Unsurprisingly, however, boiling down the original's screenplay reduces the characters to mere outlines, and their various quests are irritatingly forced to take back seats to the desultory staging . ( When I was growing up, the Wizard's lump-in-the-throat-inducing advice to the Tinman, " The heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others, " was one of my father's favorite sayings; here, as spoken by Gerry Vichi, it's treated as a throwaway line, its meaning lost along with the story's bighearted humanity .)
