Wicked Fans!!!!!???????????

Question

SO, i was on a wicked discussion board about an hour ago and a lot of the people on there were saying that the wizard of oz (book and movie) are corrupt examples of the wizards power in our society. just WTF! ok when i read what they were saying about l frank baum and his work, i replied back and was banned from the site because of what i wrote..

<b> seriously, it's just a book. i love wicked... i've read it a few times and i've been the musical and know all the songs but you crazed fans realize that without l frank baum's book(s) that there would be no wicked?!?!?! so you really shouldn't disrespect something that lead to your favorite book. it's ridiculous. you really need to appreciate the work that baum put into those books and the work put into the movie. i understand that yeah, those books are unfairly told according to what's written in wicked, but baum wrote that book 108 years ago! how long ago was wicked written? 13 years ago? yeah, i'm pretty sure that baum purposefully wrote oz because of knew that decades later crazed wicked fans would go on discussion board writing c**p about him and his novel. he wasn't trying to portray elphaba as a bad person, he was just writing a book without the knowledge of the history of oz. so please stop dissing the wonderful work put into this world by mr. l. frank baum. </b>

Answer 1

i agree with u 100% if he didnt right wizard of oz there would be no wicked to be totally obsessed with!!!more people need to realize that!!!

Answer 2

They weren&#039;t &quot;writing c**p about him&quot;--the part about how the wizard represents corrupt power in our society is true.  Real authors (such as L. Frank Baum) write stories with hidden meanings in them, and things that are supposed to be interpeted as such--just delivered via a story.  Baum intended it to be that way--it&#039;s his way of expressing his point of view on society without blatantly bashing it, which would not have gone over well with people.

That&#039;s why they are good authors--they can put a whole different meaning behind a story that you wouldn&#039;t think about the first time around.

They banned you because you obviously haven&#039;t taken enough English classes to realize that fact.

Answer 3

I think you may have misunderstood what they meant. It sounds like what they were saying is that Baum was making a point about corrupt leaders in our society. At the end of The Wizard Of Oz, we discover that everything about the &#039;wizard&#039; is a lie. He isn&#039;t magical or powerful, he&#039;s just a normal man who got lost and found himself in Oz. Through this, Baum was making a point about our own leaders.

I think that&#039;s what they meant. I don&#039;t think they were trying to insult Baum or his work. x

Answer 4

No, the Wizard of Oz was to communicate the ideas of populism. The Gold and Silver standards. The factory workers, the farmers, and the West, which is green, must be tamed with water. Populism was an ideal at the begining of the 20th century (when Wizard of Oz was first published).

Gregory Maguire found a way to tie his story back to the original Oz that everyone knows.

I am absolutely a die-hard Wicked fan, and Wicked is in Oz, which LFB created. And he should be thanked for that.

I&#039;m a mod on a discussion board for Gregory Maguire (all his books, and the musical), but we have several rules in place to ensure things don&#039;t get out of hand. If something like that had started on that db, the post would be locked very quickly.