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Evolution
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Evolution
Colour:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1900)
Colour perhaps plays the largest part in the adaptation of Baum's
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to film. The book begins in
Kansas, which is described as being gray and flat. The sun has,
"baked the plowed land into a gray mass…even the grass was
not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades
until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere"
(Baum, 10). A more depressing landscape
is hard to find.
It is only once Dorothy arrives in Oz that she enjoys the wonder
of colour.
Baum again writes:
There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately
trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Bank of gorgeous flowers
were on every hand, and birds with rare brilliant plumage sang
and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a
small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks,
and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had
lived so long on the dry, gray prairies. (Baum,
18)
This sets the foundation for the wonderment and fascination with Oz. It was also a great opportunity for film adaptation.
Josette Blackwood
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