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Interesting article in Cracked (along the vein of Wicked):

 6 Beloved Characters That Had Undiagnosed Mental Illnesses | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19336_6-beloved-characters-that-had-undiagnosed-mental-illnesses_p2.html#ixzz1Tyz6LIr6"

#2. Glinda the Good Witch -- Sadistic Personality Disorder

Our only evidence that Glinda the Good Witch is "good" is that she bears that title, and even then we don't know who bestowed it. As we have pointed out before, her actions in The Wizard of Oz involve dropping a house on her rival, blaming it on a teenage child and then encouraging that teenager to assassinate the dead woman's last living relative.

"Congratulations, Dorothy. You've earned your first teardrop tattoo."

Throughout The Wizard of Oz, Glinda never gives any reason for murdering the witches other than that they're ugly and different and therefore -- according to good ole-fashioned Dust Bowl logic -- completely evil. So maybe Glinda won the title of "good" by default, simply because anyone left who would question her goodness ends up fertilizing those bitchy apple trees who throw things at tourists.

These tortured creatures were Munchkins once.

No, Glinda is by no means good. In fact, she's likely suffering from sadistic personality disorder.

The Red Flags

Sadistic personality disorder doesn't just mean somebody is an evil dick. There are particular aspects that identify it as a disorder. For instance, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders suggests that sufferers are amused by the emotional turmoil of others. Now keep that in mind when you watch the vague, detached, smirking expression on Glinda's face throughout the string of tragedies that open the film.

Note the radically different facial expressions. One of them is appropriate.

As soon as the "Wicked" Witch of the West begins mourning her dead sister, Glinda immediately starts taunting her. Glinda then takes the dead woman's slippers -- the only keepsake by which the Wicked Witch might remember her sister -- and forces Dorothy to wear them. The Wicked Witch even tells Dorothy, "They're of no use to you," but Glinda convinces the girl never to take them off.

"Not when we've put so much effort into prying them off her cold dead feet!"

The Good Witch is so dead set on demeaning the Wicked Witch in front of a crowd that, in a weird magic pissing contest, Glinda calls the Wicked Witch's power into question and throws out the threat that someone might drop a house on her, too. That need to demean people in the presence of others is a primary symptom of sadistic personality disorder, and Glinda's unwavering enjoyment throughout the ordeal is a testament to her sickness.

Also she is blatantly using Dorothy as a human shield.

In addition, the disorder fuels a desire to restrict the autonomy of others, and to lie for the sole purpose of confusion. And sure enough, we find out that Glinda knows from the start how to send Dorothy home, but instead she makes up a ridiculous quest to the wizard with no tangible gain. The fact that Glinda is the one who helps Dorothy get home in the end is almost sickening, given the mortal danger she put the girl through (not to mention the two deaths that are now on Dorothy's hands as a result). Yet Glinda can't stop smiling that vacant Stepford Wives smile. Not ever.

"I wouldn't have believed that the slippers were the key home! Lady, I just dropped a house on someone."

Here is the link to the official site:

http://disney.go.com/thewizard/?cmp=NLC-CDE|ozg|Launch|TrailerDebut|Primarybutton|Watchnow|071212|||synMovInTheatM|#main

It looks as if they are not going the Wicked route, which is probably good, but it reminds me too much of Alice, which is probably bad.

I don't know what the heck that fairy/gnome is, but the porcelain girl looks good. The story of the Wizard is told in the books, though it does not get a full book, so it could actually be faithful to the series, other than the look of the characters, who are beautiful. This is also not necessarily a bad thing, though not strictly faithful.

I recently read A Barnstormer in Oz which I think is a really good way of revisiting/revising the series. Introducing sex to Oz would be in a very straight forward manner, not that it has not been done before. This movie however seem to follow the mold of the MGM movie, again, not necessarily a bad thing. The visuals look good enough, I think the whole experiment will rest on the script. (Crossed fingers.)

Raimi an Oz fan? Who woulda thunk?