Wicked
Wickedis already one of the great film of 2024 , telling the story of Elphaba , a student in the wizard land of Oz who eventually becomes the Wicked Witch of the West , the main resister of the originalThe Wizard of Ozfilm . Wickedhas received great reviewssince its release , and its box office numbers have smashed record left and good , making the film one of the top grossing releases of the year . However , Wickedis only part one of the story , and the upcoming sequel will terminate it off , hopefully as strongly as this film did .
There are plenty ofdirections thatWicked2 could go , which have been pose up by the many dissimilar patch threads that are present throughout the first film . The split happens at the halfway full point , between acts 1 and 2 of theWickedmusical , andthere is one line hurl in at the ending of the first film that references the film ’s centre breakin a very originative way . It is n’t spell out like a shot , and the line makes sense in the linguistic context of the film , but it is still a clever reference to the film ’s status as a two - part undertaking .
Dr. Dillamond References Wicked Being Split In Two Parts With One Line
The Line Is Said To The Audience As Much As The Characters
When Dr. Dillamond is being forcibly removed from his classroom , he yells out " you ’re not being told the whole story " before the doorway is slam shut in his typeface . This is plainly mostly in consultation toWicked ’s animal storyline , as the scholar are n’t being told what is actually find to the animals , they are just being told the story that the Wizard wants them to find out . However , the line can also be read asreferring to the fact thatWicked ’s whole story is n’t go to be told in the motion picture , and that the eternal rest will happen in the second part .
How Wicked Splitting The Musical In Two Parts Helped The Movie
The Movie Is Much Better Because Of Its Longer Length
TheWickedfilms are going to be importantly tenacious than the musical , in all likelihood around double the length , consideringWickedpart 1 itself has the same runtime as the entire melodious , around two and a half hours . While that may seem excessive , it seems to have helped the movie quite a bit , or at least just the first part . Wickedwas able to not only admit every Sung dynasty from the musical , butit was also capable to extend on all of its many storylineswithout exit any to fall by the wayside .
Wickedwas capable to expand the roles of many of the side characters , make characters like Madame Morrible andDr . Dillamond even more interestingthan they were in the original stage incarnation . The rent also helped to make the story fit the raw medium much better , as there are very different expectations for a leg musical and a feature moving-picture show , so interpret the original one to one might have madeWickedfeel induce and undercooked , and just a inadequate impersonation of the melodic .
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Wicked adapts the Broadway melodious into a two - part pic , following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba , bear with green tegument , and Glinda , a pop aristocrat , in the Land of Oz . As they navigate their contrast paths , they germinate into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West .
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.
