Behind closed curtains

Just like Hollywood. 😃

Also just like a company with a similar motto, Disney

It adds to the brilliance of the film somehow

Just like Toy Story 2's famous line, "you can't rush art".

Life was so near impossible for the miserable and unlucky Judy.

yeah big egos, 100 degrees Fahrenheit sets, unbearable costumes. no wonder they are ticked of to a girl who had no other painful costume. its just sad

*couldn't accept

@@nicmagtaan1132 Yeah I have to imagine that's part of it. She's the star, she's young and unlike everyone else she's not in a painful costume.

@@nicmagtaan1132 yea I agree. Its not right but it's understandable frustration.

She got second degree burns on her face and third degree burns on her right hand; the rest of her was okay. Her skin bore traces of green for a just few weeks; in later years, she liked talking about having had to assure people that she wasn't feeling ill. 🙂 Also, she recovered at home, not in a hospital. The studio doctor had already administered treatment on the set, and her personal physician looked after her from then onward. But yes, Miss Hamilton was a tough lady, one of the real troupers.

The fact is that she loved playing the Wicked Witch because it was so different from the roles she usually played, of which Miss Gulch was an example. After the movie, she reprised the role on stage and on T.V. many times.

@@MaskedMan66 wrong

@@acacia8261 Historically verified, Mr. Goldman.

@@MaskedMan66 wrong

This video is a sensationalist diatribe, full of exaggerations and lies.

@@MaskedMan66 no, i don't think so

@@samuelaviles824 I do, especially having read the authoritative books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz (who interviewed 48 people who worked on the movie, actors and behind-the-scenes personnel alike), "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.

@@MaskedMan66 tl;dr

@@FlakyMusic It was one short paragraph. Don't be cowardly.

We all know there is no good side

The good side is all the movies that we enjoy watching, like Dark Knight and Infinity Wars. (although there's a lot of movies that come out that are complete turds)

Keanu Reeves *recieves le reddit gold*

Of course there's a good side, but people are so addicted to bad that they ignore it.

@@MaskedMan66 you are in literally every comment acting like a complete bozo i encourage you to please get help

So not only mental abuse, feeding her drugs, lots of bullying by her co-actors, but also some of that nice physical abuse from the director? Nice.

Bruh

@@Jeremy-se1kp Going back to the classics

He was probably mad because film is expensive so you only get so many takes.

@@cookieface80 Are you attempting to justify a grown man physically assaulting a young girl because she was laughing?

Judy was not under any requirements for meds when she made this movie.

@@MaskedMan66 Can you go eat grass?

@@jacquelinedavis9948 Why are you so hostile to the truth? You'd think people would be glad to know that all the guff about Judy being victimized on this picture is not true. By the way, "eat grass" means "take a bribe."

Especially since she was sexually harassed by the actors who played the Munchkins (thank Garland's ex-husband Sid Luft for the information).

Yeah

i only know he did an ad with google calling back home alone

@@MsZsc And it was awesome. I hope one day Macaulay Culkin stars in a mainstream film.

@@alienboy1322 The _Home Alone_ movies were mainstream.

@@MaskedMan66 By that, I mean now. As an adult.

@@alienboy1322 He doesn't seem much interested in acting these days apart from the occasional cameo.

De-regulation and limitations of technology

socity

@@trolledfrog6789 ☝️ this 😥😥😓😓😢😢😢😭😰😰

The memetic flow of information has surpassed the need for such questions. It's not your job to ask questions J. Only to create context.

Capitalism. Of course.

So like most industries we grow up wanting to be apart of?

@@shawklan27 Yeah, exactly like that. It's unfortunate but what are ya gonna do.

Fitting that Disney's first film featured a poisoned but beautiful apple

this

Yeah, forget the film industry. They treat employees like commodities. I'm going to the NFL instead.lol

The "triangle shaped object" is a prism; if light is refracted through a prism, you get a rainbow.

I noticed that easter egg in the video too! Glad I'm not the only one to notice it

@@MaskedMan66 the "triangle shaped object" is a pyramid lol

@@magic9080 It's a prism; dig the refracted light.

@@MaskedMan66 they were referring to the triangle shaped object at 19:45

That was incredibly hard.

How is this "fun"?

:( I didm't have any fun with this.

Fun...

after watching this vid, her co-actors also suffered tremendous pain, it is just kinda sad they thrown their negativity towards judy

Quest!? What kind of “Quest?”

*applause*

@Night Terror Let the Downward Spiral BEGIN!

Not entirely accurate. You mean to say, "the adapters of the Wizard of Oz." The original author of the Oz books had no involvement with the movie since he had died years prior.

“Aw, did someone get addicted to meth?”

