Questions you'd like answered

The book says she was an orphan. For the storytelling of the film, it was unimportant. Neither say how they died. I have my own theories, though, but they apply only to the book, and not the film adaptation, since it was moved forward in time.

2. Why is there no closure over the Miss Gulch dilemma in the film?

What we see and what we seem are but a dream. A dream within a dream.

This question applies to both the movie and the books. How is is it that the Scarecrow came to be alive? In the later books, L. Frank Baum usually provided a cause whenever an inanimate object became animate- such as the Powder of Life- but no such reason was given for the Scarecrow. Baum hadn't fully worked out the rules of Oz in the original book, and I guess he just figured, "Magical fairy land equals talking scarecrow."

I know that the first book written after Baum's death provided an origin story for the Scarecrow, stating that he was the reincarnation of a deceased emperor, but it's my understand that that book is hardcore racist, and I don't personally care to consider any of the non-Baum books within the so-called "Famous 40" to be canon. A different explanation I came across (in the comic book Oz Squad) that I like a lot better is that Dorothy, wishing for a companion on her journey, subconsciously brought the Scarecrow to life through the power of her slippers.

As far as your question, I'm assuming they were killed, I THINK in the book that is mentioned.

But mine are:

1.What exact powers did the shoes posses?

2.Where did the red brick road lead?

3.WHERE exactly is Oz....that is if you think it's more than just a dream. Is it on another planet? Another dimension? Somewhere on Earth that just hasn't been discovered yet?

4. Is there a Witch in the South?

5.Does Glinda represent Dorothy's dead mother?

Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

One I was thinking about today, why the heck was Judy Garland not wearing her ruby slippers in that now infamous shot where she's wearing black shoes??

I know the wardrobe crew for Wizard of Oz was not stupid, they were very careful when it comes to costumes. What in the world happened that she ended up wearing the black shoes instead of her ruby slippers while the camera was rolling?? You'd think that be obviously, to Garland even, that she's wearing the wrong shoes for an Oz scene!

1. In The Emerald City of Oz Uncle Henry mentions that Dorothy is a "dreamer, as her dead mother had been", so it can be presumed that her father had also died since she was living with her aunt and uncle. But no explanation is given for either of their deaths. The mother and father were rarely mentioned in the books.

Aunt Em once said she thought the fairies must have marked Dorothy at
her birth, because she had wandered into strange places and had always
been protected by some unseen power. As for Uncle Henry, he thought
his little niece merely a dreamer, as her dead mother had been, for he
could not quite believe all the curious stories Dorothy told them of
the Land of Oz, which she had several times visited. He did not think
that she tried to deceive her uncle and aunt, but he imagined that she
had dreamed all of those astonishing adventures, and that the dreams
had been so real to her that she had come to believe them true.

I have 2—one is a serious question, while the other is actually kinda dumb.

1. How did Professor Marvel know that Dorothy had been injured by the window & had been unconscious for the majority of the film?
1b. Did the Gales know Professor Marvel? They don't seem at all surprised by his sudden appearance (no "who are you?" or anything). Or maybe they just thought he was just a kind stranger who came to check on her.

2. Why did the witch set her broom on fire to harm the Scarecrow? I've always thought that the whole broom (bristles and all) were needed to make it fly (don't know why; just have. Plus it just LOOKS cooler & more badass with all those messy overhanging bristles!). And if that's true, since 90% of the bristles are gone when the Winkie hands it to Dorothy, it wouldn't be able to fly anymore. So what was the witch planning to do with it had she not been melted? Would she have fixed it?


EDIT:

I just thought of a 3rd question!

3. If it was the slippers that transported Dorothy back to Kansas, why does Glinda wave her wand?

This is kind of a dumb question that I just thought of while watching the tornado scene on youtube: what happened to the window that hit Dorothy in the head? We see it hit her and then defy the laws of gravity and fly off at and angle off-camera, never to be seen again. I don't know why this never occurred to me before, but shouldn't it be laying on the bedroom floor somewhere when the house lands & Dorothy gets up & makes her way out to the hall?

How did the coroner thoroughly examine the dead witch? She's under a house! Did he crawl in after her? Haha.