Wicked

The story isn't about her buut there are people who will see a movie based off the wizard of oz if she appears

so they could well feature her anyway

I mean, I feel like that applies to the musical in the first place, not just the movie. And since the musical gets away with it, why can't the movie?

Not showing her served a purpose; she doesn't actually really matter to Elphaba's journey.

There have been at least a couple of non replica productions of the musical that have cast an actress as Dorothy, so it's not totally unprecedented.

The Super Bowl trailer:

It looks good. I have high hopes for it as a fan of the play.

Should we make a page for it?

If nothing else, the set design is absolutely gorgeous.

If yall haven’t made a page by tomorrow, I certainly will.

If you need it, here’s the poster:

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 11th 2024 at 9:14:52 AM

I have a draft for the page going through the English thread right now and should have it up by tommorrow.

Awesome. You might wanna remember to title it Wicked (2024).

I will.

Well it’s gonna be a 2 parter. So maybe Wicked (2024-25)

Right. Looks like the mods want us to use Wicked: Part One.

I think someone beat us to it.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 11th 2024 at 10:55:41 AM

Well someone beat us to it.

Less work for me either way.

Edited by Bullman on Feb 11th 2024 at 12:09:04 PM

I went with Wicked Part One from the jump because trying to trope more than one film on one page almost always creates a mess that would not exist if the page were hardsplit (e.g. redundant "in general" troping, moments pages with multiple pics, etc). Just ask this thread. It also future-proofs if they decide to can the announced second one for whatever reason, even if it's already finished filming.) I figured Part One would discourage an ugly softsplit, and using the year to disambiguate would be unfavorable because it's a two-parter.

Edited by Synchronicity on Feb 12th 2024 at 11:25:53 AM

BTW why does Ariana look so uh odd in this.

Because we’re used to her look in Victorious/Sam and Cat?

I dunno, it’s her first acting role that I know of since then…

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 12th 2024 at 12:06:27 PM

I think it is the eyebrows. They just seem weird to me, and I don't know why.

Yeah it's the dye that makes her face look really strange

I personally think it's because she looks paler than usual.

I mean, it fits with the Galinda look, where she's this overly-dolled up pretty bimbo.

For all we know afterwards she may be less dolled-up later on.

The specific shade of blonde they used doesn’t really flatter her. Her eyebrows straight-up disappear in some shots.

How old would we say Dorothy is in the shots we’ve seen of her?

Would it be okay for me to make a WTH, Costuming Department? entry for the Glinda eye-brow thing? It seems to be a widespread opinion.

Tbh, I think it's less a costuming issue and I think it's a color grading issue. The shots I'm noticing it in aren't that great, but the eyebrows are an obvious point of that problem.

But that might be too technical of a point for the tropes page...

Yeah the real issue is with the lighting and coloring in the film.

Its too dark and poorly lit and that causes things to get missed that should otherwise visually 'pop'.