"Weren't you frightened?"
"Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe...I was petrified."
-- Dorothy Gale and The Wizard of Oz, The Wizard of Oz (1939)
It is happening again...My amazing co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! This time, we conclude our retrospective of The Films That Inspired David Lynch by discussing The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel/The Wizard of Oz, and Margaret Hamilton as Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West!
LET'S ROCK
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan's smoky voice, Victor Fleming leaving The Wizard of Oz for Gone With the Wind, Sherlock Holmes entering the public domain, The Wizard of Oz dominating David Lynch's work, people not thinking of The Wizard of Oz as a weird movie, Xan making The Wizard of Oz appointment television, people taping The Wizard of Oz on VHS instead of buying it, the visual pop from switching from a dull sepia tone to bright Technicolor, Ray Bolger appearing on The Love Boat and Battlestar Galactica, Margaret Hamilton reprising the Wicked Witch on the 1976 Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Margaret Hamilton appearing on a banned episode of Sesame Street, costume designers on fantasy films being more creative than costume designers on period films, my being a huge Thin Man movie buff, the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum being darker than the film, Xan's recommendation of Return to Oz, the film's multiple directors, Buddy Ebsen being the original Tin Man, Victor Fleming slapping Judy Garland for having the giggles, Margaret Hamilton getting second and third-degree burns on her hands and face, the urban legend of the Hanging Munchkin, how the "Surrender Dorothy" skywriting scene was made, the deleted sequence "The Jitterbug", the various Wizard of Oz references in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, various Wizard of Oz references on Twin Peaks, Alexandre O. Phillipe's documentary Lynch/Oz, our learning of the death of Lisa Marie Presley, the David Lynch films with happy endings, the almost-redemption of Leo Johnson, Xan and I preparing to discuss Johnny Dangerously on Drunk Cinema, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 123, as Xan and I continue our retrospective of films that inspired David Lynch by discussing The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel/The Wizard of Oz, and Margaret Hamilton as Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West!
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