The snow was crushed gypsum.

@@MaskedMan66 Source?

@@samielware1846 The book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman, two of the world's leading experts on Oz in general and this movie in particular..

They were nothing but accidents, like millions that happen every day. Ebsen wasn't allergic to the aluminum powder, he had a bronchial condition that was aggravated by it. Nobody got maimed either.

@@MaskedMan66 Cope harder. Maybe they were accidents, but you dont have that many 'accidents' in one movie filming without gross negligence

@@JJLarge Yes, you do. Just as you have accidents (no need for quotation marks; they were genuinely accidents) every day in every industry in every walk of life. The nature of an accident is that it happens no matter how many measures have been taken. Was there "gross negligence" involved when Olivia Jackson lost her left arm filming a traffic chase scene in _Resident Evil: The Final Chapter?_ Or when David Holmes became paralyzed due to an accident while filming a Quiddich match for _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two?"_ Or were they just the victims of accidents? In none of those three movies was anyone out to get the people who were injured.

​@@MaskedMan66 the idea is that you're supposed to plan ahead to minimize accidents. yeah, those movies you mentioned had accidents that resulted in harm, but the Wizard of Oz had so many that it was clear no one took even the slightest time to think about how to minimize the accidents. the clearest examples of this are the fact that: 1. the makeup for the first tin man was a powder, while the second was a paste. that's something they should've thought through ahead of time or changed immediately when the first tinman started getting sick. 2. when the witch caught fire, once she had recovered enough to return to work, they immediately were going to put her into a pyrotechnic stunt that then ALSO went wrong. you'd think they would triple-check it to ensure safety or cancel the thing entirely, but they didn't. Sure, these things were "accidents," but they were preventable if production had given any thought to them.

@@piequals314 1. Actors (and everyday people) have been wearing powder as a component in make-up for centuries. Buddy Ebsen's make-up was white greasepaint dusted with aluminum powder, a process that had been tested and declared effective. Nobody had any way of knowing what would happen. Jack Haley's make-up, the aluminum paste, caused him no more problems than anyone can expect from having one's pores closed up, something that still happens with prosthetic make-up today. They just deal with it. 2. Margaret Hamilton (learn people's names if you're going to be talking about them) was not going to be given another "pyrotechnic stunt" upon returning to work because it was understood between her, Mervyn LeRoy, and Victor Fleming that she wasn't going to do anything involving fire. And how do you know they didn't check out the rig before Betty Danko sat on it? But the nature of an accident is that it can happen no matter how many precautions are taken. Shame on you for dismissing Olivia Jackson's severed arm and David Holmes's paralysis. They will have to deal with those for the rest of their lives. The people who were injured in _Wizard_ recovered and got on with their lives. Would that their self-appointed gatekeepers would do the same.

Margaret Hamilton, who, as everyone knows, got burned while making the movie, adored the finished product, and never dwelled on her scars.

@@MaskedMan66 Damn it's almost like Alzheimers makes it hard to dwell on anything

@@dantethewanderer4989 I'm talking about before she got Alzheimer's.

@@dantethewanderer4989 hahahah

@@dantethewanderer4989 brooooooooo

Why is the Emerald considered unlucky?

Fun fact 3: the wizard of oz story is thought to originally be populist propaganda. The emerald city being a metaphor for big industrial cities like NYC. The tin man being a metaphor for a factory worker, the scarecrow being a metaphor for the farmers that couldnt make enough money to support themselves, and the lion being a metaphor for the democratic presidential cantidate William Jennings Brian who could have brought the populist movement to the white house if he was fully committed.

@@dylana0032 sounding like my English Teacher rn

@@dylana0032 and Death Grips also caused the Ariana Grande bombing

I find it kinda funny, because my high school marching band was named “The Emerald Aliance”. The year before I joined they did a show called “Wicked” about the Wicked Witch of the West. Just an interesting coincidence.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It wasn't "dark," just difficult, like any movie. Actors are tough (or at least they were back then), and the ones in this movie could have told you about the real misery of vaudeville and just trying to make it in the biz. Judy was neither abused nor ridiculed by anyone involved in the making of "Wizard"; cast and crew alike were all impressed by her for her talent and sharp wit; bottom line, she was impossible not to like. And of course they had a hard time making the movie-- any actors on any movie did, and most still do.

@@MaskedMan66 It was bad conditions. Was it ok for her to eat so little? Was it ok for someone to wear a 100 pound costume? Was it ok to be blown up and be set on fire?

@@gmdrandom6287 Judy ate enough to keep body and soul together; she was not starved. Bert Lahr's Lion suit weighed 70 pounds, which was quite enough for him, thank you. Actors have worn much heavier costumes than that, and still do. Nobody intended to blow anybody up or set them on fire-- with the obvious exception of when the WWW sets the Scarecrow's arm alight, and that went without a hitch. Accidents happen; welcome to the world.

