Sequence 5 – Once upon a time

Axis: Creations and art

Issue → What makes fairy tales so attractive and inspiring for American
artists?

Document C – Matt Groening is speaking about Disenchantment

Who What Adjectives

Princess → ‘tell me about Princess → hard-drinking, kick-ass
Pea?’ She is a female- (casse-cou),
lead. unconventional princess.

Abby Jacobson → the actress who gives → she added (=ajouté) a

her voice to the princess level of feminism

Matt Groening → he has worked his

and the journalist whole life on this concept

Document 1: Extract from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank BAUM,

1900

Link to watch the summary of the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twx_s8btFt4

a) The characters are Glinda “The Good Witch”, Dorothy, Toto, the Tin
Woodman, the Scarecrow, the Lion.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman have realised that they already have in
them what they were searching for / looking for (a brain and a heart).

b) The shoes have special powers: “they can carry you wherever you wish to
go.” Dorothy wish (=souhaite) to go back home.

c) Dorothy is happy to go home but she is also happy because she helped her
friends.
Video – Trailer: Wicked (2025)

https://youtu.be/F1dvX9Vs0ns?si=gm4vClh342ILXbBk

> To be wicked = To be evil, bad

Who? What? More info…

- Glinda ‘The Good Witch’ → It might be a prequel = → The two witches seem
(Ariana Grande) a story that happens to be friends = this is
before the original story. suprising!
- The Wicked Witch of
the West → The winged monkeys → They want to
appear too and the modernize the story. It
-Dorothy, Toto and their Emerald city too. might push some people
friends appear to read or watch the
original story. They have
-The Wizard of Oz chosen Ariana Grande
because she is a singer
(it is a musical!) and she
is popular.

Task (entrainement compo): -> Write a short interview between Ariana

Grande and a journalist, about the upcoming movie Wicked. Ask her why they
have chosen to do this movie.