『ウィキッド』は世界中に多くのファンを持つ大人気シリーズです。しかし、8歳と9歳の娘たちは、これまで会った中で最も熱心なファンの一人であると私は確信しています。
私の娘たちはウィキッドに夢中です。彼らは番組に登場した人形、ほうき、とんがり帽子を持っており、片付け中、車に乗っているとき、または平和な瞬間があるときはいつでも、常に歌を歌います。私の末っ子は、人気映画が公開される前、6歳のときに「ウィキッド」をテーマにした誕生日パーティーを開きました。昨年、彼らは学校のタレントショーで、緑の化粧をした衣装を着て番組の歌を披露した。
私が言ったように、強迫観念。
彼らは、オリジナルのウィキッドを観てから 1 年後の 2025 年 11 月 17 日にウィキッド: フォー グッドを観ました。この間の 1 年間、彼らが映画や番組、オズの魔法使いについて話さなかった週はほとんどなかったように感じられました。私は続編について自分の意見を持っていましたが、彼らの意見を聞くことに最も興味がありました。
子供たちが大きくなるにつれて、事前の映画上映会に子供たちを連れて行き、上映後に子供たちと映画について話し合うのがさらに楽しいです。これらの会話はとても魅力的だったので、最初はこっそりと、しかし今では皆が興奮しているので、それを録音し、他の人たちと共有するようになりました。以下に示すのは、これらのディスカッションの 1 つを少し編集したものです (映画を見ていない人のために、いくつかの重要なプロット ポイントが削除されています)。この作品には私と娘たち、そしておそらく彼ら以上にウィキッドの大ファンである私の妻が登場します。これは何かを物語っています。
議論を進めるために知っておくべきことが 2 つあります。
- 私の子供たちは現在、 子供向けの劇場作品オズの魔法使 のリハーサルをしています。私の長男はかかしを演じ、私の末っ子はトトを演じます。
- 彼らは大人の間のほんのわずかな肉体的愛情表現に恐怖を感じ、それを「不機嫌なキス」と表現して嫌悪します。
残りは一目瞭然です。
お父さん: それで、その映画についてどう思いましたか?
8 歳: うわー、すごい。最初の映画と 2 番目の映画どちらをもう一度見たほうがいいですか?
お父さん: それが私があなたに尋ねようとしていたことです。どちらが好きでしたか？
8 歳: わかりません。
[9 歳児がイライラした顔をする]
お父さん: 2 番目の映画の方が好きだったね?
9 歳: そうですね!
お父さん: どうして?
映画愛好家として、私はこの映画がどれほど音楽的であるかに本当に衝撃を受けました。前半はすでにいくつかの素晴らしい曲で素晴らしいですが、正直に言うと、 後半はただグッとくるだけです。驚くほど感動的で、実際に私も少し涙目になってしまいました。
ママ: この話ではもっと泣いたの？
9 歳: もちろんです。最初の映画では全然泣きませんでした。
ママ: 何が泣いたの？
9 歳: 終わり。悲しかったです。
[8 歳へ]お父さん: 泣きましたか？
[8 歳のうなずき]
ママ: 何回も。私が彼女にティッシュを渡すと、彼女は泣き始めました。
お父さん: 何が泣いたの？
8 歳: そのうちの 1 つは、[ネタバレ編集済み。それは「For Good」 の瞬間でした]。
お父さん: でも、ブロードウェイのショーは見たことがあります。あなたはそれがどのように終わるか知っていました。
8 歳: 分かってはいましたが、やはり悲しかったです。
お父さん: アリアナ・グランデは本当に素晴らしい女優ですね。彼女はその瞬間の感情を本当に売りました。
8 歳: そうですね。
お父さん：最初の映画には本当に素晴らしい曲がたくさんあったのは気になりませんでしたか？この曲には、「Defying Gravity」や「 Popular 」のような目立ったものはありません。
8 歳: それほどではありません。私も「For Good」と「No Good Deed」が大好きなので。
ママ: 「No Good Deed」 はとてもよかったです。
Dad: What did you think of the new songs?
