The Wiz (film)

The Wiz is a musical film, released in 1978. It is the film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name in 1975. Remarkable is the cast consisting of Afro-American is, what a very own character.

The film can also be considered a modern remake of the film The Wizard of Oz 1939, based on the stories from 1900-1920 about the wizard of Oz author l. Frank Baum.

Define Diana Ross for the film are in the role of Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the scarecrow. ==Differences with the 1939[ Edit] == The film differs significantly from the 1939 The Wizard of Oz . Thus, the main character, Dorothy, here no fresh, young girl in a family of hard-working farmers in Kansas, but she comes from a very large and well-fed family in New York. She is a bangige, an always worrisome-looking spinster (nominally 24 years old, but the then 33-year-old Diana Ross can radiate that well), who is stranded in her career as a teacher.

Dorothy's magical shoes are not red as in the film adaptation of 1939, but silver as in the book (and also in the later The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz). The land of Oz is here a version of New York, complete with skyscrapers, metro stations and yellow taxis. The wicked witch has graffiti banned, what makes her quite unpopular. The scarecrow is not filled with straw but with parings printed paper: he regularly reads from their own content. Nothing to the Tin man shines. The cowardly lion is soon engaged in heroic bully. The "Flying Monkeys" are a motorcycle gang instead of flying monkeys.

The most striking difference is that the 1939 tells a story, supported by songs, while the movie is a series of song and dance from 1978, punctuated by bits of story. The songs "Ease On Down The Road" and "A Brand New Day" were hits. The movie itself was financially unsuccessful. ==Netherlands[ Edit] == In Netherlands by Joop van den Ende, a unique theatrical performance released under this same title, The Wiz, using songs from this musical.