There, she quickly learns that not everything in her world is not quite as it seems.
Its the story ofElphabas younger years, andit retroactively answers many of the lingering questions fromThe Wizard of Oz.
The creatures appear several times throughout the story, buttheir origin is never really touched upon- untilWicked.
Theyre one of the smartestconnections betweenWickedandThe Wizard of Oz.
The original Wizard of Oz isn’t the only film you should watch before Wicked.
The scene comes briefly before Defying Gravity, the scene that will likelysplit theWickedmovie in half.
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Dorothy isnt in Kansas anymore, and the monkeys having wings are just an entertaining display of this.
However,Wickedproves that theyre actually suffering and experiencing painas a result of their physical form.
Either way,Wickedgives them a much more complicated purpose in the story.
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Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
