The Dark Side of the Rainbow

Original title: The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow

TV Movie
2000
TV-PG
43m

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The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone ... Read allThe movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film.The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film.

Director
- Victor Fleming
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8.2/10

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Director
- Victor Fleming
Stars

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Judy Garland

Dorothy
(archive footage)

Frank Morgan

Professor Marvel
(archive footage)

Ray Bolger

'Hunk'
(archive footage)

Bert Lahr

'Zeke'
(archive footage)

Jack Haley

'Hickory'
(archive footage)

Billie Burke

Glinda
(archive footage)

Margaret Hamilton

Miss Gulch
(archive footage)

Charley Grapewin

Uncle Henry
(archive footage)

The Singer Midgets

The Munchkins
(archive footage)
(as The Munchkins)

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Earliest Roger Waters reference to the Wizard of Oz?

I just discovered these lyrics below in the song The Trial on The Wall by PF. I have rarely listened to that album - it's bleak and ugly-but someone quoted this chorus.

I am infatuated with the Dark Side of the Rainbow mashup of DSM with the Wizard of Oz. We fans want to know how that resonance happened. Accidentally, no doubt. Part of the human cultural consciousness.

Here is the earliest connection I am aware of that Roger Waters was thinking about and quoting from WoO, written around 1977. He repeats "over the rainbow" twice.

Note also the connotation here of "over the rainbow" to "crazy / insane". The idea that Dorothy was having a mental breakdown / was crazy (like Syd Barrett and Pink and maybe Roger) is the theme that links all of this.

"Bassist Roger Waters conceived The Wall during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh tour, modelling the character of Pink after himself and Pink Floyd's former songwriter / founder Syd Barrett."

So: Dorothy = Roger Waters = Pink = Syd

The rainbow here literally goes "over" the wall!

From: The Trial on The Wall Crazy Over the rainbow, I am crazy Bars in the window There must have been a door there in the wall When I came in Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.