Reply To: What can or can't they use in OUAT? Possible Oz ideas

[TheWatcher]

*sigh* I make this long winded post about stuff and then it doesn’t even post -___- I’ll just do a summary.

 

1.) Book Elphaba is MUCH MORE Wicked than musical version. Sure musical version may have locked Dorothy in a basement for the shoes… But in the novel, Elphaba actually killed a child >> (when the icicle fell through Maneks skull I mean) and she also threatened to rip her own SONS testicles off with her foot. She is the real Wicked witch. Elphaba in the musical never really EVER did anything bad. She is only wicked because the Wizard spread that propaganda after she didn’t wanna go along with his shenanigans >>

2.) Book Elphaba has good in her even though she is almost kind of Wicked. This is the same Elphbaba that had dinner with Dorothy. The same one who cried over her fathers death and fought for the rights of Animals. The same one who ran out into a lake to save her monkey, knowing water could kill her. Thats very Once. All her wicked ways had a reason and she’s very 3D. Musical elphaba is just a good girl who people spread rumors about.

3.) The book isn’t that explicit. Afterall, I read it the first time when I was in 7th grade. Sure it could do without the Tiger rape scene… And Glindas “walnuts” comment but all-in-all the book does a dark retelling very well. Its not focused on sex, though I would say more so on philosophy and politics. The characters, the land even seems very real and realistic. For Once to show THAT version of Oz would be great because we would see it in a different way that FTL or WL.

4.) The Wizard. In the movie and musical he is just a bumbling, lying old man. In the book… That guy is truly a monster T.T he has no magic whatsoever but manages to rule Oz so effectively because he is simply a BOSS! Elphaba spent YEARS trying to kill him and couldn’t. He isn’t some foolish old man. He is a murderer all the way. He was a real threat and a villain in disguise as a hero. Thats Once material.

In short, the novel version of Wicked is a good candidate to be used as inspiration for Once. I dont want that but if they do I dont think the musical version will be so surprising because everyhting in that musical is what we have already seen before.