On Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Couple weeks ago we read and talked about the Wizard of Oz. First off this is a much darker "children's" story than I ever imagined. Secondly our discussion brought up a very interesting idea of text and it's originality.
Origin's of text can very significantly and can be best represented by asking a comic book nerd who is the real batman; The 60's batman or today's batman.
It comes down to the reader. For me Wizard of Oz was a Disney movie with midget munchkins and red shoes where as a couple generations before me know Wizard of Oz as a relatively dark story with a ding bat girl as the main character. Scarecrow was popping the heads of crows for silly's sake. The viewer makes the difference and as I went back to read the original I found myself liking Disney's version better. Not because it was, in fact, a better telling of the story but because it was what I first knew of Oz.
Similarly you'll never be able to convince me that the movie Jurassic Park is any less brilliant than the novel. It's just more suspenseful as an imaginary novel.
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