Munchkins:Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
"There's no place like home" Dorothy said and clicked her ruby red slippers. "There's no place like home..." And magically she wakes up in her own home. Realization dawns: somehow she had managed to dream about a twister carrying her to another land, where she meets a bunch of really short people- Munchkins, a scarecrow, a tin man, a lion, a good witch, (do I really have to mention all the characters??) a bad witch with very green complexion...
Wicked Witch of the West: Who killed my sister? Who killed the Witch of the East? Was it you?
Dorothy: No, no. It was an accident. I didn't mean to kill anybody.
Wicked Witch of the West: Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too!
OH and this dude...
Wizard of Oz: You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
What's with this reference to the 1939 movie "The Wizard Of OZ" anyway?
Well, just like Dorothy I had the strangest dream and it involved a WITCH!!!!! Good thing I woke up and realized son of a---- witch! It was only a dream- but Freud wouldn't dismiss it too quickly for as we all know (I'm referring to psych majors here) when you have a dream about something, you must always look into the latent and manifest contents of your dream.
Dream analysis 101 (quick lesson)
Dream interpretation was made a part of Psychoanalysis in the 19th century if I am not mistaken. There are two parts of every dream:
1. Lantent
2. Manifest
The Manifest content of the dream is used to analyze the Latent content. Before I start elucidating on the aforementioned terms,allow me to add a little preamble.
You see, according to Freud, dreams are born in the unconscious and they ripple out when we sleep. They are in a way our repressed desires trying to bloom out of their silent graves, as it were. Dreams are extensions of our waking lives, in dreams we get to do the things we don't normally do when we are awake, we get to be the hero, the star, and sometimes the most disturbing things do pop into our dreams aside from the blissful ones.
Dreamland is the looking glass that we peer into wherein our fears, hidden desires, and certain emotions that we do not acknowledge when we are awake allow themselves to appear.
According to Freud: Dreams are 'a disguised fulfilment of repressed wishes'
Translation:Our real desires come out in our dreams, and we somehow achieve them through the dreams that we have.
He belived that some (or maybe all) dreams are about "wish fullfilment" even the bad ones, and that they contain deep messages, which are hidden or are like codes floating around (think The da Vinci Code). Anyway, these symbols or messages lead to us, they are personal and they reflect our own experiences.
Back to the terms: So, the manifest content of the dream is what we actually dream about, while the lantent content is the unfulfilled wish that the dream represents. I didn't really say, that dream interpretation is simple people, but that's the whole shebang right there. Freud says that dreams are sometimes an expression of a repressed (silent or hidden) wish that we would rather not admit to.
This leads us to Free assiciation, a technique used by Freud to analyze dreams, it works like this: A person is told to consider not just literal content of the dream but rather he/she should try to dig deep into the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that the dream creates. Which in turn will point to more feelings and emotions- like a chain.
Example:
I had a dream, that I was running away from a man who was holding a knife. I was scared, I was confused. I didn't know why he was chasing me. He reminds me of my uncle who is very ominous when he's drunk, I'm scared of my uncle. blah blah....
Please don't let me interpret my dream, since having one dream is not enough to derive the whole history or basic story of your issues- there is a process involved, and well, I'm no Freudian analyst nor have I mastered how to apply free association.
Back to my dream now...
I was Dorothy and I landed on top of the Wicked Witch of the West's sister, she was tres' pissed- and well, she was out for blood. I was with my dog Spud (the dog in the movie was called Toto). The Witch stared at me malevolently.
Wicked Witch: 'll get you,my pretty, and your little dog, too
Then this good Witch shows up and tells me to go to the Wizard of Oz, it seems he will help save my derriere from being fried by the Wicked Witch...
Good Witch:Pooh - what a smell of sulphur! I'm afraid you've made rather a bad enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West. The sooner you get out of Oz altogether, the safer you'll sleep, my dear.
Me: Oh, I'd give anything to get out of Oz altogether, but - which is the way back to Cebu City? I can't go the way I came.
