"The Wizard of Oz" 75th Anniversary. - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-28T17:00:20Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/the-wizard-of-oz-75th-anniversary?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A52043&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI agree. The crossing of the…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2013-10-06:5301756:Comment:520432013-10-06T05:45:50.777ZJoseph Camosyhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/JosephCamosy
I agree. The crossing of the threshold into the "special world" and then the return back to the normal world have to be handled in a way which allows the audience to "suspend disbelief." How this needs to be handled may change from era to era. In 1939, a dream segue might have been necessary, but today's audiences are not only much more sophisticated, but are also open to more direct metaphors or even to the possibility that magic might be real after all.<br />
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If made today, we would at the very…
I agree. The crossing of the threshold into the "special world" and then the return back to the normal world have to be handled in a way which allows the audience to "suspend disbelief." How this needs to be handled may change from era to era. In 1939, a dream segue might have been necessary, but today's audiences are not only much more sophisticated, but are also open to more direct metaphors or even to the possibility that magic might be real after all.<br />
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If made today, we would at the very least see something like her waking up and finding the ruby slippers under her bed, or some other indication that her experience might really have happened after all. I always hated this movie whe…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2013-10-06:5301756:Comment:520322013-10-06T00:31:52.055ZLayman Pascalhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/LaymanPascal
<p>I always hated this movie when I was a child -- and for one reason in particular. It was the scene in which she "wakes" and observes that the other world was populated by people who look just like those in her real world. Today I appreciate this interplay differently, but at the time I was quite unsatisfied with the "cop out" suggest that it might all have been a dream. This was not a feature of the books. Rather than allowing the two ranges of experience to simply coexist in a puzzling…</p>
<p>I always hated this movie when I was a child -- and for one reason in particular. It was the scene in which she "wakes" and observes that the other world was populated by people who look just like those in her real world. Today I appreciate this interplay differently, but at the time I was quite unsatisfied with the "cop out" suggest that it might all have been a dream. This was not a feature of the books. Rather than allowing the two ranges of experience to simply coexist in a puzzling fashion the "steam was let out" by providing a structural opportunity to place the Other World in the all-too-familiar category of dream material.</p>
<p>The cowardly lions of the film industry have a reactionary tendency toward renormalization which often runs the risk of subtracting from the psychogenic potency of the artwork. The second Star Wars trilogy, despite its many other flaws, suffers dramatically from the fact that Vader's helmet was removed in Return of the Jedi. A certain mythic field effect is deactivated and returns only when the helmet clicks back into place at the end of Revenge of the Sith.</p>
<p>The utility of mythic communication is not simply a function of the fact that it presents a more or less comprehensive set of archetypal variables which can be consciously or unconsciously assimilated by viewers. It also depends on the amounts of pressure which the "machine" can hold. Bathos is always lurking, waiting to undo the pathos-of-reality, waiting to renormalize.</p> Great -- please let us know a…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2013-10-04:5301756:Comment:518482013-10-04T19:21:34.595ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Great -- please let us know about the paper, once it is published / available.</p>
<p>Great -- please let us know about the paper, once it is published / available.</p> Yes, I just got the 75th Anni…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2013-10-03:5301756:Comment:520112013-10-03T22:09:58.382ZJoseph Camosyhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/JosephCamosy
<p>Yes, I just got the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Wizard-Anniversary-UltraViolet-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B00CNW9ZOA/ref=sr_tr_sr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380837941&sr=8-1&keywords=wizard+of+oz" target="_blank">75th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition</a> in the mail today as a birthday gift for the Mrs.</p>
<p>Still working on the same project, developing it further. Hope to publish a paper in the near future.</p>
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<p>Joe</p>
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<p>Yes, I just got the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Wizard-Anniversary-UltraViolet-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B00CNW9ZOA/ref=sr_tr_sr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380837941&sr=8-1&keywords=wizard+of+oz" target="_blank">75th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition</a> in the mail today as a birthday gift for the Mrs.</p>
<p>Still working on the same project, developing it further. Hope to publish a paper in the near future.</p>
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<p>Joe</p>
<p></p> Very interesting, Joe; thanks…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2013-10-03:5301756:Comment:518002013-10-03T19:19:16.349ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Very interesting, Joe; thanks for posting this here. (I was just thinking about you the other day, wondering what projects you might be working on.) I heard they recently released a 3-D version of this movie, which played at a limited number of IMAX theaters. I didn't see it but heard a rave review from a friend.</p>
<p>Very interesting, Joe; thanks for posting this here. (I was just thinking about you the other day, wondering what projects you might be working on.) I heard they recently released a 3-D version of this movie, which played at a limited number of IMAX theaters. I didn't see it but heard a rave review from a friend.</p>