“The Wiz” quotes
(1978)
Sidney Lumet
directed this movie
in 1978
Title The Wiz
Year 1978
Director Sidney Lumet
Genre Musical, Music, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year 1978
Director Sidney Lumet
Genre Musical, Music, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Plot – During a snowstorm, the young teacher Dorothy is thrown into the wonderful world of Oz, where she has to ask help to the powerful wizard who rules Oz to come back home. The girl begins her journey with the shoes of a wicked witch at her feet and she's joined by a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion, who want to ask something to the magician too, respectively a brain, a heart and the courage. When the group finally arrives to Emerald City, the magician himself receive them, but the Wizard of Oz is very demanding and in exchange of their requests he asks Dorothy to kill the cruel Wicked Witch of the South. The four friends discover then the magician is only an impostor and, in the end, the Good Fairy reveals each of them has already what they are looking for.
All actors – Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Stanley Greene, Clyde J. Barrett, Derrick Bell
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“I've learned that we must look inside our hearts to find a world full of love.”
“I don't know what's in you. You'll have to find that out for yourself. But I do know one thing: you'll never find it in the safety of this room. I tried that all my life. It doesn't work. There's a whole world out there. And you'll have to begin by letting people see who you really are.”
“The genius who created me only took care of my dashing good looks, my razor sharp wit and my irresistible attraction to the wrong women.”
“When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing. I wish I was home, I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing.”
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