by JustinHoskie » Sat Oct 07, 2017 1:56 pm
In a cut scene from a later draft of the screenplay to The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Wich forces Dorothy to become a scullery maid (much like the Queen does to Snow White) and forces the girl to mop all the floors in her castle, as Toto escapes and runs for help.
Hours later, as Dorothy continues to mop the floors, guarded by various Winkie guards, she looks out the window and sees her friends coming to rescue her. Knowing that calling out to them would alert the guards, she begins to sing "Over the Rainbow" almost at the top of her voice, with all the emotion she can muster so the Tinman, Lion, and Scarecrow can know where she is. The Witch also overhears her and believes the child is mocking her by singing, and pops her head out of her chamber to hear the end of the song ("Birds fly over the rainbow---why then, oh why can't I?") and smiles, saying "So she wants to go over the rainbow, does she?" She then takes out an old spell book and begins to work at her cauldron.
The trio breaks into the castle and hearing someone humming "Over the Rainbow" and believing it's Dorothy, they gently enter a room, terrified to discover it's the Witch working away, with a kaleidoscope of colors reflected off her face from the cauldron. They go to kill her, they're seized by Winkie guards, and the Witch, now with the last things she needed for her plan in place (Dorothy's friends and the full-moon directly over the castle), she creates a rainbow (or what she calls a "moonbow") bridge across the towers separating the trio and Dorothy.
After making one of the Winkie guards cross the bridge, to prove the center of the bridge is too thin for anyone to cross, she forces the trio to call out to Dorothy who hears, finds the rainbow bridge, begins to cross, but as she realizes her peril, she marches on ahead and the ruby slippers carry her across.
Gee, I wonder why it was cut from the script?
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JustinHoskie on Sat Oct 07, 2017 2:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.