Doesn't this movie have a lot of metaphors about precious metals or gems? Emerald City, Ruby Slippers, Yellow Brick Road (gold)? I remember hearing something about that.
shareI know Baum made the Emerald City for his niece who Dorothy is named after. She wanted something pretty. But he didn't have anything to do with the Ruby Slippers. They were created specifically for the movie. The producers wanted something that would "POP" when shown in color.
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I think it was more about making the post-tornady sequence one of bright *colors* compared to the dull, dusty, and dingy Kansas - not so much precious metals. Not just red, but ruby red. Not just green, but emerald green. Not just a brick road, a yellow brick road.
Some historians and economists believe that the tale represents how America navigated the gold standard. From the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, each character and circumstance we encounter represents a different faction of the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th century, according to the theory.Sep 29, 2022
https://bigthink.com/sponsored/wizard-of-oz-gold-standard/#:~:text=Some%20historians%20and%20economists%20believe,century%2C%20according%20to%20the%20theory.
Much like assigning any foresight to Nostradamus years after he was published, people always try to come up with all sorts of unrelated tie-ins to books, movies, or music in retrospect.
One of my favorites regarding the 2001 WTC attack were these lyrics from 1976:
Day is night in New York City
Smoke, like water, runs inside
Steel idle trees to pity
Every living thing that's died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3pR87L-T8
The song's author, when questioned about what seems to be a frighteningly accurate description of the attack on the WTC, said no, it was simply about moving to the more laid back life in the west coast.
And even though he might not have actually said it although it's been attributed to him, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (Sigmund Freud).
Well, it was made during the Golden Age of Hollywood
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