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Why Are The Slippers Not Red In Wicked?

Why are the iconic ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz not red in Wicked?

The trailer for ‘Wicked: for Good’ has dropped, and we see a sneak peak of what looks like Dorothy wearing a pair of bejeweled silver slippers, a departure from the original iconic ruby shoes in the 1939 film. But why is that?

The main reason is because the film, and musical are based off of L. Frank Baum’s original novel ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ in which Dorothy’s slippers are silver.

In the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Dorothy’s slippers are in fact red. This departure from the silver slippers in the original book was made by MGM, the production company behind the film.

They wanted to take advantage of Technicolor’s groundbreaking three-strip film, as most movies at the time were shot in black and white. The decision was made to make the slippers red, so there would be a greater contrast with the vibrant yellow brick road.

There has also been a long believed rumor that MGM copyrighted the red slippers in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and as a result has prevented other projects from using them.

When the director of the new Wicked films Jon M. Chu was asked about this, he said ‘We had boundaries of what we could reference or not. We never use the ruby slippers.’

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