Pink Floyd and the many myths about the Wizard of Oz and 2001: A Space Odyssey

The idea that the band wanted you to see it that way was fiction, but some of the moments work incredibly well. Dorothy falls into the pen at a brilliantly timed moment; the film turns to Technicolor during the 7/4 riff of “Money”; “Brain Damage” begins when the Scarecrow starts singing “If Only I Had a Brain.” Other things are less effective, like “On the Run” sprinting through “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. Most of it is just pleasantly impressive, like singer Clare Torry’s vocal improvisation during “The Great Gig in the Sky,” depicting the tornado carrying Dorothy away.

Forces behind curtains are no strangers to the band, but responsibility is a different color horse.

“This is absolute nonsense,” said Floyd drummer Nick Mason MTV about the 1997 rumor. “It has nothing to do with it The Wizard of Oz. It was all based on The sound of music.” Roger Waters laughingly said during an interview: “That’s bullshit”. The Joe Rogan Experience. “It may be that if you do what you say but it has nothing to do with us, none of us. It’s a coincidence, and maybe it’s a cosmic coincidence.”

However, mythology can take on a life of its own. Waters went on to tell a great story about “a young motorcycle cop in Louisiana who was following a bus and meandering a little across the street. He changes it, puts the bike on the stand, opens the door, almost falls over, so much smoke coming through the damn door. He goes in and tries to find people with dope because it’s just full of marijuana smoke. Eventually he reaches the end of the bus where there is a private compartment. He opens the door and there’s Willie Nelson. And the story is that Willie Nelson is listening The dark side of the moon and watch The Wizard of Oz on TV. And I don’t believe it for a minute, but I like the story.”

The classic from 1939 The Wizard of Oz is more than loved. It also inspired more than its share of urban myths, including cursed sets and a dead munchkin hanging in the background during the “We’re Off to See The Wizard” sequence. bans for the book, the wonderful wizard of ozwere attempted by Detroit libraries in 1957 and by fundamentalist Christians in Tennessee in 1986.

The scariest guess is that the author, L. Frank Baum, was an occultist who was initiated into the Theosophical Society, and his subjects were incorporated into MK Ultra’s trauma-based mind control program. There are theories that Kubrick alludes to in his last film eyes wide closed (1999), which includes pivotal scenes at a costume shop called Under the Rainbow. However, they may be from the same source as those who say Kubrick helped NASA fake the moon landing.