The version I heard was it was an allegory on WWII. Poppy fields=Normandy invasion. Flying monkeys=bomber planes.
So it was an allegory of a war that hadn’t been fought at the time it was written? Thats really impressive.
It’s pretty impressive that a movie made in 1939 would make reference to D-Day five years before it happened… 
Eric
“OH-WEE-OH” != “Oh-ver-lord.”
:o Oh, we luv the Old one! 
Never mind that the movie was made before WWII, the books were written more than a decade before WWI.
C’mere, lemme show you how the movie syncs up perfectly with this Pink Floyd album. It’s amazing, man…
:rolleyes:
sheilablake. Welcome to the board. If you’re referring to Cecil’s column Is The Wizard of Oz a satire of the French Revolution? , posting a link to the column helps everyone to read along. It can be as simple as cutting and pasting the link.
Actually, the words are “Oh we love, no…one”.
Try:
O’ we loath the OOOOld One…O’ we loath the OOOOld One :o
Sorry about the spelling:
O’ we Loathe (is a verb meaning “to hate intensely.”) the Old One.
Could you elaborate on that? I’m a little 
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I was in the Hollywood Library- before the fire- and they had THE original screenplay- and it said “Oh we love, no-one”. Really.
I’m not sure what needs to be explained, but sheilablake said that the poppy fields scene in the Wizard of Oz (which came out in 1939) was a reference to the D day Normandy invasion (which took place June 6 1944). So I said “It’s pretty impressive that a movie made in 1939 would make reference to D-Day five years before it happened…”
A) The poppy scene in the 1939 was adapted from the 1903 Broadway musical (the only scene in the entire movie that was). The 1903 poppy scene, in turn, was adapted from the original book, which came out in 1899.
B) In the real script (and the movie), the Winkie Guards are not singing any real words at all.
Santos L Halper, thanks for clearing that up. That was my fault I thought you were talking about something else. Just had a late night that’s all.
Try this link:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/l/a/lag7/facts.html
One more time:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/l/a/lag7/facts.html
How on earth was this free coinage of silver supposed to fix all the populist’s woes?
“Populist”, in period, means “pro-farmer”. If you’re a farmer with a mortgage, inflation is a good thing.
We today hear “inflation” as a dirty word, conditioned as we were by the 70’s. As John W. Kennedy states, however, it was a desired outcome for the Populist movement. Let’s put some specifics on his explanation.
You are a farmer with a $5,000 20-year mortgage.
Your interest rate is 5%.
Your payment would, therefore, be $33.00 and the total interest to be paid over the life of the loan would be $2,919.05. This is the note you sign with the bank, which fixes the payment amount.
Now add an inflation rate of 5% annually. (Note: I don’t know if this was the Populists’s target rate, but it doesn’t seem outrageous for this illustration.)
At the end of one year, prices, wages, etc. have all gone up by 5%, so your $33.00 monthly payment is now “effectively” $31.35. After two years, it is effectively $29.79. This continues through the life of the mortgage, until your payment is effectively $11.83.
As wage and price inflation goes up, you are getting more dollars. Those dollars may be worth less, but your committments are in constant dollars.