@@MaskedMan66 I've seen you make a lot of replies and refuting claims to people on this video and I'm curious about the sources of your information.

@@jackfinster I'm happy to oblige. The three main authoritative books on the subject are “The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman. Other books which contain useful bits of information include "The Oz Scrapbook" (1977) by David L. Greene and Dick Martin, and "The World of Oz" (1985) by Allen Eyles. I hope that proves useful to you. :-)

Granted, but he did regret having to leave the movie. It was hopefully some small consolation that his voice is still on the soundtrack. Fun Fact 1: Some years after the movie, Ebsen appeared in a stage version of _Wizard_ as the Scarecrow! Fun Fact 2: In the feature film version of _The Beverly Hillbillies,_ which starred Jim Varney as Jed, Ebsen had a cameo-- as Barnaby Jones!

i already know about fact #2 captain obvious. 🙄

@@robroy6374 It's nothing to do with you, total stranger I've never encountered before.

@@MaskedMan66 irrelevant to my comment sensitive vagrant I've never encountered before.

Very powerful

The make-up was not lead-lined.

I remember that the make-up that Margaret Hamilton wore had copper in it.

@@MaskedMan66 still, paint generally had lead in it back then, no way the face paints had anything good for you in them either. Go figure, also metals.

​@@Slender_Man_186 Considering the fact that actors have been wearing greasepaint (main component: oil) on stage and screen since the 1860's and nobody's brought up any particular health concerns from it, I'd say nobody in "Wizard" was the least bit worried. And of course, nobody had any aftereffects.

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I can imagine you actually living in a place that looks like that on the outside

hi rusty

That's as may be, but Judy's problems-- her real, life-shattering problems-- started after "Wizard."

All that abuse just to make a movie, what a waste of time

Yeah and instead of learning the lesson, they decided to inject politics into everything. Hollywood sucks

@@acacia8261 There was no abuse.

@@MaskedMan66 full of abuse

Not negative, just untrue. There are plenty of negative things that happened during the production of this movie without inventing more of them. Have you actually looked critically into any of the reports that people blindly believe, like the lies about Judy Garland being abused and bullied by her co-stars? Or are you willing to read the books you've seen me recommend, which were written by historians who spoke to the people who created the film? Bottom line, you needn't worry about my "mental state" as all I'm here for-- and anyone could do what I'm doing-- is to provide the truth.

@Adrian Vegas He's had no problem with my comments.

@Adrian Vegas Got two, thanks. Next irrelevant comment?

@Adrian Vegas Two's plenty. And your judgment is faulty. Why should someone who actually is after setting the record straight about this movie (and I'm not the only one) be restricted from it? Very baffling reasoning there.

@Adrian Vegas I have the same amount of time as anyone in any given day, and it doesn't take much of it to dash off these comments. Truth is truth, and ratings are irrelevant to it. People always crowd around scandal; that doesn't make it true. "The National Enquirer" has been a top-selling publication for almost a century; does that mean it tells the truth? Think about that for a bit. I don't think "literally" everyone would appreciate you speaking for them; in point of fact, many people have taken the time to check out the facts and have realized the rumormongers are spreading nonsense.

yes

yes

it's still showing up to me like that

So right now

🙋! Imagine if it didnt change though

-Hollywood, definitely

-Hollywood, guaranteedly

There is no bottom, only the infinite void of the downward spiral.

@@gmann215 facts. true rock bottom is 8x6 down in the Earth....

And with the current trends, they're practically pioneers in reaching its bottom

Accidents are accidents; millions of them happen every day. Make-up was necessary to create the illusion of a different skin color or texture; nobody foresaw accidents, because nobody ever does.

This video is full of lies and misrepresentation. People don't realize, because rumormongers don't tell them, that they took frequent breaks to cool off; the lights were shut off, the doors were opened, and Bert was able to open his costume and also get his hands out.

all just for a kid's movie

@@acacia8261 A family movie, and one which the stars and crew loved. People have gone through far worse for other movies. Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on the last "Harry Potter" movie is now a quadriplegic because of a stunt that went wrong. On some movie sets and locations, people have even died.

@@MaskedMan66 wizard of oz is evil movie, evil

@@acacia8261 Oscar, stick to giving Steve and Jaime their assignments. That's what you're good at.

Where can I find these tapes? Are they available on KZfaq? This sounds so interesting!

@@Serioslump They are all in this playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLF2932280AE5133F7

boozed up druggies say alot of things to be taken with a grain of salt.

@@SENATORPAIN1 sheep! Think for yourself.

