Wicked: For Good
Wicked : For Goodis coming in November 2025 , and introduce even giving opportunities to change and expand upon the Broadway musical than the first one-half , which was released to a massive receipt last year . lead by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande - Butera as the future Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good , respectively , Wickedwould seem to have done almost nothing wrong , considering its corner office numbers , vital acclaim , and Oscar nominating address . However , it was at least interesting that this installment telling one half of the story is almost as long as the total musical theater .
Wicked ’s endingsets up its second part , where Elphaba is vilified as the Wizard ’s ( Jeff Goldblum ) enemy to dissemble the fact that she is only attempting to oppose injustice . However , the stage version ofWicked 2 ’s storyhas always leave out a pregnant amount of Elphaba ’s genuine crusade.2024’sWickedincluded a few new scenes , but still largely adopt the plot of the musical ’s first bit , sometimes making the great unwashed wonder where that spare runtime even went . However , this does suggest that big variety will happen in the next movie , and one in especial is full of life to Elphaba ’s persona and the story ’s biggest themes .
Wicked: For Good Should Definitely Show Elphaba Actually Helping Oz’s Animals
What Elphaba Has Been Doing This Whole Time Is Supposed To Be Really Important
Elphaba going on the trial and becoming the Wicked Witch of the West is mostly motivated by her desire to help the talking creature of Oz , and her refusal to condone or ignore the Wizard and Madame Morrible ’s ( Michelle Yeoh ) hunting expedition to persecute them . In " Wonderful , " the Wizard ’s handsome melodic number inWicked ’s second act , he argue that he is simply being what the people of Oz need him to be , but this political theory fall flat when he is not just being a electropositive public figure but actually hurting others .
This storyline in the musical is used as a way to reinforce Elphaba ’s moral standing , but it always takes a backseat to the game of the interpersonal relationships .
Elphaba on the face of it takes off with the spacious but solid end of end the Wizard ’s reign and helping the fauna . In the melodious , there are some reference to Elphaba ferrying brute to safe , helping them skirt capture during the clip she is an crook . A ancestry in the Sung dynasty " Thank Goodness " suggests that Elphaba is agree with " greyback animals , " subtly reveal how the animals ' posture in Oz has further degenerate in the intervening clock time since the end of the first act . But actually showing these issue in the movie would provide a more tangible narrative .
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Nessarose ’s plot line in Wicked has n’t been historically well - regard , but Wicked 2 could fix this and a cosmos - edifice problem in one sweep .
On point , the only time we really see Elphaba directly help the animals she advocates for is when she returns to the Emerald City to free the Wizard ’s monkey army — with the extra motivation of perchance want to block up Glinda and Fiyero ’s ( Jonathan Bailey in the pic ) hymeneals . In passing , Elphaba also tries to promote one of the monkeys to talk again , without much success . Overall , this plot line in the musical is used as a way to reinforce Elphaba ’s moral standing , but it always takes a backseat to the plot of ground of the interpersonal relationships .
Wicked Can Showcase How Oz’s Animal Population Views The Wicked Witch Entirely Differently
The Wicked Witch Of The West Is A Narrative Directed At Only Part Of Oz
Also what is seen on stage and in the firstWickedmovie is that , supposedly , the entire average population of Oz is terrify of Elphaba and has completely bought into the propaganda of her " wickedness " designed to protect the Wizard . This picture is important to convey that the legal age of the country , or at least the part of company that holds more power , does believe it , which makes thing unceasingly dangerous for Elphaba . However , while all this is happening , the animals are continuing to lose their right and power to talk .
Wicked : Part Two ’s chronicle means that it will be a very different film from its precursor in terms of look , characterizations , and complex body part .
If some animals are also on the run for resist and Elphaba is the only one uncoerced to help , they would have an entirely different linear perspective on her . It would provideWicked 2with further subtlety if it prove on - screen the state of the creature communitytrying to last the current regime and how , when this regime has done nothing to help oneself them , they are not blindly accepting what they are told . When the animals are also being hunted , it does n’t facilitate Elphaba much in the way of safety equipment , but they could make it clear that this system exploits many , not just her .
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Elphaba Wanting To Help The Animal Population Is Supposed To Be The Whole Point
Wicked’s Socio-Political Storyline Is Reflected Upon The Animals
Wickedalludes to existent histories and socio - political issues by engaging with paper of propaganda , subjugation , and privilege , and invokes the animals ' troth to show how the tainted government has decided to abuse one part of the population to do good another , which reaps the most benefit for the people at the top . Elphaba has connected with the beast she meets her whole life when she has also been ostracizedfor being different . Her hard breeding has prompted her to be more thoughtful about the lot she lives in , so when she see injustice , she does n’t accept it .
It is admittedly tricky to thrive upon this storyline when the plot is structure around the human characters .
tie Elphaba ’s character evolution to her friendly relationship with Dr. Dillamond ( Peter Dinklage ) and fellow feeling for the cause he oppose for lends weight to her character , but it does get across as somewhat trivial when the story clearly wants to keep the focus on her . She is , after all , the main type and the full premiss in the reimagining of this iconic villain . Butthe animals storyline is what is supposed to showWickedand Elphaba engaging with giving issue , which is why it has always been odd that it is mostly a subplot in the musical .
Wicked’s Movie Has Already Done A Decent Job Of Expanding The Animals Storyline
The Source Material Provides Limited Opportunities, But 2024’s Wicked Highlighted Animal Characters
It is confessedly tricky to blow up upon this plot line when the patch is structure around the human characters , and Elphaba and Glinda are for certain the most popular and the one viewers identify with . However , the firstWickedmovie did a enough job of have the animals more of a presence , even if keep the narrative streamline mean that they were relegate to bear out role . Dr. Dillamond ’s character is taken more earnestly , and he is show speak about what is happening to other animate being , rather than just Elphaba .
While Wicked does n’t dedicate a stack of focus to the troth of Oz ’s Animals , one former bit of foreshadowing hints at the depths of their oppressiveness .
The film producer also made theNanny lineament of theWickednovel into Dulcibear(Sharon D. Clarke ) , who bolster the backstory of how Elphaba came to see the macrocosm the way she does by plant a very important frame in her young life who is an fauna — basically , the only loving parent she had . The animal staff surrounding the Thropp household also devote a greater sense of how animals appeared in this societybefore the main timeline , when thing are really starting to fall apart .
The band at the Ozdust Ballroom is also a minor but worthful moment in the movie , showing a not - completely legal distance that flourishes outside the unjust constabulary , in which creature are the lifeblood of the party as they show off their musical endowment . It seems most in all probability thatWicked : For Goodwill redeem more minor side moments like this that bring the picture of the fauna ' lives into clear focus . However , they may yet still choose for some more drastic , significant change .
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Wicked : For Good is the sequel to the 2024 motion-picture show adaption of the democratic Broadway stage musical . The moving picture explores the origins of the Wicked Witch of the West , known as Elphaba , as the world of Oz is told from a brand Modern perspective .
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Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two - part film , follow the unlikely friendship between Elphaba , born with green skin , and Glinda , a democratic aristocrat , in the Land of Oz . As they sail their contrasting paths , they develop into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West .
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Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
