He needs to keep the trees away so that he can get more money.
#I want to watch the lorax movie#
So what does the movie give us? Instead of a penitent Once-ler with a chance to regrow the trees we get an evil CEO who is literally selling air. But we all care and can do ‘a lot’ so that things will ‘get better’. It’s a cautionary tale about how the best of intentions can lead to great harm when not checked and when we don’t listen to our prophets and teachers. We can all do something to make a change and make things better. This isn’t a person without hope but it is exactly a person like the Once-ler where hope lies. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. Things of course get out of control “I meant no harm but bigger I got” The Lorax bemoans the loss of the swamp and the creatures and eventually they hear the last truffala tree get chopped.Īnd then the Lorax gives some lovely advice to our readers The Once-ler responds he is just going to chop down a few to make something useful and to help his relatives have jobs. The Lorax is kind of the patron saint of the trees and tells Once-ler to not chop them down. They excite him and he comes up with something that will help people called a thneed. “All my life I’ve been searching for trees such as these”.
He loves the trees which is part pf what inspires his invention. In the book Seuss teaches about how a man named the Once-ler invents a product that requires him to cut down trees. It takes the Seuss story about moderation and love for the earth’s resources and turns it into a story of corporate greed. But none of these movies actually did damage to the legacy of an icon and taught the exact opposite message of the source material like the mediocrity of The Lorax. In the short list are turkeys like 8 Crazy Nights, Fly me to the Moon, The Hero of Color City, and Mars Needs Moms. People often ask me what the worst animated film I’ve seen is. I’m not sure when I will post all 3 but I will start today by reviewing The Lorax…ugh I’m going to review these 3 turds because I think all are emblematic of the worst of modern movies. Horton Hears a Who is tolerable but the other 3 are loud, grotesque, unfunny with muddled to actually harmful messaging. Unfortunately all 4 of the Hollywood attempts to make a movie of Seuss’ work have failed to live up to these basic tenants for great storytelling. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and to be delighted” I love that quote especially the to be challenged part. He famously said “Children want the same things we want.
Seuss believed children really weren’t that different from adults as far as reading and entertainment. This subtlety made the messaging all the more effective because it treated kids with respect. It’s like the messages were an added bonus but not the sole focus on the story. Most importantly there was always a message within Seuss but usually it was a subtle background to the poetry and creativity. His only poetic contemporary might be Shel Silverstein but his poems were more grounded in reality than Seuss. If you live under a rock and don’t know who Dr Seuss is he wrote brilliant books of poetry for children with imaginative characters, worlds and even his own words thrown in. At best his legacy is severely tarnished by the usually powerful art of movie making and it isn’t just one injury but 3 (could make an argument for 4 but I’ll go with 3). Injuries that I don’t know if his work will ever recover from. Hollywood you owe Theodore Geisel an apology.
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