It's heart-breaking when the Scarecrow tries to sell his place beside Dorothy- "I won't be any trouble because I can't think. The Scarecrow keeps viewing himself as a servant even though the situations force out his cleverness and valor. The Scarecrow represents a horrible historical phenomena that when someone is made into a slave and put in chains, one of the first things that happens is that the slave degrades his mind and abilities because the slave has been so profoundly limited by what he can do. However if he's nailed to a pike and unable to marshal his own straw-like body, let alone outside resources, he can't even protect his own body from the crows nipping away at him to slowly mutilate him until Dorothy arrived.
Dorothy is deeply impressed and said that the crows in Kansas would be scared to pieces of him. Heck just after the "If I only had a brain" song and dance right after Dorothy frees him. If the Scarecrow can move, he can storm a castle and take down the Wicked Witch.
The Scarecrow was given a job but even though he can move around and figure out plans if he has the space to do so, he was stripped of those abilities to try to execute his job to protect the corn as a prisoner. They were basically acting the equivalent of if I refused to let someone clip my fingernails if it meant feeding a starving human traveler somehow. There was such a thing as treating what would normally be inanimate objects like people in Oz because they basically *are* like people. Mind you, this is a universe where the apple trees got offended that someone was picking them. Clearly, some assholes decided to nail a sentient, talking, curious Scarecrow to a pike and basically informed him expressly or by implication that he needed to succeed at his job of scaring crows away from the corn. However, the Scarecrow is just a little more sympathetic and resonant. However, this twist occurs with Tinman and the Lion too.
However, the twist in the Scarecrow is that he's the brains of the operation who thinks that he's the dunce of the operation for most of the movie. I'm usually a sucker for the "brains of the operation" character on any given fictional team. However, some of the answers demanded a nod to Wicked. I tried to limit the Wicked thinking because this is about Wizard of Oz, though. However, I am also a big fan of Wicked, the musical and it's influenced how I see Wizard of Oz. I tried to limit most of my answers to straight up Wizard of Oz. Anyway, I pressed on because the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite childhood film characters. The Busby Berkley musicals that I did see and like ( 42nd Street and Annie Get Your Gun), I saw on the stage and didn't have that film director/choreographer at the helm.īusby Berkley did have a minor directing role in Wizard of Oz- so I'm hoping this counts as a worthy character meme for velvetwhip. However, I hadn't seen a lot of his musicals. Velvetwhip prompted me for a Busby Berkley musical.
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