@@Logicalporkpie what?

Thats why companies now having strict safety regulations to follow these days.

@@rayminishi689 good lol

@@rayminishi689 There's an old saying that goes "regulations are written in blood", and often times for good reason.

@@rayminishi689 SAG being one of them.

There's one important thing to consider. Back then movie tickets didn't cost 20 dollars. The costs and regulations today make everything so expensive it's harder to take risk on a loss. That's not just true for movies but for everything. Life is getting so expensive and the rise in costs are accelerating. This is how civilizations collapse. Eventually people can no longer afford to live, and the system breaks down. Oh, but at least actors get treated like gods for their ability to play pretend..

I'm not particularly aware of what exactly a prestige film entails, but by the definition in the video, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean would be prestige films too right?

@@billybro1403 Lord of the Rings is debatably a prestige film, sure, but I highly doubt Pirates could be considered one. From my understanding, a prestige film was essentially spending oodles of money on a making the highest quality film, and having little expectation of making said money back. You're not making the film for business in this case, but "prestige", thus the name. I doubt Pirates was ever thought to be anything other than financially successful for Disney, but I can totally see how Lord of the Rings being filmed by Peter Jackson was highly risky and ambitious.

@@ImCurrentlyNaked thanks for explaining.

Judy wasn't badly treated here.

@@MaskedMan66 Ok? I was talking about Bobby Driscoll..

@@MaskedMan66 she was

@@paperhat_boi Nope.

"One man can only start so many unions"

@@kimgkomg Mickey Rooney was in quite a few unions. ;-)

Yep, and it saddens me that many people feel uneasy about the modern ones today.

@@garybrown2039 Blame the mob.

@MaskedMan66 My dad doesn’t like Mickey Rooney too much. Apparently when he was growing up, he was forced to watch all the Andy Hardy movies alongside his brothers and sisters as part of an archaic family activity known as Movie Night. I can only imagine the intense discomfort and suffering he went through having to watch those films over and over, just sayin’. 😱

Hi Jadyn: Aka verified commenter

@@kingcrimson2168 verified man says verified thing

That is the point of a KZfaq poop production.

@@DeanL6_ Do not question, consume entertainment.

hey buddy

You were misinformed. Her make-up was greasepaint, which actors have been using for centuries, and still do. Her make-up, and that of the thirty or so actors who played the Winkies, had copper mixed in to make it green. How are you related to Miss Hamilton?

He was a furry

There is something pretty badass about wearing an actual lion pelt though.

yoo its the justin 2.0

@@leoelbocchifan 😂😂😂

When people have the thirst for clout they're capable of unimaginable things...

The price of death

Also she was a distant cousin to Commissioner Gordon of Batman 1966 fame.

@Jared Jams That's true! I've met Dave Prowse, Jacqueline Pearce, Eric Roberts, and other people who have played some very evil characters, yet they themselves were the nicest and most genuine folks you could ever hope to meet.

@@thegreenbird795 Neil Hamilton, yep!

@Jared Jams It's like the guy who plays Cyrus on TPB is actually super cool IRL.

Documentary

Only if they had Loprna Luft and John Fricke as consultants. They'd keep any and all of the lies out of the script.

There were no "toxic chemicals." Heavy costumes have been around as long as there has been acting; they're still with us. There were hundreds of stage hands and they all got paid what movie crew personnel got paid. "Once the medicine caught up?" What does that even mean? One or two Winged Monkeys broke ankles, but none of them was a woman.

@@MaskedMan66asbestos? Lol

@@kdmac8110 The only asbestos used in the movie was a sheathe under Ray Bolger's left sleeve for the scene in which the Wicked Witch sets the Scarecrow's arm alight. The snow was crushed gypsum. Besides, the OP was talking about the make-up.

I'm guess not one of her students ever missed an assignment.

She also taught Sunday School. :-)

Reading this makes me really sad

@@Gelbton Why?

It’s usually the bad guys who are the nice ones in reality & visa versa…

I like to think that the youtube poops were just surreal essays.

essayist? that word does not need to exist

@@overlord3481 Well it does. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/essayist

The genre is that shitty

Meanwhile, Schaffrillas and Tamatoa cough serupticiously from the sidelines..

There were no evil people involved in this movie, and everybody had to deal with the blazing hot lights, which is why Victor Fleming had them shut off every half hour or so to let people relax and cool off.

@@MaskedMan66 my man, what are you still doing in this comment section?

@@danielnizberg1754 Not "still," I'm paying a return visit. One tends to when things show up in one's feed. 🙂

@@MaskedMan66 either this comment showed up in your feed, which it didn't or you're constantly checking the comment section, which means you're just lurking here

@@danielnizberg1754 Your comment, like all new comments addressed to me, popped up in Notifications. I expect it's the same for you.

