What puts the ape in apricot…
Courage.
I’m watching the Wizard Of Oz. It typically comes on this time of year and is repeated about four or five times on TNT. It never gets old.
What is it about this movie, more than any other movie in the history of cinema I might argue, that draws both the young and old. I honestly don’t know anyone who dislikes the Wizard of Oz. Is it the majestic use of technicolor? Is it the story? Is it the music? Is it the fact that it is so ingrained in our culture and that almost everyone in America born after 1939 has seen in it?
It’s probably a combination of all of those. I’d be interested in exploring that, in the effect this one movie has had on our society.
A lot of important films bare a certain air of pretension. Not so with the Wizard of Oz.
So I sit here, watching the film, saying lines out loud, singing along and thoroughly enjoying myself.
