Thursday, September 2, 2010

"How About a Little Fire, Scarecrow?"

So I'm watching The Wizard of Oz with my nephews and it gets to the scene where Dorothy and friends have set out through the Haunted Forest to kill the Wicked Witch.


Having never seen the movie on a big screen in HD I spotted a bunch of stuff I've never seen before. I noticed that the big pump the Lion is carrying is labeled "Witch Remover", that's funny. I remember the giant butterfly net, but not the giant wrench the Tin Man is holding. What does he need an oversized wrench for if he already has an ax?

Wait...hold on a second...there's something funny here...

Is the Scarecrow holding a handgun?! He is! Look at it:


Has that been in the movie this whole time? Where did he get a gun? They have gun shop in the Emerald City? These are the people who wet their emerald green pants when the Wicked Witch sky-writes "Surrender Dorothy" and all this time they're sitting on an arsenal?

Am I the only one who didn't realize this was in there? What else have I failed to noticed in my childhood favorites? If I rewatch Mary Poppins will she pull a sniper rifle out of her bottomless carpet bag? I'm afraid to find out.

5 comments:

  1. Haha, wow! This may well become a trend. Good spot.

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  2. photoshopped, how can the gun be black in one image and clearly a more distinguishable silver in the other..not hard to figure out

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  3. It's the lighting. Check the film for yourself:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSmh0wvYJEY

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  4. I remember seeing it only when we watched in class at school hahah. And everyone laughed.

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  5. If the witch can be killed by water, don't you ever wonder why a bucket of it is in her castle? If you watch the scene very carefully, you can see in the background that it is for the commode, most likely used by her soldiers....they rush out to a tower that is high above a river...behind the witch is a bucket, brush and a one hole throne....

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