Let it die lorax 1 hour9/11/2023 An environmental parable written before the environmental movement or the realities of Global Warming were ideas lurking in the back of a person’s mind let alone topics for debate and conversation, this should have been an impossible story to muck up. The honest answer? I’m guessing the filmmakers didn’t trust that their potential audience would have the attention span to handle a story as simplistic and as straight-forward as this one is. So why, pray tell, did directors Chris Renaud ( Despicable Me) and newcomer Kyle Balda, along with screenwriters Ken Daurio ( Hop) and Cinco Paul ( College Road Trip), feel the need to tack on an additional story involving a 12-year-old kid named Ted ( Zac Efron) living in the all-plastic town of Thneedville and his infatuation with high school freshman Audrey ( Taylor Swift)? Why the need to muddy the waters with so much visual razzle-dazzle that the entire point of Seuss’ story gets lost amidst all the sound and fury? But it worked beautifully, the Once-ler telling his story to a young boy interested in knowing why the Grickle Grass had taken over the barren fields and why a small circle of stones with the word ‘Unless’ stood at the base of the old man’s home. It took the classic 1972 animated television adaptation a brisk 25-minutes to tell this story, and even that was padded out with a handful of retro songs that barely propelled the story forward and only existed so the animators could indulge themselves with brining more of Seuss’ iconic images to life. He knows that if a balance between progress and nature cannot be maintained both will fall to ruin, and unless someone makes a stand the Bar-ba-loots, the Swamy Swans, the Humming-Fish and the Truffula Trees will vanish away until even the memory of their existence disappears forever. He speaks for the trees, and with the Once-ler’s arrival he foresees disaster, doing all he can to convince this two-footed being with axes that choppity-chop, pipes that gloppity-glop and smokestacks that fill the air with smoggy-smog to cease his destructive antics before it’s too late. Then a bulldozer hits the wall of thneedville and shows the dead area of where the Truffula Trees used to grow.Enter the mystical Lorax ( Danny DeVito). Then he knocks the statue of o hares head off. A young boy named Ted wanted to plant a tree because trees produces air for free. The song is from The Lorax as we all know where the people in Thneedville have terrible air outside where O hare sells air for people to buy and use in their homes. For example, "Let it grow but instead of grow it's die". Then, near the beginning of 2017, YouTube user MrMrMangoHead (who helped give We Are Number One its popularity) uploaded remixes of the song in a similar fashion to the former. The meme began as a song in the Illumination Entertainment film The Lorax where the villagers of the town sing about wanting a plant to grow as the town currently has no real plants or anything. Let It Grow is a meme probably inspired by We Are Number One.
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