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Wicked
Posted On 2008-07-16 , 7:44 AM
The Movie:
A few days ago, I received a text message from my friend Amy telling me that they (they = big city movie people) were going to make Wicked into a movie!!!
For those who aren't familiar with Wicked, here is a little info behind it: |
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The Wizard of Oz:
Everyone knows the story of Oz, or at least, they think they do. Dorothy is pulled up by a tornado and lands her house on the Wicked Witch of the East in the town of the Munchkuns in the land of Oz. She is gifted the Ruby slippers (unless you read the original novel, where the slippers are silver) by the Good Witch, Glenda and is pursued by the Wicked Witch of the West. The movie ends in the Wicked Witch of the West dying at the hands of Dorothy and her friends.
Sorry if I just ruined the ending for anyone, but I assume most everyone has seen The Wizard of Oz by now.
The Novel and Musical:
Well, Wicked offers something a little different. This is the story of the birth and journey into adulthood of the Wicked Witch of the West (who's name, we learn, is Elphaba). Wicked tells of the original friendship between Glenda and Elphaba, how they went to school together (a school called Shiz) and what happened to pull them apart and turned Elphaba into the "wicked witch," while Glenda became the "good witch."
Wicked is both a novel and a broadway musical. The soundtrack for the musical is amazing, very worth finding and listening to if you have not already done so. Now, they are making this wonderful story into a movie, and I am stoked.
Here is a drawing I did of Elphaba, as seen on the cover of the novel, with inserted broadway lyrics from the song "No Good Deed."
I am really looking forward to the movie and I hope that this post will help others look at it as well.
More Art: For more great Wicked fan-art by various artists, view the Wicked Gallery within the Favorites section of our DeviantArt account.
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