That’s the wrong uniform. Presumably Fiyero ripped it in the middle of the woods and gave it to Chistery, but its from the other human uniform. Either he was carrying around pieces of his uniform that were ripped off when he was tortured as a human, he raided his own closet, or Chistery flew all the way back to EC to get him that missing ceremonial jacket in the last slide to conceal his note.
That doesn’t mean I don’t like Glinda, or Kristin Chenoweth who originated it, or any of the actresses playing her that followed. Feel free to mock it endlessly because you know, aesthetic choices are subjective and people will have opinions on it and that’s part of discussion.
This is not an attack on the actor because the actor didn’t design the look of the character, they may get creative input, like Ari and and Cynthia had but ultimately its only a say they get and as you can see in slide 4 they opted for a very light wig and minimal makeup, so we can fully be focused on Glinda the character, but the cinematography needed to compliment that look or yes she will look washed out. And people should be allowed to say it. They also should be allowed to say that certain choices were distracting.
Like I don’t want to rehash the makeup discussion, but something needs to be said about the silencing of discussion when there seems to be a free pass to endlessly drag Elphaba’s sex cardigan, or Jonathan Bailey’s “Imma about to try to hit a hard musical note and I’m terrified“ eyes in ALAYM, or his Scarecrow design ect. Why is Glinda’s makeup off limits? I genuinely want to hear from you, I’m not going to downvote you, I want to understand.
I honestly didn’t know how to flair this as its mix of funny/meme, past rumors, so I settled on discussion of the funny past (probably true) rumors.
Please be respectful to her. This is just a head up if anyone was looking forward to them reuniting in this.
It used to be that you could see the musical multiple times and never see the same thing twice. Each cast was able to put their own stamp and interpretation of these characters within reason as long as it didn’t mess up timing. It made it interesting to see what the latest Elphaba would do verses the one that came before it. It was exciting, it was electric, it was live theater the way it should be.
Then around 2019- onwards they started cracking down on this and prioritized consistency, where even Elphaba’s riff choices now have to be pre-approved….this just a product. Every new cast will have different faces but their performances will basically be uniform. Its boring, and kinda stale IMO. You want long time fans to keep coming back? Then let the performers perform again, we want to see new takes, not the same show we saw years ago.
With the discussion surrounding Supergirl‘s underwhelming box office and how a lot of people just didn’t know it was out in theaters yet it reminded me of For Good’s marketing strategy of flooding the market with licensed merch and tie-in ads but with very few standalone trailers and tv spots/ and a smaller promo tour compared to the first. Test screenings and focus groups reactions play a huge part of how in how a movie is marketed and I know they got feed back which had them do reshoots in late spring/early summer last year that were “necessary for the movie to make sense” that sounds a lot like a last ditch “fix it” for reactions that were less than stellar…or maybe gave people tonal whiplash that were unfamiliar with the second act and were expecting an upbeat sequel.
…and the two that actually worked out for the better.
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boredom and curiosity had me trying it out to see what I got, and honestly?…. Not bad. I ordered 24 they gave me 29-30 some have almost no stems and zero roots, some have no stems but have roots, some have roots and long stems, the majority will need some care in a cutting/seed Tray before you pot them a few over cups of water and saran wrap to grow them out before any kind of soil. These are an incredible value IF you know how to grow them from cuttings if you are just starting out I’d recommending skipping this.
She deserved so much better. It’s depressing her last few months before moving on from Wicked echoed her characters arc to the point she was done with it before Oscar campaign season even began. That should NOT have been the experience she had playing this role.
Regarding the backlash she received from the press tour and the fallout online in For Good’s aftermath:
>“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is,” Erivo says. “Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”
>By the time awards season rolled around again, Erivo was done. Did the reverberations from Singapore put her off campaigning for an Oscar? “I think maybe in a way it did, actually,” she says. “I just felt like my humanity had been bastardized. I felt like something I did instinctively had been made to be something that it simply was not because of the way people see women who look like me, and because of the assumptions that are made, and I just didn’t want to be a part of that, really and truly. I didn’t want to put myself through it. I didn’t feel like I deserved it.” It didn’t help, she adds, that “it felt like there was already a sort of upturned nose at the second installment, even though we all knew there was a second film coming and we were just doing our jobs.”
You know, I’m not one to judge other fans ships or headcannons… you do you. But since it has seemingly escaped into the fandom wild, this IS a joke right?
Like that’s just Jonathan’s natural eye color when he took the contacts out…Its not some Galindafied Fiyercrow conspiracy…
They definitely went hard on the theme. Tons more pictures in the link.
Brought to life by sculptor Thom Wheeler, the property has two residences, a public gallery, a private gallery, and an antique shop. So many more pictures of the full property in the link.
I get people not being into them, or preferring the other ship, but the things people say about them… Are just so mean sometimes lol. To me they are the quintessential hurt/comfort couple that can see each others mess for what it is and love and accept each other more for revealing it. I just find that so beautiful.
(If in good faith) It has nothing to do the actors, their performances, the reasons why it is liked or what it made people feel. They did an amazing job with what they were given, and it was ideas like the closet door ‘I love you’s’ that came from Ariana and Cynthia and other choices that saved the film IMO.
It had everything to do with the issue shown above: creative execution and directional choices. How it went the complete opposite way of the first movie by adapting moments from the musical and somehow making them less cinematic, less sensical, less emotional by taking things away from the actors (Glinda facing the crowd, Elphaba “mourning” ect). Above are shot for shot the same scenes.
I kinda love its vibe honestly. So many more pictures in the link…