yes he has a gun

Ok let's be honest, half of the people that show up here do so because of the web address and when it doesn't match their search they leave.
STOP DOING THAT!
So, since I have made the mistake of naming the site after this I will oblige and give you people what you want, so here you go...

Yes, Scarecrow has a gun.

If you're reading this it's because you were sitting at home, innocently watching a childhood classic, The Wizard of Oz, and you just so happened to look up at that moment when they were first going to kill the witch, and suddenly...

Yeah that.

This little moment in film history has had people hitting the rewind button over and over again. Sure there are weapons in Oz, tin man has that ax, the munchkins have rifles with flowers shoved in their ends, the door guard for Oz has a  spear, and so do all the winkie guards. In fact everyone in this scene, sans Dorothy, has a weapon or two, but there's just something about the Scarecrow waving a pistol around that seems so out of place. What the heck, why does he even have that? An even better question is why they gave the gun to the one that is reportedly brainless? either that was just a really dumb move on their part or Scarecrow just picked it up of his own free will with obvious intent of using it. Forget melting her, a bullet or five will definitely take care of the witch problem, forget the innocent children watching this. Wow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, just wow.

Another point of interest is that the pistol, along with all the other weapons, are gone by the time the flying monkeys appear. The only one with a weapon is the tin woodsman and he makes a valiant effort to chop them out of the sky, but when push comes to shove that pistol would have been so much more helpful.

So where did it go?

There is a lot of controversy over this actually, some figure he dropped it when the ghost picks up Tin Man in the woods, and for some reason never picks it back up. Another option could be it goes missing during the cut 'jitter-bug' scene, which was supposed to be placed between the woods scene and the flying monkey scene and was actually another musical number, but was cut before the film was finished. Or the actor just left it somewhere an forgot it, whoops. Whatever actually happened the pistol is gone, and the most likely reason is that the film makers were trying to tone down the original story to make it a bit more PG, because the original story is actually kind of dark.

In the original story of the Wizard of Oz the scene where we see scarecrow with the gun actually has a body count, and it's partially his fault. You see when the witch sees them coming she sends 40 wolves to kill them all. Tin Man, while Dorothy is sleeping, walks out to meet them and cleaves them all in half, then leaves their bodies to rot. The witch then sends 40 crows; Scarecrow snaps their necks one by one and drops the bodies. She sends 40 killer bees, which Tin Man also kills, then the winkies, which Lion scares off, before resorting to the flying monkeys. SO YEAH, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, terrorized. Enjoy those nightmares kids!

 

So I guess adding in a gun and cutting the carnage was the best way to go about reworking the story for younger audiences. I could buy that, if the rest of the film wasn't so chockfull of slightly disturbing imagery. I mean the witch taunting Dorothy about Aunt Em never finding where she disappeared to, geez guys. "I'll give you an Auntie EM you little...!"

GAH!! If I'm going to be honest bothering about the scarecrow having a gun should not be the biggest concern for this movie, but inevitably it seems to be the biggest conspiracy in the entire film outside of the bird that looks like the hanging munchkin, and it will always hold it's own place in my heart as the original "What tha...?" moment. Congrats Oz!

Character guilt!

Hi, I'm back, how are you? I know I'm posting this kinda late but I really want to bring this topic up. Ever find yourself sitting there, watching a show, everything's fine, then the bad guy appears and does or says something completely disturbed, that for some reason is also mildly hilarious. Of course you laugh, but at the same time you feel a wrenching twisting feeling in your gut every time you do. Well congratulations you have, dum dum dum...

CHARATER GUILT.

 

Yes, that feeling you get when you absolutely love a character, find them funny, etc. but the character also just so happens to be totally psychotic, a murderer, or worse. You hate what they do, you hate what they stand for, you hate that they intended to kill the main character, you love that they tried to kill that annoying character, and you hate that they are the epitome of all evil, but for some reason it's a technical impossibility to stop loving them as a character. Some prime examples...





and most recently for me...

 

 

 I know the common thing for villains is that you love to hate them, well that's the problem here, you love them, but you can't hate them! These type of characters just fit into some subliminal niche and stick there, you just cant get rid of them, which is probably one of the reasons we love them against our will.

 

Don't get me wrong, these characters are all horrible people. Hades tries to kill his brother over a bad job, Loki makes a deal with the harbinger of death to subvert all of humanity into his worshipers, Azula tries to kill several people, even her own friends, and take over the world. Gollum actually does manage to kill his friends, and I can't even begin to sum up what Joker has done, I'm pretty sure Batman couldn't either. Then there's Bill here, tried to destroy the mind of a main character, ripped out a child's soul to possess his body, tried to kill the kid's twin sister, and has some dark ulterior motive that has yet to be explained.

 

Sounds terrible right? You're probably saying, 'wow these guys are all horrible people/monsters/supernatural beings, how on earth could you say you love these guys? Do you have a screw lose or something?'

