lizbian:

bpdstri:

the-ice-castle:

the-ice-castle:

to this day, i still wonder how exactly the production for the 2012 lorax really went down. there’s not much record about it, at least that i could find, but honestly, looking at the earlier concepts, you can see that it was originally intended to be pretty different than what ended up on screen.

which by itself it’s pretty normal, of course. movies often change greatly from their original concept during production, sometimes retaining only the most basic set-up of what once was, but what i truly mean is that we know for sure that the lorax was, at one point, a movie that seriously considered including a rock opera villain ballad such as this

yet somehow the song intended for this exact same sequence ended up being. well. this 

and i just want to know what was lost in the transition there because in my opinion, there is no way that the cutesy and sickeningly cheery lorax that we know could have even intended to include a song like the first one in it. this belongs to a very different movie.

sorry to bring this up again but, the one thing that gets me the most regarding these two songs is the fact that how bad me be actually re-used some of the exact same lyrics from biggering, and yet the difference in the delivery of both is so big that somehow it doesn’t sound the same at all. case in point:

@lizbian hit the fucking nail on the head

Also does anyone else see the irony in the fact that a movie about how capitalism is a force of destruction was essentially destroyed by capitalism

i think the most notable change in the shared lyrics was i believe in how bad can i be it’s stated that ‘who cares if some trees are dying’
but in the biggering its ‘who cares if some things are dying’ which really hammers in how watered down the message was. in the lorax we got it was all about the trees. but really theres so much more to it.