LA Confidential is essentially a remake of the Wizard of Oz!?

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/kaio7m/la_confidential_is_essentially_a_remake_of_the/

3 guys, respectively looking for a heart, a brain and courage, are led on a journey that involves a yellow brick road (highway scheme, paved with gold) to find eventually that the bad guy isn't the big, obvious villain but someone behind a curtain pulling strings.