They got paid, what are you talking about? And they weren't "put through such awful torment," they just did hard work; that's all Jack Haley ever called it.

@@MaskedMan66 Why do u bother to reply to every single comment defending them, did you work on the movie or smth??

By the way, nobody called the execs or the studio "artists."

@@JJLarge What I defend is the truth. Too many lies are told, and too many people believe them.

@@MaskedMan66 And how do you know that the “truth” you’ve received was not a fabrication? That those books you love to cite were extremely selective of what story they told and made to portray the situation in the best possible light? Has such an introspective thought ever pierced your mind?

Not wrong. You only *really* die when you're forgotten.

To be fair no one ever truly knows you so you are already dead.

Then you only die if God says "I do not know you"

Yeah but sometimes the latter happens first

This reminds me of a quote from One Piece, which really fits. "When does a man die? When he is shot by a bullet? No. When he suffers a disease? No. When he ate a soup made of a poisonous mushroom? No. A man dies when he is forgotten."

Wow even other youtubers respect emp or like him im glad tbh.

Glad emp gets what he deserves

Nice

You're a theatre kid too though...

I am early

We can smell the "ACKCHUALLY" from here bucko, cut it out.

Hollywood, schmollywood; I'm just talking about one movie.

forbidden 3rd weinstein brother

Holy shit I looked for MaskedMan in random comments and sure enough they were there. This guy has no life lmao

@@BestTimes8812 I have a life, thanks. This video isn't about me, so how about you say something in reference to it. Incidentally, do you call hunting up a particular commentator for purposes of exercising hatred having a life? If you think about it, that seems rather a petty thing for you to do, doesn't it? ;-)

I kept on thinking of TF2. "There's more.." "No..."

"Okay it can't get any worse, right? I mean they pretty much turned the broom into a homemade pipe bomb and made her ride on it before it exploded" Emp : "it's thought this was caused by covering the pipe with asbestos, which was also used in the snow for one of the scenes"

For real

Bear in mind that (a) moviemaking has always been a tough business and (b) much of what's in this video has been exaggerated to insane degrees. Some of the info here is false.

@@MaskedMan66 stop

Through all that however he was ironically the only actor to have positive things to say about Kubrick

Kubrick has always been a massive asshole when it comes to how he treats those he works with. He is an amazing director and I really do appreciate his work, but then again, he treated his actors like trash, just look at how he treated Shelley Duvall on the set for The Shining.

@@theraymunator I was about to mention Kubrick's psychotic perfectionism in The Shining. Causing Shelley Duvall to literally lose strands of hair on set from all the stress and pressure he brought to her. Literally dozens and dozens of takes Duvall had to go through. Screaming in the bathroom scene if I'm correct. But yeah. Despite Kubrick's genius directing, he was an asshole.

_"I WAS CURED ALRIGHT."_

@@antoniomaldonado8876 personally I still think she was pretty shit. I would hated to have seen the outtakes of her.

That's a good metaphor.. hyperbole? Other english terms? I dunno, I'm not an Englishalogist

@@hossdelgado626 It is a methaphor, don't worry, you were right.

Heartbreaking

@Joshna Frank On a full technical level it’s a simile, because it uses the word “like”. A metaphor directly equates two things, a simile relates them. So “Hollywood is _like_ an anglerfish” is a simile, while “Hollywood is an anglerfish” is a metaphor.

@@hippothehippo I don't care :)

agreed

Swung for favorited comment and missed

That comment is gold.

His videos are trash lol

facts

Lotta B.S. in this video.

Not over the rainbow

It can be Any Colour You Like, actually

@@KevintheRhea yes, but so long as it's black

@@KevintheRhea Just pray all that copper paint doesn't give you Brain Damage.

If In Praise of Shadows' video on Return to Oz is anything to go by, the original Oz books were indeed more dark and somewhat creepy. Not actually horror, just a bit unnerving at times.

Alzheimer's is an awful, awful thing.

@@truereaper4572 soul is gone

It is the slow death of memory, though I believe the personality is usually left unscathed. It's like soap opera amnesia without the moment where you suddenly get it all back.

@@truereaper4572 It's like hollowing in Dark Souls, only it's real

Nothing that happened to Miss Hamilton while making "Wizard"-- or indeed any of the other movies, T.V. shows, and stage plays she worked in-- had anything to do with her Alzheimer's.

My jaw dropped with every actor(res) talked about.

In class, we were discussing how The Truman Show predicted actor exploitation, but here, it's clear it was always the case.

Real life can be pretty horrifying. Once modern society collapses due to rising costs and over-regulation that makes life impossible for people, you're going to find out.

