WICKED Manipulation
Be Wary of this Movie
The movie Wicked comes out next week, and decent people should be warned about it. Not because it contains degenerate or gory scenes, it doesn’t. People should be warned because it has an evil corruption that aims to corrupt you.
The movie version is based on the Broadway play which has been running for two decades. The play is an origin story for the characters in Oz that we see in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz (which itself was an adaptation of the children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum). But this origin story is about the character The Wicked Witch of the West (named Elphaba in the play & movie), and the other characters of Oz.
What is manipulative about this play & movie is that the villain is not actually evil. There’s always a secret good or “real” reason that they commit evil acts. There is some justification for why they embrace evil and accordingly they are not to blame for their evil. This is not new. Hollywood has been flooding our culture with these villain origin stories for some time. They have a purpose.
What the degenerates in charge of our entertainment have been doing for a long while is attempting to destroy the entire concept of good and evil. They want moral chaos and confusion. They don’t want objective truth and objective morality. They want people to think that any behavior is okay as long as you like it. So they create these stories about villains where their evil is not their fault.
In Wicked, the Wicked Witch of the West is the good, upright and moral person. The good characters from the Wizard of Oz movie are actually the evil ones. Glinda the Good Witch is actually an spoiled, cruel and narcissistic brat. The Wizard is a downright vicious and cruel man who is secretly running evil plans to subjugate everyone. The Wicked Witch of the East is not actually evil. She instead is a lovelorn woman who has been mistreated by her boyfriend. All of the good characters are actually evil and all the evil characters are actually good.
All of this is to rewrite the story of the Wizard of Oz to show that the Wicked Witch of the West was the good person in the story. She is altruistic, caring and honorable. She cares about others and is fighting the true evil in Oz. Somehow that makes her attempt to murder the innocent teenager Dorothy acceptable and moral. Somehow committing murder because others have been bad is the moral standard of this play and movie.
As mentioned above, this is not the first time Hollywood has crafted these villain origin stories to show the villain was actually the good guy. Take for example the following movies:
Maleficent - The king and father of Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) was mean and cruel to Maleficent, which is why it is okay and moral for Maleficent to curse the innocent baby Aurora with a death curse. The three good fairies who are protecting Aurora are incompetent and bad, and Maleficent is the one who actually cares for Aurora. Maleficent is the one who actually loves Aurora.
Cruella De Vil - Dalmatians owned by a baroness were responsible for the death of Cruella’s mother, which is the reason why it is moral and okay for Cruella to desire to murder Dalmatian puppies and make a coat out of them.
The same treatment will probably happen in the upcoming The Lion King movie called Mufasa due out later this year. We will probably be shown that actually Scar was the good guy and actually Mufasa was the bad guy. This also highlights another important aspect to these villain origin stories. Not only is the villain actually good, but the hero is actually the bad guy. Hollywood not only wants to justify the evil of villains, but they want to always tear down the heroes and portray them as the real bad guys.
Be very careful about all of this. A movie or play here or there will not corrupt your moral framework. But ingesting too much of this moral sewage will have an effect on you. You cannot continuously fill your mind and soul with garbage and expect either one to remain pure. You just can’t.
Video games nowadays do the same thing. The Warcraft series started out as a Tolkienesque good vs evil story, and nowadays they frequently portray the "Holy Light" as always over-zealous and evil, and justify all the villains actions. Modern leftists cannot write good stories because their hearts are so crooked. They take out their hatred for Christ and the Church on good guys from established IP's, such as the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz. They focus on corrupting established intellectual property because they can corrupt it and it already has an audience who will go see their slop just because the IP is involved.
Nice to see this post, pushing back on moral confusion, thanks.
The original Oz books were illustrated in a way that did not overemphasize the ugliness or beauty of the respective witches. That emphasis was all Hollywood's doing in Technicolor. And we all know that The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland has come to be held in great honor by gay men so there is no surprise a gay man would rewrite it to his purposes, according to his interests.
I'd say Wicked is yet another the distortion of a real Christian message to not judge people by their relative beauty, because what seems beautiful to your eyes may not actually be good for your soul.
"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate."
The Christian message to not be deceived by appearances is already ably illustrated for children in many "godless" fairy tales, e.g. the beautiful Queen poisons the more beautiful Snow White; the lady who lives in the house built of candy wants to eat children.
New scripts like Wicked take the Christian virtue of looking beyond appearances and sell it to kids, just without the warning that YOU ARE A KID and you should look beyond appearances ONLY WHEN IT SAFE FOR YOU TO DO SO and BECAUSE YOU ARE A KID, YOU CANNOT JUDGE WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. These new scripts are teaching children that you cannot trust your own eyes... so trust everything the same. Go ahead and climb in the back of the van to look for a lost puppy, sure. Tell all your troubles to the stranger online because... appearances don't matter, and that's what adults (!) believe.