loved the movie now i have to read this book

Rushdie is not just a fantastic fiction writer. This essay made me think about one of my favorite films in a new way without relying on jargon or invented words that need to be explained infootnotes (see: Clement Greenberg). This is how you write an essay.

Film students: you need to read this.

He hated Toto!!!

God, this book is a fucking gem. Oh my goodness. Never thought I would enjoy an analysis of a movie this much! I'll definitely be checking out more of Rushdie's novels so I can read his sassy and cynical writing once more.

I'm no Rushdie fan, but this is one of the best pieces of film criticism I've ever read.

A critique of the movie, not the book: Salman gives his take and what it means to find 'no place, like home'. He concludes that home is where we make it. The critique points out symbolism in the movie which us, the viewer, may have overlooked while watching. There is a short story at the close about the auction of the Ruby Slippers, which is full fat Rushdie.

A foreign male account of how he saw this story. Interesting and makes a few good points but generally I think he is taking a lot of liberties with it.

Some lovely titbits of information from behind the scenes at the filming of the original Wizard of Oz (e.g. the munchkins rampaging through Hollywood, the fact that Shirley Temple was originally lined up to play Dorothy and the removal of a number of songs and scenes including The Jitterbug). Then Rushdie adds in a short story based around the future auction of the ruby slippers. Nice interlude from the BFI film classics series.