Directed by Victor Fleming, starring Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger (add more)
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When the Tin Man is singing "If I Only had a Heart" it takes a close up of Dorothy. You can see a man messing with the bottom of a tree in the background. [I looked and I looked and I looked and I didn't see a stagehand in this shot.]
Corrected by cinecena
If it's so painful when Dorothy picks an apple from the talking trees, why do they pick their own apples to throw them at her? [The tree never said it was "painful". It only said it wasn't right for Dorothy to pick the apples just because she wanted to.]
Corrected by cinecena
As the cyclone carries the farmhouse through the air, Dorothy views airbone animals and people through a window in the wall next to her bed, including the Witch on her broom. After the house lands, we see a shot of Dorothy emerging from her bedroom. The window has disappeared. There is now a solid wall next to the bed with what looks like a Bundt cake pan hanging on it. [The wall seen when Dorothy leaves her room after landing in OZ is NOT the same wall where the window is. The confusion could come from the fact her bed changes positions in the room after the fall. But, even so, we can even see the daylight reflection on the wall, indicating the existence of a window.]
Corrected by cinecena
When Dorothy is handed the posy of flowers in MunchkinLand, most of them are blue, but when she steps onto the Yellow Brick Road, they turn to yellow. [Not a mistake: the posy of flowers countain flowers of a lot of colors. Depending on the positions we see it, the predominant color will be different.]
Corrected by cinecena
In the scene where Dorothy and the Scarecrow meet the Tinman and oil him, they do not oil his legs. Later in the scene, he begins to dance as if his legs were oiled. [As he's walking down to the Yellow Brick Road, the Tin Man's knees lock up, and they do have to oil his legs.]
It seems strange that when Glinda sends the snow to break the wicked witch's 'poppies' spell, the snow falls on the flower fields alone. After Dorothy and her friends 'wake up' and make their way back down to the yellow brick road, notice that there is no snow on the road in front of them. You can also see this as they gaze off into the distance at the Emerald City - the painted backdrop shows snow drifts in the fields but none whatsoever on the YBR. [It's not strange at all. If she can make it snow, she can certainly make it snow in a particualar location and not another. She's a witch.]
After the scarecrow gets a brain, he states the Pythagorean Theorem. However, he incorrectly says it applies to an isosceles triangle when it applies to a right triangle. He also not only gets the wrong kind of triangle, but he gets the equation wrong. He says "the sum of the square roots of any two sides...is equal to the square root of the remaining side." But it is really the sum of the SQUARES (not square roots). And it is not the sum of ANY two sides. It is the sum of the two sides that form the right angle. No doubt the Wizard got that brain in the clearance aisle... [I think this was an intentional mistake - proving that even with a brain the scarecrow is still quite stupid - and I guess it was thrown in for humour. If you've seen the episode of The Simpsons where homer finds a pair of glasses in the toilet, puts them on and states the above mentioned quote - a guy in on of the cubicles replies: "That's a RIGHT triangle, ya idiot!"]
In the scene where Glinda meets Dorothy for the first time, Glinda asks Dorothy 'Are you a good witch or a bad witch?' Dorothy says that she is not a witch at all, announcing that witches are 'mean and ugly'. Glinda states that only bad witches are ugly. If that's the case, why did she have to ask? [In his haste to be clever, the contributor has committed a logical fallacy. Glinda states "no, only bad witches are ugly." This does not describe the set of all bad witches, only the set of ugly witches: all ugly witches are bad. This does NOT imply that all bad witches are ugly. In fact, it cannot even imply that some bad witches are ugly, as Glinda's statement remains true if there are NO ugly witches (the set of ugly witches is empty). Thus beautiful witches can be either bad or good, and Glinda's answer is no answer at all.]
The crown that falls off the lion's head falls behind the scarecrow as they sit in front of the door. When they get up it is gone. [If you look very close you can just see the crown at the lower right of the screen as they go inside.]
In the scene where the four of them are in the haunted forest searching four the wicked witch with the weapons, after the tin man is lifted in the air and falls the scarecrow throws his gun to the ground, and as it hits, the gun suddenly disappears. [The Scarecrow steps on the gun, which hides it from view.]
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