A Fan Created An Awesome Wicked Thread That Explains What Book Fans Should Know That Movie Fans Didn’t Get
With the beautiful field workplace success of the primary Wicked film, it appears that evidently there at the moment are extra followers of this Wizard of Oz story. The film, as many individuals possible know at this level, is predicated on a Broadway musical, which itself was primarily based on a novel by creator Gregory Maguire. As is the case with any adaptation, the display model needed to lower a good quantity of content material. For anyone who doesn’t need to learn the entire ebook, social media has come to the rescue.
An in depth thread has gone viral on the location previously referred to as Twitter, which delves deep into the elements of Wicked that you just gained’t know in the event you’ve solely seen the stage musical or the film. It provides an excessive amount of context to the story, concerning each what the musical’s variations miss and what they outright change.
Wicked The Play Modifications A Lot From The Book
I really learn Wicked years in the past, however it clearly didn’t depart a lot of an impression. That’s as a result of an excessive amount of the data within the thread concerning what the play and film modified is information to me as properly.
There’s a big quantity concerning Elphaba’s childhood that’s clearly lower for time within the movie. Moreover, there are facet characters omitted, and the movie doesn’t focus an excessive amount of on Elphaba’s dad and mom. That stated, there’s one important and disturbing change. I am referring to the truth that the encounter between Elphaba’s mom and her organic father, who’s strongly implied to be the Wizard, is a clearly consensual affair within the movie’s opening quantity. The consent of the state of affairs is much less clear within the ebook.
The political state of affairs in Oz is a key a part of Wicked typically, however it’s additionally way more complicated within the books. There are a number of underclasses within the ebook which can be key to Elphaba’s story, that are unnoticed of the play. Solely the plight of the Animals is seen in Wicked: Half One.
The Elphaba/Glinda Relationship Is Considerably Totally different
In fact, the a part of Wicked that issues to most followers is the connection between Elphaba and Glinda. (Some would possibly argue that was dealt with higher within the film than within the play.) It may be fascinating to some, then, that the connection has pretty important variations within the ebook in comparison with the play and the movie.
Particularly, Glinda’s character arc is sort of totally different within the ebook. The play, and to date, the movie, have proven Glinda maturing and altering, beginning out as a reasonably shallow individual, however finally maturing into an individual with coronary heart. Nonetheless, that is by no means actually the case within the ebook. Glinda and Elphaba do have a connection within the textual content, however it by no means actually turns into the friendship we see within the film.
Contemplating that Wicked: Half One had a runtime on par with all the stage musical, the film can be within the distinctive place of truly having extra time to inform its story than the work it’s adapting. It will be intriguing to search out out if followers find yourself seeing extra parts from the ebook make it into Wicked: For Good when it hits theaters on November 21 as a part of the 2025 film schedule.
