The Muppets of Oz Presentation

the muppets survives By eight and Mubanga Background and Overview.

The Muppets Avaz was created in 2005 and produced by

Kirk Thatcher.

The generalization of the entire movie is that Dorothy is

a young girl working at a diner with it on

them and he's going to an audition in the beginning

of the movie for the muppets tour.

one big difference is toto, it's actually a shrimp instead

of a dog and the connection is that she is

taken by a tornado to Oz in her little double

wide house.

The main device from the Land of Oz is that

everything is based on show business and everyone is trying

to be famous in some sort of way.

Dorothy is journeying to the Emerald City in order to

become a famous singer and to also get back home

to Kansas.

Many factors are the same, but many are not and

they all relate to the series of Oz, the book,

the original MGM film and the movie, the wiz.

The characters, the main characters are mainly seen within this

movie, which would be Dorothy played a Shiotani on m

played by Queen Latifah.

The Wizard played by Jeffrey Tom Burr, scarecrow, played by

Kermit the Frog, all the wicked witches and the good

witch is played by Miss Piggy, then the lion played

by Fozzie Bear.

And then lastly, Tin Man played by Tin Thing.

Character connections.

There's a major character that represents a longer, a larger

picture of the entire Wizard of Oz connections and she

has a very good actor and an influencer through the

times. Her name is Queen Latifah, her major contribution and

connections to Oz before and after all the writings such

as the Wiz and the MGM film, The Wizard of

Oz. Within the Wiz the Wiz live, she actually played

the Wizard and she gave a very powerful performance however,

and the muppets of Oz, she played on Em though

she was not playing a larger role within the movie,

she was still a connecting factor.

Then we go to the director or other offers.

Thatcher worked for the muppets since 1989 and began his

career out with George Lucas.

If many of you guys don't know, he was the

creator of Star Wars.

Thatcher did work for Star Wars, Star Trek, E.

T. And many other big movies of the time of

the start of his or height of his career.

When Thatcher also began, he did a light and magic

and Fresh Start Wars.

One more thing to add for the movie and the

authors, there were many authors that created and wrote the

text of the movie.

However, they took many factors of which would relate to

the original text and the original movie.

When they made when to make changes, they made them

very noticeable, such as Dorothy working in a diner with

on em instead of a farm.

And then lastly within the picture, you can see hurt.

Okay lastly within the picture you can see Kirk and

Kermit the frog frog, who is actually one of the

biggest names in the original tuck.

It's connections within the movie.

The muppets of Oz has many connections to the original

book, the original movie and the movie, the wiz in

the muppets of ours.

It has the first thing that I noticed was that

Dorothy was working in a diner with on em and

the entire plot or purpose of Dorothy going to the

Emerald City was somewhat different uh mainly because her goal

was to obviously get home, but the entirety of the

plot was for her to become a famous singer and

get what she really wanted was to get out of

Kansas uh huh as well as get out of the

diner and just travel the world and become and be

her own person.

And lastly down below you can see a picture from

the whiz with the kind of the lion, Dorothy, Tin

man and scarecrow and then you can also see from

the actual Wizard of Oz, the original movie of the

MGm you can see Tin Man, Dorothy scarecrow and Lion.

So for the first connection, the portrayal of the characters,

the largest factor that changed within the movie was the

characters and how they were portrayed, Such as the Munchkins,

being rats, 10 man being a supercomputer and then the

minions of the wicked which being all different instead of

being of five monkeys.

And second the big factor would be that Glinda only

came out in the end.

So basically when Dorothy landed in Oz, it was and

she killed the Wicked Witch.

one of the good witch is the sisters of Glinda

and The wicked witch and the wicked witch of the

west. And every all four sisters, she basically came, took

the shoes off of her sister and gave them to

Dorothy instead of using magic which would have been in

the original or the wiz.

Then third, other factors through all those small would have

larger contributions to the actual setting of the muppets.

Yeah, such as the biker gang who is controlled by

the Wicked Witch, where they rode bikes and flew out

flu and connection was to the Wiz where the Wicked

Witch also have a gang of bikers at her disposal,

used with the use of the biker cap or the

golden calf.

But the biker cap was within the markets of Oz

and then down below the picture is all the biker

gangs. The 4th one last factor would be that the

music, which is weird because it was different.

They didn't basically have any sort of music.

When they met, when Dorothy met the scarecrow in the

muppets of Oz, they didn't dance, they just came together,

they went on their journey and then they found Tin

Man, which was a supercomputer.

He was connected to this old station and then they

found the cowardly lion.

And then once they were all together, they broke out

in the song, decided to sing about everything that they

were getting.

And it was just different from the original movie, The

Wiz or the text.

Mm 30 total connection of them all.

The reason behind a lot of these changes was to

design a certain twist to everything and appeal to the

crowd that that usually watches the muppets.

The biggest picture of the changes is that they can

fit the setting of the muppets and the wholesome family,

the singing, the banter that engulfs the entire movies.

Or shows that all the muppets have produced entirely, comparisons

sit down below, you can see, or the first picture

on the top would be from the Wiz where the

Poppy Fields and everything with the connection to the original

movie um in the MGm of the Poppy Fields.

But they changed it up with the modern city and

everything entirely.

And then down below, just from the muppets of Oz,

where's His Poppy Fields?

And then Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion, Toto and scarecrow.

We're trying to get into this nightclub.

And so basically there were two scenes that I really

want to compare the scenes of the poppies where in

the movie, the ways the poppies represented, so called Call

Girls or strippers who are trying to keep everybody from

going on their drink to the Emerald City.

And then within the muppets of Oz, it's a nightclub

where they drink like drugged up drinks that apparently have

poppies in them.

And the group, basically it's the exact same plot and

then what happens is down below in the nightclub, Tinman

and Scarecrow aren't affected, mainly because they don't have everything

that the Lion and Dorothy have, right, and then they're

left to save Dorothy Toto and the Lion.

And so they summon the munchkins from the beginning of

when they first got there and the munchkins are at

their service and so you can see in the picture

below, there in gas masks so that they can go

back in and help them and get them out and

then interests.

The one thing that was very interesting to me is

the way that they were portrayed the entire, they portrayed

the entire story of Dorothy's goal in Oz when the

beginning, Dorothy was trying to audition for a role with

the muppets and later made her way to us because

she missed the audition basically like everything within it, the

plot was show business like I stated earlier and how

she wanted to make her career and her find her

way home.

Yeah, basically everything was a giant production of singers, actors

and mostly everything that comes to mind when you think

of show business and towards the end you would see

that the wizard was actually hiding behind some sort of

broadway show, like there was structures that would hide in

like the wizard could change forms and show whoever and

whatever they wanted.

And then lastly my questions, one thing that I would

like to ask is how does Dorothy connect or differentiate

from the fact of original text, original MGM film and

the movie the wiz.

What was the purpose of changing the witches?

Such as the fact that Glinda didn't actually come in

until the end.

One of her good sisters came to see Dorothy when

she first arrived and gave her the shoes but no

protection which was the protection of Glinda kissing Dorothy on

the forehead so that she was able to make it

to the Emerald City.

How does this change the meaning and we're represent and

change the entirety of the storyline or even some of

the whole ability of the movie to go on and

then how does the plot of the movie differ from

the original book and movies and how does it relate

to them?

And then one last thing, the citations and then for

everything, all the pictures and everything, thank you

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