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veronica_rich ([personal profile] veronica_rich) wrote2011-11-06 07:37 pm

one benefit of English lit classes

Watching "The Wizard of Oz" on cable was kind of sad as I realized everybody I watched this with in the 1970s when it was on network TV once a year (no VCR! no on-demand or satellite!) is now dead - Mom, Grandpa and Grandma.

But I'm comforted by the fact that with my Sooper English Lit Major Powers(TM), I can now analyze what a cocked-up story this really is. I mean, sending a teenage girl to kill your rival? Trying to kill a teenage girl for clearly being in the wrong place at the wrong time, instead of the bitch witch ordering her about? (At worst, East's death was a lower-degree manslaughter, not murder.) And don't get me started on the Cheney-like "wizard."

But fuck me if I don't still want those shoes.

[identity profile] johnnypenn.livejournal.com 2011-11-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I never did understand the story behind the Wizard of Oz.
But I too always wanted those shoes. I remember seeing them at the store and trying to get Mom to get them for me, but we never did.
And once, around Halloween some close friends and I did a short WoZ play, but I was Toto.

Yeah. It is fucked up. *lol*