OZ, some comparisons

[Glinda_Arduennas]

Has anyone else on here read any of these? They are fabulous!! I highly recomend that you go to your local library or book store and get them. Baum is a genious when it comes to anything OZ related, and Ozma has become one of my favorite characters. Anyone else have a fav characters from these books?

Also, I've noticed quite a few things that are different when it comes to the OZ books,the Oz movies, Wicked the book and the musical.

~Glinda The Good is the Witch of the North in the Movie, But in the book she is the Good Witch of the South.

~In the Wizard of Oz movie, Glinda is the Good witch that meets Dorothy in the beginning when she lands in Munchinland.But IN the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L F Baum, The Good Witch of the North greets Dorothy in Munchkinland.....

" They wore round hats that rose to a small point above their head, with little bells around the brims that tinckled sweetly as they moved...the little woman's hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Over it were sprinckled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds...her face was covered in wrinckles, her hair was nearly white and she walked rather stifly......"I am the Witch of the North."" (l f baum, pg 6 from the Oz Cronicles V1)
~In the Musical Wicked and the book Wicked:Life and Times of The wicked Witch of the West, Glinda is described as a Blonde; "...The sway of her head made her creamy ringlets swing, catching the light, like so many jostling coins. Her lips were perfect, as pouted as an opening mayflower, and colored as brillaintlly red..." (Gregory Maguire's Wicked, p 65)

While in the Wizard of Oz movie and books, she is described with Red hair; "...She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue and looked kindly upon the little girl." (L F Baum The Oz Cronicles V1 p 78)

~Nowhere in the Book does it decribe the Wicked Witch of the West to be Green skinned....yet in the WoO movie, Wicked the Musical and book, she has green skin.

~In Wicked the Musical and Wizard of Oz the Movie, Glinda comes and goes by means of a giant Bubble. In the Oz books by L Frank Baum, Glinda makes her way around Oz by means of a Stork drawn carraige that flys through the air. In fact, the only place so far that it mentions traveling by bubble in the books, is at Princess Ozma's birthday celebration, where The Wonderful Wizard of Oz entertains Ozma and her guests with a bubble show where he added glue to the mixture to keep the bubbles from popping....then Button Bright and a few other characters, get inside some of the bubbles and float home...Glinda never does this.

~ In the Musical, Glinda lives in Gillikin Coutry, while in the OZ books, she rules in Quadling country.

~In the Books, L Frank Baum drew the OZ map with Gillikin at the North, Winkie at the East, Quadling at the South and Munchkinland at the West.

In Gregory Maguire's book Wicked, the map is drawn much the same, but with Munchkinland in the East and Vinikus(winkie country) in the West....which all in all makes makes more sense. The Wicked witch fo the West rules over the Vinkus, which by Maguire's map is in the west...giving her the name of Witch of the West, same with the Wicth of the East in Munchkinland. But with Baums map, the Wicked Witches still live in the same OZ countries, but their Cardinal Directions are wrong. So according to Baums drawn Map, Dorothy killed the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkinland with ehr house, not the east, but it is described that she killed the Wicked Witch of the East with her house.

~There is a diff story behind the Flying Monkeys in each of the books/muscal/movie.

In the Wizard of Oz the movie, The flying Monkeys are the Wicked Witch of the West's pets.

In the Musical, the flying Monkeys come about when Elphaba(the wicked witch of the west) is tricked into performing magic from the Grimmerie and making wings sprout on the Monkeys, she then saves them and lives with them in Kiamo Ko in the Vinkus.

In the Wizard of Oz Books, they are called the Winged Monkeys and they were a race of animals that once lived freely in OZ, but they were placed under a curse from a princess to ever after do three times the bidding of whoever has the Golden Cap in their possession. After three biddings are through, they are free from that person and must do biddings for the next person....sort of like a genie.

In the book Wicked, Elphaba finds and rescues a baby monkey, and later on, she actually sews wings into the muscles of the monkey and it's off spring to creat the Flying monkeys.

~In the Wizard of Oz book, The Wicked Witch of the West has many pets that she uses to attack Dorothy and company while they are trying to get to her castle. A hive of Bee's, a flock of Crows and a pack of wolves, then the winged monkeys.

In the Wicked book, she has much the same pets that she takes under her wing while journeying to Kiamo Ko...a hive of bees, a Wolf dog names Killyjoy, her flying monkeys and some black birds....she also sneds these to Dorothy and company, but not really to kill, just to capture them.

~Also, IN the second OZ movie...Return to Oz, Much of the things that happened in that movie are a combination of a few L Frank Baum OZ books.....Jack Pumpkin Head,Tik-Tok, Billiana the yellow Hen, Ozma, The nome King, the flying Gump, Wheelers, Princess Langwidere-who is one of the main villains in the movie, but in the book she is actually not.


There are plently more things different with all four OZ stories. And I might come back and edit this if I find any really interesting ones....for I am still reading the OZ Cronicles.

But I do Highly Highly recommend to Read L Frank Baum's OZ books, and Gregory Maguires Wicked...and to see the WoO movie and Wicked the Musical. All fantasticle! *huggles them*

[Glinda]

Im a total musical freak...but I do love the book...I just wish it had more Glinda especially a better ending between her and Elphaba...I was wondering is Glinda in Son of a Witch much...does that book make any refernce to her relationsip plutonic or otherwise with Elphie? Before I run out to buy it!!

[Glinda_Arduennas]

Galinda is a part of it, and she does mention Elphaba in it. But she is not the main characters...Liir is, but the two cross paths. It is a good book in my opinion, but its about Liir's quest. If you would like to discuss more of this we can move it to a new topic under Gregory Maguires books

[Beautifully Tragic]

I've been making a mental list of all of these difference, but alas, I wasn't smart enough to write them out.

The one that has always struck me the most is the fact that Glinda is the witch of the south in Baum's book. I don't know why, but it's always stuck out to me. Also, that the Wicked Witch of the West, isn't actually green. I've always wondered why the movie designers decided to have her green. I don't believe that in the WWoW book she traveled by broom, either...or is that just making something up?

[galiindafiied]

In the original book, it didn't describe Elphaba as green, you're right.
Nor were the shoes ruby, they were silver.

MGM was experimenting with technicolor, and thought they would screw around with the coloring because they were given this leverage.

I'm currently reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
It's hard to read it though, when you've become so obsessed with Wicked.
XD You have like, this one version in your mind.
And then you'r reading a completely different one.
Messes with ya. It was the same when I read the Wicked book after seeing the musical.
I was like; WHA?! O__O;

But I was so excited when I saw Boq's name in there.
I was like 'YAYBOQ!'
I'm not too far in it though.
I'm still juggling reading Son of a Witch too. Halfway done that.
Depresses me that there's not so much Glinda.
But I love how hysterical she became.
God I love that woman. xD;