Luckily for the faint-hearted among us, the filmmakers opted for a crystal ball instead. Baum doesn’t describe her appearance much, except to tell us that she has a single, all-seeing eye that scans the land for Dorothy and her friends. If you thought that Margaret Hamilton’s green skin and shrill cackle were scary, the original Wicked Witch of the West was a cyclops. The Wicked Witch of the West has one eye. He appears to Dorothy as a luminous head “much bigger than the head of the biggest giant” to Scarecrow as a beautiful woman to Tin Man as a fearsome beast “nearly as big as an elephant … five eyes in its face” and to the Lion as a ball of fire. In the original, each of the four friends visits Oz separately and he takes a different shape for each one. The luminous head of Oz in the movie is, in the novel, just one of four forms that the sham wizard takes.
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