"Wizard of Oz" nitpick

[pecksniff]

(Movie only -- haven't read the book.)

Dorothy runs away to protect her dog Toto because Miss Gulch is planning to have him destroyed. In the end she comes home again, having learned a lesson from her adventure or dream -- but what happens to Toto now?

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

I strongly recommend that you avoid eating at any Chinese restaurants!

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU-V3Kl1Kl4

 

[RoryN]

but what happens to Toto now?

She gets buried in Studio City and, 13 years later, her little bones are likely pulverised during the construction of the Ventura Freeway.

(Oh, but you meant...nvm.)

 

[hobbit.]

but what happens to Toto now?

why do you want to know?

 

[Sean]

She's blessing the rains down in Africa.

 

[hobbit.]

She's blessing the rains down in Africa.

was totos gender ever confirmed? if not, that might not be rain...

 

[RoryN]

She's blessing the rains down in Africa.

That little dog and the band members had some of the same stomping grounds in SoCal (though not during the same era, obviously).

Legend has it that the band named themselves after the famous mutt early on, and later discovered the word sort of had a translation meaning "all encompassing", which cemented it.

 

[shewantsmore]

Am i the only person whos never ever watched the movie

 

[hobbit.]

Am i the only person whos never ever watched the movie

I hadnt until recently, but stuck on a car journey i had no choice (either that or concentrate on the road, with 3 grand kids in the car.. death seemed the better option) it is quite a good movie actually.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

(Movie only -- haven't read the book.)

Dorothy runs away to protect her dog Toto because Miss Gulch is planning to have him destroyed. In the end she comes home again, having learned a lesson from her adventure or dream -- but what happens to Toto now?

She is killed in the tornado.
Really. That's how it's explained everywhere but the movie and it makes sense.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Am i the only person whos never ever watched the movie

If that's true then you've missed one of the genuine classics of film. It's in rare company and deserves to be seen.

 

[colddiesel]

I hadnt until recently, but stuck on a car journey i had no choice (either that or concentrate on the road, with 3 grand kids in the car.. death seemed the better option) it is quite a good movie actually.

Watch the Sound of Music, that'll challenge your sanity. Bloody awful!

 

[rae121452]

toto is made into a fur lining for miss gulch's winter house shoes. dorothy is so horrified (and fucked up from the head injury and the morphine they prescribed her) that she hitchhikes to chicago and becomes a floozy. she changes her name to roxy hart. "chicago" is the second installment of her tale.

 

[RoryN]

Wanna fuck up your brain permanently? Watch the film sequel Return to Oz, or Under the Rainbow.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Just try and take that little dog away from her now.

 

[Bottomlover]

Watch the Sound of Music, that'll challenge your sanity. Bloody awful!

I had a job one summer as an usher in a movie theater, and The Sound of Music was the only film that played there all summer. Where I lived then, you could get a job as a movie usher when you were 14 if your school signed off on "working papers". I was 15 that summer, and quit for a better job in a grocery store when I turned 16.

I still know every line and reel change in that movie. Once everyone was seated and the movie began, I sneaked up to the projection booth, and the projectionist occasionally gave me "beenz" (known then to truck drivers as LA turnarounds).

On matinees that weren't crowded, I got to second base a few times with the candy counter girl on our breaks in the back of the balcony. She loved a guy in uniform.

 

[Cubantripod]

Nothing. Miss Gulch was caught up in the tornado.

 

[Chernosoth]

The famous singer actress had the worst voice in the movie. A kid closer to the age of the character would have made a more listenable movie.

 

[honeybee_sweet]

I’ve always wondered in the movie why Glinda asked if Toto was a witch too and didn’t seem to know what a dog was, yet the wicked witch of the west has a cat. If there are cats in Oz…like why didn’t she know what a dog is?

 

[pecksniff]

Am i the only person whos never ever watched the movie

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/never_seen_star_wars.png

 

[pecksniff]

MGM Studios can't make a nut,
They're auctioning Dorothy's shoes
Gable is gone, the Good Witch is a slut
And I've got the parking lot blues
The Wizard bought benzedrine smiles
But he never let Dorothy doze
She died as she walked down the aisle
And all that remains is her clothes
Over the rainbow, a Kansas tornado
Will lift up a little girl's head
Aunt Em's on relief, and the Tin Man's a thief
And even the Wizard can't wake the dead

-- "Magdalene Lane," Don McLean

 

[rycat25]

The Broadway show Wicked changes the way you look at Wiz.

 

[hobbit.]

Watch the Sound of Music, that'll challenge your sanity. Bloody awful!

sadly that DVD got scratched......