellow Brick Road” because apparently they didn’t know any better. The Tin Man was the industrialists, who apparently stood to unfairly benefit from either opposing or supporting the gold standard at others’ expense, ergo they “had no heart”. The Cowardly Lion was, I believe, the military. The Wicked Witch of the West was the seductive veins of gold in the West, with their corruptive influences at the prospect of easy wealth.
Oz itself, of course, was named after an ounce, in this case an ounce of gold.
Or something. :)
bat tats?
I don’t know, but I do remember that we use to be on a gold standard and there was a panic in 1857...
FR has a glitch where one has to click twice to make a reply. Gotta be the flying monkeys.
Otherwise, this is a great adaptation of Baum’s story. The flying monkeys here are a thinly veiled Homeland Security, the wizard gets waterboarded and the scarecrow’s been lobotomized.
Liars and misers and scares...oh my!
Tell me how far it goes before the brainless one screams out that all this is Bush’s fault.
Don’t taze me, bro!
That reminds me, Rodney King showed up in the news out here getting himself shot while on his bike.
Peddled home, reported it to the cops, drunk and unable to give ANY details.
Too, in the book, Dorothy had *silver* slippers - not ruby, as in the movie. You know the ratty suit that the wizard wore in the movie? It was a stage prop, of course, bought at a thrift shop. By strange coincidence, it was found that the original owner was L. Frank Baum. Can’t make this stuff up.
1894: Coxey’s Army.
Yes, and the island mountain is frozen due to human-induced climate change.
Will the scarecrow bring up all the straw man arguments?
oh, I get it
Flying monkeys! Coming out of her b00bies!
the proverbial titches wit
**Wasn’t the original Oz a political allegory?**
I don’t know about that, but the Oz story is a close allegory to the book ‘Pilgrim’s Progress; Part 1’, written over 200 yrs before the WWOO.
PP, in a nutshell: ‘Christian’, after a life changing experience, faces a challenging trek to the Celestial City.
I hardly ever watch the Sci-Fi channel, but I did watch this show.
It is not in the same league as the Judy Garland movie, but it is novel enough to endure. I expect it will go downhill over the next couple of days.
That part with hookers working the streets of Oz just ain’t right.
I’m not going to watch it..
>>>That part with hookers working the streets of Oz just ain’t right
Finally, the Lollipop Guild makes sense.
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