Oz: Great and Powerful...
“And the second reason was — during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios — I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You’ve got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist. Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing.”
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Joe Roth on his reasons for creating Oz: Great and Powerful movie.
On behalf of Dorothy, Glinda, Oz, General Jinjur, and all the other women/witches/sorceresses/etc of Oz, may I say WT-flying monkey?
“Ozma laughed at the wistful expression in the girl’s eyes, and then she drew Dorothy to her and kissed her.
‘Am I not your friend and playmate?’ she asked.
Dorothy flushed.
‘You know how dearly I love you, Ozma!’ she cried. ‘But you’re so busy ruling all this Land of Oz that we can’t always be together.’
- From Tik-Tok of Oz by L Frank Baum, Chapter 24
