While the script comedically name-drops other programs and motion pictures– consisting of the The Godfather, Pride and Prejudice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League– there are numerous Easter eggs to The Wizard of Oz concealed in the set. A cinema marquee reveals that the 1939 movie is playing in the doll world, however the motivation didn’t stop there.
“[The Wizard of Oz] does something that I wished to imitate,” Greta stated in an interview, “which it’s using these incredible sound stages and these painted skies and this sense of ‘authentic artificial,’ which I think is very beautiful and emotional.”
The 39- year-old discussed, “I think of the painted backdrop of the Emerald City as they go towards it, and we put in our movie, we have the pink brick road, instead of the yellow brick road. We also have beautiful painted backdrops of horizons. We executed it like they would have done in the ‘30s and ‘40s.”
