Why didn’t Belinda the “good” witch warn Dorothy about the flying monkeys?

I figure Belinda the good witch - was really the wickedest person in Oz because she sent an innocent farm girl down a dangerous road and didn’t even have the decency to warn her about the flying monkeys. Maybe if she had Dorothy would have carried a couple of yellow bricks in her basket to smash the flying monkeys with. Or maybe the scare crow would have figured out that all they had to do was lash themselves together so that they would be to heavy for the flying monkeys to pick up. Cheers!

 

No, the answer is simple. She got really high and started listening to Dark Side of the Moon and just didn't give a shit any more.

 

It was all political anyway, some shit about the gold standard vs the silver. My guess is the monkeys were there just to get a jab off at the people who supported the silver standard. As in calling them monkeys. Get it monkeys. ha ha ha...

 

Well maybe in the real world it is just about drugs, Pink Floyd, Politics and money. But in Oz it was a quite a bit different – it was all about – I’m the one who fell from the skies. I figure Belinda the good witch was a bit bitter because she only got to sing one song and it was high pitched and some what irritating. Cheers!

 

Glinda....I only know this cause I have a Glinda Good Witch of the North bobble head doll to balance out the RIchard Nixon one on my desk...Andy warhols figurines...wait right...so the reason she didn't was because hidden under that pink big skirt of hers was her baby Monkey Mary Jane, and she was scared that if Dorothy unleased her ruby slipper wearing vengance on all flying monkies everywhere that Mary Jane would also meet an unfortunate demise. Glinda couldn't bare to see this, Mary Jane was more than just a monkey she was like family to Glinda. They went wand tossing together. SO that's why. peace.

 

It's because us monkeys had slipped her a roofie and some xanax at a party before taking her up to our super sexy swingin' tree house, she forgot all about us! Not even a phone call (sniff sniff).

 

Dude, the Good Witch already knew how it would turn out and didn't want to spoil the adventure.

 

Dorthy probably would have been like "fuck that shit" if she heard about flying monkeys

 

Werd! Monkies like to throw their own poop! Dive bombers!!

 

I kind of think that those munchkins could have been a little more grateful and little smarter.

Dorothy just killed one of the wicked witches and all they did was sing, dance and tell Dorothy were to go. Out of gratitude they should of sent the Lolly Pop kids to watch Dorothy’s back. Maybe they should also have put their little heads together and figured – half the wickedness in the kingdom is dead – it’s time to strike and defeat the other wicked witch. That would have been some fine entertainment – watching munchkins battle flying monkeys. Cheers!

 

The munchkins were mindless drones. They were obviously conformists suffering from complacency.

 

^^ What the fuck were the munchkins gonna do? i highly doubt the had any defense system.. let alone an offensive.. all they did was dance and look gay...

 

They were hiding cans of bear mace.

 

^^ if ya dont have any flying monkey mace though.. you're fucked

 

The Movie was done in 1939. Prior to that time, death had not been delivered on a mass scale through the air.
War had always been a terrestial affair.

The heavy sceen in The Wiz was of countless flying monkeys blackening out the sky.
This was meant to evoke an image of the brand new blitzkrieg warfare which had been successfully domonstrated in Ethiopia and Spain.

Pablo Picasso's "Guinercia" is the painting that evokes the terror of ariel warfare as visited on Spain during the 1936-1938 Civil War, with its images of terrified population.

The movie scene can be thought of as the cinematic equavalent of Picasso's "Guinercia".
Like the Painting it foretold of even greater excesses to to come in the future.

One can listen to Pink Floyds Blue Sky off the Wall to gain a feel for the emotional impact of air war in 1939.

Of course the good witch was not up on this innovation in warfare.

 

If you like to story of Oz, check out Gregory McGuire's book "Wicked" It's the biography of the wicked witch of the west. It's a really good read, much more political and historical context than the original story, it really makes you question what we know as children and how we get our information.

 

Hello! I will probably check that book out because I figure what children read - stays with them for life. I also got a problem with Winnie the Poo maybe there are a lot of gloomy people in the world because of that stupid donkey.

Any way I was thinking what the wizard of oz would be like if it was written today.

Maybe Dorothy might have been from the streets instead of being from a farm. And when she through the water on the witch she would have started screaming – yeah - yeah how you like that - what some more – then she would start spiting on the witch. Cheers!