Though this film is ostensibly based only on the series of "Oz" books by L. Frank Baum and not the famous 1939 musical for legal reasons (the Oz stories are public domain, however the 1939 film and all elements original to it are owned by Warner Bros.), the movie does borrow heavily from Il mago di Oz (1939): the film opens in sepia tone and in the old 1.33:1 academy ratio for the Kansas sequences, then switches to 2.35:1 Widescreen and color in Ozthe Wicked Witch of the West is green, travels via fire cloud, shoots fireballs, and rides on a smoking broomGlinda travels by bubblemulti-colored horses (i.e. the "horse of a different color") appear in a pasture outside Emerald Citythe Munchkins perform a musical numberthe design and constant reference to the road of yellow brick as the "Yellow Brick Road" (Baum never referred to it as such)the Art Deco design of the Emerald City, especially the Wizard's throne room and his methods of illusion are all strongly influenced by the 1939 movierainbows appear often throughout the film, an allusion to the signature song "Over the Rainbow"many of the costumes, especially Glinda, Theodora (after she becomes wicked), the Munchkins, and the Winkies, are extremely similar to the 1939 versionsthe appearance of Finley is directly inspired by the "bellhop" costume of the 1939 monkeys; the other flying monkeys in this film are a new, "scarier" design based on baboonsactors from the Kansas sequence also play Oz characters with similar attributes: Frank and Finley (Oz's long-suffering but loyal assistants); Annie and Glinda (Oz's love interests); the girl in the wheelchair and China Girl (both need Oz's help to walk)

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