A possible sign of Armageddon. For some reason, some friends and I got into a debate involving the Wizard of Oz. Yes, the movie. Yes that movie. Anyway, I overheard someone trying to remember which character got what from Dorothy at the end of the film. There was a brain mentioned, and someone got a golden elbow...and one ring ruled them all. Sad...just sad. Clearly these folks were not schooled in the ways of the Emerald city and had their facts...well...twisted.
Now I love movies. And while I will never claim to be a great fan of the Wizard of Oz (or that musical abortion "The Wiz") I do know who got what. I assured them that the Scarecrow got the brain, the Tin Man got the heart, and the Lion received courage. This was met with puzzled stares. "What!?" I said. Well, they explained, it didn't make sense that the first two got body parts, organs actually, and the Lion got courage. They could grasp that Dorothy could hand the Scarecrow a brain, the Tin Man a heart but how do you hand someone a concept? A virtue?
Well, it's a little known fact that this wasn't always the case. In fact due to the prudish nature of the movie's star, Judy Garland, the producers were forced into an incongruous last-minute change to the script. So the Scarecrow got the brain, the Tin Man got the heart and, in the end, the Lion got courage, all because Judy Garland said there was no way she was going to be on film "giving a pair of furry balls to a damn lion!! "
What a bitch.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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