So on account of copyright issues, Disney was prevented from using specific stuff portrayed in the 1939 Oz movie. So this probably explains the creative changes made in the 2013 version.
So instead of The Scarecrow, The Cowardly Lion, and The Tin Man we have Glinda (Michelle Williams), Finley (Zach Braff), and the China Girl (Joey King). Instead of Dorothy, Oz (James Franco) takes the lead role. And instead of a treatise on theosophy, we get... Disney stuff.
I'm not even sure what Disney has stood and continues to stand for, but I don't trust it anymore. So instead of trying to decipher symbols relating to theosophy, I started to look for MK-ULTRA symbols and spotted a couple of one-eye salutes and a bunch of (monarch?) butterflies presaging the Black Swan metamorphosis that is to befall Theodora (Mila Kunis).
Bummer.
SORQ score: 4 (What can I say, it's right up my street after all.)
(Runtime: 130 minutes)
