How the Production of the Wizard of Oz differs from the Novel
Charles Baldwin
The film and novel differ the most in their characterization and the honoring of the fairy tale rules. The first way that the film and the novel differ is in the characterization of the various characters in the tale. The novel briefly describes each character while the film gives all the major characters dual roles: one for reality and one for Dorothy's fantasy. For example in the book dorothy has magic slippers but they are silver and in the movie for more a shock to the audience for color the producers make the slippers are ruby colored.
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In the production version she is a bit older due the fact that the actress is 17 so what the producers do is they never tell her age. In the book when dorothy enters the land of oz Dorothy encounters three magical women who help her along the way. They are the unnamed Good Witch of the North, Glinda the Good Witch of the South, and the Queen of the Field Mice. In the movie she is met with Glinda the good witch of the north. The wicked witch of the west who in the movie is the plot. The Wicked Witch of the West is a minor character who appears near the end of the story in the novel version. The production doesn't even mention the Queen of the Field Mice. The producers replace her with the wicked witch of the east who gets a house dropped on her. She meets with the good witch of the north named Glinda who protects her through the journey watching over her. When the wicked witch of west finds that her sister has died she goes for the ruby slippers when Glinda puts it in dorothy starting her adventure and the reason why the wicked witch wants to kill dorothy and her little dog