John M. Chu’s film adaptation of Evil it faithfully follows the musical’s story, although marketing materials have shown from the beginning that the filmmaker took some creative liberties with design details. Evil is the hugely popular Broadway musical prequel to The Wizard of Ozexploring the lives of well-known characters years before the classic story took place. The narrative revolves around young witches Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande), who travel to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) – but along the way, they uncover a widespread conspiracy that is devouring their society from the beginning. within.
The story of Evil is moving and moving, adapted from the very different novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. The characters of Elphaba and Glinda are younger versions of the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of The Wizard of Oz, and Evil explains exactly how and why they received these titles. However, an important detail that is different in Evil film of the Broadway show is Glinda’s wardrobe, which is extremely important to her character’s arc.
The Wicked Movie Is Returning to Glinda’s Wizard of Oz Look
Glinda’s pink dresses resemble the classic Good Witch
Instead of the varied colors that Glinda wears in the Broadway production of Evilthe film adaptation appears to be returning to the original’s pink-stained wardrobe Wizard of Oz film. This decision makes sense given the audience’s existing knowledge of this character: Associating it with the color pink will maintain that connection in the viewer’s mind, keeping them subconsciously aware that Glinda will eventually become the Good Witch Dorothy someday finds herself.
At least during the first act of EvilGlinda is also presented as stereotypically feminine with her conservative values of women in society, romantic ideals of love, and expectations of those around her. Glinda is young in Eviland her youthful naivety often manifests itself in an exaggerated sense of femininity and bright colors. Giving her a typically pink wardrobe could be the film’s way of conveying this through her clothes, helping the audience build up this preconceived notion of who Glinda is – before tearing her down in the second half.
Glinda’s Wicked Musical Wardrobe Shows More Variety
In the Broadway production, Glinda uses many more colors
In the original musical, Glinda’s wardrobe isn’t as restricted to pink as it appears to be in the film. Instead, her character was often seen in other bright colors, such as blues and greens, to convey her state of mind and emotional loyalty at that point in the narrative. The diversity of colors is among the most interesting features of the Eviland each character has their own tones to convey certain feelings or concerns.
Colors have real implications in Eviland reducing Glinda’s wardrobe to a single color is, at least on the surface, quite reductive.
Colors have real implications in Eviland reducing Glinda’s wardrobe to a single color is, at least on the surface, quite reductive. She is a very complex character and her conflicting emotions are best represented by a variety of colors in her outfits. It reflects an emotional maturity that isn’t always obvious when she’s just dressed in pink. However, Glinda’s iconic pink costume easily draws connections with The Wizard of Ozpotentially setting up her transformation into the Good Witch and using that as the crux of her character arc.
This is Ariana Grande’s version of Glinda The Good
Grande is clearly delivering a new version of Glinda’s character
Ultimately, the Evil the film is presenting its own take on the story, and small changes like these are necessary give the project its own identity. Evil It’s already a narrative that comes in many forms: There are countless differences between Maguire’s original novel and Winnie Holzman’s Broadway musical, so it makes sense that Chu’s film would also find some space for itself. Ariana Grande has always expressed her desire to play Glinda on screen, so the actress has every right to personalize the character and adopt some changes along the way.
Maybe Grande is trying to make her version of Glinda more like the Good Witch of The Wizard of Oz, which could explain the film’s excessively pink wardrobe. If that’s the case, it could have serious implications for the character’s journey throughout the two films – or perhaps Evil is just letting Grande adopt the pink costume from the first film, before updating the colors to reflect Glinda’s growing complexity in the second half.