Who's your favorite character(s) in the "Wizard of Oz"?

definitely Elphaba

I have to say I must have pushed the wrong button..but I created this survey and I am voting on it too!! I just cannot resist! I also want to say "Thanks" for being patient with my other three sucky surveys..I'm slowly getting the nitch on how to do this. I really enjoy this site! Dorothy is my fave because I always wanted to be her when I was growing up. I also played Dorothy in a production of "Wizard of Oz"..She's so innocent and naive. There should be a lot more girls like her nowadays. :)

Flying Monkeys (because I love the concept!), though the Wicked Witch certainly has more character ("I'll get you, my pretties!") So, I picked both!

I don't remember if my favourite character was in the first book or not... anyway, I like the sofamoose, though I can never remember its name.

Isn't it the wicked witch of the west?

The Wicked Witch of the West.

Wicked Witch of the West. This is really thanks to the book "Wicked".

This would be the movie (my answers would be different for the book)... I assume you mean the WW of the West, as the WW of the East dies 10 seconds after Dorothy arrives in Oz.

I've always gone for the brainy types :)

Although I'm also pretty fond of the Horse of a Different Color.

It might have been good to specify in the question that you're talking about the movie, not the book, although it is certainly obvious from the options listed.

The trees that throw apples.

I also have a serious desire to own my very own pair of ruby slippers, but in sneaker form, instead of pumps. It's one of my new years resolutions to make some for myself.

I should have specified that I was speaking of the movie. And,yes, it was the WW of the West...:)

Toto.. and the scarecrow... I loved how he was so worried about not having a brain, yet he was the one who kept having bright ideas throughout the movie.

If you haven't watched The Wizard of Oz while listening to Pink Floyd's The Darkside of the Moon... you really should... I think you're supposed to start the cd when the lion roars at the beginning in the MGM logo.

been there, done that.
The brain loves to find patterns in things... still, it was fun.

I like the "real" wizard and the scarecrow.

I loathe The Wizard of Oz.

I picked the Cowardly Lion but I love the flying monkeys.

jjg: good book..

Mrs. Gulch, hands down, no contest. The real-life Wizard was kind of neat, too.

BTW, the Witch of the East is kind of a no-show, all you see are her feet.

i have vivid memories of watching the wizard of oz when i was very young and being terribly frightened by the flying monkeys and the wicked witch. i couldn't watch those parts of the movie until i was older without crying. it is funny what we remember and how even knowing the ending to the movie didn't make a difference.

The Wizard of Oz was actually a political fable. The yellow brick road was the road to prosperity. The tin-man was the eastern industrial workers(no heart), the scare crow was the farmers (no brain/organization), the cowardly lion was the politicians (no courage. Glenda the good witch of the north was Canada. The WW of east and west were the railroad barons. The house falling on the WW of east was supposed to represent the power of eastern tycoons being broken by housing for the working man. There is a whole lot more to go into, I won't do it for fear I'm being tiresome.

So who does the wizard represent?

...and who are the flying monkeys? (you're not being tiresome, this is cool stuff - do you have a link?)

I don't have a link. If I remember correctly the monkeys were either proles that were duped into being stooges for the monopolists or were middle class people who were similarly duped. I may have misremembered the WW of the east, instead of just railroad tycoons it might have been meant to include all monopolists. It definitely had more to do with the Vanderbilt era rather than the Rockerfeller era (or the Gates era). I don't remember who the wizard, the dog or Dorothy were supposed to represent. Any other symbolism that I came up with would be guesswork.

I will add that OZ may have come from the abbreviations of NY and PA. (NY was Baum's home state) "O" is between "N" and "P" and "Z" is between "Y" and "A".

Oz was, from this source, for an "ounce of gold" and the underlying message of the book was about Silver vs Gold:

http://www.ryerson.ca/~lovewell/oz.html
http://vrml.ced.tcu.edu/docw/wizoz.htm
http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm

They all annoyed the hell out of me ;)

Actually I much prefer the sequel, Return to Oz, starring a young Fairuza Balk. I've been trying to find it, but every video store in town has never heard of it. Ozma kicks ass, as does Tik Tok, and I was so deathly afraid of the Wheelers. Oh god, thinking about this much is starting to frustrate me because I love it so much, but I can't find it! OH!

tinman

Wicked Witch of the West