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  1. lineage (lineage): Wild at Heart → The Wizard of Oz. Wild at Heart is a homage to the Wizard of Oz.
    “kind of a blanket homage to Wizard of Oz”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Diane Ladd → The Wizard of Oz. Diane Ladd plays something like the Wicked Witch.
    “playing kind of like the Wicked Witch in some ways”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. craft (visual echo): Poor Things → The Wizard of Oz. The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon.
    “the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Avatar → The Wizard of Oz. Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage.
    “In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Avatar → The Wizard of Oz. Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies.
    “It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): The Wizard of Oz → It's a Wonderful Life. Both flopped financially and TV let audiences rediscover them.
    “People don't know that the Wizard of Oz, and it's a wonderful life, we're both catastrophes financially.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:29:35 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (magic alchemy): The Nightmare Before Christmas → The Wizard of Oz. Nightmare has a magical, alchemical quality that falls into Wizard of Oz territory.
    “It just, it falls into like, like Wizard of Oz territory.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:11:18 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): RoboCop → The Wizard of Oz. The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart.
    “If I only had a heart is what it's.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): The Wizard of Oz → The Wiz. The Wiz is now on Criterion in 4K, a big week of news.
    “The whiz is now on criterion?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): The Nightmare Before Christmas → The Wizard of Oz. The film's cult growth into mainstream pop culture is compared to Oz.
    “in that sort of Wizard of Oz conversation of like movies that came out, did okay at the time and are now just like so deeply woven into the tapestry of pop culture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:03:55 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  11. verdict (verdict): Planet of the Apes → The Wizard of Oz. Apes are dominant against Oz: strong and many, while Oz is just a guy behind a curtain.
    “Oz is just a guy behind a curtain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:37:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. programming (programming): The Wizard of Oz → Oz the Great and Powerful. If Oz won the Patreon bracket, they'd time the series around Oz the Great and Powerful.
    “if Oz were to win, we would want it to be done around the same time as Oz the Great and Power.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:37:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (homage): After Hours → The Wizard of Oz. Dark-side-of-the-yellow-brick-road version; Dorothy walks into black and white instead of color, with 'surrender Dorothy' graffiti and Marcy's Seconal tie to Judy Garland.
    “it is like very much a Wizard of Oz kind of homage, and it's like if Dorothy instead walked into the black and white darkness”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)