The original ending is what the history needs to send his message, it's the true ending , the theaters ending was just because they were scare that if it wasn't cliche happy comedy finale they will lose money,it's just marketing and I despise it. thank god they realise the original cut
No, the reason was that the test audience loved the film up until Audrey died, then as one of the directors stated “It became an Icebox”, so they had to scrap the ending, and came up with the ending the film was originally released with. Publishing a film isn’t easy, if we were to put the version of the film with this original ending into modern day test screenings for Rotten Tomatoes, it’s possible that the critic score and the audience score would be below 60%, saying that the film is bad, which would drive away audiences wanting to see this masterpiece of a movie. And also, scraping this ending? Wasn’t easy either, they basically threw millions of dollars into the ending, and had to watch it all burn because of this failed screening.
Personally, I'm glad they opted for the final cut ending instead. 1. Audrey deserved a happy ending. 2. The original ending frankly doesn't make sense. The Audrey IIs would never have been able to grow that big, because once their new owners learned that the plants required blood, returns would skyrocket. Seymour feeding the original one blood made sense, due to the circumstances he had been led into, but for the general public, they'd never let it get anywhere near that level.
Okay for one, this story isn’t really meant to make sense. It’s meant to be a metaphor for greed. Also the reason Audrey dies in the story is meant to be a consequence of Seymour’s actions. If he just accepted himself for who he was, he might have had a chance with Audrey by being honest. But instead he convinced himself he had to go out of his way to be someone else and it drove him to kill people. At first he was able to justify it by killing a huge asshole but then he ended killing a man, who while not perfect, wasn’t a total garbage person. And finally his greed catches up to both him and the one person he cared about.
I agree with you, but for different reasons Why I think the final cut ending is better 1. Seymour doesn't complete his character arc, in the theatrical ending and the original play ending, Seymour actually stands up to the plant. But in the directors cut ending he only tries too but ends up just scrambling around, and by the end of it he's plucked out of the ground and eaten. 2. Seymour actually got what he deserved in the play. In the original play, Seymour is deliberately responsible for the deaths of Orin and Mushnik. But in the movie, he kinda just watches it happen without knowing what's going on. And during the scene where Seymour storms out of the shop because of the press and Audrey talks to him, it's different in the play than in the movie. In the play, Seymour keeps telling Audrey to go away, this leads to Audrey coming back to the shop out of concern, it isn't Audrey II's fault that Audrey came over. But in the movie, the encounter between Audrey and Seymour goes much better, with them both even agreeing to get married, and when Audrey comes over to be eaten by Audrey II, it's entirely the plant's fault as he literally calls her over by phone. TBH it had nothing to do with Oz's mentality of "a bad ending hits different on stage than in film". The audience would probably accept the bad ending had they made Seymour more like his play counterpart. IMO the only reason Frank Oz prefers the bad ending is because of how much effort it took, and while it is understandable as it looks spectacular and took a lot of effort, he should've known sooner that the script changes they made ended up making the original ending fit in less.
What a coincidence! I was actually working on a reconstruction of the story reel for the ending! Though I was going to use the audio from the original release of the ending. Also, what did you use to remove most of the sound effects in the "Subsequent" portion of "Don't Feed the Plants"?
What's interesting is how you can really tell the storyboarders worked for the Jim Henson company. Audrey II looks SO muppet-esque here.
The original ending is what the history needs to send his message, it's the true ending , the theaters ending was just because they were scare that if it wasn't cliche happy comedy finale they will lose money,it's just marketing and I despise it. thank god they realise the original cut
No, the reason was that the test audience loved the film up until Audrey died, then as one of the directors stated “It became an Icebox”, so they had to scrap the ending, and came up with the ending the film was originally released with.
Publishing a film isn’t easy, if we were to put the version of the film with this original ending into modern day test screenings for Rotten Tomatoes, it’s possible that the critic score and the audience score would be below 60%, saying that the film is bad, which would drive away audiences wanting to see this masterpiece of a movie.
And also, scraping this ending? Wasn’t easy either, they basically threw millions of dollars into the ending, and had to watch it all burn because of this failed screening.
This make me want to see a 2D animated remake of little shop of horrors
thank you for uploading this!!!!
Personally, I'm glad they opted for the final cut ending instead.
1. Audrey deserved a happy ending.
2. The original ending frankly doesn't make sense. The Audrey IIs would never have been able to grow that big, because once their new owners learned that the plants required blood, returns would skyrocket. Seymour feeding the original one blood made sense, due to the circumstances he had been led into, but for the general public, they'd never let it get anywhere near that level.
Okay for one, this story isn’t really meant to make sense. It’s meant to be a metaphor for greed. Also the reason Audrey dies in the story is meant to be a consequence of Seymour’s actions. If he just accepted himself for who he was, he might have had a chance with Audrey by being honest. But instead he convinced himself he had to go out of his way to be someone else and it drove him to kill people. At first he was able to justify it by killing a huge asshole but then he ended killing a man, who while not perfect, wasn’t a total garbage person. And finally his greed catches up to both him and the one person he cared about.
I agree with you, but for different reasons
Why I think the final cut ending is better
1. Seymour doesn't complete his character arc, in the theatrical ending and the original play ending, Seymour actually stands up to the plant. But in the directors cut ending he only tries too but ends up just scrambling around, and by the end of it he's plucked out of the ground and eaten.
2. Seymour actually got what he deserved in the play. In the original play, Seymour is deliberately responsible for the deaths of Orin and Mushnik. But in the movie, he kinda just watches it happen without knowing what's going on. And during the scene where Seymour storms out of the shop because of the press and Audrey talks to him, it's different in the play than in the movie. In the play, Seymour keeps telling Audrey to go away, this leads to Audrey coming back to the shop out of concern, it isn't Audrey II's fault that Audrey came over. But in the movie, the encounter between Audrey and Seymour goes much better, with them both even agreeing to get married, and when Audrey comes over to be eaten by Audrey II, it's entirely the plant's fault as he literally calls her over by phone.
TBH it had nothing to do with Oz's mentality of "a bad ending hits different on stage than in film". The audience would probably accept the bad ending had they made Seymour more like his play counterpart. IMO the only reason Frank Oz prefers the bad ending is because of how much effort it took, and while it is understandable as it looks spectacular and took a lot of effort, he should've known sooner that the script changes they made ended up making the original ending fit in less.
@@vladtheimpaler3948 I don't think cutting down the "Meek Shall Inherit" number helped either.
When will they come into an art book collection for its anniversary next year 2025?
do you perhaps have Audrey's death
What a coincidence! I was actually working on a reconstruction of the story reel for the ending! Though I was going to use the audio from the original release of the ending. Also, what did you use to remove most of the sound effects in the "Subsequent" portion of "Don't Feed the Plants"?
Finally, someone noticed! I used the crowd separator on MVSEP. Also, what’s this “Story Reel” that you’re using?
You got a discord?
Got The Storyboard Of Suppertime?