#Somewhere over the rainbow wizard of oz movie#

Judy Garland even sang the songs herself in the movie, which is more unusual than you might think in the early days of Hollywood.

#Somewhere over the rainbow wizard of oz movie#

If youвЂ™ve seen the film, and even if youвЂ™re one of the few who hasnвЂ™t, one of the greatest songs of all time will certainly stick in your memory - вЂњSomewhere Over the RainbowвЂќ (at least thatвЂ™s how the song is usually knownвЂ¦its formal title is вЂњOver the RainbowвЂќ but almost nobody calls it that.)Д«ack when movie stars really were stars, not the pale imitation of stardom we see today, the young Judy Garland was perfect for the role of Dorothy. The lovable on-screen characterisations help us come to terms with ourselves.ДЄnd the wizard behind the curtain, telling us to look away and ignore the person behind the curtain, is a parable that could have been written about the world in the late 2010s, when so much is artifice, so little is real.ДЄll that would be enough on its own to make a great movie, but we havenвЂ™t even considered DorothyвЂ™s red shoes, the contribution of Toto and the role of the witches. Then thereвЂ™s the characters of the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow, each representing one of the neuroses that, to a greater or lesser extent, live inside us all. Released when colour was on the cusp of going mainstream, the black and white of DorothyвЂ™s time in Kansas was the perfect juxtaposition for the bright colours of her trip down the Yellow Brick Road. There can hardly be a human being alive, living in a western society who hasnвЂ™t, at some point in their life, seen вЂњThe Wizard of OzвЂќ.

вЂњSomewhere Over the RainbowвЂќ - Eva Cassidy