Som Helene påpekar är Toto i FILMEN så klart en cairn. Tack för den fina bilden av Toto och Dorothy (Judy Garland)! Men Toto i BOKEN skulle kunna vara en skotte, vilket är var som resonerats om i inlägget nedan.

Trollkarlen från Oz, amerikansk musikalfilm från 1939 regisserad av Victor Fleming, med Judy Garland i huvudrollen som flickan Dorothy Gale.

Filmen hade svensk premiär den 2 januari 1940 och blev snabbt en stor succé. I konkurrens med Borta med vinden blev det ändå inte många Oscars premiäråret 1939 i USA, men sången Over the Rainbow, som skrivits speciellt för Judy Garland, belönades med en Oscar för bästa sång.

Filmen baseras på den amerikanske författaren L. Frank Baums bok Den underbara trollkarlen från Oz från år 1900.

Trollkarlen från Oz är en bok med många bottnar. Jag gillar att läsa den typen av litteratur. Andra exempel är Ulysses (James Joyce). Den går alltid att läsa om och hitta nya ingångar till.

Handlingen i filmen:

Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) råkar ut för en tornado, som förflyttar henne tillsammans med hennes hund Toto till landet Oz. Hon får snart veta att den enda som kan hjälpa henne hem igen är Trollkarlen från Oz som bor i Smaragdstaden. På väg dit träffar hon på Fågelskrämman, Plåtman och det fega Lejonet som slår följe till Smaragdstaden för att besöka trollkarlen.

Många boklärda och politiska uttolkar har försökt läsa in olika budskap i boken och filmen. Ur Wikipedia:



Many of the events and characters of the book resemble the actual political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s. The 1902 stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President Theodore Roosevelt, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and other political celebrities.

The book opens not in an imaginary place but in real life Kansas, which, in the 1890s as well as today, was well known for the hardships of rural life, and for destructive tornadoes. The Panic of 1893 caused widespread distress in rural America. Dorothy is swept away to a colorful land of unlimited resources that nevertheless has serious political problems. This utopia is ruled in part by people designated as wicked. Dorothy and her cyclone kill the Wicked Witch of the East. The Witch had previously controlled the all-powerful silver slippers (which were changed to ruby in the 1939 film). The slippers will in the end liberate Dorothy but first she must walk in them down the golden yellow brick road, i.e she must take silver down the path of gold, the path of free coinage. Following the road of gold leads eventually only to the Emerald City, which may symbolize the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value, or may symbolize the greenback value that is placed on gold (and for silver, possibly). Other allegorical devices of the book include:



* Dorothy, naïve, young and simple, represents the American people. She is Everyman, led astray and who seeks the way back home. She resembles the young hero of Coin's financial school, a very popular political pamphlet of 1893. Another interpretation holds that she is a representation of Theodore Roosevelt: note that the syllables "Dor-o-thy" are the reverse of the syllables "The-o-dore."





* The cyclone was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity. The cyclone was used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.





* Historians and economists who read the original 1900 book as a political allegory interpret the Tin Woodman as the dehumanized industrial worker, badly mistreated by the Wicked Witch of the East who rules Munchkin Country before the cyclone creates a political revolution and kills her. The Woodman is rusted and helpless—ineffective until he starts to work together with the Scarecrow (the farmer), in a Farmer-Labor coalition that was much discussed in the 1890s, which culminated in the successful Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota and its eventual merger with the Minnesota Democratic Party to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.





* The Munchkins are the little people—ordinary citizens. This 1897 Judge cartoon shows famous politicians as little people after they were on the losing side in the election. However, in Oz the Munchkins are all dressed similarly in blue, unlike these caricatures.the Scarecrow - the wise, but naive western farmers* the Tin Woodman - the dehumanized, Eastern factory workers* the Wicked Witch of the East - the Eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins)* the Good Witch of the North - New England, a stronghold of Populists* the Good Witch of the South - the South, another Populist area * the Wizard - President Grover Cleveland, or Republican Presidential candidate William McKinley* the Cowardly Lion - Democratic-Populist Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan* Dorothy - a young Mary Lease; or the good-natured American people * Dorothy's silver shoes - represents the 'silver standard' (acc. to the Populists, "the free and unlimited coinage of silver")* Toto - the 'teetotaling' Prohibitionists (or Temperance Party), an important part of the 'silverite' coalition* the Yellow Brick road - the 'gold standard' - paved with gold, but leads nowhere* the land of Oz - oz. is the standard abbreviation for ounce, in accordance with the other symbolism* Emerald City - Washington, D.C., with a greenish color associated with greenbacks* the Poppy field - the threat of anti-imperialism

 

Ingrid

29 juni 2008 10:52

Från en sida om Wizard of OZ:

What breed of dog is Toto?

It depends on your source. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum describes him as "a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose." He never said what breed he was, but Denslow drew him as looking somewhat like a Cairn terrier or a Scottie. When Toto next appears in an Oz book, John R. Neill drew him as a Boston terrier or French bulldog (Neill had a French bulldog himself at the time), even though he was well aware of Denslow's depiction. In one illustration in that book, Neill's Toto laughs at a statue of himself, which Neill drew in Denslow's style, complete with signature seahorse. As Neill drew Toto more in later books, however, he got shaggier, and ended up looking more like Denslow's depiction, a convention other Oz illustrators have pretty much stuck with. For The Movie, Scotties were initially looked at, but when Carl Spitz brought in Terry, a Cairn terrier, she got the job, and Toto became a Cairn to many

 

Lisbeth

29 juni 2008 11:18

Tack Ingrid!
Den av oss som har den största kunskapen om Wizard of Oz + related things.

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