The Wizard of Oz
…but Judy Garland certainly was a shitty actress. There probably is a reason why she is not a big favorite among movie lovers, she just happens to be a big star because she’s is indeed beautiful and probably had very good make-up and marketing throughout her life. Even considering that she was young when she played Dorothy, I was just not too impressed with her monotonous damsel-in-distress face.
Apart from that, I have to admit that I was completely smitten by the songs. The film strangely reminded me of “Singin’ in the Rain” although the former is probably a better movie. All in all, however, it’s a lovely story packed into a lovely film. I used to dislike the storyline of Baum’s book when I was small, but now that I have come to appreciate it as a childish fairytale without too much depth (or rather, it’s probably an allegory without too much depth), I was able to fully enjoy the, uh, cuteness of the story. Almost every character except Dorothy had a good actor and was pretty charming, that helped a lot.
I get the feeling that I am currently watching the wrong films to blog (though “No Strings Attached” was a traditional blog-able film and I still didn’t feel like writing about it), but “The Wizard of Oz” is just no more and no less than a classic that everybody has seen, and as such I absolutely enjoyed it. With this, I guess I have finally overcome my aversion against musicals. Now I like them!