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Whereas the script comedically name-drops different exhibits and flicks—together with the The Godfather, Pleasure and Prejudice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League—there are a number of Easter eggs to The Wizard of Oz hidden in the set. A movie show marquee exhibits that the 1939 movie is taking part in within the doll world, however the inspiration did not cease there.

“[The Wizard of Oz] does one thing that I wished to emulate,” Greta mentioned in an interview, “which it is utilizing these unbelievable sound levels and these painted skies and this sense of ‘genuine synthetic,’ which I feel may be very lovely and emotional.”

The 39-year-old defined, “I consider the painted backdrop of the Emerald Metropolis as they go in direction of it, and we put in our film, now we have the pink brick highway, as a substitute of the yellow brick highway. We even have lovely painted backdrops of horizons. We executed it like they might have performed within the ‘30s and ‘40s.”