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WICKED THE REAL STORY Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: This must-watch documentary takes you on an enchanting journey through the legacy of 'Wicked,' the West End sensation inspired by The Wizard of Oz. From the pages of L. Frank Baum’s timeless Oz series to Gregory Maguire’s groundbreaking novel and beyond, explore how this story evolved into the award-winning musical phenomenon loved by millions.
Transcript
00:00Wicked is a little green stone thrown in a dark, dark ocean.
00:16It all began with the 1900 novel, a literary cornerstone that spawned a legacy of acclaimed
00:22films, books, and musicals.
00:26One of the things that L. Frank Baum himself writes is about the difference between old-time
00:32fairy tales, and he says, I want to modernize the fairy tale.
00:36The fact that there's so many strong female characters, there's so many different characters
00:42in the world of Oz who are powerful.
00:44They changed cinema, they changed the way we think about things, and just Dorothy's
00:50costume is so iconic that you can't see anything even similar to that without thinking of her.
00:55The Wicked Witch is just, I mean, every Wicked Witch since then looks just like her.
00:59I did not really know it was going to be so much about the relationship between Elphaba
01:05and Glinda.
01:06I wanted really to see if someone could become evil, or if in fact, as Glinda says in the
01:13play, have evil thrust upon them.
01:16After all, she has Wicked as part of her name.
01:19It's a capital W, the Wicked Witch of the West.