 

The answer to this question is yes, actually, how'd you know? But lets ignore that and get to the main point. Go ahead and watch these guys in action and if you don't find yourself becoming even slightly intrigued I congratulate you on your strength of moral character, or that weird need of yours to prove me wrong, what's up with that anyway? But if you suddenly find yourself laughing, even as the villain is doing something you know is wrong, well then welcome to the twilight zone, you've been expected.

 

You see with most villains in filmography there is usually some sort of redeeming feature, they spare the damsel in distress, they don't kill the hero, they are doing it out of love, something like that, and that is what keeps them firmly in our minds as strictly a villain, they have/had good qualities but are willingly ignoring them, making them a bad guy. Every once in a while a villain comes along who is just causing chaos for chaos sake, and of course you can manage to hate these guys too, however your mind keeps looking for something to hold against them, that will actually make them a villain. Character developers realize that without a significant backstory most villains are pretty lame, I mean compare Galactus to Darth Vader, and which one gets more press? Little orphan Annie-kin, that's who, you know the one who killed his lover. Once being good makes it so much easier to hold it against him, making him complete. So, in lieu of a solid reason for being a complete villain developers pull out their trump card, make the villain hilarious.

 

For some reason funny makes sense to us, that's how Disney can sell an otherwise bland side character, and psychotically funny makes even more sense. It's hard to hate a guy who can make you laugh, and there's always that part of us that wonders what it would be like to cross that line from person to monster.

 

Well these guys deliver that pleasure on a silver trey with a Joker bomb strapped to it.

Even if they just murdered a puppy they play it off so hilariously, so nonchalant that we can hold it against them cause we're holding our sides with laughter. Of course we kick our selves for it later, claim we'll never do it again, but just like laughter they're contagious, we just want more, more, MORE! Honestly we can't keep them out of our heads, our art, our fan-fictions, and we battle our conscience the entire time. Love, Hate, Love, Hate, Love, Hate. BLARG! It's torture! Hilarious torture. SEE? CHARACTER GUILT!! You hate to love them and would love to hate them as they slowly pull you into being... GASP! A FAN-GIRL/BOY!

 

Well that's it, I'm done with this post, hope you all have a good night, and until the next post...

I'll be watching!

Character spot: Merryweather

Ok who here has seen sleeping beauty, the original Disney film? Do you remember those three fairies that take Aurora into the woods to protect her but end up bringing her back early, getting her cursed, putting the whole kingdom to sleep, and go through that whole rigmarole with the most awesome Disney villain of all time (for a later post).

Yeah, them. ------->
                    You know the blue one? ^ She is so underrated!
You think I'm nuts now right? Well think about this:
When the three fairies have to give their gifts to the baby princess and Maleficent does the whole curse thing and they're all trying to figure out what to do who is it that's able to partially undo the curse? Yeah.

Merryweather is just a boss all over that movie. She's the youngest in the group, and yet she doesn't let that stop her from being possibly the most powerful and resourceful of the group. She openly admits she wants to take down Maleficent pretty early in the movie, even though the other fairies claim they don't have combat magic. That doesn't stop her however as she later exhibits some pretty handy combat magic, pretty handy indeed. I mean while the others are charming rocks into bubbles and arrows into flowers, she goes straight for the throat and turns Maleficent second hand bird to stone, effectively killing him. Yeah that. sleep in fear tonight goons.

I mean even Disney junior recognizes how powerful Merryweather is. In one of the Sofia the First episodes, yes I'm referencing this, there's and evil fairy who goes after the three's magic. To do so she starts by stealing their wands, and who's does she go after first?

Take out the most powerful player first and the others are easy right? The answer is yes.

On a non magic level she is the only one who has been doing any work around the house during those 16 years as mortals. Don't believe me? Did you see how poorly the other fairies do when trying to handle sewing and cooking? Someone's been doing that for Aurora all those years and it obviously wasn't them. She even tells them so.

Merryweather: But, I never baked a fancy cake. Flora: Oh, you won't have to, dear! Fauna:   I'm going to bake the cake! Merryweather: You? Flora: Oh, she's always wanted to, dear, and this is her last chance. Merryweather:  Well... Fauna: I'm going to make it 15 layers with pink and blue forget-me-nots. Fauna: And I'm making the dress. Merryweather: But you can't sew! And she's never cooked!

 So she's been doing all the work, and in keeping with that spirit the other two dump her with the most menial job, cleaning the house. Nice job there Flora. Honestly Great job, can you hear me rolling my eyes?

Merryweather is just an awesome character, like always. We're going to ignore the most recent iteration of her.


Shame Disney! Shame!



That is not her! Why Disney?! Why did you screw up such an awesome character?! Why?!

But, other than that, in the end she's just a cool character.
Kudos Merryweather on being a boss.

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