Blog 2 “No place like home”
Blog 2 “No place like home”The biggest difference between “The Wiz” movie (see link) and the “Wizard of Oz” is “is the interpretation of home. In the “Wizard of Oz” http://www.fiftiesweb.com/movies/wizard-of-oz.htm
Dorothy says” Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home. Home! And this is my room, and you're all here. And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and - oh, Auntie Em - there's no place like home”“The Wiz” in contrast has Glinda say “If we know ourselves were always home anywhere.
In “The Wizard of OZ” Dorothy is only able to go home after she states the moral Well, I - I think that it – it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?
”But the Dorothy in the Wiz not only feels leaving ones own backyard is acceptable but necessary, telling the Wiz “I don’t know what’s in you.You’ll have to find that out yourself.But I do know one thing you’ll never find it in the safety of this room.”
I am inclined to agree with the moral “The Wiz” not only because of my own bias in enjoying new places, but because a broader definition of home, beyond a physical house or geography, seems to link far better with the other morals of the story. In both versions mentioned as well as “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” Baum 270.The Tin Man and Scarecrow have been told they possessed heart and brains even though they lacked the physical organs. The Cowardly Lion’s been told that courage means facing you fear rather then lacking it. It doesn’t fit in then for Dorothy to be told to just go home and be safe rather then seek knowledge and more friends and love.
By JD’
posted by artpoet @ 7:59 PM
1 Comments:
I think you have a really good point about how in "The Wiz", Glinda tells Dorothy that "If we know ourselves we are always home anywhere." I thought that was an excellent point in "The Wiz", it seemed to be more about how home is where the heart is, not an actual geographic location.
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