jack haley played the monkey in oz the great and powerful.
jack haley played the monkey in oz the great and powerful.
who played the monkey in oz the great and powerful?
jack haley
oz the great and powerful is a 2013 american fantasy adventure film directed by sam raimi and written by david lindsay-abaire and mitchell kapner from a story by kapner. based on l. frank baum's "oz" novels and set 20 years before the events of the original novel, the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 metro-goldwyn-mayer film "the wizard of oz". starring james franco in the title role, mila kunis, rachel weisz, michelle williams, zach braff, bill cobbs, joey king, and tony cox, the film tells the story of oscar diggs, a deceptive magician who arrives in the land of oz and encounters three witches: theodora, evanora, and glinda. oscar is then enlisted to restore order in oz while struggling to resolve conflicts with the witches and himself.
oz the great and powerful
mrs. yoop is a wicked giantess and sorceress in "the tin woodman of oz". when she meets the tin woodman and his companions, she changes them into animal forms. she transforms polychrome into a canary, the tin woodman into a tin owl, the scarecrow into a stuffed brown bear, and woot the wanderer into a green monkey. she is the estranged wife of the imprisoned mr. yoop from "the patchwork girl of oz", who has been imprisoned for eating people. unlike him, mrs. yoop is not a cannibal; she obtains food by means of her magical powers. the green monkey spell proves irreversible and has to be transferred to somebody else. in this case mrs. yoop who becomes, and must now stay, a green monkey. she is a yookoohoo, a special kind of witch, "an artist of transformations" whose enchantments are extremely powerful. the other yookoohoo in the oz books is red reera in "glinda of oz". both yookoohoos are specialists in magical transformations and are solitary, anti-social, and fiercely independent "the tin woodman of oz" is a rarity in baum's oz canon, in that the author's manuscript of the book exists, and reveals the changes that baum made for the printed version. baum revised his original to make mrs. yoop more sinister; and he originally called mrs. yoop a "whisp" (an otherwise unknown term in the universe of oz) rather than a yookoohoo.
list of oz characters (created by baum)