The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics)
While Salman Rushdie has treasuredThe Wizard of Ozsince his boyhood, the movie's idea of returning "home" has had a special resonance for him as an adult. In this lovely appreciation of the MGM classic, Rushdie does not dwell upon his continual flight from any "home" after writingThe Satanic Verses.But his affinity for Dorothy and her predicament comes through in his analysis.This is a marvelous little book, full of wonderful tidbits about the making ofThe Wizard of Oz.Rushdie also talks about the movie's contrast of black and white and color, order and disorder, good and evil. The volume ends with "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers," a surrealistic short story in which Rushdie meditates on the value of fantasies likeThe Wizard of Oz.