9 歳: 大好きでした。
お父さん: そうだね？どちらが好きでしたか？
9 歳: ほぼ平等だったと思います。家に勝る場所はないという歌が好きでした。
父：あの歌は本当に好きだった。でも聞きたいのですが、エルファバとフィエロのキスについてどう思いましたか? （ご存知の通り、「As Long As You’re Mine」という曲の最中です）
9 歳: それは私が泣きそうになったもう 1 つの部分でした。なぜならとてもひどかったからです。
お母さん: [8 歳を指差して] これは私に偽の嘔吐をしたものです。
9 歳: 私もやってました！
8 歳: 私はママの手を握り、目を覆いました。
お父さん: あのシーンはやりすぎでしたか？
8 歳: 気持ち悪い。
お父さん: ぐしゃぐしゃしたり、抱き合ったりしていました。
先日、母が邪悪なことについて私に尋ねたところ、エルファバが初めて「邪悪な」と感じたと言った瞬間の話を持ち出しました。それは本当に考えさせられました – 彼女はそれが何を意味するのでしょうか？悪いだけじゃないですよね？それは彼女が世界が自分を違う目で見ていることに気づいているようで、おそらく彼女が特定の方法でいることを期待さえしているようです。それは力強い瞬間であり、認識の変化を認めることだと思います。
8 歳: 彼女が感じているのは…変ですか?でも…大丈夫？
お父さん: その時点で私がこちらを見ると、お母さんはうなずきながら笑っていました。それを見ましたか？
8 歳: はい。
9 歳: お母さんはとても夢中でした。
お父さん: 彼女は[拳を突き上げる]「そうだね！」と言っていました。
ママ: そうじゃなかったの。
お父さん: そうじゃなかったの？
ママ: いいえ！
父: 想像したんでしょうね。
お父さん: それで、「As Long As Your Mine」が最悪のパートだったのですか？
8 歳: はい。
お父さん:一番良かったのは何ですか?
9 歳: 終わり。
お父さん: 最後はどうなるの？最後のシーン？最後の曲？物語の終わり方は？
9 歳: 友達はいつでも一緒にいるという教訓を教えてくれている気がします。
お父さん: それは良い教訓ですね。
ママ: そうだね、でも… [最後のシーンの広範なネタバレ議論が続きます]
8 歳: 私のお気に入りのシーンをお話します。
お父さん: わかりました。
私が一番気に入ったのは、グリンダが瓶を持っていてそれを魔法使いに渡したところです。また、彼女がアリアナ・グランデのような口調で「私が間違っていると証明してくれるといいのですが、あなたがそうするとは思えません！」と言ったのも面白いと思いました。そして、猿がやって来て、彼女が「おおおお！」という声を出すところが好きでした。 （母には、私がその部分で何を言っているのかわかりませんでしたが）。
9 Year Old: I liked how Glinda’s like “I don’t know, make something up. You’re good at that.”
Mom: She had some sassy lines.
9 Year Old: I like the sassy lines.
Dad: I hate the sassy lines.
Our eight-year-old, channeling her favorite Willy Wonka character Veruca Salt (who she admires for being “sassy”), demanded, “Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa now!”
Dad: Exactly.
I didn’t really like how much of it felt like it was made by AI, and the kissing was a bit much. It just didn’t seem very realistic.
Dad: What was something that didn’t look real?
A nine-year-old said the animals, backgrounds, Tin Man, and Scarecrow all looked very unrealistic.
Dad believes the scenery and animals in the movie were created using digital effects, though probably not with AI. He’s confident the Tin Man and Scarecrow were played by actors in makeup, even if the overall look wasn’t great.
9 Year Old: I think it was a little computer in the face.
Dad: Maybe it was a combination.
9 Year: Maybe a little AI.
Dad: The only thing I thought was cool about the Scarecrow, I don’t know if you guys noticed —
Mom: His hair was straw?
Dad: His hair was straw. That was a nice touch. That was cool.
8 Year Old: Yeah.
Mom: They still made Scarecrow look kinda cute.
Dad remarked that the Scarecrow always had great hair, and jokingly wondered if he should get frosted tips to achieve the same look.
8 Year Old: Dad, stop it.
Dad: What did you think of how the Scarecrow and the Tin Man looked in the film?
8 Year Old: I was scared of the Tin Man.
Dad: He looked pretty scary to me too.
I know how he looks in the Wizard of Oz movie! They basically copied his look, but made it more detailed. I didn’t even like the Scarecrow, and I’m the one playing him!
Dad: What about you?
8 Year Old: He was creepy!
Mom: What did you think about how mean Elphaba was to Dororthy?
8 Year Old: Huh?
Dad: She screams at her like “Get those shoes off your feet!”
Mom: And then she paused and sang a very sweet song.
Dad: While she had a child imprisoned under the floor.
Mom: A child is sobbing in her basement while this is occurring.
I was completely stunned when my dad asked my sibling and me how we’d react if he yelled at us, locked us away, and then he and Mom broke into a love song! It was such a bizarre and unexpected question, I couldn’t even process it. Honestly, it felt like something out of a strange dream, and I was just speechless imagining the whole scenario.
8 Year Old: I would throw up.
Dad: Were there any parts that were too scary?
8 Year Old: A little.
Mom: During the Fiyero part you were crying.
