{"id":1827,"date":"2012-09-28T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2012-09-28T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T22:58:03","slug":"the-great-man-weve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2012\/09\/28\/the-great-man-weve-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Humbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/09\/poster-xlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1828\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/09\/poster-xlarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/09\/poster-xlarge.jpg 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/09\/poster-xlarge-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>http:\/\/trailers.apple.com\/trailers\/disney\/ozthegreatandpowerful\/<\/p>\n<p>Finally we are getting the back story for the Wizard of Oz.\u00a0 James Franco appears to be playing a small-time illusionist who aspires to greatness&#8211;he wants to be more than a &#8220;good man.&#8221; Remember the great line from the book: &#8220;I&#8217;m really a very good man; but I&#8217;m a very bad Wizard&#8221;?\u00a0 But the &#8220;very good man&#8221; turns out to be a serious magician, as we learn in Chapter 16 of the book (&#8220;The Magic Art of the Great Humbug&#8221;), when the Wizard uses the sorcery of words to give the Scarecrow brains, the Woodman a heart, and the Lion courage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how much the success of Gregory Maguire&#8217;s prequel, <em>Wicked<\/em> (the first in his Oz series), had to do with the development of the script&#8211;a lot, I&#8217;m betting!\u00a0 That the Wizard has very little on-screen time in the MGM film leaves much room for imagination.\u00a0 The mimicking of MGM&#8217;s black\/white frame for a film in color\u00a0 looks great in the trailer and augurs well for the entire film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/trailers.apple.com\/trailers\/disney\/ozthegreatandpowerful\/ Finally we are getting the back story for the Wizard of Oz.\u00a0 James Franco appears to be playing a small-time illusionist who aspires to greatness&#8211;he wants to be more than a &#8220;good man.&#8221; Remember the great line from the book: &#8220;I&#8217;m really a very good man; but I&#8217;m a very bad Wizard&#8221;?\u00a0 But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}