“Are we all born wicked?” It’s a trick question. The answer you give reflects your view of humanity. ‘Wicked’ film adaptation is charming and fanciful
That query is the theme of this charming and fanciful adaption of the 2003 Broadway musical “Wicked.” That show was based on a novel by Gregory Maguire (1995), which was inspired by L. Frank Baum’s book “The Wizard of Oz” (1900), which spawned the classic family movie “The Wizard of Oz” (1939).
In the earlier two works, a young girl from Kansas meets two witches: Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. The more recent works reconstruct the witches’ backstory. The characters are so iconic and vibrant in this witches’ brew that all these filmmakers need to do is just tell the story. But they’ve been far more ambitious than that.
Casting Ariana Grande as the dismissive, dimwitted, and wealthy Glinda Upland works to the film’s advantage. She’s funny and sarcastic as the popular blonde. Her…
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