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The Wiz

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The Wiz	type	TVTItem
The Wiz	label	The Wiz
The Wiz	page	TheWiz
The Wiz	comment	Motown and Universal produced a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz, an all-African-American retelling of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in 1978. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and Joel Schumacher wrote the screenplay. In addition to the Race Lifting, this added a further, big twist to the Oz tale: Instead of turn-of-the-20th-century Kansas, the story begins in modern Harlem and Dorothy is a shy schoolteacher in her 20s who has never ventured beyond it — a change made to accommodate the casting of Diana Ross (in her 30s at the time) in the role, as she had campaigned heavily for it. It's a blizzard that sweeps her to Oz, a fantasy version of the rest of New York City. The Tin Woodman is now a forgotten amusement park robot, the Cowardly Lion masquerades as a statue outside the Public Library, the Wicked Witch of the West (here named Evillene) runs a sweatshop, etc. It remains notable for marking the end of Blaxploitation in cinema, and for its All-Star Cast of African-American talent, from Richard Pryor as the Wiz himself to Lena Horne as Glinda to a 19-year-old Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow (his only major film role, not counting the anthology Moonwalker and his cameo in Men in Black II)note Jackson's casting in the film brought him to the attention of its music producer, Quincy Jones, who convinced Jackson to let him produce what would become his three most successful albums: Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.Not to be confused with The Wizard. Also, information about the 2015 TV special The Wiz Live! can be found on the same page as the Broadway musical.
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The Wiz / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Wiz / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Dorothy, in the play, is depicted as a young girl, but in the movie, is turned into a 20 something schoolteacher. It becomes awkward when Dorothy still frequently cries and behaves like someone much younger.
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The Wiz / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
The Wiz / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Despite this version depicting the Tin Man as always being a robot, instead of a human turned into a tin man, he still sings - or rather, talk-sings - about wanting to have human feelings "again". It might seem similarly awkward to see the grown-up Dorothy sing the lines, "And maybe I can convince time to slow up/Giving me enough time in my life to grow up", during the song "Home", but it's somewhat subverted by Dorothy's initial depiction in Harlem as a grown, working woman still living with her aunt and uncle and reluctant to strike out on her own.
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The Wiz / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Wiz / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: From the post-apocalyptic New York setting and general decay of the architecture, to the costuming, to the casting of Dorothy herself (changed from a young girl to an Extreme Doormat adult), the film version is a bleak (The Scarecrow is being tortured by the crows), but sumptuously shot piece of work. The Villain Song subverts this, though - it is a selfish ode to self done in the style of a Gospel number.
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The Wiz / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
The Wiz / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: While being tortured by the Wicked Witch to make Dorothy give up the slippers, the Scarecrow (who is getting cut in half with a buzzsaw) and the Tin Man (who gets his body Squashed Flat with a press) both reassure her that they aren't in pain, but it doesn't help Dorothy react with any less horror at the sight of her friends getting such disturbing treatments.
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The Wiz / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Wiz / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: No, seriously... the Crow gang, the subway peddler and the poppy girls check themselves with a large clocking-in machine upon returning to the lair of their boss Evillene.
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The Wiz / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Wiz / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Every aspect of Oz is redesigned to resemble the gangland that was New York in the Seventies, where not only does the Wicked Witch reign supreme but also hookers, drug dens, and killer subways.
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The Wiz / int_24055b6c	type	Madonna Archetype
The Wiz / int_24055b6c	comment	Madonna Archetype: Glinda resembles the Virgin Mary. If the matching blue robe and veil were not a giveaway, she even wears a crown of stars. Her army of floating space babies also resembles attendant cherubs.
