Rich in History and Grandeur
Oz the Great and Powerful acts as an origin story for Frank
L. Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The wizard named Oz is depicted as
a philandering below-par carnival magician, whose romantic escapades force him
to hop onto a hot air balloon, lest he face the wrath of one of his tryst’s
boyfriends (one of those burly carnival guys). This balloon then gets entangled
in a tornado just like Dorothy’s did years later, and Oz finds himself in a
completely alien location.