Good Witch: No, that's true. The only person who might know would be the great and wonderful Wizard of Oz himself.
Good Witch: It's always best to start at the beginning - and all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Trishiee: Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road????
Munchkins:
Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick, Follow the Yellow Brick, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.You're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one because,
Because, because, because, because, because.
Because of the wonderful things he does.
You're off to see the Wizard. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
So off I went, following the yellow brick road. Then I encounter my first friend, the Scarecrow (who looked like my squishy a.k.a Leeno)
Squishy: Oh, I could tell you why The ocean's near the shore.
I could think of things I never thunk before.
And then I'd sit, and think some more.
I would not be just a nothin' my head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.
Trish: I know who can help you... I'm going to see the wizard of OZ
Squish: Look - I won't be any trouble, because I don't eat a thing, and I won't try to manage things, because I can't think. Won't you take me with you?
Trish:Of course, I will.
Squish:Hooray! We're off to see a Wizard!
Off we went, following the yellow brick road. Everything was great, till we stopped near a house where a rusty man was lying down, a Tin Man (who looked like my friend Maddox Keynes)
Squishy & I help him up, and gave his rusty parts some oil so he can move...
Maddox:Me - e, me - e-, My- mmm-my, my, my, my goodness. I can talk again!
Trish: Well, you're perfect now.
Maddox: Perfect? Oh - bang on my chest if you think I'm perfect. Go ahead - bang on it!
It's empty. The tinsmith forgot to give me a heart. All hollow.
Trish (looks at Squish): Well, we're going to see the Wizard of OZ maybe he can help you too..
Maddox: Oh, okay!! I wanna go..............
Trish (looking at them):To Oz?
Squish and Mad:To Oz!
Off we went again, following the yellow brick road. We entered the forest, it was scary, we could hear the distant sounds of wild animals-
Trishiee: Do you think there could be wild animals in here?
Maddox: Perhaps.
Squish: Even ones that, that eat... straw?
Maddox: Some, but mostly lions and tigers and bears.
Trish: Lions?
Squish: And tigers?
Maddox: And bears.
TRish: Oh my!
TRishiee: Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!
Speaking of Lions, one jumped out and scared the bejesus out of us, a Lion (who looked like my buddy, James Ray Desmond)
James: I am King of the Forest (ROAR) who are you? (ROAR)
Squish: I am a Scarecrow
Maddox: Tin Man
Trish: A girl
James: HA HA (cough) HA
his shadow beside him grows and James thinks it's a monster
James: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Trish: Your Majesty, If you were King, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?
James:Not nobody, not nohow!
Squish:Not even a rhinocerous?
Trish: How about a hippopotamus?
James:Why, I'd trash him from top to bottomamus!
Trish:Supposin' you met an elephant?
James:I'd wrap him up in cellophant!
Squish:What if it were a brontosaurus?
James: I'd show him who was King of the Forest!
Trish: but you're scared?
James: uhuh nyahahaha, I need courage
Trish (lightbulb moment): You can come with us Mr. Lion err... your majesty. We are going to see the Wizard of Oz.... You don't have to be sad anymore, he will give you courage.
James:Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy, When you're born to be a sissy. Without the vim and verve.But I could show my prowess, be a lion not a mou-ess
If I only had the nerve.
I'm afraid there's no denyin' I'm just a dandelion,
A fate I don't deserve.
I'd be brave as a blizzard....
Maddox: I'd be gentle as a lizard....
Squish:I'd be clever as a gizzard....
Trish: If the Wizard is a Wizard who will serve.
Squish:Then I'm sure to get a brain,
Maddox: a heart
Trish:a home
James: the nerve!
All: TO OZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, there we arrive the magical and very GREEN city of Oz. We walk down the majestic streets of the Emerald city. It is beautiful, but we weren't there to see the sights. We were there for the Wizard, so after locating his rather huge domicile...
