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Tue, Dec 04, 2007

Tin Man

Posted at 10:31 pm MST to Media

The Tin Man mini-series on SciFi network is over. I'm sure Oz purists hated it, but I thought it was pretty good. The credits called it "Based on the Wizard of OZ" but I think "inspired by" would be more accurate: the adaptation is very loose, and different enough to not be predictable.

Actually, I think it was inspired by the Oz books in general. I don't think I have read all of them, and it has been years since I read any of them, but some of the environments and plot points seemed familiar, just not from the first book.

This was one of the Halmi and Halmi productions that worked. Beautiful and imaginative.

It was also well acted and directed, I think. At least, I found I liked the characters and I felt that they had some depth and complexity. The actresses who played the 'sorceress' who was the main villain were very impressive in a complex role, but I also liked 'DG' and her companions.

I find myself wanting to revisit the OZ books, if only to see what correspondences I can spot. According to Amazon there are a couple of different annotated Wizard of Oz books, which might be fun. And there is a 15-in-1 omnibus of all the Baum OZ books...

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