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The Wiz / int_267ed425	type	Dystopian Oz
The Wiz / int_267ed425	comment	Dystopian Oz: Oz is depicted as a grimy, largely colorless land similar to 1970s New York City, Dorothy is terrified by much of what she encounters as soon as she lands there and calls out the Wiz for risking the lives of her and her friends by sending them to slay Evillene, and it turns out that Dorothy was brought to Oz intentionally by Glinda... but in a subversion of the typical "manipulative Glinda" portrayal, she's a benevolent Trickster Mentor / Messianic Archetype who's done this so Dorothy can find her own inner strength via The Hero's Journey. Dorothy is ultimately glad for the experience as she returns to Harlem. (Unlike in most versions of this story, the Wiz doesn't return to "reality" because, as Dorothy explains to him, he has to take his own journey first after spending so long hiding from the world.) Between this and how all the secondary antagonists en masse are overjoyed to be free of Evillene, this movie is about as upbeat a take on this trope as it's possible to be.
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The Wiz / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Wiz / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The Ozites donning themselves in red during the Emerald City Ballet is probably a reference to the Quadlings from the stage show, who dress all in red, though being Glinda's helpers are probably far more cordial than the Ozites. The switch to Gold is also a possible reference to the Yellow Brick Dancers from the show. The film also contains a few nods to the 1939 MGM film, with the Wicked Witch of the East's legs rolling up when the slippers are taken off her feet and her being related to the other Wicked Witch (who takes great offense to her sister's death).
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The Wiz / int_2e347b00	type	Single-Palette Town
The Wiz / int_2e347b00	comment	Single-Palette Town: The Emerald City. In the movie, the palette changes with the Wiz's current color preference — it starts as green, then changes to red and finally to gold in the course of one musical number.
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The Wiz / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Wiz / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The 1939 MGM version of the Wicked Witch of the West is a nasty piece of work, but the film version of Evillene has her beaten in terms of sheer sadism. Whether it's dismembering the Scarecrow with a buzzsaw, crushing the Tin Man with a press, hanging the Cowardly Lion by his tail or threatening to roast Toto alive, Evillene is willing to do whatever it takes to get the Silver Slippers.
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The Wiz / int_38d17b6c	type	Boss-Arena Idiocy
The Wiz / int_38d17b6c	comment	Boss-Arena Idiocy: Despite Evillene's allergy to water, the movie version places her lair in a sweatshop with overhead sprinklers, and uses a giant toilet for her throne. Thanks to these amenities, Dorothy defeats her by simply pulling the fire alarm.
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The Wiz / int_3cefbec8	type	Rust-Removing Oil
The Wiz / int_3cefbec8	comment	Rust-Removing Oil: Dorothy and the Scarecrow come across an amusement park mechanical man who is rusted. They "slide some oil to [him]" which loosens his joints which lets him move, sing and dance.
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The Wiz / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Wiz / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The movie makes a big deal out of giving a fantasy twist to landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center.
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The Wiz / int_4c6e3b05	type	Uncanny Valley Makeup
The Wiz / int_4c6e3b05	comment	In the original Broadway production, Evillene wasn't necessarily ugly, just garishly dressed. The film makes use of heavy prosthetic makeup to give her a more grotesque appearance.
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The Wiz / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Wiz / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: In the original Broadway production, Evillene wasn't necessarily ugly, just garishly dressed. The film makes use of heavy prosthetic makeup to give her a more grotesque appearance. Similarly, Evillene's workers look much uglier here than in the play, since all of the actors wear large, exaggerated masks with buggy eyes. Once the witch is killed, however, they all turn back into normal humans.
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The Wiz / int_53fd0a77	type	Out of the Frying Pan
The Wiz / int_53fd0a77	comment	Out of the Frying Pan: The Scarecrow mutters that trope directly when he realizes that the Poppy Girls are up to no good. And considering that they just escaped from the monsters in the subway only to run into these more hypnotic foes, he is probably right.
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The Wiz / int_570f2124	type	Minor Injury Overreaction
The Wiz / int_570f2124	comment	Minor Injury Overreaction: The Lion acts hostile and confrontational towards Dorothy's posse after his introduction song, but all it takes is Toto nibbling his foot to make him fall into a crying mess. Later, however, he withstands the pain of being hung up by his tail pleading Dorothy to not give the slippers to the Wicked Witch.
