Post #292112 by Cammo on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 1:10 PM

I thought Wizard of Oz was a coming of age story about how a girl finds the strength within herself to overcome the scary idiocies of the adult world, and to lead her at-first intimidating but later (by showing them trust and understanding) lovable friends to do the same, but maybe I'm reading the metaphors wrong. The original Baum book was even better, a cutting socio/political satire that he never quite reached with his later Oz books.

Anyway, Kurosawa jumped the shark when he went to color. His best flicks were all made on the cheap in b&w. Hidden Fortress smokes, but so does High and Low and Yojimbo. The guy wasn't known for makin' bad movies.

The Seven Samurai would have diced up that Wicked Witch into little itty bitty chunks of teriyaki grilled meat and sold her at 50 yen a pop to the Munchkins, then bought Dorothy a nice dress to go with those va-va-va-voom flashy red pumps.

I vote Oz.