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StraightioLab Movie Club: The Wizard of Oz

🕑 Added 2024-12-10 16:08:48 +0000 UTC

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So true that straight men are obsessed with breaking bones, orthopedic surgery is the #1 bro speciality by far

Lauren Caruso

Ok so I'm seeing wicked on Monday and just watched wizard of Oz a few days ago so I'm gagging at this episode -- I've never seen wicked but I read the synopses of part 1 and 2 and these hot takes are precisely my thoughts!! And the pleasantville reference??!! Was this episode recorded in my brain this week? I grew up on wizard of Oz so revisiting it this past week and preparing to see wicked this week.....no notes. 👏👏👏 Oh also this is my first patreon ep, couldn't ask for a better introduction.

Isa Burke

my edible kicked in about 2/3 of the way through and by the time you got to “there’s no place like home and home can be anything” and the relative lengths of the cultural histories of greece and america and the history of gayness as a concept i was like damn there IS no place like home

Josh Millhouse

Who up playin with they form

Alexandra Ashall

Movie Club suggestion: Pablo Larrain’s tortured women trilogy

sarah

Can you do movie club for the 50s version of a star is born and compare the performances of garland and Gaga

Chris Robinson

Highly recommend watching The Wiz now that you've done these forays into Oz. The screenplay was written by Joel Schumacher so it has a super gay sensibility. The cast is stacked. Diana Ross and Michael Jackson are incredible. Richard Pryor plays the wizard. Quincy Jones did the music and Luther Vandross wrote one of the big songs. There's a scary scene that was filmed in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, which I always think of whenever I'm there (incidentally also the site of Michael Jackson's "Bad" video). It's even more over-the-top than either the Wizard of Oz or Wicked and it fully leans into the absurdity. It was a total critical flop but it's truly one of my all-time favorite films--and soundtracks--and I think it should be more of a cult classic!

mx alix

"Home can be a Zoom with your friend from the other coast."

Sam Steinfeld

Ok this is not fake news you can change your Patreon icon to “ruby” and the P on the app icon will look like those knockoff ruby slippers just fyi….

Sam Steinfeld

I unfortunately immediately texted the group chat about the ferragamo ruby slippers and then didn’t finish the ep til the next day…….my credibility found dead….

A. Stanley Moreau

Nothing makes me happier than seeing Straightio Lab Patreon upload.

Ryan K

top tier movie club ep!!

Zofia Juranty

the wizard of oz books are a siiiickkkk metaphor for populism it explains a lot of the vague oz structure

Heather PW

“The three gay guys” never stopped being funny to me

Lukewarm2Go

I need to go back and check out the busted monkeys

Ray

Yas

Henry

Loved this ep!!!

Dorothy Bogen

Wicked is based on the timeline of the book bc in the book Oz is a real magical place not a figment of Dorothy’s imagination. The dream ending in the movie was a suggestion from one of the many screenwriters lmao to make it more realistic to audiences bc they were worried that people would find it too ridiculous if Oz was a real place. It’s an interesting change bc I think it makes the message of movie more conservative. The book also has the messaging of no place like home, but ultimately Dorothy returns to Oz many times in the series, whereas in the movie she can never return to this idyllic place bc it’s not a real place it’s just in her mind. But that’s Hollywood for you!