The Wizard of Oz (Re-Release)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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(Originally released on May 30th, 2018) Close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and join Paul & Amy as they discuss 1939’s The Wizard Of Oz! Discover what makes the land of Oz so satisfyingly tactile, how the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion tormented each other on set, and whether this is the most influential film of all time. Plus: Paul & Amy talk to Walter Krueger, who owns one of the world’s biggest collections of Oz memorabilia. Next week the pod will really tie the room together as we cover the 1998 crime comedy classic The Big Lebowski! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hello out there. Welcome to Unspooled. We are off to see our friends and families. It's the holidays. Maybe you have cranberry sauce over your face. Maybe I do too. Maybe even if you're not listening to this on a holiday, we are still both messy. That's how it goes over here. Paul and I are pulling an old episode out of the vault that dates back to
0:21.3	2018, which means if it was a human by now, it would be munchkin size. That is wild to think about
0:28.2	and perfectly fitting because we are talking about the Wizard of Oz. When this movie came out in
0:33.4	1939, critics called it a knockoff of Snow White. Now, it is not just not really thought of
0:40.3	that at all. It is not just beloved. It is number 10 on the AIFI list. And that is a journey
0:46.0	as wild as passing out in Kansas and waking up in Oz. We're going to get into all of that.
0:51.4	But briefly, I want to say that since this episode aired, a doc came out
0:55.8	called Lynch Oz about this movie's effect on one of its biggest fans, David Lynch.
1:00.8	I'm a voice in the doc, hello, but I would actually rather tell you about the other voices.
1:04.8	Karin Kusama, David Lowry, Rodney Asher, the tag team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead,
1:10.1	and the man who made me fall in love with movies, John Waters.
1:13.5	Also, the movie version of Wicked is Out, which starts right where this film ends with the munchkins having this bloodthirsty celebration that ding-dong the Witch is Dead, which, whatever you are doing out there as you're listening, I hope you're having as much fun as they are.
1:25.1	Okay, on with the show.
1:30.3	It's 1939. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers
1:34.4	to kill again. The movie, The Wizard of Oz. Hey, everybody. I am Paul Shear.
1:56.7	And I'm Amy Nicholson.
1:57.6	And welcome to unspooled.
2:00.4	Let's talk about the Wizard of Oz.
2:02.2	Let's do it.
2:04.1	So, Amy, this is probably going to be one of the most universal, popular movies that we are
2:09.5	going to do on this entire podcast.
2:11.1	I think you're right.
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