Re: Representing futuristic English

Gerry Quinn wrote:

In article <IM5wGs.7F7@xxxxxxxxxxx>, djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx says...

In article <0XLRe.58$YC1.33@xxxxxxxx>,
John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gerry Quinn wrote: 

[Oz]

Is anyone doing a sequel?

If you mean, "Is anyone doing a sequel to the 1939 movie?", the rights to that are still tied up, and will be for some time to come. 

Um ... there's already BEEN a sequel.  _Return to Oz,_ 1985,
which at the same time as being a sequel to the movie is a very
good blending of two Oz books (the next two, in fact), _The Land
of Oz_ and _Ozma of Oz_.  I like it a lot.  The movie repeats the
feature of the previous one, not precisely that Oz is only a
dream (though at the beginning everyone is trying to tell the kid
that), but that people in Kansas are mirrors of people in Oz, or
vice versa.  With Jean Marsh as Mombi/Langwidere, Brian Henson as
the voice of Jack Pumpkinhead (such a sweet kid!) and Nicol
Williamson and Will Vinton's Claymation taking turns being the
Nome King.  With music that isn't by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
(whom Baum considered the best person to write incidental music
for Oz), but might as well be.


Wasn't there a Black version as well? Possibly a musical - I don't recall any details.

- Gerry Quinn


THE WIZ (1978)

That was a remake of the original OZ story, as posed by the original movie, but in which the message was "get out of Kansas, and you will be happier."

Diana Ross as Dorothy
Michael Jackson as scarecrow, (how prescient is that?)
Nipsey Russel as Tinman
Ted Ross as Lion

Bill

--
Bill Swears

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ben Franklin, 1755 "Historical Review of Pennsylvania"

To think that was once a right wing comment. In the land of Homeland Security it seems.. Suspiciously left-wing.
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