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The Wiz / int_62ac3f93	type	Sinister Subway
The Wiz / int_62ac3f93	comment	Sinister Subway: Sinister? Try absolutely terrifying.
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The Wiz / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
The Wiz / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: Okay, more "fanciful" than bizarre, but still quite trippy. Think Sesame Street meets Star Wars, or maybe Gotham City as imagined by Sid & Marty Kroft.
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The Wiz / int_6ef186d3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
The Wiz / int_6ef186d3	comment	Speaks in Shout-Outs: The Scarecrow speaks from bits of newspaper he's stuffed with.
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The Wiz / int_6fd83482	type	Ocular Gushers
The Wiz / int_6fd83482	comment	Ocular Gushers: Whenever the Tin Man cries, tears SPRAY out of his eyes.
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The Wiz / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Wiz / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Aunt Em nags Dorothy about getting a new job and moving out into her own place when she catches herself sounding like one.
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The Wiz / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Wiz / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The Cowardly Lion reveals his name as Fleetwood Coupe de Ville, or "Fleet" for short. However, his friends call him simply, "Lion". The leader of the Flying Monkeys goes by, "Cheetah". After Dorothy and her friends discover the Wiz as a sham, he reveals himself as a second-rate Atlantic City politician named, "Herman Smith".
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The Wiz / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
The Wiz / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The movie depicts Dorothy as having a fear of leaving the safety of her Aunt Em's house to venture into the outside world.
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The Wiz / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Wiz / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Despite living in what has to be the late 1960s or the '70s, Dorothy never notices all the uncanny parallels between her own experiences and the 1939 movie and 1900 book that are slavishly being copied here. (Of course, if she had been, she'd have been ridiculously Genre Savvy and the story could have ended much quicker.) Thus, one must conclude that, in the universe in which The Wiz takes place, L. Frank Baum never existed - or, if he did, he never penned his most famous work.
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The Wiz / int_7dd72460	type	Gold-Colored Superiority
The Wiz / int_7dd72460	comment	Gold-Colored Superiority: The Emerald City starts green, but then an announcement from the Wizard changes everything red. "I thought it over and green is dead / 'Till I change my mind, the color is red" The residents turn red and sing its praises, and then there's another announement: "How quickly fashion goes down the sink. / Last week when you all was wearin' pink / Already for me red was old. / The ultimate brick is gold." It remains gold for the rest of the film.
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The Wiz / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Wiz / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Nipsey Russell's Tin Man lacks the mean remarks of his stage counterpart and is more of a compassionate Team Dad figure.
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The Wiz / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Wiz / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: What does Evillene's sweatshop manufacture? Sweat! And yet it also has sewing machines and fabrics in it, which would imply they make clothes.
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The Wiz / int_89102272	type	Artistic Title
The Wiz / int_89102272	comment	Artistic Title: The opening credits appear over a mural of Glinda watching over Harlem from the heavens.
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The Wiz / int_8d217819	type	BigRottenApple
The Wiz / int_8d217819	comment	Big Rotten Apple: This still being pre-Giuliani New York City, Oz is depicted as the run-down wretched hive it was in the 1970s, full of dilapidated cars, crumbling buildings, a jagged skyline and graffiti everywhere. This is magical??
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The Wiz / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Wiz / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Scarecrow has fortune cookie sayings and quotes filed into his body and occasionally breaks some of them out to read in relevant situations. The Scarecrow, quite literally, has all the wisdom he needs inside of him.
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The Wiz / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Wiz / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Evillene. It turns out that all the characters who hinder Dorothy and/or her friends' journey on the Yellow Brick Road (the crows, the peddler, and the poppy girls) are her slaves, and when she's defeated, they're overjoyed to be free of her.
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The Wiz / int_98804a6e	type	Polish the Turd
The Wiz / int_98804a6e	comment	Polish the Turd: Because critics' reviews for the movie were so weak, a TV ad was shot featuring ordinary moviegoers raving about the film — a common promotional tactic still used today. (RiffTrax got a hold of this as part of their riffing of The Star Wars Holiday Special.)
