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The Great and Powerful Oz Movie Critique

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Monday, May 13, 2013

The Great and Powerful Oz Movie Critique

Oz the Great and Powerful was made to be a prequel to the movie The Wizard of Oz. This film showed how Oscar Diggs, also known as Oz, comes to be in the Land of Oz and take rule over the land and its citizens.

The film starts out with Oscar, a carnival shyster, being transported to Oz in a hot air balloon, which gets sucked into a tornado. The lighting and visual effects for this scene are amazing. Everything is dark and gloomy, and the use of a green screen makes the tornado image, and much of the other images in the film.

When Oscar arrives in Oz it is a land filled with beauty and danger. The movie is extremely visually appealing, and the Land of Oz is mostly created using green screen and special effects. Oscar comes across three witches shortly after his arrival, Theodora, Evanora, and Glinda, and he must prove to them that he is the wizard that they have been expecting. There are many trials and action packed scenes but in the end Oscar pulls through. “Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great wizard but into a better man as well (Pandya2013).”

The acting in this film, over all was good. Oscar was played by James Franco and he did an excellent job. The way he smiled and the charm he put across on screen made the audience buy what he was saying and doing, even though it was made known from the beginning that he was a con-artist. He made the audience want to believe him even though they knew better.

Michelle Williams, who played Glinda, also did an excellent job. She played her role as kind, meek, and innocent very well. She was very peaceful and graceful in her role.

Mila Kunis played Theodora. At the beginning of the movie, when Theodora had the potential to be good still, Mila Kunis did an exceptional job of playing her character. She was...