Daily Dialogue — April 22, 2017

OZ: You know what I think we need? A little music.
THEODORA: Is that magic?
OZ: In a way. It’s a music box. You’ve never seen one? This belonged to my grandmother. A czarina from Irkutsk.

— Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), written by Mitchell Kapier and David Lindsay-Abaire, screen story by Mitchell Kapner, based on the“Oz“ Works by L. Frank Baum

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Lying. Today’s suggestion by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Michelle Williams’ character Annie is marrying a man named John Gale. Director Sam Raimi has confirmed that Annie and John are intended to be the (previously unnamed) parents of Dorothy Gale, the main character in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) and “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (book), and a primary or secondary character in most of the other books.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “It’s Oz’ usual lie to present pretty girls innumerable music box — from his fictitious grandmother. We have seen him before doing it. A lie which is easily to unmask, as there is no czarina from Irkutsk. But not for a witch living in the far, far world of Oz. And with this lie, Oz starts to conquer Theodora’s heart. And when it breaks the Wicked Witch of the West is born.”