@@namenameson9065 Whats over-regulation to you? If you think about it, most of the stuff that happened to these actors happened because of no regulations at all.. The rising cost of living though, for sure thats gonna do us in.

@@Pwn3r Well I'm no expert on anything, really, so I couldn't tell you specifically how much regulation is too much when it comes to various industries. BUT, I do know that we are regulating ourselves out of being able to function, and places like China are picking up what we're losing. So there is clearly a problem here. Our regulation is 1-sided. We shut ourselves down and make life impossible for ourselves, and then do nothing to prevent our global competition, that is actually quite hostile towards us and is in their own internal policies AT WAR with us, from gaining an advantage. This is suicidal really.

There's danger in any occupation-- there's danger in just stepping outside your door. Welcome to life.

@@MaskedMan66 There's a difference between "danger" from daily life and unnecessary, huge danger from a professional job that's supposed to make things as safe as possible.

@@Unknownslenderman Exactly what would "necessary danger" be? Danger is danger. It can be big or small. And it can also be survivable.

@@MaskedMan66 If it can be preventable, it's unnecessary. Sure, cooking is inherintly dangerous and you can get burned in the process, and stunt acting is an inherintly risky job doing risky maneuvers, but even in those you have to prevent danger as much as possible. There's a difference between "stunt went wrong, injured my arm" and "stunt went wrong and I got burned alive" or "stunt went wrong and a huge explosion hit me, I also got alzheimer out of poisoning from my makeup".

That's why I don't get your comment Someone was just pointing out that "hey, CGI is good because it makes things less unnecessarily risky and dangerous things preventable" And you're just like "danger is a part of life", as if saying "I don't care about the safety of actors", even after watching what the potential consequences are.

What's her problem?

@@MaskedMan66 I don’t know she’s a very odd woman when it comes to her responses to things and when it comes to her thickheadedness she literally is a bull her zodiac sign is Taurus and honestly she is exactly that a friggin bull when she’s angry she’s a bull on roid rage with a mouth that would make sailor blush I kid you not when she’s angry the she-demon comes out

@@Destroya7961 but to be fair, i guess your mother does owns a point because of Wizard of Oz own a horrible quote: "Only ugly peoples are evil"

Im with her on this point, all horrible things made in the production aside, the movie just feels so fucking weird, how can someone like that shit? just looks like a twisted up dark movie blended as a child's film

Also the production of this movie was cursed beyond belief look it up the guy who originally played the tin man was essentially poisoned buy the makeup which was made of pure aluminum dust then 9 days after filming started he was hospitalized sitting under an oxygen tent but because he wasn’t getting better fast enough they hired another actor to play the tin man and instead of using the makeup they mixed it into a paste and he ended getting a terrible infection in his eye from it thank god it was treatable Toto got stepped on because the movie was the first to be filmed in technicolor the set was suffocatingly hot the witch got third degree burns on her face during a botched take of when Dorothy splashed water on her not to mention her broom caught fire at point the scarecrow had to wear a mask that made it so he couldn’t sweat that ended up with him having permanent lines on his face Judy Garland pretty much lived like slave only allowed one meal a day and was forced to take barbiturates to keep up with the pace of filming which had a obviously detrimental effect on her health between takes the munchkins got drunk and brawled the cowardly lion’s costume was made out of actual lion hide and weighed about 90lbs it didn’t allow for much ventilation so the actor was constantly sweating it got so bad that it took 2 assistants to dry the costume every night while filming the famous slap seen between Dorothy and the lion Judy garland couldn’t stop giggling and after several ruined takes the director took her aside and slapped her across the face and told her to go in there and work the next take she did it perfectly and Judy may have been molested by the munchkins the witches stunt double spent months in the hospital after a prop broom exploded the actor who played the lion wasn’t allowed to eat while in makeup since it was so difficult to apply but eventually he put his foot down and requested a makeup redo after lunch they almost cut over the rainbow Toto got paid yes you read that right he got paid more than most munchkins Judy earned much less than her friends aka the other actors so yeah like I said cursed as hell

And in some cases, exaggerated, or indeed lied about. It was a tough job, and accidents did happen. But if you think "Wizard" is the only movie in history to have production problems, then you have much to learn.

Yep. Likewise, there are plenty of artists who's names eclipse even their works. I mean, can you name EVERY work of DaVinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, etc.? There are certain ultra famous ones that put the artist in the collective vernacular, but ultimately the person is just as if not occasionally more famous than the work of art. Same goes for Walt Disney, Tezuka, Stan Lee, Jim Henson... Being a creator or artist doesn't mean you're dooming yourself to be wholly eclipsed by your works if they are successful. I get that Emp is trying to play big-brain/existentialist (as he often does), but as is often the case it's a narrowminded/newbie perspective on the topics.

Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?

I think that is more so because John always played the same character

kid 50 years in the future: who tf is John Wayne? Reminds me a bit of Bruce Willis.

@@Artman2004 Who said that?

Truly the most important role of the play

The storm that was approaching?

You could have been Dorothy's dog. At least, the tornado only appears a few seconds

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@@zero123alpha6 Provoking Black clouds in isolation Hes the reclaimer of his name Born in flames He has been blessed His family crest is a demon of death

I guess no one said the artist can't be the art themselves.

More like "that's a very obvious observation of mortality, Emp." As is the case with this comment. Is Emp like a philosophy or psych student or something? Because he always seems to want to make these ties to very elementary concepts in those fields with this gravitas like they're fucking mind-blowing and deep when they're all really basic and naïve perspectives of existentialism. I didn't major/minor in philosophy, but I've been into it since freshman year highschool and some of Emps attempts at being deep reek of "Freshman who read one essay by Nietzsche and wants everyone to know." We haven't even questioned the validity of empiricism yet ffs. Like, the info in the video is cool, but the end portion was really "wannabe deep" about things that are REALLY basic concepts.

@@ozvoid1245 there's that saying that people usually cant look at the artist without thinking about the art

@@warbossgegguz679 I personally just see it more as him making the most out of a concept or subject. It's essentially him appreciating small, obscure, or seemingly insignificant concepts, and his message is usually that sometimes we need to appreciate those things too. He doesn't care if people don't care to appreciate these things, because they actually aren't important. The reason he does this for those looking to appreciate something. He's not stating to himself, as if his mind was blown from the information, but instead is for others that never thought about these kinds of things. It's a niche really, that's all.

@@warbossgegguz679 Its not like the whole field of philosophy is surface level or anything

People here will not agree because they like to sh*t on Hollywood at every turn, but things did improve, which is why conditions are better now. Old Hollywood was brutal though.

I liked Return to Oz better because it was much closer to the books than the 1939 MGM movie.

RtO wasn't connected to MGM's "Wizard." And much of what this video tells is regurgitated rumor and lies.

@@melissacooper4282 I've always thought that it was the most authentic bit of Oz ever filmed, with the possible exception of L. Frank Baum's own Oz movies.

@@Pwn3r you can't tell me those shitty yet beautiful actors and actresses aren't being trafficked for carnal stuff

History repeats itself. The comparison to the pyramids at the end is spot on.

@@co2_os the cost of progress is often brutal

Whenever something revolutionary happens, someone has to get hurt. It’s very sad though.

Compared to some movies, before and since, this was a walk in the park.

@Caleb OKAY Of course they used real guns; they still do. The secret is that they fire blanks.

You are joke to all

He was in the Beverly Hillbillies. Classic show.

*am I a joke to you

In fact, he did regret not being able to continue.

In fact, Buddy Ebsen did regret not being able to continue.

And is full of misinformation.

Maybe it was a good thing they never bothered doing a sequel back then because later books in the series would probably tax the cast way more due to being more epic in scope and harder to adapt with the technology of the time. Its good to quit while youre ahead as i can only imagine how much more screwed up the cast would be if they made this into a series.

Holy fuck honestly this film doesn't seem worth the entertainment it gave compared to the amount of suffering it created for those who made it. I could honestly say I would have rather it not have ever existed than have it exist and all these bad things happen to these people.

Not "dark," just diffucult, like working on any movie. The people who made "Gone With the Wind" had much more drama on their set.

@@jgm-ex6ls There was talk of doing a sequel, and both Ray Bolger and Judy Garland would have been up for it, but once the movie was out and the promotional tours were over, everyone was already off on other projects. Besides, I doubt they could have paid Jack Haley enough to put on the buckram suit again. I've always wondered, though, how they would have done "The Marvelous Land of Oz." Though Dorothy wasn't in the book, audiences would have insisted on her being worked in so they could see Judy in the role again. The central character Tip could have been played by Judy's pal Mickey Rooney, and maybe Buddy Ebsen could have finally made it to Oz as Jack Pumpkinhead. There was a hilarious Irish character actress named Una O'Connor, who would have been a perfect Mombi.

@@michaelvandevusse3728 Everybody in the film considered it well worth the hard work; Margaret Hamilton, who suffered the most of anyone in the cast, loved the movie and was one of its biggest fans. She always appeared at Oz events and conventions, and even played the Wicked Witch many more times, both on stage and T.V. You have to understand that ANY movie is hard to make and that difficulties with costumes and special effects and other things were commonplace; even today you still get actors having injuries and other things going wrong. "Wizard" is by no means unique.