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The Wiz / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Wiz / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Whenever the peddler appears, an eerie flute riff is heard.
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The Wiz / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Wiz / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Undoing a change from Baum's book made for the play, Toto accompanies Dorothy on her journey through Oz, instead of just waiting with Aunt Em for Dorothy to come home. In the book and the play, Glinda only appeared near the end of the story, to tell Dorothy how to use the Silver Slippers to go home. The movie gives her a larger role, by showing her conjuring up the storm that blows Dorothy and Toto away to Oz.
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The Wiz / int_a73cfb7f	type	Animate Inanimate Object
The Wiz / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: The Sinister Subway is filled with such things as living columns, biting trash cans, and serpent-like electrical cables.
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The Wiz / int_ab4e7107	type	Tricked-Out Shoes
The Wiz / int_ab4e7107	comment	Tricked-Out Shoes: The Silver Slippers. As with the main source material, they are the one thing that can send Dorothy back home.
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The Wiz / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Wiz / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: After Miss One gives Dorothy the Silver Slippers, Dorothy exclaims, "I don't want these shoes! I wanna go home!" However, as viewers who read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/watched MGM's The Wizard of Oz/saw The Wiz on stage would know, the magic of the Silver Slippers eventually takes Dorothy home.
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The Wiz / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Wiz / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Movie only.
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The Wiz / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
The Wiz / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: The stage version downplays the famous Oz head (typically throwing it in as a Mythology Gag) and instead has the Wizard appear before the characters in-person, dressed as a magnificent sorcerer. The film reestablishes the head as his "wizard" form, and doesn't reveal that he's just a man until later, much like the book.
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The Wiz / int_b800a2e0	type	Failing a Taxi
The Wiz / int_b800a2e0	comment	Failing a Taxi: Dorothy sees and approaches Oz taxis on two occasions early on, but in each case, an "OFF DUTY" light switches on and it drives away.
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The Wiz / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Wiz / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Undoing another change from the book made for the play, Dorothy never meets the Good Witch of the North again after the Witch leaves Munchkinland.
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The Wiz / int_ba389b4	type	Swiss-Army Tears
The Wiz / int_ba389b4	comment	Swiss-Army Tears: The Tin Man's aforementioned Ocular Gushers are used to awake the Lion, Dorothy and Toto after the poppy girls poisoned them.
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The Wiz / int_bd817b34	type	Attack the Tail
The Wiz / int_bd817b34	comment	Attack the Tail: Evillene tortures the Cowardly Lion by having him painfully hung up by his tail.
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The Wiz / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Wiz / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: If an American city's going to stand in for Oz, it'll be New York City...
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The Wiz / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Wiz / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: The Lion is so ashamed of failing Dorothy by falling into the trap of the Poppy Girls that he attempts to throw himself off the rooftop but his friends hold him back from doing so. The subsequent song number "Be A Lion" is essentially Dorothy Talking Down the Suicidal to help the Lion pull himself together.
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The Wiz / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Wiz / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: From the opening credits, "Lena Horne as Glinda the Good and Richard Pryor as The Wiz".
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The Wiz / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: Mixed with Marionette Master, as the peddler is seen donning an expressionless mask of fabric upon approaching Dorothy and her posse in the subway before unleashing two ghastly sentient puppets on them.
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The Wiz / int_eea93c96	comment	In the book and the play, Glinda only appeared near the end of the story, to tell Dorothy how to use the Silver Slippers to go home. The movie gives her a larger role, by showing her conjuring up the storm that blows Dorothy and Toto away to Oz.
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The Wiz / int_fbe45e76	comment	Scary Black Woman: Evillene, full stop. Not helping is her ugly, Gonky appearance that almost makes her look like a broken doll with a lot of missing hair on its head.
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The Wiz / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: In the Sinister Subway, the heroes are threatened by a sinister peddler's puppets (that grow taller than the heroes), trash cans with sharp teeth, snake-like live electrical wires, and moving columns that almost crush Dorothy.
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