James: Wait a minute, Fellows. I was just thinking. I really don't want to see the Wizard this much. I'd better wait for you outside.
Squish: What's the matter?
Maddox: Oh, he's just a scared again.
Trish: Don't you know the Wizard's going to give you some courage?
James: I'd be too scared to ask him for it.
TRish: Well then, we'll ask him for you.
James: I'd sooner wait outside.
Trish: Why? Why?
James: Because I'm still scared.
The three of them drag James into the Wizard's domain..
Wizard: I am Oz, the Great and Powerful Oz knows why you have come. Step forward, Tin Man!
Maddox:Ohhhhh!
Wizard:You dare to come to me for a heart, do you?
And you, Scarecrow, have the affrontery to ask for a brain! And you - Lion!!
Well, the beneficient Oz has every intention of granting your requests!
But first, bring me the broomstick of the Witch of the West.
The group was given a direct threat by the Witch as they started the journey... She was going to hurt anyone who was going to help Trishiee.
Wicked Witch of the West: Helping the little lady along are you, my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her, or I'll stuff a mattress with you! And you, I'll make you into a beehive. Here Scarecrow, want to play ball?
Squish: I'm not afraid of her! I'll see you get safely to the Wizard now, whether I get a brain or not. Stuff a mattress with me. Ha!
Maddox: I'll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me!
Trish: Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?
Squish: I don't see how. You weren't around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you?
Maddox: And I was standing over there, rusting for the longest time.
Trish: Still, I wish I could remember, but I guess it doesn't matter anyway. We know each other now, don't we?
Squish: That's right.
Maddox: We do.
James: LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, off they went to seek out the Witch in her Castle
Trish:It's the witch!
Wicked Witch (giving orders to her men): bring me that girl and her dog. Do as you like with the others,
but I want her alive and unharmed!
Wicked Witch (holding Spudee): What a nice little dog. And you, my dear. What an unexpected pleasure. It's so kind of you to visit me in my loneliness.
Trish: What are you going to do with my dog! Give him back to me!
Wicked Witch:All in good time, my little pretty - all in good time.
Trish: Run, Spudee- run!
Wicked Witch:Catch him, you fool!
Trish: Run, Spud, run! Run, Spudee, run! He got away! He got away!
Wicked Witch:Ohhh! Which is more than you will! Drat you and your dog!
You've been more trouble to me than you're worth, one way and another -
but it'll soon be over now!
Trish:I'm frightened, I'm frightened!
Maddox:Look! There's Spudee! Where'd he come from?
Squish:Why, don't you see? He's come to take us to Trishiee.
Maddox: Oh -
Squish:Come on, fellows!
James:What's that! What's that waaaaaaaaaaaaah?
Squish:That's the castle of the Wicked Witch. Trishiee's in that awful place!
Maddox: Oh, I hate to think of her in there. We've got to get her out! waaaah are those monkeys?
Winkies (army of the Witch)
Ooo - eeeee - hoo! Yooo - ho! Ooo - eeeee - hoo! Yooo - ho!
Squish:I've got a plan how to get in there. And you're going to lead us.
James: All right. I'll go in there for Trishiee - Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch -
guards or no guards - I'll tear 'em apart. Ohhh! I may not come out alive but I'm going in there.
There's only one thing I want you fellas to do.
Maddox and Squish: What's that?
James: Talk me out of it, nyahahahaha.
Winkies: Ooo - eeeee - hoo! Yooo - ho! Ooo - eeeee - hoo! Yooo - ho!
Squish: Trish, are you in there?
James: It's us!
Trish: Yes, it's me! She's locked me in!
James: Listen, fellas. It's her. We gotta get her out! Open this door!
Trish: Hurry, please, hurry!
Squish: Hurry, we've got no time to lose!
Wicked Witch: Ha, ha, ha! Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why, my little party's just beginning. Ha, ha, ha, eh, eh!Ring around the Rosey! A pocket full of spears! Well,
the last to go will see the first three go before her! And your mangy little dog, too!
