Does the passage of time affect humans differently in Oz?

I just recently watched "Oz", and the whole thing has me thinking about time dilation, for some reason. The opening of both movies seem to be in roughly the same time period, I'd say 1890 to 1910, with "Wizard of Oz" happening at the latter portion of the time frame. However, when Dorothy travel's to Oz, the Wizard is an old, wizened man. You'll also notice that Glinda seems to have aged only barely.

So my question is, does time in Oz affect humans differently from its natural inhabitants?

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Best Answer

I took Oz The Great And Powerful to be set much earlier than The Wizard of Oz. If you take Oz to be set at the time when it was made in 1939, and Oz-TGAP to be set when you were suggesting, around 1900, that gives you about a forty year difference. This would account for the difference in the Wizard. The Wizard, being from our world, would age as we would expect. Glinda (and the Wicked Witch, for that matter) might age differently if for any other reason than being witches (speculation on my part). One of the purposes of the newer movie was to provide back story for the witches and the Wizard. With this in mind, it would make sense that the Wizard would have aged. To answer your question, I think there could be an aging difference here, but I don't think it would be due to time dilation, though, or anything inherent within the Land itself.

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