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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the Oz book with the most clear political symbolism:
I've heard that Baum didn't have any symbolism in mind, and that critics read it into the book significantly later. (In 1964, to be exact.) Unfortunately, we can't exactly ask Baum any more.
Well, C of E congregations vary from basically full-blown catholic (my village church had parts of the liturgy in Latin well into the '70s) to happy-clappy evangelicals who would fit in at a White House breakfast. But 99% of people who put C of E down on forms are basically agnostic and just do christenings and weddings because church is where you do such things in the English countryside.
Unfortunately, we can't exactly ask Baum any more.
We could if we RESURRECTED HIM AS ZOMBIE BAUM.
We could if we RESURRECTED HIM AS ZOMBIE BAUM.
You go right to work on that, P-C. Just don't blame me if HE EATS YOUR BRAINS.
I, for one, welcome my zombie master.
sigh
Zombies don't eat brains, unless instructed to by their zombie master. Lot of peopl get that wrong.
I, for one, welcome my zombie master.
Bart: Dad, you killed Zombie Polter-Cow!
Homer: Polter-Cow was a zombie?
So WotW has been getting pretty good reviews, except for the review in Salon ( Stephanie Zacharek hated it): [link]
Does Stephanie Zacharek have a bug up her butt? Or does she have some Spielberg-related childhood trauma? Or is she right?
She doesn't like the current trend for very gloomy self-consciously serious blockbusters (see her Batman review).
Yeah, I fucking hate it when blockbusters actually try to be good movies too.