Daily Dialogue — January 27, 2014

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road!”

— The Wizard of Oz (1939), screenplay by Noel Langley & Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley, book by L. Frank Baum

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is rescue, suggested by Bretton Zinger. Today’s suggestion by Cynthia Jeub.

Trivia: Some see L. Frank Baum’s story containing political and social satire. The little girl from the Midwest (typical American) meets up with a brainless scarecrow (farmers), a tin man with no heart (industry), a cowardly lion (politicians, in particular William Jennings Bryan) and a flashy but ultimately powerless wizard (technology). Although the little people keep telling her to follow the yellow brick road (gold standard), in the end it’s her silver (in the original story) slippers (silver standard) that help her get back to the good old days.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Perhaps one of the most famous scenes involving giving directions in movies, made all the more memorable by the presence of merry Munchkins and a peppy song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg.

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