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Wicked (2024)
Dec. 14th, 2024 10:51 pmI like the musical very much and so my feelings about the movie were positive, but I don't think it added much that wasn't already in the musical, and didn't really need to be as long as it did for act one.
-At the beginning, there's a rainbow appearing over the waterfall when the instrumental plays the "Unlimited" theme...which is a deliberate homage to "Over the Rainbow" (Stephen Schwartz taking as many notes as he could before it ran afoul of copyright laws).
-I think in the courtyard at Shiz, there's a tile with a picture of the wizard. Elphaba's burst of magic inadvertently destroys it, and it looks like the mosaic of the talking animals is underneath.
-This isn't anything new, but just reminded me: despite a few Elphaba traits, I am actually more of a Fiyero. (The reasons why are part of the *angry keysmash* tangle of neuroses where it's hard to tease out just one tl;dr without writing a whole angry manifesto, so I'll spare you, probably.)
-At the beginning, there's a rainbow appearing over the waterfall when the instrumental plays the "Unlimited" theme...which is a deliberate homage to "Over the Rainbow" (Stephen Schwartz taking as many notes as he could before it ran afoul of copyright laws).
-I think in the courtyard at Shiz, there's a tile with a picture of the wizard. Elphaba's burst of magic inadvertently destroys it, and it looks like the mosaic of the talking animals is underneath.
-This isn't anything new, but just reminded me: despite a few Elphaba traits, I am actually more of a Fiyero. (The reasons why are part of the *angry keysmash* tangle of neuroses where it's hard to tease out just one tl;dr without writing a whole angry manifesto, so I'll spare you, probably.)