8 Year Old: Because that’s scary!
Dad: Okay, now I have a really serious question.
8 Year Old: What?
You’ve watched both Wicked movies and seen the Broadway show. If you could watch it all again, would you prefer to rewatch the movies or go back to the Broadway performance?
9 Year Old: Both movies.
8 Year Old: [loudly while making intense eye contact] MOVIES.
So, if someone offered you a choice this weekend – a ticket to a Broadway show or a movie – you’d actually choose the movie?
8 Year Old: That’s hard.
Mom: I want to see it on Broadway with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
8 Year Old: Yeah, that’s what I want.
Dad: Well, that’s cheating.
Mom: They can sing, man.
Dad wondered if combining the two movies into one long film – about four and a half hours – would be something I’d be interested in seeing, or if it would just be too much.
9 Year Old: Uh…
8 Year Old: I’d be fine.
9 Year Old: Would there be an intermission?
Dad: Let’s say there would be. There’s an intermission on Broadway, so why not?
A nine-year-old said they would absolutely agree! They explained that if they were having that much fun, they wouldn’t even want to take a four-hour bathroom break, because they wouldn’t want to miss a single moment.
Mom: Should they just have made one movie instead of two?
8 Year Old: No!
Dad: Why not?
8 Year Old: Because each one is so long by itself.
9 Year Old: It was suspenseful.
Mom: Should they have cut some things out and just made them into one movie?
8 Year Old: No.
Dad: They added songs, they added scenes. They could have just made one movie.
8 Year Old: No!
9 Year Old: It makes the fans crazier.
Dad: How does it do that?
The movie really grabbed our attention and made us excited for more. The first one was so good that we immediately wanted to see a sequel! Mom was especially thrilled when she found out we were going to see it.
Mom: Yeah. I love Wicked.
9 Year Old: Everyone does.
Dad: And then when Elphaba said “I feel wicked!” she was like [pumps fist] “Yeah!”
Mom: I love that line!
Dad: See? You did react! I wasn’t imagining it!
Mom: Okay, I do love that line.
9 Year Old: [laughs hysterically]
Mom: She says it in this devilish way. She delivered it perfectly.
Dad: She did.
Dad thought that scene was good, though he didn’t react as enthusiastically as Mom. He did have one minor issue, though: he didn’t quite like when Nessa said, “I’m off to see the Wizard!” before leaving.
9 Year Old: Where did that come from?
Dad explained that the scene seems to be inspired by The Wizard of Oz, specifically the song “We’re Off to See the Wizard.”
I enjoyed the show, but some parts were confusing. Right after that thing happened with Elphaba and the spell, she immediately said she was going to see the Wizard and left without apologizing! It felt a little abrupt.
Dad: Yeah, that’s a good point. She makes a big mess and then immediately was like “Peace!”
Mom: I was thinking about the characters, and it seemed like everyone had some good in them. Even Elphaba, who seems wicked, has a good side. And Glinda, who’s supposed to be ‘The Good’ one, definitely does things that aren’t so good, as well as good things. What did you think about Nessa? Did you see any good in her, or was she just a mean person?
8 Year Old: She’s not evil, she’s more like … I don’t know how to describe it.
9 Year Old: She’s annoyed with her life.
Dad: She’s had a hard life.
Mom: Yeah, but she kind of just goes from good to evil.
Dad says she never makes amends for her actions, and then reveals a spoiler about what she does. He points out she actually blames Elphaba for everything, which he thinks is terrible behavior for a sister. He asks if you would ever do something like that to your own sister.
9 Year Old: Never.
Dad: Good.
If she had magic powers, I’d probably be a little jealous, but not a lot. I would never mess up a spell and then try to make it look like it was her fault.
Dad: That’s a relief. What about you?
You know, when I think about how an eight-year-old might react to something, it’s fascinating. If someone had something I wanted, I’d probably feel a little jealous, but I genuinely don’t think I’d be mean about it. It’s that innocent honesty that gets me – and the way they immediately get defensive, like, ‘Why are you looking at me like I’m not telling the truth?’ It’s just so real and relatable, even thinking about it now. It really captures that age perfectly.
Dad: I’m not. [Editor’s Note: I was.]
Mom: I have a question: If they were to make another movie…
9 Year Old: There’s nothing to make.
Dad: What about the continuing adventures of Queen Glinda?
9 Year Old: She’s not a queen.
Dad: Leader Glinda? Wizard Glinda? The New Wizard of Oz!
9 Year Old: No, she’s Glinda the Good.
Dad: They don’t seem to be into a sequel, Mom.
Mom said, “No,” but that wasn’t actually what she meant. She was going to ask if the kids wanted to learn about another character’s story.