"Mmmm popcorn ceilings" looks at the ceiling of my entire house.

@@adamofblastworks1517 *"FUNNY WEATHER WE ARE HAVING"*

This ain't just regular asbestos, it's ARSENIC-COATED ASBESTOS WITH LEAD PAINT!

Literally raining death from above.

It’s like that scene in Chernobyl where the crowd reacting to the fallout as if it’s snow.

MGM is such an incredibly irrelevant studio in the current entertainment landscape. Now I want to know what happened that made them fall so far.

@@bigboi5545 Poor management in the 70s and 80s for one. Two would be that there was some corporate reshuffle that resulted in them losing all their pre-80s movies to Turner/WB.

@@tripplefives1402 That'll be a sight to see.

MGM hasn't existed for some years.

Nah that'd have to be ironically colorfully

Like disaster flick?

They made a movie in the 1980s about the casting of the munchkins, but it wasn’t very good.

So long as John Fricke was in charge of it; that way we'd get the true story and not any sensationalized garbage.

@@Attmay If you're talking about "Under the Rainbow," that was a total fabrication based on lies and bigotry.

Think of what she did achieve: immortal stardom and the love of billions. She would not want to be remembered as a "walking tragedy" (her own phrase).

Construction too. I'm done with working 70 to 80 hours a week doing dangerous shit in 100 degree weather.

I worked on Lone Ranger from January to October. I averaged 90 hours a week.

thats capitalism for you lol. exploitation of the workers in practically every scenario. just a cog in a machine.

@@cheekybananaboy3361 Being an entrepreneur is the best of capitalism, in fact, if you hate your job, ask someone about entrepreneurship and personal finance.

Got new pain

Facts

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@@AxxLAfriku no.

thats why we love him

Yes disrespect the pussifucation of men

Don't be too impressed; there's a lot of misinformation here.

Alright, that was clever.

Sup Percy and yes

Heat drowsing inside

Expat is right; in the books, Dorothy and her aunt and uncle move to Oz full time.

Hollywood productions in a nutshell

It was a screen in the book.

@@MaskedMan66 you're a very pedantic man

@@clonetrooper75 Nothing wrong with a bit of trivia here and there.

@@MaskedMan66sure, just dont be such a knob jockey about it

No, the Depression had ended six years before, and while there were lasting effects, life had pretty much got back to normal. And the making of "Wizard" had its difficulties, but "horror" doesn't really apply.

@@MaskedMan66 Well that's both true and not true at the same time. Is it true that people were getting close to being back to normal. However it took until world war 2 when the great depression finally ended and soon after the war was over the economy recovered. And also after all the production troubles that the movie had to go through is horror truly not enough for you?

@@seanvasquez523 What I said stands. Economic restoration took some time, but the actual state of depression was over in 1933. Hollywood turned out 365 movies in 1939, a record that has not been matched since. Obviously things were going well financially for them if for no-one else. And people did still go to the movies; there are photos of people lined up around the block to see "Wizard." There were always huge crowds for the big premieres, wherever they occurred in the country. Yes, there were production troubles, but that was not a situation unique to "Wizard." And many of those have been exaggerated to ridiculous proportions by sensationalists and rumormongers. There were accidents. There was discomfort. But welcome to the world of moviemaking; there are still such things to endure nowadays. The people involved in the movie were very proud of the finished result, and you could not find bigger fans of it than Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, and Margaret Hamilton.

@@MaskedMan66 oh damn even here

@@afellowhuman8944 Didn't you know? Like Dr. K, I'm everywhere!

This is why SAG was founded. While extreme, stories like this were common.

This is in the 30s. In over a 100 years lots have changed. Workers rights grew. Its better and maybe needs to get even better.

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You’ll hear these stories within literally any older popular movie.

@blah blah what?

Thats metal as fuck

And now big techs of silicon valley, Google Facebook, Twitter, Amazon have monopoly on...not just on entertainment, but all sphere of life! Yet, still no intervention or talks of mitigating that problem...

Hollywood's Golden Age was always formed on the backs of the actors and actresses who suffered years of abuse, racism and sexism. It hasn't changed all that much now. The only difference is that Hollywood pretends to virtue signal while still being just as rotten as the executives from those many years ago.

Body almost dead

You'll find toxic substances in pretty much any workplace. There was no abuse, only difficulties and the occasional accident.

"Never made it over the rainbow" was a quote from Judy Garland that she made in private recordings. Those recordings are on KZfaq somewhere.

Top scops

Grow a pair

yes, she did. Even with all her Peccadilloes she earned her wings. She worked hard and wanted to really please her audiences. She made it Over the Rainbow.

@@mickeymouse2able Well said. :-)