#Oz the great and powerful cast china girl movie#
Sadly, this movie lacks much of the magic of the original. Using this canon, the writers want to help us understand how things got the way they were when Dorothy lands. Therefore, the movie depends on the works of L.
It is hamstrung by the fact that copyright issues prevented the use of anything original to the first movie. What “Oz the Great and Powerful” attempts to do is give us a compelling back story to the original movie. Glenda tells Oz that the true villain is Evanora, and what follows is the attempt to remove the evil witch from the throne of the Emerald City. When Oz meets the witch whom Evanora claimed had killed the king, he finds that she is Glenda the Good (Michelle Williams). She tells Oz that he must find the killer of the king, which turns out to be the king’s daughter who is also a witch, and tells him she can be defeated by the breaking of her wand. Here they meet Evanora (Rachel Weisz), Theodora’s sister. The two make their way to the Emerald City. Oz plays her like the other women he encounters, and she comes to believe that Oz will make her queen. She is immature and uninformed in the ways of romance. The former king made the prophetic utterance, but he was poisoned and died.
Theodora tells of a prophecy that a wizard would come to the land and bring hope and peace back. There he meets Theodora (Mila Kunis), one of the witches of the land. He gets caught in an updraft of a tornado and lands in Oz. When one of his female conquests has a husband who is the carnival strong man, Oz makes a hasty retreat in a hot air balloon. He works the carnival crowd for suckers and women. Oscar Diggs (James Franco), or Oz, is a sideshow magician and conman. And it all starts in the same place the earlier movie starts: Kansas. “Oz the Great and Powerful” tells us how the Wizard became to be. I never heard anyone say they liked the Wizard most, but he is the lynchpin of the story. If you grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, you watched the yearly airing of “The Wizard of Oz.” You knew all the words to the songs and you had a favorite character.
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