How about a little fire, Scarecrow? Huh?
Squish: No! No! No! No! Help! I'm burning! I'm burning! I'm burning!
Trishiee finds a bucket of water.
Wicked Witch: No, don't throw that water! Ohhhhh! You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting!
Leader of Winkies: She's - she's dead. You've killed her. Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead!
Winkies: Hail! Hail to Trishiee! The Wicked Witch is dead!
Trish: Now we can go back to the Wizard and tell him the Wicked Witch is dead!
So after a rather insane battle with the Witch, Trishiee defeats her by giving her a bath... and well, she melts. The triumphant gang return to the Wizard.
Trish: Please, sir. We've done what you told us. We brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her!
Wizard of Oz: Oh, you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!
He gives each one of them what they ask for:
A brain for Scarecrow (SQUISH)
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. . Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD.
Squish: ThD?
Wizard of Oz: That's... Doctor of Thinkology.
Squish: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
Wizard of Oz: You can't.
A heart for Tinman (MADDOX)
Wizard of Oz: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. Maddox: But I still want one.
Wizard of Oz: Back where I come from there are men who do nothing all day but good deeds. They are called phil....er.....phil...er...er....good-deed-doers and their hearts are no bigger than yours, but they have one thing you haven't got! A testimonial! Therefore, in consideration of your kindness, I take pleasure at this time in presenting you with a small token of our esteem and affection. And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Maddox: Super!!!!!
Courage for The Cowardly Lion (JAMES)
Wizard of Oz: As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger you have no courage! You are confusing courage with wisdom. Back where I come from we have men who are called heroes. Once a year they take their fortitude out of mothballs and parade it down the main street of the city. And they have no more courage than you have. But - they have one thing that you haven't got! A medal!! Therefore, for meritorious conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous bravery against wicked witches, I award you the Triple Cross.You are now a member of the Legion of Courage!
James: Shucks, folks, I'm speechless. NYAHaha Ha! -__-'
Maddox: Oh, Oh, it ticks! Listen! Look, it ticks!
James: Read - read what my medal says. Courage! Ain't it the truth!
Trish:Oh - oh they're all wonderful.
Squish: Hey, what about Trishiee?
The Wizard boards his Hot Air Balloon (he forgot about me though).
Trishiee: Come back! Come back! Don't leave without me! Come back!
Wizard of Oz: I can't come back! I don't know how it works! Good-bye folks!
Trishiee: how am I going to get home now????????
The Good Witch appears....
Good Witch: Why you had the power all along Trishiee.
Trishiee: I have?
Good Witch: those ruby red shoes you are wearing is your ticket home... You just click your heels together and say: There's no place like home....
Squish: Then why didn't you tell her before?
Good Witch:Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.
Maddox: What have you learned, Trishiee?
Trishiee: Well, I - I think that it - that it wasn't enough just to want to see
My Mom and Dad. And that it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that right?
Good Witch: That's all it is!
Trish: OH my!!!!! yey! (clap, clap) I can now go home...
She turns to her friends and sees their sad faces...
Trish: Goodbye, Maddy. Oh, don't cry! You'll rust so dreadfully. Here's your oil can.
Maddox: Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...
Trish: Goodbye, Lion. I know it isn't right, but I'm going to miss the way you used to hollar for help before you found your courage.
James: I never would've found it if it hadn't been for you..waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
Trishiee: [to Scarecrow] I think I'm going to miss you most of all.
That's when my dream ends.......
All I wanted was to get away from that Wicked Witch! But I guess I will have to keep moving forward and not let the presence of the Wicked Witch (or any wicked being for that matter) to stop me from living my life. After all I have a very SMART, LOVING, and COURAGEOUS bunch of friends who will save the day for me, and when everything else fails, I guess I will have to buy myself some ruby red shoes (wink).
sources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes
http://www.stlyrics.com/t/thewizardofoz.htm
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