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"I wrote my first story in Bombay at the age of ten; its title was Over the Rainbow...
I remember that The Wizard of Oz (the film, not the book, which I didn't read as a child) was my very first literary influence...
The Wizard of Oz is a film whose driving forces is the inadequacy of adults, even of good adults, and how the weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies, and so, ironically, grow up themselves...
When I fist saw The Wizard of Oz it made a writer of me...
...this is unarguably a film aboout the joys of going away, of leaving the greyness and entering the colour, of making a new life in the 'place where there isn't any trouble'. 'Over the Rainbow' is, or ought to be, the anthem of all the world's migrants, all those who go in search of the place where 'the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true'. It is a celebration of Escape..."
Fragmentos del fascinante ensayo The Wizard of Oz, de Salman Rushdie (Brittish Film Institute, 1992).
Comentarios
El detrás de cámaras está lleno de historias obscuras, que se rescataron con motivo del DVD: la supuesta sombra de uno de los enanos extras colgado de un árbol, las calamidades que pasó Berth Lahr para adaptarse al disfraz del hombre de hojalata, escenas inéditas. Estupenda de todas formas.
La adaptación de los 1970s de Sidney Lumet, The Wiz, un musical soul con reparto de actores negros (Michael Jackson como el Espantapájaros, y Diana Ross como Dorothy) es fabulosa. Ahora con la adaptación que Tim Burton hará de Alice in Wonderland, me gustaría ver como le quedaría una adaptación de The Wizard of Oz.
Venga, Saludos!