Saturday, August 18, 2007

"Wizard of Oz" Opened

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film and
one of the most beloved of all American films. It is everybody's cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical annually for Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Easter time. It soon became a classic institution, and a rite of passage for everyone, and probably has been seen by more people than any other motion picture over multiple decades.

The Wizard of Oz is often ranked among the top ten best movies of all-time in popular polls, and has provided as many indelible quotes and images, entered upon the American cultural consciousness such as:The Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas twister), characters (e.g., Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch), quotes (e.g., "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "We're not in Kansas anymore," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," or the film's final line: "There's no place like home"), and music ("Over the Rainbow") have become indelibly remembered,.

Its signature song, Over the Rainbow, sung by the young Judy Garland, has been voted the greatest movie song of all-time by the American Film Institute

No comments: