Cowardly Lion

src: i.imgur.com

The Cowardly Lion is a character in Oz Fiction Land created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is an African lion, but he speaks and interacts with humans.

Since the lion is supposed to be "The Kings of Beast," the Cowardwife believes that his fear made him inadequate. He did not understand that courage meant acting in the face of fear, which he often did. Only during the side effects of the Wizard grant, when he is under the influence of an unknown liquid that the Wizard orders him to drink (perhaps gin) he is not filled with fear. He argues that the Witch's courage is only temporary, although he continues to do bold deeds while openly and timidly fears.

Video Cowardly Lion

Books

The Cowardly Lion made her first appearance in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . He was the last friend Dorothy had accompanied on his way to the Emerald City where he had ambushed him, Toto, Scarecrow, and Tin Woodman. When she tries to bite Toto, Dorothy slaps her for trying to attack Toto where she finds that Lion is actually a coward that she recognizes as her. The Cowardly Lion joins him so he can ask The Wizard for bravery, embarrassed that, in his cultural role as King of the Beast, he does not dare. Despite the evidence from the outside that he is unreasonable, The Cowardly Lion presents great courage along the way. During the trip, he jumps across the gorge on the yellow brick road several times, each time with a companion on his back, and jumps back to get the next one. As they come to another wider chasm, the Cowardwife holds two Kalidahs while Tin Woodman cuts a tall tree to cross it. In spite of his fear, he still went to find food, and he even offered to kill the deer for Dorothy to eat, but the idea made him uncomfortable.

The Witch gave him an unknown fluid dish, telling him that it was "courage" to drink. In the rest of the book, the Lion became almost a bully and ready for battle. She accompanied Dorothy on her way to see Glinda, and allowed her friends to stand on her back to escape from Dainty Chinese Country, where she ruined the only church mentioned in an Oz book to Handy Mandy in Oz (1937).

Her favorite friend is the Hungry Tiger. This is probably the "Biggest Tiger" that he and his friends meet in the Wild Animal Forest in the Quadling State In this forest, all the lions and many other animals have been eaten by the Giant Spider. The Lion finds the Giant Spider asleep and decapitates it. The tiger and other animals submit to him and ask him to be their king, and he promises to do so after returning from accompanying Dorothy to Glinda. Glinda commanded the Winged Monkey to take her back to the Forest after Dorothy returned home.

In the rest of the Baum Oz series, the Lion never again played the lead role. In later books, The Cowardly Lion often accompanies Dorothy in his adventures. She is the head of Lady Ozma's guardian on state occasions, and she and the Hungry Tiger are pulling the Ozma train. In the next Oz books by Baum, the Lion proved to continue to be brave and faithful, though still considered himself a coward and often frightened, even by Aunt Em. He befriended the Hungry Tiger in Ozma of Oz, if this was not the previous Tiger (the implies that it is by calling both Lion and Tiger "the largest of its type they "), and both have become Ozma's personal guardians. At Glinda of Oz she is on Ozma's advisory board.

In "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger" in the Little Wizard Stories of Oz, the Lion begins with a cowardly daring, intending to find a man to tear apart, and a fat baby Tiger to devour. Instead, they find a child (bigger than a baby) and return it to his mother.

In his titular novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson, Mustafa of Mudge, a rich sultan at the southern end of Munchkin Country, kidnapped the Cowardly Lion because of a large collection of lions he felt would not be complete without the most famous Oz lion. He turned into a rock by the Crunch giant, but was rescued by American Circus Clown Notta Bit More and the orphaned Bobbie Downs, who preferred to be called by the upbeat Bob Up.

For the most part in Oz books later, though, the Cowardwife is a presence rather than the main character. His other significant appearances include Ojo in Oz, where he turns into a clock by Mooj and is saved by Ozma and the Witch. He helped fight the Stratovanians in Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz Terp the Terrible in Hidden Valley of Oz and accompanied Dorothy and Prince Gules of Halidom at Merry Go Round in Oz . John R. Neill plays it primarily as a burden animal in his three Oz books. Overall, only three books in which the Cowardwife does not rate at least mention are The Tin Woodman of Oz, Grampa in Oz , and Princess Silver in Oz . (In The Marvelous Land of Oz he received a nude title in the eleventh chapter.)

Maps Cowardly Lion

Movie depiction

wizard of Oz

In the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, the Coward's Lion is biped humanoid and is played by Bert Lahr, a vaudeville and popular Broadway star, with many of Lahr's trademark acts that work in the film. In this version, the liquid courage given to him by the Wizard was replaced with a medal marked "Courage". Bert Lahr's biography, written by his son John Lahr, entitled Note on the Cowardly Lion .

The film is made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which uses the lion as its mascot. In fact, MGM is even considering using their mascot for the Coward Lion's role.

In the film, the Lion walked on his hind legs instead of the four, except when he was first seen running out of the woods to attack Dorothy's friends. After roaring loudly at them crawling, he stood on his hind legs.

Lahr also describes Lion's Kansas peers, Zeke (one of Aunt Em's and Uncle Henry's farm workers). Scriptwriter Noel Langley created this character for the film. Zeke helps Hickory (alter ego Tin Man) lower the bed to his place on the cart on the farm. He then moves the pig to the pigsty and pours the feed into their trough and then rescues Dorothy when he falls off the fence around the pen. She wore her hat all over the movie because she did not fight to open the basement when a tornado approached the farm. Hunk (alter ego Scarecrow) closes and locks the basement with him when Dorothy arrives at the farmhouse. Zeke and Professor Marvel (the Witch's alter ego) are the only men who wear hats when Dorothy awakens from the unconscious.

Medal of the Wife of the Cowardly Lion

The original Courage Medal prop of the 1939 film has been rediscovered recently. The cross-shaped medal is made of poly-chrome metal and measures 7.5 ÃƒÆ'-7,5 "(19.1 Ãƒ,ÃƒÆ'-19.1 cm). It features lions in profiles over crowns and knight helmets, and the word" Courage " In blue-rolled writing, in the late 1950s, Mal Caplan, head of the costume department at MGM was in a life-threatening car accident, and spent several months in the hospital before returning to work.For some time he was unable to sit upright and had to work from chaise longue.In recognition of his courage, his colleagues and management at MGM presented him with the Cowardly Lion's Lover Medal.He was also given the "heart" of Tin Man, but he gave it to "someone who needed him", a man in the same hospital who undergoing open heart surgery.The presence of the heart clock time is unknown The Medal of Courage remains in the Caplan family until it is submitted to Sotheby's Entertainment Memorabilia auction May 1997 Medal was purchased by Jers New ey collector, and in November 2010 appeared on episode 7 of the Hollywood Treasure TV show.

Cowardly Lion Costume

The original Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz has been packaged after shooting and forgotten for decades. It was found almost in time to be included in the 1970 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer auction, where it sells for $ 2400 to a California chiropractor. In 1985, Bill Mack's sculptor got it; he can not remember the exact price, but states, "That's a few thousand dollars, not a few hundred thousand". He has been restored by a taxidermist and "re-create a headpiece with a living Lahr statue". In December 2006, he sold it for $ 826,000.

Another costume is currently in Comisar Collection, the largest collection of television artefacts in the world. Curator James Comisar gained the costume, having verified his satisfaction that the costume had been worn in the film, and began to return it. The main challenge is the tail weight caused by a tear at the back of the costume that needs to be patched by Way Varnell, a textile conservation expert at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. The Cowardly Lion's real face device has been attached directly to Bert Lahr's face and does not survive production, so Comisar asks his son, Herbert, to imitate another face, because he has a remarkable resemblance to his father. Herbert Lahr says:

Jas The Lion is very interesting. It was a real lion skin, and weighed Ã‚ Â£ 60. My dad had to be there all day, he could not eat because of his mask way, so he had to eat his lunch through a straw.

Tempo Cowardly Lion was reinvented from a human hair imported from Italy at a cost of $ 22,000, and over twenty one craftsmen worked for two years to complete conservation.

Comang's Cowardly Lion costume has been featured in national media, including on The Oprah Winfrey Show, when it was priced at $ 1.5 million. This costume is considered as Hollywood's most valuable and iconic object. "Most of us can not relate to not having brains or hearts, we can all relate to not having enough courage, and for this reason I believe that the Cowardwife is the character we most respond to," Comisar said. Many potential buyers have expressed interest in buying costumes, but so far he has rejected all offers. The Comisar costume is offered by Bonhams in their TCM-themed auction which takes place in New York City on November 24, 2014, where it receives great interest and realizes a selling price of $ 3.1 million, and this is the highest known price point for a worn costume by male players in Hollywood production.

William Stillman, a renowned historian and co-author of several books on the film, displays a full-page photo of Lion Cowardly's costume in his book The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the M.G.M. 1939 Classic . The accompanying text states, "When Bert Lahr appears to be wearing the same costume throughout the picture, the others are available for rehearsal or for a stunt to go to Jalan Bata Kuning, jump through a window in Emerald City, or scale a cliff outside the Witch's castle. "In 1998, both Comisar and Company profile auctions in History, on behalf of Mack, insist they have the Lahr costume.

"The Wiz"

In the 1978 film version of all the Broadway black drama, the Lion is portrayed by Ted Ross, who won Tony for his Broadway depiction.

Back to Oz

In the 1985 spiritual sequel to The Wizard of Oz , Lion Cowardly is briefly spotted at the end of the film. In contrast to the 1939 movie, this version is a puppet and runs a crawl. He also displayed growling rather than talking.

The Oz Kids

In 1996, they made an animated cartoon series of The Oz Kids . Lions became fathers and have two children, Bela and Boris. His son Boris is afraid of things like his father. He is voiced by Andy Milder.