Back in the day, when they were making the movie, I think they were rather obsessed with melting and fainting females.
L. Frank Baum himself, well someone told me he was racist. Ooooh, that's what a Hottentot is. There were hordes of them, they had little wheels for feet so they could rush around like herds of beasties across the desert. I guess Africa was still the Dark Continent in the minds of the people to the north. Well it's got all those dark people, and lions and crocodiles and jungles and uh, damn it's just so huge. Now note the press on it, it can be disrespectful in clever ways. Colonial history. By the by, Africans enslaved each other. And U.S.Aans, if they are not as primitive as they imagine some of the other people's to be, are failing to pull the rod out their ass that those bizarro Puritans suggested that everybody stick up, er, it. As for whose lifestyle I would bank on, I'm gonna go with Hunter-Gatherer. At least what I know of them so far. I'll let you know if I change my mind on that one.
Course fairy tales you can always have fun with the metaphors, or the psychoanalysis, yada yada. Never as much fun as reading it the first time.
Don't forget that the modern human is jealous beyond compare, and tries but miserably fails to recreate anything near as good as the original excitement.
