Joe Bob’s Thought of the Day: Witchy Edition
Added 2022-12-06 04:58:21 +0000 UTCWhy does the Wicked Witch come from the west? For two of the screenwriters, it makes sense. Noel Langley was from Durban, South Africa. Edgar Allan Woolf was from New York City. But the third screenwriter, Florence Ryerson, was from Glendale, and director Victor Fleming was also a local--from La Canada in what is today Flintridge. And why does the Good Witch come from the north? Was there a Canadian ghostwriter? If Dorothy had gone straight north from Kansas, she would have ended up in Winnipeg, where she would be safe, instead of El Lay, where Margaret Hamilton keeps trying to steal her shoes.
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So witches come from the home of Eve 6 and Armenians. Who knew?
GeddyLeeRoth
2022-12-06 17:47:27 +0000 UTCI’m sure there’s an “I’m My Own Grandpa”-type explanation for this!
2022-12-06 13:04:20 +0000 UTCBaum was born and raised in upstate New York. He did die in El Lay though.🤔
2022-12-06 06:48:09 +0000 UTCOh, totally, but that's a far cry from making a square and labeling "North", "South", "East", "West" aaaaand DONE!
Moviegique
2022-12-06 06:31:23 +0000 UTCMaybe it's because North is where Santa comes from therefore everything up north is magical and good.
2022-12-06 06:04:04 +0000 UTCHey, Tolkien had "Easterlings" and "Southrons" (both bad, or at least misguided, guys) and the "Men of the West" (aka the Dúnedain), so he wasn't above cardinal direction labels!
2022-12-06 05:58:09 +0000 UTCThat's pretty freaking funny! 🤣
2022-12-06 05:32:50 +0000 UTCGlenda is the most evil of all as she used Dorothy to kill her last remaining sister to overtake all of Oz. Good my arse! :D
2022-12-06 05:24:00 +0000 UTCHow 'bout cause L. Frank Baum wasn't exactly Tolkien when it came to drawing maps and it's easy to divide things up into quadrants? I can't guarantee this is the first time the layout was used in a fantasy novel, but it sure as hell wasn't the last. https://tinyurl.com/3899y4hf
Moviegique
2022-12-06 05:07:40 +0000 UTC