9 Year Old: Oh. I want to see Toto’s story.
8 year Old: Toto!
The child explained that the character growls at Glinda because Glinda silenced Toto and sent him away to Kansas.
Mom: Toto? Toto’s who you’re going with?
Dad: Would the movie be called Total Toto?
9 Year Old: Ew, no.
Mom: What would you call it?
9 Year Old: The Dog That Lives in Kansas But Actually Lived in Oz.
Dad: You think that’s a better title than Total Toto?
8 Year Old: No!
Dad: Thank you.
9 Year Old: Or maybe Toto the Toilet!
8 Year Old: Hey, that’s what she called me at rehearsal!
Mom: Toto is a kind of toilet. My friend has one in her house.
9 Year Old: So does play practice.
Mom: They have a Toto toilet?
9 Year Old: Yeah.
8 Year Old: Mom, she actually called me a toilet!
Mom: That’s not cool.
The Differences Between the ‘Wicked’ Movie and Show
1. It’s Half the Show
Despite being advertised simply as Wicked, the film’s full title is more precise: Wicked: Part I. This movie covers only the first half of the Broadway musical, ending where the first act of the play does. (The second half will be released as Wicked: Part II in fall 2025.)
While the movie isn’t a direct copy of the stage show, it’s nearly the same length – around two and a half hours – despite only covering the first act. The reason for this is that the film adds several new scenes not found in the Broadway production. These added scenes account for most of the differences between the two versions.
2. The Flashback to Elphaba’s Childhood
3. CGI Animals
The way the animals are portrayed differs between the Broadway musical and the film adaptation of Wicked. On stage, actors wear costumes, makeup, and masks to play animal characters. In the movie, these characters are created using computer-generated imagery (CGI). For instance, Doctor Dillamond, Elphaba and Glinda’s professor, isn’t just an actor made up to look like a goat—he’s a fully digital goat, complete with glasses and clothes, and voiced by Peter Dinklage.
There are also more animal characters in the film. Besides Dulcibear, there’s an added scene featuring Dillamond and other talking animals that leads into the song “Something Bad.” In the stage version, this song is a duet between Dillamond and Elphaba in a classroom. In the film, Dillamond performs the beginning of the song at home with his fellow animals, and Elphaba joins him later to finish the number.
4. Fiyero and Elphaba Get a Different First Scene
The movie Wicked changes how we first meet Prince Fiyero. Instead of being introduced during his song, “Dancing Through Life,” he now appears in a new scene shortly after Elphaba leaves Doctor Dillamond’s house. She meets him in the woods on his way to school, and they have a quick conversation. He then arrives at Shiz University the next day, with “Dancing Through Life” following soon after.
While this added scene isn’t essential, it gives Fiyero and Elphaba more time to connect. This helps build their relationship, which becomes increasingly important in the second half of the musical – and likely in the upcoming movie, Wicked: Part II.
5. Madame Morrible Personally Trains Elphaba
In the Broadway version of Wicked, Madame Morrible, the headmistress of Shiz University, initially appears as a somewhat clumsy older woman who slowly reveals a darker, manipulative side as she assists the Wizard. This portrayal has remained consistent across different actresses.
However, Michelle Yeoh’s portrayal of Morrible in the movie takes a different approach. She’s much more calculating and shrewd from the beginning, immediately taking credit for Elphaba’s magic and pressuring her to join a sorcery seminar. This is notable because Elphaba isn’t even supposed to be a student at Shiz – she’s only there to care for her sister, Nessarose.
The film adds a scene showing one of Morrible’s seminars, where she guides Elphaba in developing her magical abilities. While the Broadway version’s depiction of Morrible worked well for the stage, this new material expands her role, which is especially effective given Yeoh’s talent as an actress.
6. A New Song (With Two Very Important Cameos)
Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, the original stars of Wicked on Broadway, played a huge role in the show’s success, and are still strongly associated with it almost 20 years after their last performances. They’re featured on the original cast recording and have continued to perform songs from the show in concert. So, it wasn’t surprising to see them appear in the Wicked film, even though Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande now play Elphaba and Glinda.
They appear as citizens of Oz during the musical number “One Short Day,” and also in a new section of the “Wizomania” performance detailing the Wizard’s arrival. They sing a song about the “Grimmerie,” a magical book that only Elphaba can understand. The film adds context to the Grimmerie—in the stage show, it appears suddenly, but the film’s song explains its purpose before Elphaba receives it. It’s a welcome addition and a nice way to include Menzel and Chenoweth.
However, the song itself isn’t particularly catchy or a great showcase for their vocal talents. Still, it was good to see them involved.
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