We can't say why this 1998 blurb for The Wizard of Oz (by Rick Polito) has suddenly gone viral, but we CAN say that it's pretty amazing: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.” This basically-true-but-completely-skewed formula can be applied to any movie plot, and once you get started, it's hard to stop. See if you can identify the movies that match these one-line descriptions:
1. Three children are taken from their bedroom by an exotic stranger, who barely manages to keep them alive.
2. A child abandoned in the wilderness is forced to rely on predators for protection.
3. After getting caught stealing from a seemingly abandoned house, a man trades his daughter for a flower.
4. After a life of solitary confinement and psychological torture by her charismatic captor, a young woman escapes to take a chance on love.
5. An eccentric businessman allows children to run wild in his factory; not everyone survives.
6. Obsessed with a man she's seen only once, a girl abandons her family and risks her life to make him fall in love with her.
7. A young man searching for fulfillment discovers the hidden dangers of a broken home, after inadvertently falling in love with his sister.
8. Stifled by his widower father, a son's rebelliousness leads to his own kidnapping; his father must team up with a mentally disabled friend to bring him home.
DON'T LOOK AT THE ANSWERS YET! What movies do you think these plots belong to?
Answers:
1. Peter Pan
2. The Jungle Book
3. Beauty and the Beast (Original, not Disney)
4. Tangled
5. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Star Wars
8. Finding Nemo
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